
You just need a decent ground coffee and this thing will make a perfect coffee. Of course, you'll get an espresso size coffee, but I prefer it that way.
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You just need a decent ground coffee and this thing will make a perfect coffee. Of course, you'll get an espresso size coffee, but I prefer it that way.
Hey, just wanted to say after our conversation I ended up picking one up last night after finding the 3 cup size on sale as my local shop. I made some this morning and loved it! Definitely the best coffee I’ve made at home. I made some for my wife too and she also really enjoyed it. Clean up was also super easy. Thanks for the info, it was way better than I expected it to be.
Awesome! Glad you like it! What model did you get in the end? The traditional moka or a venus? Was it an original Bialetti or a different brand? What coffee did you get? And did you use preheated water? Was the stove top an issue?
I went for the 3 cup Bialetti Moka Express. The coffee was Three Sisters by Kicking Horse. I think they’re Canada exclusive but I could be wrong. They’re probably not enthusiast specialty beans or anything but they’re available everywhere here, they’re not crazy expensive, and I like the taste. The one I had was very chocolatey, which I like in a coffee. Which is funny because I hate it in a beer.
For the stovetop issue, I followed a guide. Preheat your stovetop on medium heat, and while it’s heating boil the kettle. Then use the freshly boiled water in the moka, screw it together, and put on the centre of the burner. When the coffee first starts coming out, move it to the edge of the burner, so half (or more than half) of the base of the pot is off the heat, and as soon as it starts to sputter remove from heat immediately. The guide also did mention to run cold water over the base of the pot once it starts to sputter if it doesn’t immediately stop after removing it from heat, but I didn’t have that issue so I didn’t bother with cold water. It sounds unnecessarily complicated but it really wasn’t a big deal at all. The whole process was only a couple minutes.
4 scoops of the cheapest ground coffee to a 1l French press.
Then boiling water added and waiting for a bit before i can force the plunger down.
Then poured into the biggest cup i have found at home and some sugar replacement added in.
Now all the coffee lovers, you're free to pour out your hatred towards me.
You'd honestly get a better cup, cheaper and with less effort from a high quality instant coffee.
Cafestol is worth filtering out of your coffee with a paper filter, otherwise do what works homie.

I do some stuff and push a button
Oh my god ... I'm a guy and I would probably shriek like Ned Flanders with my fists in the air if I saw this.
Every time I go into a cafe of any kind, I look behind the bar to see what kind of machine they have. The board may advertise 'espresso, cappuccino, mochafrapamachitomoochoochoochinowhatever' ... but if you don't have a machine like this prominently sitting in the back for everyone to see, you aren't serving proper coffee.
It's surprising how many places are out there that call themselves 'cafes' and have a simple $500 instant coffee machine in the back. The ones who aren't aware or don't care, just place the machine in full view and no one cares. Some places tastefully try to hide the machine and pretend they have an expensive machine somewhere serving coffee.
But the gold standard is if you see a machine like the one in your image that costs $5,000 to $20,000 serving the most delicious coffee ... that is the point where I will pay $10 for a single shot of espresso.
I wish I liked coffee because there seems to be so many interesting ways of making it, but it tastes like someone farted in an ashtray and then poured hot water in.
I cannot stress this enough: starbucks and friends' coffee is undrinkable; burnt, acid, 3rd-degree burning. An absolute abomination.
Perhaps you could give it a try at home. My only "trick" is to exclusively buy light-roasted arabica coffee. (the light-roasted part being much more important). Forget the fancy labels. I get mine from the bulk coffee section at Wholesome Choice (a general supermarket that started as iranian-focused)
I’m converting coffee haters and milk drinkers with a v60 at home. Everyone likes their coffee without milk suddenly when they taste actually good coffee. Such a joy!
You might have had only bad coffee tbh. I'd at least give it a try with different stuff if you are ever inclined to try it again
Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

This, plus filtered water and freshly ground illy intenso. The coffee is somewhat costly. But I'm spending less than 10% on coffee now than when i was making weekly/daily trips to the barista.
Typical routine:


