coffee maker recommendations requested

In article <[email hidden]>, "Quilt!"

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Time for a new coffeemaker. Recommendations of brands and models, please.

Cheapest Mr. Coffee or Proctor-Silex I can find.
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Quilt! said:

Time for a new coffeemaker. Recommendations of brands and models, please.

What features are you looking for?

gloria p

On Thu, 19 May 2005 23:35:53 GMT, Puester <[email hidden]>

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Quilt! said:

Time for a new coffeemaker. Recommendations of brands and models,

please.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

What features are you looking for?

gloria p

If you can get to alt.coffee, there is a similar thread and there are
lots of very enlightened coffee lovers over there. I do not think any
of them would recommend a Mr. Coffee. Coffee makers really matter.

aloha,
Thunder, coffee farmer...
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Quilt! said:

Time for a new coffeemaker. Recommendations of brands and models,
please.

I have a Hamilton Beach that works just fine. Not fancy, just turn it on
and it brews coffee 🙂

Jill

My favorite thing about my coffeept is the TIMER! Just tell it to, and
it makes your coffee at 6 AM so you wake up to the smell of a
fresh-brewed pot. nice way to get out of bed.

It's a proctor-silex from target. i find that it's more important to
consider the quality of the bean that the coffeemaker itself. I used to
use a french press but i just wasn't happy with it. i get whole beans
and grind them fresh.

people tell me i have great coffee. i like it too much to drinnk crappy
coffee.

Melba's Jammin said:

In article <[email hidden]>, "Quilt!"

Quoted message said:

Time for a new coffeemaker. Recommendations of brands and models,

please.

Quoted message said:

Cheapest Mr. Coffee or Proctor-Silex I can find.
--
-Barb

'Zactly... ADC (or any brewing method) is 95% dependant on the coffee
used, how freshly roasted, and how it's ground, and only 5% on the
machine/method. The next most important criteria (regardless of all
the aforementioned details, is how soon after brewing coffee is
consumed... coffee is best when consumed within one (1) minute of
brewing... ten (10) minutes after brewing coffee has already lost 50%
of it's flavor, because 95% of coffee flavor is actually aroma... if
your smeller doesn't work well then any darkly colored bitter liquid
will suffice. No human over age 30 can decern good coffee anyway, by
age 30 the human olfactory organ has lost better than 50% of it's
ability to perceive any odors acurately, simply a biological fact. So
next time you see old geezers as coffee tasters you will know that it's
100% charade/showmanship. So don't believ anyone over the age of 30 who
lectures you about the particular benefits of how to brew coffee...
their comments are as accurate as a totally blind person describing the
color nuances of fall foilage. And I'm being very, very generous with
the age 30 cut off.

Sheldon

Quilt! said:

Time for a new coffeemaker. Recommendations of brands and models, please.

I bought a Krups espresso maker about 3 years ago and have used it at least
3x/day since. But have replaced the carafe 3x, and replaced the lid 6x. The
durned lids lose a little stickout dingus that holds it tight. I won't buy
another with that design. I'm on my last lid (yeah I wish) and carafe and when
they die, I buy a different espressoer.
Edrena

The Joneses wrote on 19 May 2005 in rec.food.cooking

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Quilt! said:

Time for a new coffeemaker. Recommendations of brands and
models, please.

I bought a Krups espresso maker about 3 years ago and have used it
at least 3x/day since. But have replaced the carafe 3x, and
replaced the lid 6x. The durned lids lose a little stickout dingus
that holds it tight. I won't buy another with that design. I'm on
my last lid (yeah I wish) and carafe and when they die, I buy a
different espressoer. Edrena

I drink way too much coffee to move up to espresso. I believe the
proper brewing temp is 205F and a good bean is one you like the taste
of. So get a brewer that brews at 205F and find a bean and a grind you
like (harder than it sounds). I like dark european roasted beans the
best. I like the taste they have. And I like a real fine grind. But
that's just me...find your own preferences.

Tying the brewer method plus machine and the bean roast you like can
take a long time. But inroads can be made fairly cheaply getting in the
ballpark, so to speak, on the type of roast.

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Quilt! said:

Time for a new coffeemaker. Recommendations of brands and models, please.

I love a good old fashioned French Press. Tried a Mr Coffee and Braun
elctric coffee maker, but the flavor from the French Press is the
best.

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Time for a new coffeemaker. Recommendations of brands and models, please.

I just asked my wife what she would recommend, she said of the best coffee
maker "You Shaun, but they can't have you, you're mine." - sorry!

Shaun aRe

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The Joneses wrote on 19 May 2005 in rec.food.cooking

Quoted message said:

Quilt! said:

Time for a new coffeemaker. Recommendations of brands and
models, please.

I bought a Krups espresso maker about 3 years ago and have used it
at least 3x/day since. But have replaced the carafe 3x, and
replaced the lid 6x. The durned lids lose a little stickout dingus
that holds it tight. I won't buy another with that design. I'm on
my last lid (yeah I wish) and carafe and when they die, I buy a
different espressoer. Edrena

I drink way too much coffee to move up to espresso. I believe the
proper brewing temp is 205F and a good bean is one you like the taste
of. So get a brewer that brews at 205F and find a bean and a grind you
like (harder than it sounds). I like dark european roasted beans the
best. I like the taste they have. And I like a real fine grind. But
that's just me...find your own preferences.

Tying the brewer method plus machine and the bean roast you like can
take a long time. But inroads can be made fairly cheaply getting in the
ballpark, so to speak, on the type of roast.

