Alternative to a Coffee Machine 19 August 2018 at 7:52PM in I wanna buy it or do it 16 replies 2.9K views

dboswell

If you don't want or can't afford a high end coffee machine, what alternatives for great tasting strong coffee are there?

Ms_Chocaholic

A French press

Nick_C

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LadyDee

An Aeropress - even I can make decent coffee with one of these. https://www.aeropress.co.uk

molerat

LadyDee wrote: »

An Aeropress - even I can make decent coffee with one of these. https://www.aeropress.co.uk

What a faff that is !

jaybeetoo

LadyDee wrote: »

An Aeropress - even I can make decent coffee with one of these. https://www.aeropress.co.uk

Agree - another vote for Aeropress

Undervalued_one

molerat wrote: »

What a faff that is !

It's much less of a faff than any other system.

Another vote here for Aeropress - and you can buy spares (like the rubber plunger) too.

maisie_cat

We are a family that decided that decent strong coffee was our non negotiable when our income fell. We've had only one holiday in 10 years but we have a traditional plumbed in 1 group, a french press for backup and an aeropress for camping. We did have to use the aeropress for a week and it was fine even for coffee snobs like us!

boliston

aeropress is actually a lot less of a 'faff' than a french press as there is no 'clean up' involving coffee grounds after use - you simple eject a neat 'puck' of used coffee grounds into any handy bin - i have one at work and avoids clogging the company sink with french press grounds!

i can also recommend the porlex hand grinder as far cheaper than an electric grinder https://www.hasbean.co.uk/collections/porlex/products/porlex-tall-hand-grinder

SofiaDaly

Just drink an instant coffee, dude. Way easy and less cost, if I may say. LOL

Voyager2002

SofiaDaly wrote: »

Just drink an instant coffee, dude. Way easy and less cost, if I may say. LOL

No!!!

Horrible stuff.