That’s fair! I could have clarified that in my current work I’m the only one making their own coffee in the kitchen. Aeropress is my go to office or road trip coffee maker for the simplicity and how forgiving it is when eyeballing / working with whatever I got. Workplace 10 years ago had enough enthusiasts that we crowdsourced a full setup with scale grinder and all and in that environment we made some GREAT aeropress.
Actually that same era, tried my hand at roasting green coffee beans using an air popper popcorn maker and a multimeter with a temperature probe. Was pretty fun back then…
I use a Bialetti stovetop pot. My preferred beans are finely ground from the local roasting company, Peace Coffee.
The coffee is unusually good, but it takes a long time to brew if you’re doing it over a low heat (which you should), compounded by the fact that I live the life of a dog and never bother to wash the pot after I’ve used it.
It’s basically a V60 the switch is because it has a ball stop valve at the bottom, and pressing it releases the valve. So you can do an immersion brew, or a pourover, or start immersion and finish with pourover.
Now that I’m no longer living entirely off solar power I am enjoying the unlimited hot coffee to the point where I gave myself a terrible headache last week. That means it’s time to get some decaf to brew when I crave an afternoon coffee break.
I’m fairly lazy, I use store bought ground beans. If I have time, I have a rhino hand grinder and I’ll get proper beans from a roaster.
I use a basic Aldi milk frother for latte or flat white. Does the job. I’m happy with my low effort approach, makes a good drip in 4 minutes and is much better than instant or pods.
Big fan of the Hario Mizudashi for iced latte too.
curious as to how this compares to aeropress coffee? i don’t love the aesthetics and ux of the aeropress, especially as my partner is pretty skittish about the inverted method after accidentally exploding coffee all over the countertop one bleary morning.
do you normally just stand brew or do you do some kind of hybrid bloom pourover +stand?
Do the Town & Country stores up there carry Kuma Colombia Excelso decaf? I know they carry other roasts from that brand and I’m told they do a good decaf.
I’m no expert - but I’ll share that Aeropress I find very forgiving on bean age, variation in water/coffee ratios and the like. That’s why it’s my in-office jam - makes a solid “good” coffee, and it’s much better than the catering-style carafes that they have.
The Hario Switch is my commute coffee brew because I do the standing brew - measure out 14g coffee, three pours (first to wet the beans, second to off-gas, third to get to the target 200g of water total), and then at 2 minutes snap switch, and then ready to drink. Low effort, easy to set up and brew while scrambling to pack lunch and such. With that extra effort for consistency (and I’m using newly roasted and freshly ground beans) the coffee tastes much better than my workplace mid-afternoon aeropress.
But if I was being consistent with my aeropress as I have in the past, it could be much closer.
I feel you on the inverted brew - I used to do that, but stopped after making a big brown mess on the floor :/
I started roasting my own beans in no small part because it’s the best way to get decaf that is as good as “normal” coffee (or half-caf, it’s really nice to be able to e.g. intentionally roast and blend a decaf and full-caf from the same region or with complementary properties).