I used to be a Breville man, pressing the tamper, admiring the crema, steaming the milk, even roasted my own beans there for a while. All that gear went with my ex. I'm more a tea drinker now.
Well... she clearly "was not your cup of tea"
I love filter coffee, but useally there is too much and stands too long on a too hot plate. Some months ago i got this in a sale. And I do like it. I got my fresh beans coffee and my wife her decaf (you can put pre-grinded coffee in on the top and tell it to skip grinding beans so it takes that instead)
Outdoors i like Kokkaffe

lol ... I got the same French Press carafe as in the photo
I dump in four tablespoons of coffee, pour in hot boiling water, stir it with a spoon and let it steep while I make breakfast. Once steeped for several minutes, I apply the press and pour out coffee in a mug to go with breakfast ... then the rest goes into a small thermos.
First coffee is hot and goes with my first morning meal ... on most days, second coffee goes with me to the home office during the day ... or I throw it in a backpack to take with me for a motorcycle ride in the afternoon.
... and yes I do get a bit of bitter grounds and grains at the end ... but I usually don't drink the last ounce of coffee, and just pour it out and rinse everything.
The problem is the filtering ... yes you can filter it more to get the grounds out but it either takes a lot of time or effort and there is still a 50/50 chance you mess things up and you end up with grounds anyway ... or you just do a rough filtering job and put up with a bit of grounds at the end and don't drink the last bit of coffee at the bottom of the cup. It reminds me of Turkish coffee that has a ton of grounds at the end that aren't supposed to be consumed.
Yeah I have this press as well, never use paper filters, I just don't take the very last bit out of the pot.
Nice! That's why I like the press: it is so versatile! Happy to read from another enjoyer
I keep my grounds in a jar next to a 5 cup dripper. Yeah it's not a fancy French press or espresso maker capable of fine tuning brewing pressure and temperature but my boring sensibilities like a simple hot coffee. I'd occasionally do cold brew by mixing grounds and water in a jar overnight and filter/dilute it the next morning.
I like the press because it is versatile:
I also keep my grounds in a Mason jar.
Usually I go for ease of ingesting caffeine as quickly as possible and use a generic single-cup coffee maker.
Obviously, I'm not fancy about it at all. When I do get fancy, I'll use the French press. Sometimes I'll cold brew in the French press overnight but I always forget so that's a rare treat when I do remember.
I'm usually completely naked.
I have a Chemex pour over carafe with a coffee sock.
I hand grind whatever bean I'm feeling, my favorite is an unwashed Ethiopian I can only get a few months of the year.
Heat distilled water in my gooseneck to 200F.
Do the pour over thing.
And put it into my ember coffee mug to sip on slowly.
I do it very manually for two reasons. One is of course flavor preferences but also because it helps me stick to one cup a day because I'm lazy and won't want to spend the energy to make more. Lol
75g into the French press, fill with room temp water, let it sit over night. Cold brew is great for getting a stronger cup from lighter roasts because it's nearly impossible to over-extract, allowing much higher ratios. You lose some bitterness, but you get a bunch of other flavors which are hard to get from other methods, like woody and floral notes.
If I want it hot, I throw it in the microwave, and store the leftover in Tupperware for a day or two. Really it's the perfect method because it's all prep the night before, but doesn't require a countertop appliance.
Bonus tip - you can eat coffee beans for a quick boost. They are quite tasty and have a satisfying crunch.
At home: Put cup in machine, push button.
At work: Good ol' drippy filter, baby.
I use a Toddy cold brew thing I got a long time ago. Buy a pound of whatever, throw it in the container with water for a day. Drain it, and you've got coffee for two weeks that's low acid and quite enjoyable. Add hit water and a dash of milk-adjacent product and it's really quite enjoyable. And also very affordable.
Stainless steel moka pot. KitchenAid grinder. Naviera cuban roast coffee beans.
Grind medium, fill bottom of the pot with 160F water, put the filter basket on and fill it with the ground beans. Screw on the top part and precipitate a pot of strong coffee. Heat some milk in a mug and pour coffee over it. Enjoy.
If work day, fill thermos with the black coffee and a mason jar with whole milk and take those to work to make 2 big lattes. At home someone usually grabs what is left after I make one.
2 cup Moka pot, Bialetti, 2 cups means 2 ounces, not the pails Americans drink out of. Paper filter in the pot filter. Lavazza oro.
V60, sustainable, equitable coffee because I'm no scumbag class traitor, hot water.
I lost my sense of smell so I don't like espresso anymore. So my method nowadays:
fill electric grinder to blades
buzz for 10s
put into moka pot
boil
drink
Same but drip
Put coffee and water in the brewer Press on Wait Drink