I love shitty coffee, I love fancy coffee, I love coffee.

with a pourover, you'd be doing even less work with less cleanup

I used to date a guy who had that EXACT machine. I appreciate it's a popular model but it brought back memories.

Anyway, he made the shittiest coffee, real dirty-tasting brown sludge and I couldn't figure out why. When he wasn't about one day I tested the machine with some cheap supermarket grounds and I couldn't believe it: it was fine. Perfectly cromulent, surprising clean tasting, and hassle-free.

Anyway, after a while I figured it out. Turns out he was putting Nescafé instant coffee into the filter.

Espresso is hard to do at an office but a French press and hand grinder are very easy to keep in a drawer at your desk. And if you're desperate you can use the drop brewer to get your hot water.

Espresso is a type of coffee. Some like Café Crème, some Americano, some Lungo, some filter coffee, some french press.

My recommendation for you: try the french press. Even more simple and mostly glass/metal instead of plastic.

That is a glass of milk with a splash of coffee.

I’ve used pretty much every method of coffee making for extended periods except for a siphon and I have also settled on auto drip.

I switched from “cream; no sugar” for the past ~30 years to “black” at some point in the past 6 months.

Use hot chocolate mix instead of some creamer or sugar. Approximates the mocha flavor along the same lines of laziness for payoff.

Agrees in Aeropress

Coffee House owner chiming in: drink whatever the hell you enjoy.

Milk with some brown flavoring?

I don't understand what's so hard about espresso :-)

Personally tea is my everyday thing. Coffee is a special treat; but I do have a fondness for drip coffee. It makes me feel like I’m at a deli!

hell yeah my friend, my morning microwaved-mug-of-water-with-instant-coffee salutes you

Methnks you don't actually like coffee. There are other ways to get ungodly amounts of caffeine.

A friend once tried to convince me to purchase a Rocket Appartmento to upgrade my morning experience. Having to wait 30 m for the boiler was a no go. My ol' reliable does just fine for the first hit.

Never bothered with espresso, it’s not my thing. I keep it simple. French press, Hario v60, or Clever dripper. Gets it done.

That and I have multiple kettles. An electric kettle for my daily, but also a small stovetop gooseneck and another standard kettle for when I’m traveling or in the worst case if I don’t have power and need to heat with fire.

Evil Drip Brew Gang represent!

After trying the alternatives, including unreasonably priced espresso machines, I'll never stop using $15-$20 (USD) 12-cup evil drip brewers. Most efficient way to get coffee in me as quickly and frequently as possible.

reeeeeeeeeeeee

Honestly, I use my drip brewer for tea more than coffee. Coffee goes into my Hario Mizudashi instead because I don't have to worry about my grinder's excessive fines clogging up the filter.

Though you can make the case for a drip brewer just being a funny looking electric kettle too.

More accurately, it's a coffee snob community, since only single origin is tolerated and preground enjoyers are dissed.

that's... no.

i'm not into the fancy stuff, i have only whatever was cheap to get (plastic v60, first-gen aeropress, a french press i got for free) but... if you want to drink coffee, at least drink coffee.

I was rocking a $20 Proctor-Silex drip maker for the last 5+ years until it started leaking out the bottom. I ponied up and bought a Bunn Speed Brew earlier this year. Now I get a full pot of drip made in 4 minutes or less. chef kiss

I also have an espresso machine, aeropress, and French press, but I commit horrific coffee sins like making a double shot of espresso into my mug and then filling the rest with drip coffee. I may have a caffeine problem

I think it could be really interesting to see the nutrition label on the creamer container

Does it make you happy? Then you do you with the resources you have. Treasure those fleeting moments of warm bliss. They are becoming rarer and rarer these days.

One man's trash is another man's treasure.