Who makes the best coffee, men or women?

@john65pennington IMO whoever has made that effort to make that cup of java get’s the blue ribbon. I make a mean cup of Joe from a tip my dad gave me a long time ago. Less is more. Coffee makers call for one scoop of grounds per cup and dad showed me how 8 scoops of good fresh ground beans in a 12 cup pot made a richer more flavorful pot where 12 scoops had you reaching for extra cream and sugar.

Cruiser, this is exactly the way i make coffee. my wife believes that coffee must be the color of black paint, before its any good. i told her that if i wanted black, burned coffee, i would go to Starbucks.

the cup measure (8 oz) is not the coffee cup measure that is used on the coffee maker, most of the time. the coffee maker considers 6 oz as a cup of coffee. i think it’s hard to say a man makes it better or a woman makes it better.

@john65pennington You can always use your wife’s leftovers for driveway sealer! ;)

Gender has nothing to do with cooking skills.

Best coffee comes from personal taste and experimentation with own coffee maker.

Personally, I like using freshly ground beans. Sometimes I add a dash of salt to cut the bitterness. I like my coffee full and dark, a cross between Starbucks and Dunkin’s.

@Cruiser and @john65pennington As a person who makes coffee as strong as possible (because I like it that way), my argument has always been “You can water down strong coffee, but there is nothing you can do to improve weak coffee.” If you make it strong, everyone can enjoy it. If you make it weak, some of us will be unhappy!

Probably because women learn early to plan ahead to make the most efficient use of time and resources . . . . well, just sayin’

I don’t think you can generalize by gender. My husband usually makes the coffee in our house, and I like it. But when I make the coffee, he says how good it is.

What has sex got to do with the ability to make coffee? Great coffee is made by people who know what they are doing and care enough to do it properly.

Transgender people make the best coffee. What do you mean why? Because you don’t get to ask a question like that and then think an answer doesn’t make sense.

@john65pennington Your wife should be friends with a man I used to know, who thought adding more coffee meant stronger, better tasting coffee. Reality seems not to have anything to do with either of them.
Why would you even think of asking if women or men made better coffee as if their gender had anything to do with it? Are you saying that your family actually argues about this? The long, winter nights must simply fly by.

the best coffee comes with bacon and fried eggs over medium, and a good whole grain toast with butter and good jam.

It is just coffee. I usually drown it in cream and sugar anyway because I dislike the taste.

loll me too @ragingloli !

It is largely a matter of personal preference. When I ran the coffeemaker on the mess decks of my first ship, my fellow Engineers raved about the improvement while the pansy Airdales and Ops-geeks did spit-takes, forcing us to let me take one spigot and someone normal to make the coffee on the other.

My wife, my parents, and I both have the same tastes in coffee, so I have no problems getting away with making coffee the way I like to drink it at home or when I visit my folks, but some complain that it is a bit strong even when I use the same amount of coffee. (I grind it to nearly talc-like fineness).

So it really depends on how similar the tastes of the drinker(s) is/are to the tastes of the brewer.

@BoBo1946 @ragingloli What you need to do is find a smooth blend. There are very few that I can drink without adding some milk, but here are some that I can drink black without brewing them weak enough to look like tea. Some of your “rougher” blends especially anything mass-produced and pre-ground take more to taste remotely palatable though, which is why I don;t drink the coffee served in most offices. There is a reason I pay a little more for good beans and grind my own ;)

@jerv I’ve tried so many… just not my thing. I like coffee in my milk.

@BoBo1946 As a fan of Cappuccino and Latte, I guess I don’t have much room to judge. Still, there are a few out there that only need a splash of milk (though I prefer full-on cream) as opposed to a no-hold-barred drowning. If you’ve ever winced at some of the stuff they’ve served in gas stations then you know what I mean.

Yeah, Cappuccino is not bad… no Latte for me.

Mr.Coffee XD

I like Dunkin so whatever gender Dunkin is, that’s the gender that I feel makes the best coffee.

The people who substitute tea leaves for coffee grounds when making it.

@lucillelucillelucille Lol XD

I agree with the general consensus. Not sure one or the other gender has an innate aptitude to brewing coffee. To make a good cup you gotta know some stuff about coffee and beans and types and stuff and how to properly make it, and even then, depends on your personal preference. I like mine and strong and brewed with a horse shoe sitting at the bottom of the pot. Others might not. I suppose there is technicality somewhere in there, but as I say, I’m sure that said technicalities don’t have much to do with boobies and shlongs.

Hey, this what not meant to be a gender question. but, i see its heading that way, so i might just delete the entire question. my intent was not he said, she said.

“Coffee” isn’t being used as a euphemism here, is it?

metaphor

@john65pennington – I can see your OP “men or women” having nothing to do with gender. You just wanted to prove the better coffer maker between you and your wife! So, why not have a coffee taste-off and see who wins?! ~

As Charlie Chan would have said, “very interesting!”

HavIng recently moved to Miami I would have to say it doesnt have anything to do with gender but nationality. Cubans make the best coffee. Anyone care to share some shots of colada with me?

Italian coffee machines.

@mattbrowne Yeah, but male or female Italian coffee makers? :-)

@janbb Probably female. Most machines I have known have feminine names, even if it is one as crude as “cantankerous bitch”. The only exception to this that I can think of off the top of my head is my first car, “Harold”.

@janbb – Die italienische Kaffeemaschine. So, female, I guess.

@mattbrowne
That is only because of Maschine.
Replace it with Gerät or Automat and it changes sex to neuter and male respectively.

@ragingloli – True, but the term Kaffeemachine is 5 times as common as Kaffeeautomat and almost 100 times as common as Kaffeegerät ;-)

I make the best coffee.

Seriously, though, this is impossible to answer. For one, everyone’s tastes and idea of “best” is different.. secondly, it has nothing to do with gender and everything to do with whether the person knows what they are doing AND, point #1, how they like their coffee.

I use a Cuisinart coffeemaker, Peet’s coffee, and one scoop per ‘cup’ (which is really 4 ounces and not a cup at all), plus one scoop. I like it strong and my coffee comes out delicious.