Best way to make coffee?

[Tallguy88]

What is your favorite way to make coffee? I like the convenience of K-cups, but it's pretty expensive and wasteful using them. And once you start using the reusable cups, it loses it's advantages over other systems. My usual way to make my coffee is in a percolator. Makes good strong coffee and no need for filters or other throwaways. The whole thing washes out and is ready to go again.

I've never used a french press. And instant coffee is nasty.

 

[ihnoa]

I only use a French press as I think that it produces the best tasting coffee.

 

[teresa]

I get delicious flavored coffee in small foil bags, and add some of it to a stainless steel french press, that holds about 8 cups.

Its just not as good as a peculator though, but it is better than instant.

For fast coffee, I do instant, but add in a flavor shot at home from Italian syrup made for just this thing.

 

[Go Braves]

I don't think I've ever seen a percolator. I got in the habit of buying coffee at 7-11 over the summer. It's much better than you'd expect & it's cheap. I just have kept it up.

Ignore what I just said. I just googled coffee percolators. We've used those camping. I just hadn't known that was what they were called, lol.

 

[mojo487]

Don't care how you get it (although esperesso machine is my personal favorite), it's all about where the coffee came from and how fresh it is. Great coffee is much more expensive than k-cups (i use them almost every day) but the difference in taste is literally night and day. Think I paid somewhere around $17 a pound at a health food store for Columbian roast. But it's such a savory, mild flavor, nothing like pre-ground coffee or kcups, it's like a different drink. Would definitely recommend trying it sometime!!
Edit: they make cups that you can put ground coffee into your keurig btw

 

[Occams Barber]

What is your favorite way to make coffee? I like the convenience of K-cups, but it's pretty expensive and wasteful using them. And once you start using the reusable cups, it loses it's advantages over other systems. My usual way to make my coffee is in a percolator. Makes good strong coffee and no need for filters or other throwaways. The whole thing washes out and is ready to go again.

I've never used a french press. And instant coffee is nasty.

I have no idea what K cups are and I had to look up French Press. It turns out that I use what you call a French Press and we call a plunger.

I have the best kind - double wall stainless steel. I used to have the glass type but I kept breaking them. I use two heaped tablespoons of espresso style ground coffee, steeped for around 5 minutes, to get one cupful for me. No filters - no mess.

I also have a stainless steel 'dripolater' which blurps up very strong short black (ie. espresso) coffees for when I need something really eye spinning. I think it's what you call an 'espresso'.
OB

 

[mojo487]

I have no idea what K cups are
OB

I'm fairly certain they mean cups that you put into a Keurig coffee machine. never seen a french press in America, but we love our espresso machines

 

[prodromos]

Mostly make French Press at home as it is quick and easy. I usually preheat with boiling water which I tip out before putting in the coffee. I fill about halfway with boiling water then stir vigorously for a bit before filling to the brim with boiling water.
When I want a strong caffeine hit, I boil up some Greek coffee in a briki.
I've actually bought a full size espresso machine from a cafe that was upgrading their machine. My intention was to clean it up so my daughter could practice her coffee making skills (making our morning cuppa) as she did a course in her last year of High School.
I prefer espresso as you can make many more styles of coffee, but French Press wins in terms of convenience.
The only time I drink instant coffee is if I have a Frappe. You simply cannot get the froth using chilled espresso or french press in a shaker. Other than that, instant coffee disagrees with my stomach in ways that it never used to, so I never drink it anymore except for the occasional Frappe during Summer.

 

[prodromos]

I am passionately against K cups due to the added packaging and waste added to our increasing landfill problems. There was a big push a few years back to get people to recycle more and throw out less, and then some idiot created this convenient no mess coffee machine and wiped out any progress that was made.
It greatly saddens me.

 

[now faith]

We recently, had coffee at our Sons and it was as strong as a k cup.
I believe it is a French press , because we bought one and it is great coffee.
But for a kitchen idiot like myself a K cup is manageable.

