Help making a lovely cup of coffee -MSE style

adsk

Never tried this but might be worth a try?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ONE-CUP-COFFEE-FILTER-SET-WITH-1-CUP-MEASURE_W0QQitemZ350244369813QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Home_Garden_Food_SM?hash=item518c30f595&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

RightyTightyLeftyLoosey

Asda also do a filter machine with a washable filter inside that only costs about £6. Got one in my kitchen and in my office at work!!!

Lil2002

Just a note about grinding beans. It's usually best to keep whatever you grind the beans with, just for coffee. The smell/oils really seem to hang around (in a way that makes us coffee lovers smile!) Quite often you can find them at car boot sales/ second hand.

Once you start down the road of preparing your own coffee - oh dear. I have a one-cup cafetiere for the office, a travel cup with a built in cafetiere for the road, and a four cup cafetiere for the house. Oh, and an espresso pot to make my latte's on those long, lazy Saturdays. :rotfl:

sweetserendipity

esmf73 wrote: »

have you tried using your current coffee filtering cups more than once? I used to do this with a friend - she'd have full strength and I'd have the 2nd one!

I have done this on a couple of (desperate for coffee) occasions but tbh I much prefer the full strength I like my coffee strong (but not teeth rotting strong as I don't have milk).

paulwf wrote: »

Just think how much plastic waste you'll be saving by not buying disposable filters...OS MSE is really eco friendly as well.

I absolutely agree. I do feel very wasteful when using the individual cups, I should convert to cafetiere for that reason alone.

The rest of your post is extremely useful as well, thank you.

Lil2002 wrote: »

Just a note about grinding beans. It's usually best to keep whatever you grind the beans with, just for coffee. The smell/oils really seem to hang around (in a way that makes us coffee lovers smile!) Quite often you can find them at car boot sales/ second hand.

Thank you, I would never have thought of that possibility. I use my Braun chopper thing for chopping veg for soup so definitely wouldn't want it tainted with coffee flavour!! :eek:

Thanks for all the replies, I think the cafetiere is the way to go & I'm quite looking forward to testing out all the different coffees now, will be trying fairtrade, organic etc., as long as it's decaff as I get a bit hyper with ordinary coffee!! :D

Kadeeae

Love my coffee ( a requirement for we from across the pond )and have really run the gamut on appliances to brew it from really cheap to fairly expensive.

I absolutely love the Aeropress and would recommend it to anyone. It does use small disc filters (available at link also), but I've not had a better cup of coffee from any of the 'professional' machines I've had. Very easy to use and only took a couple of tries to get the coffee amount right. If you always use the same cup (or type of cup) you will soon know how many scoops of coffee and how much water for your perfect brew.

You just have to watch the water amounts at first so you don't overflow your cup. It's all a heavy grade plastic, extremely sturdy and no glass breakage worries! No, don't work for the company - :rotfl: Have had mine now for well over 3 years! Super easy to clean too!

Also: Manufacturer website for more info and here is a video of it in action.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

IKEA coffee, if you have one near you and can brave the crowds, is probably the best filter coffee I have tasted, and it is ridiculously cheap (presumably to get you to go back sooner).

anguk

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

IKEA coffee, if you have one near you and can brave the crowds, is probably the best filter coffee I have tasted, and it is ridiculously cheap (presumably to get you to go back sooner).

We buy that too, I use it in our Senseo machine with plastic re-usable pods that I got off Ebay. Much, much, much cheaper than buying Senseo pods.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2-Ecopad-refillable-permanent-Coffeepods-fit-Senseo_W0QQitemZ380155404093QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Home_Garden_Food_SM?hash=item5883071f3d&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

Fire_Fox

My dad is a cover lover and always used to grind his own beans so it was fresh, he now buys ground and puts a clippit on the bag and keeps it in the freezer once opened.

brazilianwax

There are 5 full sized cafetieres and 1 mini cafetiere in my cupboard.

Used to use them a lot until I got a bean to cup machine. I'm a decaff only girl too so I only ever put decaff beans in it.

Used to use the mini one for work, but it's messy. I use the decaff version of these



Genius! And I find that 1 bag will easily do 2 cups :T

I get them at Waitrose for £1.99 (18 in a pack). Not seen the decaff ones anywhere else.

ktpie

I was concerned that this was going to be Baldric's coffee recipe when I read the thread title. That would be moneysaving.

I wouldn't recommend the cappuccino!