Please recommend your coffee maker

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Anonymous wrote:Another advocate for French press here! Cheap, easy, makes good coffee, no messing about with filters and such. Keurig coffee is gross and those pods are just landfill fodder.

Glad to see another person who thinks pod coffee is disgusting. I get the convenience, but yuck.

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Anonymous wrote:Reviews on Moccamaster say you need to grind your beans? Is that true? I have a grinder, but it's a cheap one, and I'd prefer to use Cafe Bustelo pre-ground coffee.

This looked great on the website. Then you find out:
1. Can't use reverse osmosis water. I would never use my tap water, it's so hard it would ruin the machine just like it ruins my water faucets and shower heads with mineral deposits. So now I have to buy bottled Spring Water?
2. Can't use gold filter or regular grocery store paper filters, they only want you to use their special Technivorm paper filters, which you have to buy online?
3. You can't use regular pre-ground coffee, it's "too fine" for this machine. So now you need a coffee grinder and have to grind your own beans!

I adore my Moccamaster and I use ground coffee - I don't grind my own. However, I do use the Technivorm filters because they fit perfectly. I will admit that I do use water from my RO dispenser or my Pur dispenser but I have never had a problem. I am careful to clean it with the descaler every 3 months.

I use a gold filter in my Moccamaster. It works just fine.

I use filters from the grocery store. It’s not as finicky as the recommendations would lead you to believe.

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Stove top coffee percolater! Makes delicious coffee and you don't have to worry about the generating garbage in the form of a pod or a filter.

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Anonymous wrote:Reviews on Moccamaster say you need to grind your beans? Is that true? I have a grinder, but it's a cheap one, and I'd prefer to use Cafe Bustelo pre-ground coffee.

This looked great on the website. Then you find out:
1. Can't use reverse osmosis water. I would never use my tap water, it's so hard it would ruin the machine just like it ruins my water faucets and shower heads with mineral deposits. So now I have to buy bottled Spring Water?
2. Can't use gold filter or regular grocery store paper filters, they only want you to use their special Technivorm paper filters, which you have to buy online?
3. You can't use regular pre-ground coffee, it's "too fine" for this machine. So now you need a coffee grinder and have to grind your own beans!

First seeing this. I use a regular #4 filter from grocery store and regular ground coffee. I usually get coffee from Trader Joe’s and grind in their machine. But we’ve picked up bags of ground coffee from Starbucks or DD on occasion. Never had any issues or notice any quality problems. I use regular tap water that isn’t the softest. Again, no issues. I do run a cycle of surgical descaler every 100 brews (every time I use up a box of 100 filters) and I clean the removable parts with a soak and scrub in cafiza cleaner

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I use the OXO Pour-Over Coffee Maker with Water Tank. All the pieces go into the dishwasher, as does whatever cup or mug receives the brewed coffee. Uses Melitta #2 filters (1.2 grams of waste per filter) at 600 for $20.

I looked into Moccamaster when I saw the raves on DCUM. But I want a single-cup maker, and the Moccamaster single cup seems to be disappearing from the market. When it was on Amazon, a reviewer said the drip tube had only one hole, so the grounds aren't wetted evenly.

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Anonymous wrote:I've tried all kinds of coffee makers but nothing beats our French press.

Yes. Love the ease and simplicity of a french press, and that I can put it away in the cabinet -- we have too many things on the counter as it is.

This was us. But some news came out about French press coffee being bad for your heart. Something about the grounds and oils that don’t get filtered through. I wouldn’t take it as fact, but considering my DH has a heart condition and we both drink a lot of coffee, it seemed smart to switch over to something else. We went with a moccamaster and love it

Yes, also why we stopped.

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Anonymous wrote:I've tried all kinds of coffee makers but nothing beats our French press.

Yes. Love the ease and simplicity of a french press, and that I can put it away in the cabinet -- we have too many things on the counter as it is.

This was us. But some news came out about French press coffee being bad for your heart. Something about the grounds and oils that don’t get filtered through. I wouldn’t take it as fact, but considering my DH has a heart condition and we both drink a lot of coffee, it seemed smart to switch over to something else. We went with a moccamaster and love it

Yes, also why we stopped.

Filtered brewing methods but with a reusable mesh filter would have the same problem.