 

[Occams Barber]

I'm fairly certain they mean cups that you put into a Keurig coffee machine. never seen a french press in America, but we love our espresso machines

We don't have Keurig coffee machines and an espresso machine is a big commercial coffee machine I'd expect to find at a Coffee Shop.

My 'espresso' (or expresso) is a little stainless steel pot which I put on the stove. It has a little water at the bottom, a lot of coffee in the middle and an empty container at the top. Once boiled the boiling water 'blurps' up through the coffee into the top to make a super strong 'espresso' coffee, typically drunk black, with a lotta sugar in a tiny cup.
OB

 

[Pilgrim]

6 cups water and 1 cup coffee grinds
boil in kettle over camp fire
pour into camp fire cup
let coffee grinds settle to bottom
drink

What is your favorite way to make coffee? I like the convenience of K-cups, but it's pretty expensive and wasteful using them. And once you start using the reusable cups, it loses it's advantages over other systems. My usual way to make my coffee is in a percolator. Makes good strong coffee and no need for filters or other throwaways. The whole thing washes out and is ready to go again.

I've never used a french press. And instant coffee is nasty.

Cowboy style...

 

[prodromos]

6 cups water and 1 cup coffee grinds
boil in kettle over camp fire
pour into camp fire cup
let coffee grinds settle to bottom
drink

Cowboy style...

That's what we call Greek coffee

 

[WilliamBo]

I want a k-cup with one of these reusable cups you fill with your own coffee

But i currently use a french press. But im trying to quit my caffiene intake so hopefully i wont drink coffee much longer. Getting loaded up on caffiene is kind of bad IMO

 

[paul1149]

I think the K cup is an environmental disaster. Ironically, Keurig is owned by Green Mountain Coffee, which started out claiming, and to this day still claims to be an environmentally sensitive company. What's more, around here, the coffee in K cups fully average 3x the cost per pound of loose grounds or beans.

What I've seen of the Press is coffee with a lot of solids in it. I think it's very efficient, but I don't like the taste much.

I think the best solution depends on how much you're making. I make one cup at a time, and for me a manual drip (Melita) works well. I've had mine for decades, but recently broke the carafe, so now I use a 2 cup glass measuring cup as the carafe. I heat the water in a microwave, in the cup I will drink from, so the cup gets heated as well. The filter adds about 2 cents to the cost, which isn't bad. It's quick, fairly efficient, very easy to clean up, environmentally sound, and makes decent coffee.

Perked is good, but only if you're making multiple cups.

 

[paul1149]

Getting loaded up on caffiene is kind of bad IMO

Agreed. I generally mix my coffee, to about 50% decaf, and have maybe one cup a day.

 

[ViaCrucis]

Using a French press to cold brew has, so far, produced the best tasting coffee that I've personally ever made. But then I generally prefer my coffee ice cold anyway.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[Tallguy88]

I don't think I've ever seen a percolator. I got in the habit of buying coffee at 7-11 over the summer. It's much better than you'd expect & it's cheap. I just have kept it up.

Ignore what I just said. I just googled coffee percolators. We've used those camping. I just hadn't known that was what they were called, lol.

I use an electric percolator. Plug it in and forget about it for a few minutes until it's done.

 

[Tallguy88]

6 cups water and 1 cup coffee grinds
boil in kettle over camp fire
pour into camp fire cup
let coffee grinds settle to bottom
drink

Cowboy style...

I do that when camping. I have my grandpa's gigantic coffee kettle that he used to use out in the woods. It makes something like 2 gallons of coffee.

 

[High Fidelity]

French press.

Grinding your own coffee beans is also a good way to get good tasting coffee as keeping them whole until you use them retains a lot of the oils.

Some pre-ground coffee retains some of the more oily coffees out there, but for the most part you just can't beat whole bean ground just before use.