/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>came in the male
I came in a male once. Then twice. Then many more times thereafter.

>>5693905
What is it

>>5693911
Pretty sure it's a hario v60

>>5693915
Yep

>>5693905
I use a v60 after 15 years of chemex

The filters are cheaper

>>5693905
French press operated in reverse, it's literally the fastest thing on hand to make semi decent coffee.

>>5693905

cafetiera master race reporting in, next best thing to a full on machine

>>5694084
>operated in reverse

I don't drink a lot of coffee, but love French press coffee and was thinking of buying one. How exactly does one operate one in reverse? Please explain.

>>5694111
Basically you start in reverse, plunger down firstly, then measure your coffee and place inside press over the plunger, add your water. Stir as you normally would then lift the plunger and take that brick of coffee grinds out. It tastes better and is much easier, also if I'm being extra lazy I can just use that as a cup.

I buy freshly ground, spiced Arabic coffee then just boil it on a tool called finjan

>>5694128
Sounds like converting the French press into one of those rudimentary hispanic coffee pots I've seen. They look like shit and you wouldn't think they'd work, but they do make good coffee.

85% of the coffee I drink is cold brew.

The rest is aeropress, phin filter, and my big, shitty Mr. Coffee drip maker that I bought on a whim.

>>5693905
Aeropress, Bodum french press and Gamila Impress brewer. Thinking of getting a used La Pavoni used espresso machine for ~$200-400 off ebay.

>>5693905
>came in the male
intentional or not?
GET YOUR BETS IN

>>5693905
>weeb
my mom has had one of those for a decade+

>>5694191
Is it not a given that OP is a faggot?

>>5694220

Your mom is a proto-weeb. It's okay. These things happen.

I just don't understand why everyone buys Hario. They're ridiculously overpriced.

Aeropress for myself in the morning, Chemex for when I am making coffee for 2 or 3 people.

Eventually I may try one of Hario's drip coffee makers, and I also want to get a decent Moka pot for my family gatherings (The italian side of my family likes it).

>>5694224
>Your mom is a proto-weeb
nah
pretty sure your fancy weeb shit is just a ripoff of a simple device

>>5694224
I have a Melitta one I bought on Manager's Special. It was the cone basket, a vacuum flask for it to sit atop, some paper filters for said basker and a sample of Melitta-brand French-style roast coffee. All for $3. It was marked 90% off (IE the original price was $30).

I use the flask for keeping things cold more than keeping them warm, the ground coffee in my autodrip and the basket and filters to strain particulate matter from homemade stock.

How much do these weeby things cost?

>>5693905
>>5694220
>>5694224
>>5694230
Lots of people use Hario, it has nothing to do with being a weeb, if it was Belgian or Lithuanian it wouldn't make any difference, people would still use them. They are a good brand - works well, looks good - it is a little expensive but they really are nice.

>>5694238

The weeby things are about $20-25 just for the cone.

Meanwhile, you can pick up the Melitta cone for about $3 at any grocery store. Bee House is an amazing Japanese ceramic maker, and they have a gorgeous one for $18.

How do I into coffee?

I bought some of pic related but haven't tried it yet. I do not have a coffee maker.

>>5694273
The first thing you'd probably want to do is get a coffee maker.

>>5694279
I'm a teafag, coffee has always been too strong for me.

I'm slowly building myself up.

>>5694273
If you want to make coffee yourself at home get a good burr grinder like the Hario Skerton and a coffee maker like a $30 aeropress.

>>5694366

>How to Learn to Hate Making Coffee, the Abridged Version.

>>5694128
I'm going to try this

>>5694173
>cold brew
i am interested in learning the ways of the cold brew, please teach me your secrets. i understand that it can be as easy as "throw grounds in water and let sit for a day in the fridge," but i'm wondering if anyone has a good specific technique.

>>5694403
Op here

Nope that's pretty much it

I mean it's up to you whether after it's infused, you want to filter it through paper, or a mesh/French press


If you mesh, it will have more "body" which some people like, but others find gritty, especially if you're not using burr ground

Just look up ratios of grounds to water and give it a go

I'm honestly not a huge fan of the stuff tbh, it seems to lack some of the,I dunno, "fire" that hot brewed does

Cheap, easy, and makes a damn good cup of coffee.

>>5694403

I do about 4:1 water:coffee. Coffee is coarse ground, water is poured ice cold over the grounds. I store it covered in the fridge for 16 hours, strain it and serve it with an equal amount of water or milk.

I use a toddy brewer just because it's pretty easy to have the strainer built into the bottom of the vessel. You could use almost anything, though. i bet a gallon tea jar with the little spigot built in would work great.

French press

>>5694378
that's about 3 mins 'work' for a cup of coffee, it's not taxing

I use this thing.

>not a single mention of a percolator
( ´_ゝ｀)

>>5697050

How is it?

>>5697062
I hear the stove top ones are more prone to burning the coffee compared to the electrical plug in ones. I don't know for sure though.
The thing is using a manual pour over pretty much guarantees you won't be burning your coffee, it's just as cheap too.

