Apartment Therapy Tagged: coffee brewing

Good Question: Help Me Find This Coffee Maker!

From reader Tracy: I'm looking for a very specific coffee maker and it simply looks like a ceramic mold of a coffee filter or just the part of a drip machine where you put the filter into. It's white...

Nomadic Espresso: The Handpresso

Have you seen the Handpresso? It's a marriage of a bicycle pump and an espresso machine - two very functional items that obviously belong together. Right? OK, maybe not. It's a portable espresso mac...

Expert Interview: Allegro Coffee Buyer Christy Thorns

As we wrap up our intensive coffee coverage of the last week or two, we wanted to go straight to the source for some in-depth answers. Meet Christy Thorns, a coffee-buyer for Allegro Coffee. She wor...

Good Question: How to Make the Perfect Cafe au Lait?

All the coffe coverage has Cortney thinking about perfect cafe au lait... Any tips on how to make the perfect cafe au lait? Whether it was in Paris, Bilbao or Madrid, the ones I had in Europe were so...

Lunchtime Survey: Have You Ever Roasted Coffee at Home?

Our post on home coffee roasting mecca Sweet Maria's made us curious about our readers and roasting coffee at home. We remember when we first had a friend who did this. He used a hot air popcorn pop...

Cowboy Coffee: Boiled with Eggshells

We've reviewed all sorts of special gadgets and methods for making your morning cup of coffee, but what if you're stuck without a coffee pot, a French press, an Aeropress, or a Chemex? Other than ru...

Coffee Methods: The Costa Rican Chorreador

French press, drip brewer, Chemex, and... the chorreador? Yes, if you live in Costa Rica....

Good Product: Aeropress Coffee Maker

We have been curious about the Aeropress coffee maker for a long time, and last fall we asked if anyone had tried it. We had some encouraging comments, and so recently we picked one up. All we can s...

Coffee Methods: The Vacuum Brewer

The headlining piece of last week's New York Times dining section brought new awareness to an old method of making coffee: the vacuum, or siphon brewer. (They are sometimes also called glass brewers...

Best Product: UtiliTea Electric Kettle

Remember when we asked about the best electric kettles? Well, it took us over a year to decide, but we finally made our choice and now we're in love. Deep, deep in love. Click through for more photo...

Coffee Methods: The Turkish Ibrik

The Turkish ibrik is less commonly used for making coffee than the previously discussed drip, Chemex, and French press methods. And that's a shame, because Turkish coffee is a rich and intense pleas...

Coffee Methods: The French Press

French press - the bold, dark choice! We did a survey last fall on how you make your coffee, and at least a quarter of you said you use a French press. We love ours, and it's an economical and fair...

Coffee Methods: The Chemex Carafe

Among many coffee purists the Chemex brewer is the gold standard. Its elegant shape is perfectly melded to function, and it's a design classic that resides in the permanent collections of the Museum...

Coffee Methods: The Drip Pot

We'll talk about several ways of making coffee this week, so let's start with the most basic, ubiquitous method of coffee-making: the drip brew pot. ...