Why Over 1/3rd Of America Is BROKE

[Solus]

I don't know what I can do different? I pour in the water, fill the filter with coffee, and run it through. How do I alter this process on most every automatic coffee maker out there?

You really can't, Bill, unless you want to spend the time to craft your own...After the roasting there is the brewing.  Like Tim said, a French Press brewer is the most simple and effective.

They do make a drip brewer that will hold the water with the coffee, but, again, coffee have to mean a lot to you...over $200  ..if you are tempted  http://www.sweetmarias.com/store/brewing/coffee-brewers/electric-brewers/technivorm-kbts-8-cup-thermal-brewer.html

and I see they now carry a cheaper model...just under $200 

http://www.sweetmarias.com/store/brewing/coffee-brewers/electric-brewers/bonavita-8-cup-coffee-maker-with-thermal-carafe.html

Of course you need to start with good beans...

[tombogan03884]

You could try boiling the water then using a pour through system like Malita.

[Solus]

You could try boiling the water then using a pour through system like Malita.

This is true.  If you are willing to boil the water separately, you have a wider range of options. 

One is a pour through that will hold the water/ground coffee for the length of time you choose, which gives you a lot of control over the final quality of your coffee.  Here is one of the holding pour over.

http://www.sweetmarias.com/store/brewing/coffee-brewers/filtercones/handy-brew-large.html

The brewer most likely to be seen on The Big Bang Theory is the Cona Vaccuum Brewer...expensive but elegant.  Youtube at bottom

http://www.sweetmarias.com/store/brewing/coffee-brewers/vacuum-brewers/cona-vacuum-brewer-two-sizes.html

[Timothy]

I have two Bodum presses. 

One is a four cup (approx 16-20 oz..remember it's a euro measure of 4-6 oz per cup).  You can get them for 20-30 bucks.  Mines lasted 5 or six years and used daily.  The other is a 5 dollar yard sale find, another 6 cup which I use when I have company.  I get about two 12 oz cups from that one or one really friggin big one...

I'll never go back...and it doubled as a gravy boat this past turkey day.  I made so much gravy I needed something larger! 

All the parts are replaceable and readily available.

[Solus]

I use the big Bodum French Press daily. 

I get 3.5 travel mugs of coffee from a batch.

I roast a pound of green beans every 12 days or so.

I buy 20lb of green beans at a time for $6.75/lb

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[tombogan03884]

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/12/12/if-your-keurig-2-0-coffeemaker-wont-brew-your-favorite-java-here-are-three-clever-fixes/

May the force be with your K-cups because some of them may no longer be welcomed by the Keurig empire.

Trouble started brewing for the popular coffee machine maker, Keurig, when consumers of the Keurig 2.0 coffee maker would only brew certain brands of coffee. The caffeine-induced controversy has been equated with restrictions for digital music sharing, in which a program is designed to restrict users from sharing or copying media.
DefectiveByDesign.org described digital restrictions management (DRM) this way:

    Digital Restrictions Management is the practice of imposing technological restrictions that control what users can do with digital media. When a program is designed to prevent you from copying or sharing a song, reading an ebook on another device, or playing a single-player game without an Internet connection, you are being restricted by DRM. In other words, DRM creates a damaged good; it prevents you from doing what would be possible without it. This concentrates control over production and distribution of media, giving DRM peddlers the power to carry out massive digital book burnings and conduct large scale surveillance over people’s media viewing habits.

Keurig’s coffee restriction has already prompted a total of 14 lawsuits just this year, USAToday reported.

Jim Rogers, who is the vice president of Rogers Family Co., a Lincoln, California-based business, makes its own K-cups and is involved in one of the lawsuits against Keurig. Rogers told USAToday that even if what the coffee machine maker is doing is legal, it’s “certainly not friendly to the consumer.”

TreeHouse Foods, based in Oakbrook, Illinois, is another company that’s taking legal action. TreeHouse Foods chairman, president and CEO Sam Reed said his company’s lawsuit is ”fundamentally about consumer choice versus monopoly power.”

“It’s not just one piece of technology, but a long-standing pattern of anti-competitive behavior…” Reed said.

Meanwhile, Keurig’s attempt restrict which types of coffee its machines brew, consumers have figured out a way around those limitations.

With just a pair of scissors, some tape and the lid to a Keurig-approved K-cup, the force will be with you – and your caffeine addiction.

......................Video at link...................................................

[alfsauve]

I have two Bodum presses. 

I had a Bodum for 10 years then accidentally broke it.  A design problem with that Bodum was the glass was just held in the plastic holder by friction and would occasionally slip out.   

I bought an IKEA, UPPHETTA brand, 2 mug size, which is all I make at a time.  The glass can't separate from the handle nor the base and it was  under $9.

[Pathfinder]

bilt, bilt, bilt.   Oh where have we gone wrong?   What's next?   Thunderbird wine?  Old Crow bourbon? RG Industry revolvers?

Don't go knocking bourbon, son!!! Even 4Roses and Wild Turkey have been rehabbed and are now part of the elite in KY bourbons.

And it's not RG Industry revolvers, its Phoenix Arms . . . .

[Pathfinder]

I love the smell of ground coffee, never learned to like the taste though, even though my Dad used to drink beaucoup cups per day. More on that in a moment.

My Mom would take the kids to the local A&P for weekly grocery shopping. The first stop was the 8 o'clock grinder for me. I would just stand there and huff the machine (a term I later learned . . . ) until my Mom pulled me away.

When I was finally allowed to taste the drink as a teenager (back in the days of everything adults did would stunt your growth until you got older), it was nasty tasting. Never liked it from that point on.

My Dad would get up each morning, plug in the tall aluminum percolator to turn it on, put 2 slices of bread into the toaster, and gather the instruments he needed to make breakfast. The toaster would pop, my Dad would butter up 2 slices, then pull a cup of coffee from the percolator. Yeah, yesterday's coffee heated up. He would sit at the dining room table, eat the toast, drink the coffee, and have a smoke. That was his breakfast.

Afterwards, he would clean the perk, make a new batch (8-10 cups), and head upstairs to work (industrial designer with a home office).

This was my introduction to coffee. I later learned to make cowboy coffee, but all of you coffee snobs out there would be in tears by the time I finished! 

[Solus]

When I was an Explorer Leader taking the scouts on two week canoe trips on the French River in Ontario, we could not pack a lot of stuff.

We did take a small coffee percolator and some coffee.  we would put the coffee in a sock and put in in the percolator cup and brew it that way.   Put the sock in a sealed plastic bag and use the grounds again the next day...putting it a few table spoons of fresh grounds.   

Best we could do out in the woods.

BTW, BillT.   Your observation that coffee wakes you up better than the most caffeinated tea is correct. 

I heard recently that there is a component of coffee that neutralizes a substance our bodies produce that causes that morning fogginess.

Don't remember the names of either of those compounds and was unsuccessful Googleing any reference to it.