I'm sure many of you out there drink coffee. What's the best brand/model coffee maker, besides the $20 one I bought at Target that sucks?
I'm sure many of you out there drink coffee. What's the best brand/model coffee maker, besides the $20 one I bought at Target that sucks?
Unless you are willing to pay a bunch of money, I've found that a Mr Coffee can't be beat for the price. I received a very basic model at my wedding and it made it 12 years. The thing couldn't have cost $25.
French Press.
French Press, Chemex or a Filter Cone into a Thermal Caraffe. If you want to spend a couple more bucks, Vaccum Pots and Eva Cafe Cafe Solo's are good.
Most (like over 90%) drip coffee makers don't get the water hot enough. There's a few other factors which affect the quality of your coffee but the temp thing is nearly universal and does make a real difference if you're picky and use good beans. Here's a few options which will definitely make very good coffee:
cheap, simple, great coffee: various manual drip brewers -
http://www.sweetmarias.com/prod.brewers.shtml
supposedly the best drip machines, $200: Technivorm -
http://www.sweetmarias.com/prod.technivorm.shtml
very good (love mine) ~$90 drip machine: Zojirushi -
http://www.amazon.com/Zojirushi-EC-BD15-Thermal-Carafe-Coffee/dp/B0000X7CMQ
When I've looked into this before a few times over the years, it seems like at any given time there's a model or two which was less than $50, everyone agreed brewed a great cup of coffee, but was discontinued six months ago and now you can't find one. There may be a great cheap current model. Then there's other types of brewers like French press and vacuum pot; I can't help you there.
One place to find about about this stuff and read reviews is coffeegeek.com, where you might learn fifty times more than you ever thought there was to know about coffee making, or run screaming in disgust back to your Mr. Coffee. Last I looked, plenty of people dropping crazy $$$$ on equipment (probably all triathletes), roasting their own beans, etc.
pendejo, You like your coffee don't you?
I have the $90 Bunn. Very hot & speedy.
How does it rate against the Zojirushi?
French Press, and you'll never go back.
30 bucks and you're set.
Krups. The water is always hot enough, unlike Mr. Coffee which I returned after 2 uses. Horrible machine.
I work at a Coffee Roastery a couple mornings a week. We import green beans from around the world and our roastmaster is very skilled. I get to try the world of beans. One thing I believe is that the French pressed Yemen is the best cup of coffee you can drink.
Currently drinking East Timor shade grown, waiting for the new Kauai beans to oil up by Friday.
Anybody have their own roaster? My family fairly regularly (at least a couple of times a year) travels to major coffee growing regions (Ethiopia, Guatemala, Mexico, Haiti (though not a major region, they do grow their own coffee)) so I have a steady supply of fresh green beans if I want them. I have played with roasting them on a Ethiopian roasting plate (basically a big flat disc) on the grill outside. It is an interesting process and pretty fun to roast your own but with a surface system like that you don't get a very consistent roast. I've debated whether to buy my own roaster, but I've never talked to anybody who had their own.
runguru wrote:
One thing I believe is that the French pressed Yemen is the best cup of coffee you can drink.
And where do I find this beast? I don't see anything close from the link you provided.
Anybody have their own roaster? My family fairly regularly (at least a couple of times a year) travels to major coffee growing regions (Ethiopia, Guatemala, Mexico, Haiti (though not a major region, they do grow their own coffee)) so I have a steady supply of fresh green beans if I want them. I have played with roasting them on a Ethiopian roasting plate (basically a big flat disc) on the grill outside. It is an interesting process and pretty fun to roast your own but with a surface system like that you don't get a very consistent roast. I've debated whether to buy my own roaster, but I've never talked to anybody who had their own.
Sorry for the double post...oh for an edit function!
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One more vote for the french press here.
Vietnamese Filter
The downside of the French press is that it appears to cause heart disease. I think I prefer cone-filtered, very-finely ground Peet's over just about anything else. The handle just broke off of my Braun thermal carafe, though -- so I'm in the market, too. Keep the suggestions coming!
webby wrote:
The downside of the French press is that it appears to cause heart disease.
WHAT?
You post something like that without a link for proof? What the hell does that mean? Is it like McDonalds causing heart disease?
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WHAT? You post something like that without a link for proof? What the hell does that mean? Is it like McDonalds causing heart disease?
Sorry, I thought it was common knowledge. Got a lot of coverage in the papers a few years ago.
From science news:
http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/sn_arch/11_30_96/food.htmReferences:
Urgert, R., et al. 1996. Comparison of effect of cafeti�re and filtered coffee on serum concentrations of liver aminotransferases and lipids: Six month randomized controlled trial. British Medical Journal 313(Nov. 30):8.
Urgert, R., et al. 1995. Levels of the cholesterol-elevating diterpenes cafestol and kahweol in various coffee brews. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 43(August):2167.
Related Reading:
_____. 1995. Coffee: Brewing’s link to cholesterol. Science News 148(Sept. 16):182.
_____. 1995. Filtered coffee friendlier to the heart. Science News 147(Feb. 4):72.
Rosmarin, P.C., W.B. Applegate, and G.W. Somes. 1990. Coffee consumption and serum lipids: A randomized, crossover clinical trial. American Journal of Medicine 88(April):349.
Salvaggio, A., et al. 1991. Coffee and cholesterol, an Italian study. American Journal of Epidemiology 134:149.
van Rooij, J., et al. 1995. A placebo-controlled parallel study of the effect of two types of coffee oil on serum lipids and transaminases: Identification of chemical substances involved in the cholesterol-raising effect of coffee. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 61(June):1277.
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