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"But drip is for people who hate themselves and know their lives have no real purpose or meaning." -- Wednesday Addams

jollyllama 4y ago
Yes, instant is the choice of the patrician.
foobarian 4y ago
I don't get the drip hate. It makes perfectly good coffee. The main step functions in coffee quality for me were 1) A burr grinder and 2) get fresh roasted light to medium roast beans Everything else had negligible benefit for me. I tried the French press and Aeropress thing a while but it's way too labor intensive for how much I drink (one "10" cup drip pot per day).
- seanhunter 4y ago
  Agree. I was a died-in-the-wool drip-hating espresso snob until we were getting some work done on the house and our espresso machine had to go into storage. Then I was forced to learn to make nice drip coffee and aeropress and now I can make basically all the types of good coffee. It's a valuable life skill for sure. The real crime is most people make drip coffee too weak or with bad beans (or badly-ground beans).
  - hyencomper 4y ago
    Just being pedantic - it is dyed in the wool, not died :)
- acdha 4y ago
  It works well in the context of that quote: the Wednesday character is smart and competent, but not nearly as much as she thinks. There's nothing wrong with drip coffee but some people think it does because they skimped on the two things you mentioned or are getting diner coffee which has been on the burner for a couple of hours. At least in this case, that mistaken attribution doesn't have a body count.
- mrguyorama 4y ago
  Good drip is stupidly close to pour over in function anyway. There are things you can do to improve it massively, even with a $20 brand-less drip machine from walmart: 1) Make sure your coffee maker is free of old, dry, rancid coffee or coffee oils, and not clogged with scale 2) Use really good water. 3) Grind your own coffee 4) Buy coffee you enjoy, which might be a national, name brand, cheap bag of beans, but there's significant flavor and style differences in these different brands! Try several different ones. Some lean acidic, some lean earthy and bitter, find your personal preference Now we get to the "over fussy" stuff depending on how lucky you are 4) Use a concical bur grinder instead of a blade grinder for more consistent grind and extraction 5) Play with your coffee to water ratio. Everyone has different preferences here 6) Rinse the paper filter for your machine before use, or replace with a reusable mesh of some sort if you like your coffee more "sludgy" like cold brew or french press 7) "Pre heat" the water. Lots of drip machines don't heat the water very well in the beginning. My machine has a feature where if I keep the top open, the water recycles back into the tank so I can let it run and heat itself up. Alternatively heat up your water before brewing. 8) Let the grounds degass: remove the carafe or otherwise block the basket output, let hot water drip into the grounds until they are mostly submerged, and stop water from going into the basket. Let the grounds steep in the hot water for like a minute, then continue the brew as normal. I find this helps reduce acidity personally 9) Put a pinch of salt into the pot of coffee. Salt has a bitterness blocking effect that you might enjoy 10) check the output spout of your brewer into the basket. It can help to add some sort of "diffuse" so all the water doesn't just dig itself a hole into the grounds. When you go to empty the basket, it should look like a very even bed of grounds that got even water mostly all over Check out James Hoffman on youtube for more information.
- tengbretson 4y ago
  I'd add that an insulated carafe is a big improvement over glass on a hot plate.

Yes, instant is the choice of the patrician.

I don't get the drip hate. It makes perfectly good coffee. The main step functions in coffee quality for me were 1) A burr grinder and 2) get fresh roasted light to medium roast beans Everything else had negligible benefit for me. I tried the French press and Aeropress thing a while but it's way too labor intensive for how much I drink (one "10" cup drip pot per day).

seanhunter 4y ago
Agree. I was a died-in-the-wool drip-hating espresso snob until we were getting some work done on the house and our espresso machine had to go into storage. Then I was forced to learn to make nice drip coffee and aeropress and now I can make basically all the types of good coffee. It's a valuable life skill for sure. The real crime is most people make drip coffee too weak or with bad beans (or badly-ground beans).
- hyencomper 4y ago
  Just being pedantic - it is dyed in the wool, not died :)
acdha 4y ago
It works well in the context of that quote: the Wednesday character is smart and competent, but not nearly as much as she thinks. There's nothing wrong with drip coffee but some people think it does because they skimped on the two things you mentioned or are getting diner coffee which has been on the burner for a couple of hours. At least in this case, that mistaken attribution doesn't have a body count.
mrguyorama 4y ago
Good drip is stupidly close to pour over in function anyway. There are things you can do to improve it massively, even with a $20 brand-less drip machine from walmart: 1) Make sure your coffee maker is free of old, dry, rancid coffee or coffee oils, and not clogged with scale 2) Use really good water. 3) Grind your own coffee 4) Buy coffee you enjoy, which might be a national, name brand, cheap bag of beans, but there's significant flavor and style differences in these different brands! Try several different ones. Some lean acidic, some lean earthy and bitter, find your personal preference Now we get to the "over fussy" stuff depending on how lucky you are 4) Use a concical bur grinder instead of a blade grinder for more consistent grind and extraction 5) Play with your coffee to water ratio. Everyone has different preferences here 6) Rinse the paper filter for your machine before use, or replace with a reusable mesh of some sort if you like your coffee more "sludgy" like cold brew or french press 7) "Pre heat" the water. Lots of drip machines don't heat the water very well in the beginning. My machine has a feature where if I keep the top open, the water recycles back into the tank so I can let it run and heat itself up. Alternatively heat up your water before brewing. 8) Let the grounds degass: remove the carafe or otherwise block the basket output, let hot water drip into the grounds until they are mostly submerged, and stop water from going into the basket. Let the grounds steep in the hot water for like a minute, then continue the brew as normal. I find this helps reduce acidity personally 9) Put a pinch of salt into the pot of coffee. Salt has a bitterness blocking effect that you might enjoy 10) check the output spout of your brewer into the basket. It can help to add some sort of "diffuse" so all the water doesn't just dig itself a hole into the grounds. When you go to empty the basket, it should look like a very even bed of grounds that got even water mostly all over Check out James Hoffman on youtube for more information.
tengbretson 4y ago
I'd add that an insulated carafe is a big improvement over glass on a hot plate.