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What kind of coffee maker do you use

what kind of coffee maker do you have/use

  • Drip - basic

    Votes: 9 40.9%

  • Drip - fancy

    Votes: 2 9.1%

  • Nescafe thingy

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Keurig (you planet killer!)

    Votes: 3 13.6%

  • Electric percolator

    Votes: 1 4.5%

  • stovetop percolator

    Votes: 1 4.5%

  • French Press - Glass

    Votes: 5 22.7%

  • French Press- ceramic

    Votes: 1 4.5%

  • Pourover - plastic

    Votes: 1 4.5%

  • Pourover - glass or ceramic

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Espresso maker

    Votes: 1 4.5%

  • Camp Coffee (Swedish coffee)

    Votes: 1 4.5%

  • Instant coffee (really, tho?)

    Votes: 1 4.5%

  • Don't drink coffee

    Votes: 5 22.7%

  • Other

    Votes: 1 4.5%

  • Working form home, eh, LP?

    Votes: 1 4.5%
  • Total voters
    22
cheapy basic drip maker at my house, but we only drink one large cup each, each morning, so it's sufficient for us.
 
We use a Keurig. Most of the time we think about the planet and use reusable coffee filters with it.

My dad would make cowboy coffee when he took us camping when were kids. You just boiled some water and tossed in the coffee grounds. I thought it was bizarre because he would mix crushed egg shells with the grounds. Allegedly, it would help settle the coffee grinds to the bottom of the pot or kettle; however, I don't know how well it worked because he would spend a good bit of the morning spitting out coffee grounds.
 
I use this Bona Vita- fancy for a drip maker but nothing crazy. Makes the coffee strong and hot, only has one button, does the little pre-soak thing if you want.

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Don't drink the stuff, but the wife has the drip machine and a french press.
 
Keurig!

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Yes, we have a bean grinder and French press. Yes, we know the cost of coffee per cup with a Keurig is astronomical. Yes, we have a reusable pod. However, we drink coffee every morning, and it's just me and my wife. Making a full pot seems like a waste, so most of the time we pop in a pod and make a cup. We're missing out on local coffee (none of which comes in grind or pod form), but for convenience, Keurig FTW.

There's a Keurig at work, but nobody uses it. It's easier to just drink the municipal grade Folgers that someone else made before you. As a backup, we have a hot water dispenser, and I have some Asian store instant coffee in my desk. Don't knock it -- Asian store instant coffee is good.
 
Dan said:
municipal grade Folgers
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We need a product label design for this, stat! I once worked in an office with a draconian cost-sharing system for the coffee supplies. Heaven forbid the Desk Lady caught you grabbing a cup if you hadn't paid in that month. And it was somewhere below municipal grade.
 
cheap drip. But than people say that they hear birds flying over head going "cheap, cheap, cheap" whenever I am around.
 
Dan said:
Don't knock it -- Asian store instant coffee is good.
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Mexican instant coffee is also really good.

Come Thursday, I'll be rocking the Nespresso Evoluo. The cost per cup is high(ish), around $1 per cup. I think it'll be better than the Keurig because unlike the K-cups, they are easy to recycle as they're made almost completely out of aluminum. Nespresso has a nice recycling program too. I've been drinking instant since the last Keurig I had died maybe 2 years ago, and thought it was time to get back into the machine game. The Nespresso also has espresso options, and included a milk frother so you can make legit cappuccino, lattes, and other fancier coffee drinks if you so choose. I found that I vastly preferred a small cup of espresso to a full cup of coffee when I was in Bulgaria.
 
Basic cheap Mr. Coffee drip coffee maker, used with decent coffee (Seattle's Best, Community, Peet's, etc.).

AG74683 said:
I found that I vastly preferred a small cup of espresso to a full cup of coffee when I was in Bulgaria.
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What do you prefer when you aren't in Bulgaria?
 
Bubba said:
What do you prefer when you aren't in Bulgaria?
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I mean I'd prefer the espresso to be sure, but there's no local coffee shop that has such an animal here. I like the convenience of concentrated caffeine. Sometimes drinking a whole cup of coffee isn't in the cards.
 
Mine is sort of like the kind you may find in a convenience store; It makes like a small tank of coffee from which you fill individual cups from a tap. Its like the standard drip in that it uses filters and grounds beans. You fill the water reservoir, then it will drip it through the filter and ground beans like a drip maker except it ends up in a tank. The tank is removable for cleaning and the filter holder sits on top of it. I have to use a vinegar solution once a month to keep the lime scale from blocking the water.
 
I voted basic drip and electric percolator. After the discussion yesterday I decided to dig out our drip coffee maker today and make half a pot for this morning with the Starbucks coffee grounds that were in the freezer for lord knows how long. It turned out pretty good and I'm definitely fully caffeinated now!
 
