Coffee - instant vs drip filter

[virtuamike]

Originally posted by: Dirigible

Originally posted by: Jeraden
I use one of these: http://www.melitta.com/itemdy00.asp?T1=64+0008 and highly recommend it. The link is for the old version, now they go by the name "Ready set joe" and fit large cups better. They sell them at grocery stores and kitchen stores.
Very easy to make 1 cup at a time, its cheap, easy to clean up, and tastes great.
You just put it on your cup, put a #2 filter on, fill it up with coffee grinds, then pour hot water in it. Its nice for me because I have a hot water dispenser here at work, but for about $10 you can get this:
http://www.amazon.com/Proctor-K2070-1-Q...F8&s=home-garden&qid=1176468499&sr=8-2
Which will heat the water up really quickly and you can just use that.

I second this. I use something similar, but slightly larger, which takes a #4 filter. Very simple, cheap, makes one cup at a time and much better than instant coffee. The best coffee shop near me (http://www.colecoffee.com/, which has a cult following, uses the same type of device to make their normal coffee.

Ah, Cole

We brew Blue Bottle

From the Cole website -
Linky on drip

 

[Dunbar]

Originally posted by: Jeraden
Not to defend Starbucks, but even getting their largest regular coffee is under $2. I've found regular coffee pricing generally consistant among all coffee outlets, generally about 1.60 here for a medium. The $4 ones are the iced mochas and crap like that, which you aren't gonna really replicate with a normal coffee maker.

Please don't defend Starbucks coffee, it tastes like charred carbon water. I do like their lattes though. And they do actually sell some decent roasted coffee that isn't over roasted.

 

[will889]

I would keep it simple and get a standard size coffee maker that's not expensive but makes good coffee (no frills). I have a simple black and decker that cost about $20.00 US at the home-depot, and I full the jug up to 6 cups and use 4 heaping TBS of folgers cinnamon and I'm good to go for the day.

 

[virtuamike]

Originally posted by: Dunbar

Originally posted by: Jeraden
Not to defend Starbucks, but even getting their largest regular coffee is under $2. I've found regular coffee pricing generally consistant among all coffee outlets, generally about 1.60 here for a medium. The $4 ones are the iced mochas and crap like that, which you aren't gonna really replicate with a normal coffee maker.

Please don't defend Starbucks coffee, it tastes like charred carbon water. I do like their lattes though. And they do actually sell some decent roasted coffee that isn't over roasted.

Only because the milk drowns out anything they did wrong to the coffee

 

[Dunbar]

Originally posted by: virtuamike
Only because the milk drowns out anything they did wrong to the coffee

Well Espresso roasts tend to be very dark so their "torch it" roasting technique doesn't really detract from it. God their regular coffee tastes awful though. I've actually found that a lot of coffee houses make really bad coffee for some reason. I'll actually drink McDonalds coffee over your average coffee house. I used to roast my own coffee so I know what good coffee tastes like.

 

[Dirigible]

Originally posted by: virtuamike

Ah, Cole

We brew Blue Bottle

From the Cole website -
Linky on drip

Yup, a smile is always my reaction to Cole. Unfortunately, I tend to start my work day very early so even though I live two blocks away I rarely have it.

 

[mercanucaribe]

Things to keep in mind:

A "cup" of coffee is 6oz. It takes two of these 6oz cups to fill up my mug, which isn't unusually big. My coffee maker makes 24oz.

You can mix regular and decaf to get less caffeine, even less than tea.

Even organic coffee grounds are cheap. I bought a can for $3.50.

 

[virtuamike]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Things to keep in mind:

A "cup" of coffee is 6oz. It takes two of these 6oz cups to fill up my mug, which isn't unusually big. My coffee maker makes 24oz.

You can mix regular and decaf to get less caffeine, even less than tea.

Even organic coffee grounds are cheap. I bought a can for $3.50.

Decaf? That's not real coffee!

 

[virtuamike]

Originally posted by: Dunbar

Originally posted by: virtuamike
Only because the milk drowns out anything they did wrong to the coffee

Well Espresso roasts tend to be very dark so their "torch it" roasting technique doesn't really detract from it. God their regular coffee tastes awful though. I've actually found that a lot of coffee houses make really bad coffee for some reason. I'll actually drink McDonalds coffee over your average coffee house. I used to roast my own coffee so I know what good coffee tastes like.

The espresso blend we use is on the light side. I'd rather not taste just roast.