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In my kitchen I always try to go as low tech as possible. Usually that’s not worse then high tech, way more reliable and often less work. For coffee: just get
by andix 4y ago
In my kitchen I always try to go as low tech as possible. Usually that’s not worse then high tech, way more reliable and often less work.
For coffee: just get a French press. The taste is somewhere between Filter coffee and espresso. You can’t run out of filters, because you don’t need any. The only waste you produce is the coffee. And you can get them for as little as 10$. And you can let the dishwasher clean it.
- disparate_dan 4y agoDo you tolerate a lot of grounds in your coffee, or use a really course grind? I like the result of a French press except for all the grounds.
- toddmorey 4y agoI mentioned this above, but the Aeropress is a great solution for French press simplicity and taste without the grounds ending up in your cup. It has tiny round paper filters and it's pretty much self-cleaning. After using it (all manual), you just unscrew the filter and eject the coffee grounds.
- andix 4y agoI need to try one of those once. But if you need filters that’s really bad for me. I always forget to restock on those little things. I’m already happy if I managed to buy coffee on time ;)
- falcolas 4y agoFWIW, a filter pack has around 300 filters last time I checked. You'll have a bit of headroom.
- andix 4y agoOkay, that’s good. I can keep the French press as a fallback. But usually I run on green tea, which you can always do Chinese style, by just putting the leaves into a glass with hot water and wait until they reach the bottom of the glass.
- andix 4y agoYou need to grind your coffee into bigger pieces. With a good coffee grinder there should be no dust created. The coffee grinders with a rotating knife are just awful, throw it away and get one that works like a pepper grinder. If you buy already ground coffee you need to tell the shop to make it coarser, tell them you need it for the French press they will know. If you buy the coffee online, you can usually chose the grade of grinding in the online shop. It’s the opposite for an espresso machine, there you need it extra-fine. Pre-packaged powder from the supermarket usually tastes like mud, because it’s not freshly grinded.
- bravoetch 4y agoSomeone linked the espro, which has a double filter system for fewer grounds.
- toddmorey 4y agoI hear you. My entire stove had to be replaced because the control board for the digital display overheated (hello, it's an oven!) and stopped working. Everything else was fine, except you couldn't operate the thing without that control panel. So I looked a long time to find something completely manual with real metal knobs and actual switches. For coffee, I love my Aeropress... it's a manual plastic coffee press that you can easily travel with.
- Kon-Peki 4y ago> My entire stove had to be replaced because the control board for the digital display overheated There is a place in the suburbs of Chicago that rebuilds them for ~$500 with a turnaround time of a week or less. A lot of people aren't willing to spend that much to repair an "old" stove but in our case it saved us $10k because our stupid stove is a non-standard size that nobody but a few niche European manufacturers build any more.