Hawkeye66 said:
Mine is sort of like the kind you may find in a convenience store; It makes like a small tank of coffee from which you fill individual cups from a tap. Its like the standard drip in that it uses filters and grounds beans. You fill the water reservoir, then it will drip it through the filter and ground beans like a drip maker except it ends up in a tank. The tank is removable for cleaning and the filter holder sits on top of it. I have to use a vinegar solution once a month to keep the lime scale from blocking the water.
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Like one of those commercial Bunn machines?

We have one in our office that somebody from the SBA donated to us when they closed their local office years ago and moved some of their staff to our building. We love it! It's so simple to use and it's really fast. Whenever I'm hosting a committee meeting I use that and can fill up one of those big thermal carafe things that holds 3 pots in about 10 minutes time.
 
AG74683 said:
I mean I'd prefer the espresso to be sure, but there's no local coffee shop that has such an animal here.
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Bulgaria has a more advanced coffee culture than your current locale? You might want to consider relocating.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
Like one of those commercial Bunn machines?

We have one in our office that somebody from the SBA donated to us when they closed their local office years ago and moved some of their staff to our building. We love it! It's so simple to use and it's really fast. Whenever I'm hosting a committee meeting I use that and can fill up one of those big thermal carafe things that holds 3 pots in about 10 minutes time.
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We typically use our cheap Mr. Coffee drip coffee maker, which works well for our daily coffee needs. We do have a cheaper espresso machine that we use use to make cappuccinos or mocha lattes on weekends as a nice morning treat. We also have a french press if we want to mix it up; it makes a great cup, but certainly more labor intensive than the Mr. Coffee machine.

I do have an aeropress at my office if I ever need more coffee at work, but since we had out baby (14 months ago), I've tried to avoid drinking too much coffee throughout the day.
 
The Nespresso is fantastic so far. I ordered a drawer thing to go underneath it to hold the pods but it lifted the machine up too high to really open it well under my cabinets. I will return it for a carousel instead. The pods aren't like Keurig pods, they are really a work of art and kind of deserve to be on display anyway, not shoved into a drawer where you can't really see them. The spring loaded ejector thing didn't work that well for my first cup, but I played with the springs a bit and it seems to work fine now.

Lots of complaints that it didn't create hot enough coffee, but I think it's about perfect. The only downside is that the creama it creates sort of blocks your view of the coffee when adding cream. If you do it by color, it'll be tough to know exactly when to stop to your liking. 1st world problem there though.

I also got an Aeroccino 3 with it. It's a milk frother and can do warm or cold. I'm not entirely sure how to use it. I think I'll have to look into some recipes over the weekend. I can do lattes or cappuccino with it, or any other milk based coffee drink, so that's neat. It's probably a little too much to mess with on a standard work morning though.
 
Unlike WYP I at least understand coffee. I made a great batch of coffee in the Navy with the old percolator pot thing. One of my many watch jobs. I just don't like the taste. I've tried it every way from adding a little coffee to my sugar to French cafe au lait. I just don't like the taste no matter how hard I've tried. I don't even like it in coffee ice cream. I also generally don't like hot drinks.

Now beer, beer we can talk about. Also whisky, bourbon, scotch, and a few other things as long as it doesn't have coffee in it.
 
I used to drink strong black coffee but after heart surgery, I lost interest in it. I had a cup last fall to try to warm me up (I often get cold now since I take an 81mg aspirin every day) but man, the caffeine was unbearable. So, yeah, no more coffee for me anymore.
 
I've got a nice Bunn coffeemaker for during the week. I buy locally-roasted whole bean and use a burr grinder every morning.

On the weekends my pinky goes up in the air with my French Press. I've got a nice glass one and then one I would use for camping.

In both cases, I like my coffee black like my soul.

I like espresso but have not had good luck with home espresso machines. I've decided when I want that, I should just go support my local barista.
 
DVD said:
Unlike WYP I at least understand coffee. I made a great batch of coffee in the Navy with the old percolator pot thing. One of my many watch jobs. I just don't like the taste. I've tried it every way from adding a little coffee to my sugar to French cafe au lait. I just don't like the taste no matter how hard I've tried. I don't even like it in coffee ice cream. I also generally don't like hot drinks.

Now beer, beer we can talk about. Also whisky, bourbon, scotch, and a few other things as long as it doesn't have coffee in it.
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The only way I could drink coffee was when I was with my first ex and I would get her gas station cappuccino. With all the stuff they put in it, it might as well have been hot chocolate. I understand coffee. Like you, I don't like the taste. I just my caffeine buzz from diet coke, that's all.
 
I was definitely wary about spending the money on yet another coffee machine, but I'm glad I did. This thing is incredible. The quality of the coffee is light years better than anything that came out of the Keurig. The smell whenever I brew a cup is enough to wake you up. I never got that with the Keurig. I plan to try an espresso pod with the steamed milk tomorrow morning.
 
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