Dear Monsur Fromage du Pollet,
I picked this information up in Canada (assuming you are Canadian?):
Expresso coffee is made with 'expresso coffee beans'.
I have bought cans of coffee saying "Expresso Coffee."

If one has a expresso coffee machine, doesn't one always use 'expresso
coffee' made with a specific type of coffee bean? And what beans are
expressly made for expresso.

Aren't expresso coffee beans processed a certain way so as to make it less
caffeine; and perhaps less bitter?

And are these beans used for expresso always ground to a certain fine grind,
called 'expresso grind.'
Dee

we have tried just about every "common" brands available, and find
absolutely NO DIFFERENCE.
imo,its about the coffee bean, temp, and storage of beans.

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Time for a new coffeemaker. Recommendations of brands and models,

please.

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smithfarms SPAMMER said:

If you can get to alt.coffee, there is a similar thread and there are
lots of very enlightened coffee lovers over there. I do not think any
of them would recommend a Mr. Coffee. Coffee makers really matter.

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[censored], coffee makers only matter if you're SELLING coffee makers.

What matters more than the coffee maker, even more than the coffee per
se, is the water... after all, brewed coffee is better than 99.9%
water.
And if you drink your coffee with anything added, ie. milkk, crem,
sugar, flavorings, then the coffee or how it is brewed matters not a
whit... mixing anything with coffee is no different from using top
shelf booze to make whisky sours. If yoose drink lattes you ain't
drinking brewed coffee at all, may as well be instant.

Sheldon

Dee Randall at [email hidden] wrote on 5/20/05 8:52 AM:

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I have bought cans of coffee saying "Expresso Coffee."

I highly doubt that.

More than likely they said "Espresso Coffee".

On Fri, 20 May 2005 06:37:28 -0400, Doe John <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Quilt! said:

Time for a new coffeemaker. Recommendations of brands and models,

please.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

I love a good old fashioned French Press. Tried a Mr Coffee and Braun
elctric coffee maker, but the flavor from the French Press is the
best.

Agreed. With great coffee, the French Press is the best. The OP was
asking about drip though. French Press takes a few extra minutes and
IMHO is worth it, but we only do FP on the weekends. Our Cuisinart
drip works the rest of the week and makes great coffee.

aloha,
Thunder
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Farmers of 100% Kona Coffee
& other Great Stuff

rosie read n' post said:

we have tried just about every "common" brands available, and find
absolutely NO DIFFERENCE.
imo,its about the coffee bean, temp, and storage of beans.

From my knowledge, it is about the brew temperature and the "sitting
temperature" as well. Any of those can be detrimental to a fine cup
of coffee, even if you start with the best freshly roasted yummy
coffee beans. Of course a grinder matters a whole lot too, but no one
has asked about the grinder <g> so we do not need to step into that🙂.

aloha from a rainy morning in the rainforest,
Thunder
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smithfarms pure kona said:

On Fri, 20 May 2005 06:37:28 -0400, Doe John <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Quilt! said:

Time for a new coffeemaker. Recommendations of brands and models,

please.

Quoted message said:

I love a good old fashioned French Press. Tried a Mr Coffee and Braun
elctric coffee maker, but the flavor from the French Press is the
best.

Agreed. With great coffee, the French Press is the best. The OP was
asking about drip though. French Press takes a few extra minutes and
IMHO is worth it, but we only do FP on the weekends. Our Cuisinart
drip works the rest of the week and makes great coffee.
aloha, Thunder

I always wanted a French Press, but kitchen space always at a premium. I
like the espresso maker because it makes just a teeny cup or two as I'm
the only one here who does the caffeine thing. I do have a couple
different roasts tho - I like the breakfast blends for a soft full taste
and the darker roasts when I'm in the mood for sharper taste. I saw on TV
where the darker roasts naturally have a little less caffeine. And I put
groceries in my coffee and I can still taste a good blend from instant in
a New York minute.
Edrena

In article <[email hidden]>,

Doe John said:

Quilt! said:

Time for a new coffeemaker. Recommendations of brands and models, please.

I love a good old fashioned French Press. Tried a Mr Coffee and Braun
elctric coffee maker, but the flavor from the French Press is the
best.

I concur! :-)

But if you have your heart set on a drip machine, I like Melitta or
braun.

One of the secrets to good coffee (other than the obvious point of not
buying cheap, canned "brand name" coffee) is to use DI water and
_unbleached_ coffee filters! Once I got used to the raw paper coffee
filters, I could taste the chemical taste in the coffee from the
bleached filters.

The other real advantage to using distilled/deionized water in the
coffee maker is that the machine "lives" longer and you never have to
run vinegar thru it to clean it out. No hard water deposits. ;-)
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K.

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Katra said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Doe John said:

On Thu, 19 May 2005 16:11:04 -0600, "Quilt!"
<[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

One of the secrets to good coffee (other than the obvious point of

not

Quoted message said:

buying cheap, canned "brand name" coffee) is to use DI water and
_unbleached_ coffee filters! Once I got used to the raw paper coffee
filters, I could taste the chemical taste in the coffee from the
bleached filters.

The other real advantage to using distilled/deionized water in the
coffee maker is that the machine "lives" longer and you never have to
run vinegar thru it to clean it out. No hard water deposits. ;-)

FWIW: While "manning" a booth at the Specialty Coffee of America
Association (it is SCAA but can never remember where the 2 "A"s
go)--anyway, I was told many times, that the gold filter imparts the
least taste. I was told, white filters impart a white paper taste to
fine coffee and brown/natural impart a brown bag flavor, so only use
those "gold" kind.

aloha,
Thunder
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