I made the mistake of putting a spoonful or two in a Melitta pour over paper filter. After about ten minutes it had turned to liquid sludge, and nothing was dripping. Then, I read the directions, and found that you had to boil the damned stuff... several times!
Turkish coffee is unfiltered. But it has to be ground so fine that when you drink it, it's not gritty. They make it in small copper pots over the heat and pour it straight into the cup.
Aeropress is always going to lack the oomph of espresso because it's nowhere near as concentrated, but because it's an immersion brewer, you can let it steep for a very long time (I think Jonathan Gagne/Coffee Ad Astra does close to 10 minutes) and get pretty darn high extraction with none of the fussiness of pourover.
Paper filters are way, way better at catching fines than the mesh screen that a cafetiere uses - which explains the body. I personally like french press coffee, but usually I'll do the Hoffmann technique where you're basically brewing as though you were cupping. It's a little fussy, but it makes excellent coffee.
I have the opposite problem. The water in my area passes through about 50 metres of this stuff:
Wow! What beautiful views! You are Lucky.
Oh, come on, man! Conspicuous consumption! Don't you have any sensitivity to the proles here who are forced to use more plebian techniques, like making espresso in a $5000 machine after grinding it in a $1000 grinder?
I'll go with "more effective." IMO, that is not "better."
Yes Rick, I do spend vast sums on exotic large batch, instantly vacuum packed before any oxygen can really get to it coffee. Then I skimp for the Splenda substitute (I'm diabetic) from Publix here in Florida (their house brand). But I do admit to going whole hog and dropping the big coin on the super fancy Sugar Free French Vanilla Coffeemate Creamer. But I figure why not? I'm worth it. As a retiree I deserve it. The very low sugar Swiss Miss (only the 40 cal pack is low sugar) is the final big spend. Then boiling hot water an Voila! I have heaven in a cup. For me cost is no object when it comes to a fine cup of coffee. I'm so glad you share the same principles of coffee drinking. I figured you were smarter than the average guy!
Oh, I don't think paper filters are better tasting, I think they're just better at catching fines. I drink espresso, I don't tend to use filter papers (though some people swear by putting a paper filter on the bottom of the filter basket, for some reason).I'll go with "more effective." IMO, that is not "better."
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I don't drink coffee daily. I did OD on coffee though. I drank 3 expresso at ~7AM and then progressed to consume 3.5 pots over the day as we competed for who could make the strongest dark roast coffee. By 2:30PM I was a wreck. I've never felt that way before or since. My mind was racing, I had severe jitters and had difficulty sitting and standing so I was never happy with either. Never again...I drink 6 to 12 cups of fresh brewed coffee a day, black. I would be interested to know if anyone else drinks that much.
I used to pop into coffee shops for a kicker but coronavirus changed all that.
Those cliffs are always a treat to see. They never get old.
I do, I consistently prefer percolation over immersion brews, though they are a lot trickier to get right, but get them right and you get the best of both methods.
It's a similar situation here. The water is so hard, we don't need hammers.
Did not know uze awl across the pond are imitating us, here in US.
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