Our requirements for breakfast are modest, but they always include a pot of fresh, well-brewed coffee. Is coffee part of your morning meal? If so, how do you brew it? Auto drip carafe? French press? Aeropress? Single-serving espresso maker? Tell us, and tell us what you love about your coffee method.
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I do the setup in the evening and when I stumble out of bed in the morning, all I have to do is press on the button to start the coffee. By the time I emerge from the bathroom, coffee's ready.
I have an Aeropress and love it. It takes three minutes to make coffee and clean up is super quick. It's also a very smooth cup of coffee.
I prefer French press, but use the autodrip for the same reasons as Christine M. French press comes out for the weekend afternoon cup.
I'm a nespresso convert. I LOVE that machine.
Winter: auto-drip. Summer: cold-brewed in the fridge. Since summer is probably technically more of the year around here, I guess that counts as my "main" method.
The rare leisurely day: french press. It's my favorite, but I rarely have the time.
I've been using an Aeropress for a few years now. It's quick and produces a very good cup of coffee.
It got even better when I got a reusable stainless steel filter for it.
Since I stopped drinking coffee last year (sad day but for the best) I've been drinking tecchino and brew it in a Moka/countertop espresso maker.
I love my mokka pot! so much easier to clean and take care of, plus it keeps me from drinking cup after cup like I would with my drip maker, but I still have it for occasions when more than one person wants coffee.
On work days I use the automatic drip and occasionally on weekends I treat myself to the french press. I also have a Bialetti that I use on occasion.
I do cold-brew year-round (specifically using a Mr. Toddy system).
I used to use a French press but recently switched to Aeropress. It's quicker and easier, cleanup is a cinch, and I can drink all the way to the bottom of the cup without hitting grounds.
Ditto Christine M. Part of me would like to be more of a coffee snob but really first thing in the morning it's hard to muster the energy until I've had my coffee.
I suppose that when I do coffee I use my french press. Right now, though, I make a latte each morning on my espresso machine.
I make a pot of espresso and have lattes. I only brew every third day though, and the coffee sits on my counter the whole time. Gross and Lazy? Possibly. Yummy and about all I can handle first thing in the morning? Yep.
Living in Ecuador the coffee there was the cold-press stuff that's last for weeks. I have never been able to reproduce it, but that's swell too.
I love the french press, but our most common use is the drip, as it's a little bit easier in the morning when we have to get up and get going.
I love the ritual involved in a beautiful single cup pourover. That's my method of choice in the colder months (most of them are cold in New England) - but I have the luxury of a 10 minute process of measuring and grinding the beans and carefully pouring the coffee. Mornings when I need to go fast, I love to use the Abid Clever Coffee device - it's basically a single cup french press kinda thing, but easy to clean since it uses a filter.
In the summer, I do a 12 hour cold brew. Grind the beans coarse and toss em in a french press pot, press and filter in the morning into a bottle, and then store that bottle in the fridge. Usually letting this filtered cold brew sit for somewhere between 5-20 days greatly increases the lovely smooth complexity of this brew.
I make a four-shot vanilla latte every morning - hot in the winter, iced in the summer - using my espresso machine. It's time consuming, but it's exactly how I like to start my day!
Chemex for me.
What's coffee?
Moka and and steamed/frothed milk using my Graziella -- which sadly is no longer made, so I am very careful with mine -- and always on the hunt for another in flea markets et al.
I used to make coffee in a fine mesh tea strainer, just by setting it in my mug, adding the grinds, and pouring the hot water over it. I then bought the Kone to make pourover coffee (but without the Chemex, which I don't want to have to wash every time--I set it in a chemistry ring stand and put my mug underneath), but there's alot of sludge in my coffee when I make it this way, even more than with the strainer. So I've gone back to using my mesh tea strainer, but set the strainer in a small ring stand over my cup as I pour over. It tastes cleaner this way.
20 year-old son bought me an aeropress - and it's great. I fresh grind the beans while the water heats up and then the cleanup is much easier than french press. aaah!
French press here. I want to try the Aeropress but it's made of plastic, and hot liquids and plastic just don't make sense to me for all the usual reasons.
I'd love to try a French press, but it's a tiny four-cup auto drip for now. To jazz it up, I add a teeny splash of vanilla to the pot, and a shake of cinnamon to the grounds. Divine.
We have just about every coffee implement known to man, but I love my coffee sock. Nothing beats the coffee I get out of it.
I use a french press because it's very simple to use and clean!
I grind the night before and set the auto drip for the am. I am way too not a morning person to do anything else.
I use a Toddy for my coffee needs. It makes a "concentrate" I predominantly drink iced coffee, so this works well cause I don't have to brew it double strength and ice it or brew it the night before to have it ready in the morning. When making hot coffee I use my french press. But I do have an automatic drip machine, an espresso machine, a Chemex and a Moka. I like coffee :P
Aeropress. It's not as slick-looking as my moka pot, but it makes great coffee and is weirdly entertaining.
How do I brew my coffee? I don't. :)
Only tea for me, please. Thank you.
I lurrrrve my Aeropress!
I love my Flavia machine. So much better than the k-Cups thing.
Nespresso seems to be popular in the UK, Magimix & Krups release new models every year, with the Aeroccino. Delonghi automatic milk models are my personal favourite.
Nespresso Coffee Makers in the UK.
I've had an espresso machine, moved on to Aeropress (love it) and now thinking of moving to the French Press, purely for a different morning ritual. In the end tho, best coffee will prevail - but not quite sure which it is yet.