Coffee... What, and how?
Discussion
So, there seems to be a whole raft of ways to get your coffee brewed, filtered, and plonked in a carafe thingy. So what do you use, how do you use it, and what coffee do you use?
As I have a wood burning stove in my little winter dungeon/den, I tend to use my stovetop coffee maker. I have a few. A single cup, and one that does about 9 cups.
Coffee comes out really nice, and it does taste different to my boggo coffee perc I use in the summer. Very simple to use. Fill the bottom with water to the pressure valve level, fill the insert with coffee, and screw the top on tight. Like a perc the pressure forces the water up, but on these stovetop ones it forces it up through the coffee, rather than dripping the water onto the coffee.
A few minutes later and the coffee is all nicely hot in the top section, ready for a nice mug of hot, delicious coffee stuff.
There are shed loads of coffees available, but the one I always come back to is Douwe Egberts 'Comfort' coffee, which is not only fairly cheap, but pretty damned smooth, and doesn't leave you with that nasty bitter taste some coffees can leave you with.
Now, this thread isn't about who's setup is the most expensive, or who uses only the finest 'monk produced, roasted between the thighs of voluptuous virgins thighs' brand of coffee. I'm just curious who uses what. My own setup is probably the cheapest. The pots cost between 3 and 10 pounds each, depending on volume, and the coffee was a few quid here.
So, how, what, and why?
As I have a wood burning stove in my little winter dungeon/den, I tend to use my stovetop coffee maker. I have a few. A single cup, and one that does about 9 cups.
Coffee comes out really nice, and it does taste different to my boggo coffee perc I use in the summer. Very simple to use. Fill the bottom with water to the pressure valve level, fill the insert with coffee, and screw the top on tight. Like a perc the pressure forces the water up, but on these stovetop ones it forces it up through the coffee, rather than dripping the water onto the coffee.
A few minutes later and the coffee is all nicely hot in the top section, ready for a nice mug of hot, delicious coffee stuff.
There are shed loads of coffees available, but the one I always come back to is Douwe Egberts 'Comfort' coffee, which is not only fairly cheap, but pretty damned smooth, and doesn't leave you with that nasty bitter taste some coffees can leave you with.
Now, this thread isn't about who's setup is the most expensive, or who uses only the finest 'monk produced, roasted between the thighs of voluptuous virgins thighs' brand of coffee. I'm just curious who uses what. My own setup is probably the cheapest. The pots cost between 3 and 10 pounds each, depending on volume, and the coffee was a few quid here.
So, how, what, and why?
sjg said:
Nespresso, because I'm too lazy to grind beans and all that stuff.
About £150 for the machine (there's usually £60 credit against coffee with that) and between 28p and 32p a capsule after that.
Ah, I am always curious about these, but only because some of them do hot chocolate, and I am too lazy to make my own. About £150 for the machine (there's usually £60 credit against coffee with that) and between 28p and 32p a capsule after that.
sjg said:
Nespresso doesn't, just 16 pretentiously named varieties of espresso (plus one or two limited edition ones).
You might be thinking of Tassimo or Senseo.
Well, I meant the 'pop a thingy in and press a button' variety of devices. I always end up thinking that the cost of them would keep me in coffee for a few years with the current stovetop setup.You might be thinking of Tassimo or Senseo.
Chapppers said:
My parents like to use either cafetiere or a pot on the stove. Both make absolutely horrid coffee. I need to find out what they're doing wrong and correct their coffee based errors.
When I'm not drinking tea I either make a pretty mean cup of instant (cold milk first, stir a bit then boiling water then stir lots) or buy Costa at work.
Well, I am no coffee expert, but over here in BG, the coffee for the stovetops have specific-ish packets, or you use the multi-purpose coffee like the Douwe Egberts I use. When I'm not drinking tea I either make a pretty mean cup of instant (cold milk first, stir a bit then boiling water then stir lots) or buy Costa at work.
the coffee tastes fantastic. 
kers !
croyde said:
I have a 3 cup stove top pot but it only half fills a mug which I then drink. Am I doing it right as previous posters have talked of adding hot water.
The stovetop ones do espresso, (sort of), so should really be served in the little espresso cups. My 1 cup pot fills a mug, with thick I drink quite happily. So the 2 cups it speaks of are little espresso cups. HTH
Odie said:
I add a shot (using a shot glass) to a mug then add milk and water to fill the mug up, get me 3 mugs out of it each time. I sometime do have it as a double or a tripple shot but that usually get me bouncing off the walls lol.
Or as mentioned you can have it in a espresso cup
I have the lot in a mug, because I am powerfully built, etc. Or as mentioned you can have it in a espresso cup
Colonial said:
One of these bad boys
Bialetti Class 4 cup.
Never get a cheapy. Make sure it is stainless steel.
Makes the best espresso around.
If I am getting a coffee from a proper barista it's a double shot macchiato.
What difference does stainless make? It operates on pressure, not temp per say, does it not? Bialetti Class 4 cup.
Never get a cheapy. Make sure it is stainless steel.
Makes the best espresso around.
If I am getting a coffee from a proper barista it's a double shot macchiato.
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