Black
Two ways.
At the office: instant mix, coffemate and Splenda with boiling water.
At home: drip coffee from an ancient Black and Decker mixed with milk and Splenda.
Mocha pot, but I don't drink it myself
Typical routine:
- weigh out 18g beans and grind
- into the basket, WDT, tamp
- pull a shot in the 40-50g range
- enjoy as an espresso or steam some milk for a nice latte


I take a full kettle, boil it, take it off the stove, mix in 5 teaspoons of coffee, boil it a bit again, mix, pour half in the thermo, half in my cup. No sugar.
Start kettle set to just below 90 degrees. Put what looks like the right amount of coffee at the moment into french press. Pour water into press when it's at temp. Wait 5-10 minutes and drink.
I'll grind up 40g of kona coffee beans, put them into the percolator with 10 cups of water. Once it's ready, I'll add three ice cubes with about 4 cups of fresh coffee to my mug. Brings it to a nice temperature that I can drink it right away without scalding myself. Gives me 2.5 mugs of brew, and usually when the second mug is half done I'll add the remaining coffee into the mug to bring it back up to temp.
I get roasted grinded what ever coffee beans I boil it till its not foamy any more and doesn't splash around I boil again with cardamom added I drink 1 liter then switch to matteh

This, plus filtered water and freshly ground illy intenso. The coffee is somewhat costly. But I'm spending less than 10% on coffee now than when i was making weekly/daily trips to the barista.
Based on weather and season I drink espresso, Moka pot or frappe.
Drip.
In a cheap drip coffee maker.
On occasions I do a pour over.
60 grams course ground coffee in a reusable filter, submersed in 700ml water for 24 to 30 hours in the fridge. then take out the filter, use smaller amounts and dilute to preference. works better with medium roast
Stainless steel moka pot. KitchenAid grinder. Naviera cuban roast coffee beans.
Grind medium, fill bottom of the pot with 160F water, put the filter basket on and fill it with the ground beans. Screw on the top part and precipitate a pot of strong coffee. Heat some milk in a mug and pour coffee over it. Enjoy.
If work day, fill thermos with the black coffee and a mason jar with whole milk and take those to work to make 2 big lattes. At home someone usually grabs what is left after I make one.
Thanks for the inspiration. I really need to pay attention to my coffee again. Usually I insert a cartridge and press a button.
My kids are home from college and really like cold brew, so I’ll try to remember that tonight as a fresh start
Thanks! This made me happy. Let us know how it goes
Chicory/barley/chickpea instant with oat milk.
me personally i like to put the tea in the screen-door ball thingy and pour hot (not boiling) water on it and oh shit i made tea let me try again
Some sort of Philips machine. Beans and water go in, coffee comes.
16.4 (somewhere between 16 and 17) grams of light-roast, freshly ground coffee in about 280 ml of cold water in a French press (no paper), left to steep overnight in the refrigerator.
In the morning, I add about 200 ml of choco soy milk.
It tastes almost like dark, cold chocolate and, thanks to the soy (as a thickener), has the same mouthfeel.
I don't like the taste of coffee.

You just need a decent ground coffee and this thing will make a perfect coffee. Of course, you'll get an espresso size coffee, but I prefer it that way.
What type of stove top do you have? I was curious and looked up that coffee maker and everything shows it with gas but I have ceramic. I looked it up and got very mixed results on how well it fares. Some people recommended the Venus instead if you aren’t running gas, but that’s double the price. Do you know anything about that?
Venus are made in steel instead of alluminium so they work in induction stove tops. But the working principle of them is the same as the moka so in a ceramic both of them would have the same issue.
I think the problem with the valve may be related to using a bigger stove top than the moka; normally, you put the moka in a fire that's smaller than it's base and just wait until water boils. Reading the instructions of the moka it says that when using something that's not gas fire, you should use a medium intensity but they say specifically to use a source of heat that's smaller than the heater part of the pot. However, if you are having issues with that because of the ceramic, I'd recommend to preheat the water near boiling point and use that water for the moka; that way you'll have the coffee made sooner and your stove top won't have the time to turn off and on before the coffee is made.
Also, since we are talking about them: always clean your moka with water and nothing else. Do not use soaps or anything for the inner parts of it, just clean water!
Good point about preheating the water. I might try that if I pick one up.
How annoying are they to clean?
Annoyingly easy. As in you just rinse it in water and use your hand without any soap to clean the rests of the coffee. Just remember to change the rubber ring every year or so.
Those things were made to last a lifetime, if you take basic care of it , like, again, cleaning it with just water, and using low-calcium water to prevent deposits that might end blocking the moka (I use filtered water from a brita jar), it will probably outlast you.
Thanks for all the info, I appreciate it. I’ll probably pick one up soon then. Do you use espresso beans for it? Or regular coffee beans? And how finely do you ground your beans, or do you get pre-ground?
I buy pre-ground. Usually kimbo and lavazza have products for moka pots; espresso coffee is not suited for these. If you want to ground yourself, keep in mind the grain shouldn't be as finely ground as for an espresso machine. Think a middle point between espresso and dripping machines.
I’ll look into those. Thanks again for the info.
They make Induction friendly pots; I have one.
My stove isn’t induction, it’s just a regular electric ceramic/glass stove top, but I’ve heard since it cuts in and out to regulate heat, it can cause issues with the pressure valve. Not sure if this is a case of trying to dial in flavours so finely it’s all likely bullshit or if it’s an actual noticeable difference. The problem for me with coffee (and same goes for audio equipment in my experience) is all the snobs swearing up and down they can tell the difference between the most minute things and claiming one completely ruins the experience where an average person likely couldn’t tell the difference if they tried both back to back and new which was which.
Sorry, mini rant aside. Which model do you have? Do you remember? Or do you have a picture of it?
It's Bialetti. It shouldn't matter that you don't have induction; it's made to be cross compatible. I use it on a gas stove.
Maybe you could just get a small portable gas stove. You'd look cool making your morning coffee.
I might actually consider this. I could do it on the balcony on my days off, might be fun.
During the work week, I grind my beans at home & bring them to work, where I use an old style drip coffee maker (think Mr. Coffee) to make two pots - the first pot using preheated water from our water filter system, the second pot using cold once the heating element inside the machine is already hot.
During the weekends, it's a mug of water into the microwave and a spoonful of instant.
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