Best Homemade Coffee
I've been using Folgers 100% Colombian in a Mr. Coffee machine, for years now --- OK but not great ---- wife hates it, drinks tea. I got some sourdough starter and they sent me a packet of Starbucks ...
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5thwheeleroldman wrote:
I've been using Folgers 100% Colombian in a Mr. Coffee machine, for years now --- OK but not great ---- wife hates it, drinks tea. I got some sourdough starter and they sent me a packet of Starbucks Guatemala Laguna de Ayarza coffee, and it was quite good even in my Mr. Coffee machine. Problem is it runs $1.70/oz and my Folgers runs $0.55/oz. I'm just not willing to shell out that much for the Starbucks.
Any ideas? I've been googling and lots of advice on roasting my own beans, grinding ($160 grinder!!) and using some kind of press machine. Sounds complicated for an old man.
Go to your local grocery and get the whole beans, a dark roast. Either grind there or get a grinder.
Buy a French press and a hand coffee grinder. You can get a great grinder for under $50 (mine is a Hario from Japan for $34)
Not only is this the simplest system, it uses no electricity and makes by far the best coffee.
Much of the coffee sold as beans in the grocery is just as good, if not better on some cases than the expensive stuff from Starbucks.
Trust me if you do this it will open your eyes to what coffee can and should be. It's like tasting your first glass of a '53 Margaux, you suddenly realize everything you have been putting in your mouth to that point is, well, not very good.
