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It is incredibly satisfying
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Yeah Nespresso machines are the next best thing to an actual espresso machine. With none of the faff.
I don't feel great about the environmental terribleness though.
But I also buy whatever giant can of ground coffee Costco has so I might just have the palate of a garbage disposal, who knows.
No it's not?
Cold brew is when you leave ground coffee in water overnight in the fridge. The lack of heat and pressure means the extraction is radically different
I wanted to see how a whole cup of espresso would taste.
It was amazing. But then...
So I blew $800 a few years ago on a Jura Impressa: https://www.amazon.com/Jura-15006-Impressa-Automatic-Coffee/dp/B00I8MYD5U
I work from home so I probably make a few cups every morning. It's easy to maintain and I can buy my beans in bulk online. But yeah...that upfront cost...
every time
which is nice when my husband doesnt finish a batch of coffee and I get to have the leavings before he makes the new one
I don't drink much coffee now, but when I was in the navy, I know I drank 15-25 cups on a lot of days. Especially underway.
How does this work? Is clean up easier than a French press? I have the latter but using it at work is too much fuss to clean.
Now I've a proper machine (Expobar Office Lever) and I enjoy 4-8 shots every single day (as does she).
You can't get it anymore, but the Gedeb Lot 83 from https://www.jbccoffeeroasters.com was the best coffee I've ever had in my life. Smelled like blueberries, tasted like fruit juice even as straight espresso. SOOOO GOOOD.
It's gotten so bad I can't even tell when I'm caffeinated anymore haha.
I had no idea it was that simple, hmmm. I had thought you needed a special machine.
Question: will this work with coffee powder or do you need beans? I don’t have beans.
I'm not sure how that specific pour over coffee maker works, it looks like it might have a permanent plastic/steel filter, but in general I find pour overs to be the easiest to clean. My pour over Chemex maker looks similar to the Bodum. You put a paper filter in the top, you pour the coffee grounds in there, and then you pour water over the grounds. The pouring requires some precision so that you saturate the grounds evenly and with the right amount of water so that the extraction is balanced. Because of this the pouring can be fussier than a french press. However once you're done you just toss the filter with the grounds in it in the garbage and then rinse the glass carafe. The carafe does not have any small nooks or crannies so it's super easy to rinse out. It's just more involved to actually make the coffee.
My next design involved poking holes in large nested tupperware containers with some paper filters in between them. That made a larger batch but it was almost as annoying to clean the grounds, plus draining the actual cold brew still took a long time.
Next I tried using a cotton bag that's used for making nut milk but also is recommended for cold-brew; basically a giant reusable tea-bag. I think this is probably the most virtuous method (most green at least), but again, cleaning out the grounds is still a mess and there's more fine sediment that seeps through than I'd like.
If there were inexpensive giant paper bags of about the same size I would try those, but so far I haven't been able to find any. So my current method is to make my own big tea-bag style things out of big commercial basket-style paper filters that I'd bought to use with the tupperware method; each one can hold about 2/3 cup of grounds and still close the edges with a twist-tie. I float a few of those satchels in a pitcher of water for a day. I was worried there wouldn't be enough circulation but so far it seems to work pretty well, and best of all when it's done filtering I can just pick the bags out and toss them in the compost.
This one specifically is pretty easy. on the top there is a metal screen where you pour your grounds (rough ground, 7-8 out of 10 on a store grinder), then pour the hot water over them. It's pretty much just a big pourover vessel. When I'm done I let the filter with the grounds dry out for a few hours and then just dump them and rinse out the filter. For the vessel I just rinse it out with water and set it to dry. It's coffee, so its not like it has to be washed with soap all that often, or at all. I find it easier to clean than a french press, and I find my coffee is less gritty, though you do get a bit thick coffee right at the bottom of the vessel.
If you go with a Chemex brand they are designed to be used with a paper filter so clean up is even easier, but you do lose out on some of the oils from the coffee. I also prefer the Bodum's design aesthetically, over the Chemex.
For the OXO cold brew station this is what it is. Pretty much a tank up top where you put in the grounds, and when it's done you put in the Carafe that comes with it down below and drain the cold brew into it. To be fair there are dozens of ways to make cold brew, I just like the specific design of this one in particular.
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You don't need beans, grounds are fine. I wouldn't use instant powder, but anything you're brewing normal coffee with should work great.
How much is a big batch? I use a french press which is like 50 oz or something and it's nice. Brew it for 12 hours in the press, take it out, press down, pour into pitcher. Wet grounds now located at bottom of french press. Remove now (<60s) or let dry for even easier removal. If you're making 200 oz or something I can see how it might be difficult. Could you get a real big pitcher and build yourself a french press filter of the right size?
Exciting!!
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I tend to grind my beans too fine for French Press and too coarse for Aero
It’s the worst of both worlds
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Give me a traditional Cuban or Vietnamese coffee (3-4 shots, plus enough condensed milk to turn it into coffee compote) and I can play the Duncan Hills jingle at full speed.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
30g grinds from the burr grinder on the coarsest setting, water straight from the kettle (boils at 203F here), 500g of water, brew for 4-6 minutes depending on roast (I'll let lighter roasts go a little longer) and my current desperation for caffeine
I've been slumming it with grocery store Peets beans lately. I need to start getting them straight from a roaster again.
Sounds like you're doing it right! Just combine grounds and water at whatever temperature and ratio you like, wait (5 min for mine for normal being), gently press down on handle, pour out, clean French press. Fresh beans will taste good!
Yeah this is all pretty similar to what I do. The grind I use isn't the coarsest possible but it's definitely coarser than what I'd use for other brewing methods.
Another thing I do is stir or swirl the grounds after I've added the water.
Want to play co-op games? Feel free to hit me up!
And by coffee, I mean mocha, because fuck drinking something that bitter.
Is there a way to do a mocha that isn't a total sugar bomb? Because if so, I'll try.
I'm an auto drip kind of guy. 11 scoops of whatever preground Peet's is $7/# for a 12 cup pot, water out of a Brita, splash of 2%. It's comfortingly mediocre/good.
Looking at Wirecutter or similar about this shows inconsistent reviews and basically tilted bullshit from reviewers pining for their Chemex instead of comparing apples-to-apples.
Hamilton Beach has Wirecutter's recommended economy auto drip pot - 9 cupper for $30ish, and it did make a good cup!
Only problem: Hamilton Beach switched to a proprietary carafe with these steep corners that shatter if you glance sternly at them. Replacements are $20 plus shipping only available direct from HB.
We since purchased a copy of the same Cuisinart we burned out that was on our registry; 4.5 years of daily use and we finally smothered it since I neglected to move it out from under the cupboard during brew the whole time. We picked the same one my parents have had for 20 some years. While not transcendent, I've never had a problem with it.
Incidentally, Rare Earth is one of the best channels on YouTube.