>>5693905
pretty much the same as you, but I use a black n decker brew and go.
I pour the first 2 -3 oz back over the grounds to get a bloom going. Works great

>>5697062
I have a nice ceramic percolator that I reserve for camping trips. There's something about waking up early and starting a fire to make your coffee that makes it just the best cup ever.

>>5694403
>take a pound of coffee
>chuck it into a container with 18~20 cups cold water
>wait 12 hours
>strain

thats literally all there is to it.

>>5693905
For me I drink instant. I don't know why but it tastes better than any other coffee I've had, even from Starbucks and Peets and Phil's.

>>5697069
i've avoided burning it by setting the burner to a 2/10 or so once the water comes out the spout regularly. at that point, the water is all near boiling point, so it doesn't take much energy to keep brewing, but it doesn't get so warm as to burn the coffee

>>5697063
bretty gud/10 but you need to find the right coffee.

Kinda wish the grounds holder/filter was a bit bigger. I like my coffee seriously strong.

I use a french press but sometimes it sits a couple days because I can't be arsed to clean the grounds out. it's a >2 times a week thing

>>5697092
Be careful, if you let it sit too long it can get moldy. My roommate in college did this once and it was a fucking disaster to clean.

>>5697095
yeah I try not to let it go more than a couple days

>>5697095

lel, I threw a couple of french presses away because of this very problem. I don't miss roommates even in the slightest.

Has anyone tried a Handpresso?

>>5697107

>>5697123

Why?

>>5697107
Handpresso a shit.

>>5697151

Again, why?

>>5697101
wait, what? mold can render french presses useless?

Keurig or a reverse french press(?) I don't know what it's called but there's a screen at the bottom instead of a paper filter, then you place over the cup to pour. Looking into getting a hand held espresso maker

>>5697101
Why didn't you just douse it with 71% isopropyl

>>5697170

I was young and stupid. I tried bleach, but it ended up rusting the mesh.

>>5693905
alcohol extracted in a chemistry set of course

>>5697107
I have one. It was gifted to me by my ex. It's total shit.

>>5697156
Depends. Some press models do not have interchangeable parts IE once the filter is fucked, the whole thing is fucked. Be it with mould or other ickies.
I personally really rather dislike the press /over time/. When first bought and used, it will brew very good coffee for a while. Maybe a few months? But the oils and other ickies will begin to collect on the filter and many models, even 'spensive-ass Bodum-made ones, will get scratches on the beaker, trapping the oils and other ickies. These, no matter how much you try, will eventually render your press useless.
The filter should be replaced once every 6 months, IIRC. If someone knows better, please correct me. And the beaker itself once every few years. That's with careful care and proper use.

>>5697217

Why would mold ruin the filter? Sure, mold is gross but it's easy to clean it off without harming the filter.

>oils
1) If oil is icky, why are you drinking coffee?
2) Do you not have soap? There is absolutely no reason why would could not just wash all the parts of your French press, removing all the potential nasties..

>>5697206

Can you explain why? I'm just curious, and no one has been able to give a single reason outside of "it's shit."

>>5697230
For one: no body.
Espresso has a certain...thickness? to it that Handpresso lacks. Apologies if 'thickness' isn't the right word here. I speak English pretty well, but occasionally have brainfarts trying to think of certain words then have to settle for subbing a different one in when said words won't come to fore.

Secondly, the crema dissipates really rather quickly.
If these two things weren't bad enough because they both alter the taste of the brew, there's also the final issue: it's gimmicky.

I'm usually okay with gimmicky if the results can't be argued against. Like the Aeropress. It's a cheap and poorly made semi-overpriced (for what it is) piece of chintzy plastic that feels like brewing coffee with a child's toy but damn if it doesn't make a fairly decent brew.

The Handpress is like brewing coffee with a bike pump. In fact, that's exactly what it is. You pump it to build up pressure.

So there you are, giving your coffee grinds a handjob in the hopes that it'll shoot a tasty coffee load in your waiting face but instead, it sadly manages only to trickle a bit of piss instead.

If you wanna buy mine from me, I'd be happy to let it get the fuck out of my house.

>>5697227
It's not that the oils are icky. It's that old, rancid oils are icky. Washing it every day will get rid of the oils, sure... but that causes other build up, problems.
Really, the best way is to rinse after every use, wash once weekly or biweekly, replace the filter every six months or so and the beaker every few years. In for a penny, in for a pound. So long as you keep it up, it'll brew pretty good coffee. Oh: metal ones are better than glass so if you can find a metal beaker, you'll have a better cup.
To brew on the cheap with little worry of build-up either from oil or from soap, use a metal cone pour over with paper filters or a ca phe phin.

>>5697268

I still don't understand why you want to keep replacing parts that aren't broken. Do you not know how to clean things? It's not as if these are difficult to clean.

>>5697260
fyi I think that word would be viscosity.

>>5697286
I don't want to keep replacing parts. That's why I don't use a press pot.

>>5693905
>coffee maker

you misspelled I

>>5697050
I'm thinking about getting one of these. How is it compared to automatic/semi-automatic espresso machines?