Suggest a coffee maker, please

by cameo-d 26 Replies latest jw friends

  • TheLoveDoctor
    TheLoveDoctor

    Remeber also most items have with the store, If you don't like it, but say not satified, not what you expected u can usually return as long as u have reciept I'v done that manny times. purchase 2 dvd players at once and retured the one i did not like. So u can test, tast and compare and not lose nothing but some of your valuable time, which might be well spent if your happy in the end

  • cameo-d
    cameo-d

    Well, I went shopping today. I had forgotton how good coffee smells when you use a percolater. You just don't ever get that aroma from a drip machine. They only had one brand of percolater---Faberware. I got really nostalgic thinking about the aroma of perking. I may go back and get that percolater.

    I looked at some of the other coffee makers that you all suggested here. I decided that one thing I really do not like is appliances that take up a lot of space on my counter. I like that 'sparse' look---rather monastic in my tastes, as I like a lot of clear open spaces. I like simplicity, and I really don't like to read direction booklets and things that have knobs and numbers and gears and inserts and bells and sirens and whooshing noises. I just like basic...not where I have to make a lot of choices, and I like my coffee to brew quietly and fill the room with aroma rather than hear my coffee through noisy machines that gurgle and ding and spew. I like for my coffee maker to do one thing-----I do not need it to double as an alarm clock, or to be set automatically to come on when I may have changed my mind and do not want to be compelled by a machine that I must drink my coffee right now. Peculiar cuss, huh?

    But anyway, I decided on the French press because I really wanted something non-electric.

    The only thing is...I had just opened a large can of coffee when my coffee maker quit, and it is too finely ground for the French press. More incentive to go back and get that percolater, I suppose. The non-electric would be a good back up if lights go out. I like that it is kind of a "ceremonial" hands-on approach to making coffee. And it would especially be nice for afternoon coffee. But I think morning fog would respond best to a less involved procedure of the percolater.

    Now...can anyone suggest how I am supposed to grind beans for the French press? I will probably put them in grinder at store. So now....can anyone advise or suggest what different roasts are good and should I grind on certain number--medium, coarse---what? I am not too experienced with grinding my own coffee.

    Thanks.

  • nelly136
    nelly136

    my italian friend used to use these perculating contraptions on her stove.

    you could use a spice grinder or liquidiser to grind your beans for now.

  • cameo-d
    cameo-d

    my italian friend used to use these perculating contraptions on her stove.

    But isn't that aluminum?

    I do not use aluminum or teflon equipment!

    Great little pot. But too bad if it only comes in aluminum.

    nelly: you could use a spice grinder or liquidiser to grind your beans for now.

    They sell the beans and have grinder machine there at the grocery store. So that's no big deal. It's just that I have a large can of coffee I had just opened that is basically a fine ground coffee for drip (or perc). It will not work with the French Press.

  • BurnTheShips
    BurnTheShips

    My cheapo Sunbeam is 15 years old and still going strong.

    BTS

  • cameo-d
    cameo-d

    My cheapo Sunbeam is 15 years old and still going strong.

    BTS

    Is it a drip? A perc? Can you describe it?

  • nelly136
    nelly136

    you can get them in steel too.

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