What is your home coffeemaker of choice?

I have a Keurig. I love my Keurig.
It’s easy to use and I don’t have to make a whole pot at once.

Keurig. A trifle more expensive on a per cup basis, but still about 80% cheaper than Starbucks and significantly more convenient.

French press for overnight guests or company. I drink only freshly brewed tea. I keep a ¼ lb. ground coffee in the freezer for emergencies.

I have a new Keurig. I like it because of how easy it makes coffee brewing. But on the downside, this model doesn’t have two things I liked in my older coffee maker: a programming feature and a heating element in its base.

I love my Keurig.

I’d like to get a french press, for Really Good Coffee. But I’m not buying any Really Good Coffee these days.

@Pachyderm_In_The_Room – some of the Keurigs have a programming/clock feature. My daughter’s does. You must have a cheaper model :-)

I don’t know of any keurigs with heated bases.

@SecondHandStoke I have to go with you. The perfect cup is a medium blend of freshly ground beans, the smell starts the process for me. Water heated to precisely 170 and steeped 5–7 minutes.

I however am not much of a coffee drinker these days and the press along with the grinder water heater and thermometer were sacrficed in a move. Downsizing and all. Hard to justify the 70 start up cost..

I’d kill for a Keurig. Unfortunately, I don’t drink enough coffee to spend that much money on a coffee maker. So, I’ll just enjoy using all of my mother-in-law’s hot chocolates when we visit on holidays.

Ermagherd! All of you have Keurigs! <hangs head> I’m still using my Mr. Coffee. I’d get a Keurig if my hubby wouldn’t kill me.

Mrs Squeeky has a upset tummy everytime she drinks coffee so I am the main coffee drinker in our hour house,so on my work days we have a 12 cup Proctor silex so I can fill my thermos,and on my days off I have a single cup Black and Decker works great and no stupid little plastic canisters to throw away.

@Unbroken

I used to be quite the coffee snob: Whole beans, thermometer, etc.

I’ve calmed down a lot. Trader Joe’s Colombian ground in store with a spoon of Cafe Bustelo added.

I’ll even drink coffee from the previous day now.

Ahh, the simple life.

Instant coffee packs.

I love the Keurig. The local store carries 124 varieties of coffee and tea. The choices are amazing.

I view Keurigs as anti-social environmental disasters. One cup at a time and the little plastic trash.

I have a french press for weekends, and a Cuisinart Coffeemaker for workdays. I used to have a Melitta but the family hated hearing the grinder and the kettle every morning.

@WillWorkForChocolate – They’re actually decently inexpensive now. About $80 – $90 – less than a Bunn! Considering they are very convenient, and the way I do it (with a reusable filter instead of the throwaway cups) they actually save you money on coffee, I find the price justifiable. I got sick of buying a new $10 coffeemaker twice a year. With the Keurig, there’s no breakable carafe, and I’m not dumping lukewarm coffee down the drain three times a day (we drink a LOT of coffee, and want it fresh).

It was our Christmas present to ourselves last year, at $119.

A weeks worth of K cups is a heck of a lot less waste than the fast food bags that get deposited on our road on a daily basis.

Either way, I’d put them in the recycling. My issue is with the cost. $0.70 a cup! Eff that noise.

I’m in the anti-Keurig camp with @zenvelo for the same reasons.

For 10— or 12-cup machines I go for:
1) Thermal carafe. It retains the heat instead of cooking your coffee
2) and a cone filter
3) with a permanent gold or nylon filter

On workdays I take a half-liter Thermos with me, so I use a little Cuisinart 4-cup coffee maker (gold cone filter, no thermal carafe, though). I’ve been really happy with it. Usually the little models don’t make the best brew.

Mr Coffee for 2 to 4 cups. French press for guest.

My husband. He gets the coffee ready the night before, and I just push the button when I get up.

Only my significant other drinks coffee so we bought a cheap single-cup Mr. Coffee off Amazon since it suited our needs and student budget best. When we move together, we might upgrade to something nicer.

@elbanditorosa, yep, it’s the cheaper Keurig model but ‘twern’t all that cheap. ;-)

I promise, I’m not trying to be a coffee snob. I was a long time ago, but I now enjoy a simple Mr. Coffee drip maker with supermarket-purchased pre-ground Peet’s or Starbuck’s Sumatra beans.

I’ve attempted to consume coffee from a Keurig 6 times, and it’s impossible. I’ve been known to choke down a cup of Dunkin’ Donuts swill occasionally, but have never successfully done this with the Keurig “coffee”. Besides the fact that the grinds are extremely stale, there just isn’t enough of it to make a cup of coffee. The result is acidic, hot water that tastes like an ash tray. The absurdity of the wasteful plastic cups aside, I’m really surprised that people are enjoying this.

Chemex because you can heat the water to the correct point (just before boiling [a bad cup of coffee is often bad because it was made with boiling water]) and because it has several advantages over the french press. The Chemex has no wire screen for tiny bits of sediment to work their way through. It is much easier to clean than any press. And steeping grounds with the press releases the bitter notes in the coffee, whereas the pour-through method of the Chemex does not. Plus the Chemex has a lovely design, all beakerlike and 70s.

The BEST coffee ever is brewed over a campfire in one of these (Bottom right of the pic. Never mind the redneck and her redneck hot ash picker upper for to put hot ashes on the redneck dutch oven where orange cinnamon rolls are “baking.”)

@SecondHandStroke simple is often best, but I might put this down as lazy. At that point it may just be the caffeine but I’ll forgo the caffeine in this case, I have become a tea drinker, not as dedicated as @gailcalled, was using a press but everyone kept giving me the prebagged kind and I slipped. Plus it is handy to have a bag in tow for work or restaurants as I don’t do sodas.

@wildpotato I am intrigued by chemex. I might check it out.

I prefer Gevalia because they are free when you sign up for their coffee, and then cancel the next month.

@wildpotato the Chemex has a lovely design, all beakerlike and 70s.

I was surprised recently to learn the Chemex is a 1940s design. 70+ years of perfection!

Mr. Chemex: The Eccentric Inventor Who Reimagined the Perfect Cup of Coffee

That looks absolutely dreadful.

@tom_g – I’ve done a Keurig+reusable filter with an organic, fair trade, freshly ground Guatemalan Huixoc, and it was really really good.

So, I’m DYING to know what it tastes like made correctly. Unfortunately, I forgot to steal the coffee when I was laid off from my job.

Stovetop espresso, can’t beat it.

@Unbroken If you’d like to try an approximation before making the big purchase, you can see how you like brewing the same way, but smaller with a single-cup cone.

@jaytkay I stand corrected. I might think of it as a 70s look because it was featured in Rosemary’s Baby (I know, the film came out in 68, but still).

@Adagio Like a moka pot?

Machine: Xelsis Evo
Coffee Bean: Jamaica’s Blue Mountain
Brew: Mainly Espresso, sometimes switch to caffelatte & latte macchiato, caffè macchiato.
Reason: Thicker, creamier, more concentrated. In my opinion, good coffee doesn’t require milk or sugar.

My Krups 12 cup. I had a Keurig and it got clogged up so I gave it away. My daughter went through two broken Keurig’s . That’s why I felt it was hopeless.

@wildpotato I use something similar with my loose leaf tea.

@wildpotato I had never heard of a moka pot but after investigating online, yes, a stovetop espresso pot is just the same thing.

Wow…where have you been @Adagio? Hi!

@Dutchess_III I guess I have been in a part of the world where the pot is described as a stovetop espresso, or maybe it is only in my little corner of that part of the world, who knows, who cares, the coffee is good, that is all that matters : ^)