I use a French press coffee maker. I measure the water in the pot, pour it into an electric tea kettle, grind the coffee while the water is heating up. Put the ground coffee into the pot, pour in the nearly boiling water, stir it up, wait 4 minutes, and then use the plunger to plunge the grounds to the bottom of the pot. It sounds rather involved, but I can literally do it in my sleep!
There are even electric French press pots - the pot boils the water, you dump in the ground coffee, stir, and after 4 minutes, plunge the grounds to the bottom, but I have been through lots of these so-called electric French presses , and they never last, so I switched to the non-electric model and the electric teakettle. I agree, the coffee in the pods is not fresh much of the time, it adds needless waste to the land-fill, and French pressed coffee is much better. My French press pot says it makes 8 cups, but those must be teacups - because you only get about 4 and a half or 5 coffee cups. Penny On 2/7/14, Lois Goodine <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a one-cup Keurig coffee brewer and you don't have to use those > pre-measured pods. You can purchase a well made plastic coffee holder that > > fits in the receptacle just right. You can fill it with coffee with a > teaspoon, which is much cheaper than puying the pods. Works well. > I also have a Mr. coffee 12-cup coffee maker for when other people are with > > me and wanting coffee > Lois Goodine. > . > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jan Brown" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 7:26 AM > Subject: Re: [CnD] coffee makers > > >> L >> "I am a huge coffee snob and have owned many different makers over the >> decades beginning with an electric perkalator in college. I now use a Mr. >> >> Coffee machine which is an eight cup maker. So, you see, it makes about >> five big mugs. I am not a fan of those single serve makers because the >> coffee is measured for yyou. If you are feeding many people, you will >> always be making coffee. Yes, measured coffee cuts down on spilling but it >> >> also creates trash for the landfill with all of those little pods. His is >> >> pure bias, but I also think it takes some of the soul out of the process. >> >> I told you, coffee snob. >> Also, don't buy low quality coffee beans. Grinding is the best, but along >> >> with being a snob, I'm a slob so, I buy gground coffee ot of laziness. >> This is not doubt more than you want to know. It is the novelty of using >> this keyboard on my iPad that is driving my yap. Best, >> Jan >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >>> On Feb 6, 2014, at 10:28 PM, "Drew Hunthausen" <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Dear list, >>> >>> I'd like any feedback recommendations and good coffee makers that make >>> at >>> least 5 cups. I know a lot of people like the Keurig makers, but don't >>> know >>> much about them. Would love to hear from people who have these machines, >>> >>> and >>> which models they like and why. Thanks >>> >>> >>> >>> Drew >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Cookinginthedark mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Cookinginthedark mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > [email protected] > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
