Coffee or coffee? The answer is Coffee!

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@dochawk Oh wow! Your picture of the vacuum coffee pot brought back childhood memories. Ours was a metal one however. One of my duties especially on Sunday morning after Mass was to watch the pot. We had a gas stove and I had to adjust the burner to get water in the bottom part to a roiling boil until the water got siphoned into the upper part. Then with the gas off water got filtered through the coffee basket back down into the bottom pot. Loved the process, loved the aroma, loved the flavor! Thank you for this walk down memory lane! :coffee:
 
Sonic apparently has green mountain coffee, so I had it recently. I liked it.
 
I think that my childhood timeline goes a lot further back then yours does @Margaret_Ann! I guess that vacuum pots are still available. My favorite way to brew coffee is a French press. I have a Bodum 8 cup press in which I liked to serve after dinner coffee. It seldom gets used any more.
 
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My favorite way to brew coffee is a French press.
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One of my coworkers has a French press. Everyone else uses the Keurig K-cup machine.

Hoping to get back to work as soon as I’m able.
 
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I have a Keurig but I never buy the Kcups. I bought the fill your own adapter, one for single cups and the larger one for a full pot. I know everyone and their son makes Kcups but they are all overpriced in my view…plus the waste! I just love buying and trying various beans and grounds…beans when I can get them in the brands I like. Nothing…and I mean nothing is better than fresh grind immediately brewed.
 
We have the refillable one to. Sooo overpriced to buy the prepackaged ones. But the first couple of cups in the morning at our house is perked in an electric percolator. Old school, but tasty.
 
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. One of my duties especially on Sunday morning after Mass was to watch the pot. We had a gas stove and I had to adjust the burner to get water in the bottom part to a roiling boil until the water got siphoned into the upper part.
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yeah, both students and later other members of the office were dumbfounded by it.

In short, you apply heat to the lower chamber, which raises the pressure of the remaining air, causing it to expand and push the water to the top. Then you kill heat after a minute or so up tp and stirring, and it filters back down

It’s either the #1 or #2 way to prepare any particular variety of coffee (with the other being a French press).

[ok, and given a borderline crazed genius/wild scientist reputation to star with, it only enhances it when you do this . . .]

I bought mine at sweetmarias.com, which still sells them.

A French press is, well, boring next to a vac pot . . . (and as noted above, they also came in metal, but that spoils the show . . .)
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if you use a Keurig, I don’t, so I don’t know if this is a good deal or not.
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If you own one, you don’t particularly care about price.

🤣 :crazy_face: 😱

Yeah, maybe convenient, but insanely expensive pods (and didn’t they come out with a Keurig II to disable aftermarket ones?). There are also reusable metal pods for them.

I finally, after years of searching, found a maker with a timer, grinder, and thermos pot. Finding two of these is easy, but all three, well . . . but my wife doesn’t get along with the grinder 😦

[it’s also a good brand, so the water is hot enough {200F is ideal}]
 
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dochawk said:
I finally, after years of searching, found a maker with a timer, grinder, and thermos pot. Finding two of these is easy, but all three, well . . . but my wife doesn’t get along with the grinder
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don’t tease, what did you buy?
 
I make my coffee filtered. The only place I really use a keurig is at where my step dad works.
 
checked this morning. It’s a culinary. I think it washout $100 (cheap ones don’t tend to heat the water to the full 200F needed for proper extraction).

Someday, I’ll make my own with an Arduino and controlled valves to fill the water, and a later one to clean the chambers., etc.
 
thanks,

mine is on its last leg and I need something soon.

I’m down to a cup at a time, a couple of times throughout the day, so I’m looking for a single cup maker. Keurig’s seem to be efficient, especially if you can use your own beans
 
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I’m down to a cup at a time, a couple of times throughout the day, so I’m looking for a single cup maker. Keurig’s seem to be efficient, especially if you can use your own beans
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You can with the reusable cup! My only complaint is that when making a single cup, your choices are 8 or 10 ozs. So, we also bought the larger cup that can make my mug size pots…overall, I’m really happy with mine, especially as I can avoid the ridiculous price of KCups. ❤️
 
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