I’m gonna out myself as a bougie here - I have one of these:

I always buy the darkest beans I can get my hands on. First coffee of the day is an americano (I run the double shot option four times). Second of the day I make myself a lattee, usually plain but sometimes with salted caramel syrup.

I fuckin love my espresso machine. Easily the best coffee-related investment I have ever made.

I have a relatively nice grinder and an aeropress. I’ve used traditional presses, moka pots, a v60, and so on but I definitely prefer the aeropress. It’s extremely easy and consistent. Once you have your recipe dialed there’s almost nothing you can do to fuck it up so I just never get any astringency or acidity.

That said the grinder is definitely more important than the brew method. If you have $70 to spend; get a $65 grinder and get a $5 press or v60 at a thrift shop. You definitely want an electric grinder with nice ceramic burrs if you can afford it.

I used a hand grinder for years. A very nice and accurate one. The idea of using a hand grinder + moka pot was very romantic to me, but in practice it’s a huge pain in the ass and the coffee will never come out as good as a silly looking plastic aeropress.

Espresso machine

moka pot bc i’m twisted like that

Death to America

Pour over with Chinese knock offs of the medium-nice gear. I think I spent $12 total for a nice carafe and ceramic dripper. Got a decent burr grinder on Craigslist for $50.

I just weigh and grind the beans and pour hot water on them while doing some morning exercises. Takes up very little space and it’s just as easy to make 800 ml as 200 ml.

I occasionally do immersion, usually just with a big jar and then pour it over my dripper setup. It’s possible to make several liters at a time this way for socialist events. Can have a ton of nice coffee for like $5 whereas a cafe would charge you $30.

I might grab a French press so I can do the same process a little faster. Still gonna pour it through a paper filter though. My understanding of the “is coffee good for you or bad for you?” science is that paper filters make a big difference in making coffee not show up on the “bad for you” spectrum.

Kulaktik beans from Chiapas in an Aeropress

15g, 340um grind, 240ml water, brew 81s @ 92c, 20s plunge.

… black coffee brewed carefully, by an Adept - only the worthy may approach this summit, and few are aware it exists - will taste perfectly smooth, with notes of fruit and chocolate: there is an internal transformation of the commodity

I use the $3k Dolce & Gabbana stovetop coffeemaker

Yes. Just use a simple drip and have a grinder for fresh grounds each day. Have a metal reusable filter I wash out so I don’t have to waste paper.

Tag yourself I’m still Marxist-Leninist

hario v60

gone through just about every device over the years and nothing else gets the combo of great coffee, easy to make, easy to clean up as well as the v60 (or any other pour over really)

Step out of the way you stinky proles, the true coffee bourgeoisie has arrived.

I have a La Marzocco GB5 commercial espresso machine in my “office” that I’ll use If I don’t want to make a whole pot on the Ratio or am too lazy to use one of literally any brew methods you could think of I have on hand. On the weekends, I’ll go into the cafe and have the baristas make me an espresso. At home I have a vintage 70’s Conti lever espresso machine, and a kalita wave, Chemex, and aeropress that I cycle through depending on how I’m feeling and the coffee. The instant that I just had made actually slaps so I’ll make that if I’m on the road.