Coffee. Automatic drip style, French press, or Percolator?

They each have their place. I love French press, simple, elegant, clean. I love the tiny taste of a perfect espresso. But since I have trouble drinking regular, REAL coffee now, I just have decaf in a press. And for cooking I love adding espresso powder to so many things, especially desserts.

I have a programmable percolator so I can have a fresh cup of ground coffee so that I can coordinate my waking period and maximize my production before I exit for the trek to work. I do grind my own beans and I only try to drink the best coffee too since the quality of my brew is essential to the start of a good day.

Coffee! Any coffee! NOW!!

Sorry, it's 6:45am and I'm on my way to work.

After coffee, pleasantness.

Well, french press is definitly the best! But, I usually use a one cup coffee maker. A Krup's Home Cafe. I've had it for years and I love it! It makes one cup at a time so it's always fresh.

I don't like to drink coffee, but I love coffee ice cream. So, my vote is: frozen, as a flavoring in ice cream! :-)

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear
I like my toast done on one side
And you can hear it in my accent when I talk
I'm an Englishman in New York

Mmm... Coffee...

Percolators are evil, and should die.

French press is yummy, but messy. I don't like cleaning them up.

Drip is less yummy, but easy to clean up.

Thus... I'll go with French Press. I'm a coffee snob, and after all, it's all about the taste.

At the office we use Automatic Drip Style, with paper filters. At home I only use Instant Coffee. Just boil one cup of milk, ad one spoon of Instant Coffee and two packs of Equal. My favorite is "Crema" Brand, sold here in Puerto Rico. Maybe it is available in some areas in the USA. When Crema is not available, I buy Nescafe.

Yes, the oils in the coffee have been linked to raising cholesterol levels. Most of those oils are caught by a filter if you are using a filtering method, but are left in unfiltered coffee. (Probably why they taste better.)

I think French Press coffee tastes the best. However, unfiltered coffee can considerably raise your cholesterol, therefore, I went back to automatic drip. (Plus, I can set it make itself in the morning and it is ready when I roll out of bed.)

Drip. Good and strong, with a splash of cream.

I have never had coffee from a French press, but, I have been told and even saw on TV that it is the best way to make coffee. Automatic drip is my favorite after that. Percolators should be banned.

COMBINE FRENCH PRESS AND DRIP EFFECTS FOR THE PERFECT CUP !!!

Here is a method that seems to work just fine.
French Pressing allows the coffee to sit in the water for however long you like it to, to extract more flavor from the grinds.
Messy to clean up, also dust gets through the metal screen.
However, you can pour the coffee through a paper filter after this process is completed.
A Percolator is fine for allowing water to continually drip through the grinds, again for however long you like, but it BURNS the coffee.
Here is a method that I now use and it works great. You can get the best from both worlds.
I used my Hamilton Beach Cone Drip Coffee Maker. It has an automatic stop when the Carafe is removed, so that the coffee stops dripping into the carafe... as many coffee makers do.
If you swing out the Basket approx. 1/2 inch, the coffee does not drip through the bottom.
Important, this coffee maker has one hole up above for the hot water drip into the basket from. If there are multiple holes spread out around the entire circumference of the top, you could have water dripping all over the place. So please make sure that if you swing out the basket on your coffee maker, that the hot water still drips directly into the basket and that the coffee does not drip through the bottom of the basket until you push it back into place.
So, here is my method.
Place the desired amount of coffee grinds into the basket and pour the desired amount of water into the reservoir.
Now, swing out the basket just enough so that you can see into the basket. Turn the coffee maker on.......Watch the water as it fills into the grinds in the basket. When the water in the basket rises to about a half inch below the top of your filter, turn off the coffee maker. Now, let the water sit in the basket for 5 minutes. More or less is up to you.
I did this with 48 ounces of water and 8 tablespoons of coffee.
Now push the basket back into place and let the coffee drip into the Carafe. When drained, do this process again. I did this 3 times and then I just allowed the remaining water to drip right in the basket and into the carafe.
This method allows you to have coffee grinds submerged in the water for however long you like. You don't have to go through this process for the entire brew either. You can do it for only the first or second basket fills or through the entire process.
You'll get more flavor out of the grinds like french press.
You can also do this by removing the basket and placing it over the carafe on the counter top. Pour your hot water into the Basket........Let it sit. Then depress the lever underneath the basket to release the stopper and let the coffee drip into your carafe. Then pour more water into the basket.
Just like using a Melitta portable coffee brewer with the cone basket that sits over a carafe or the smaller one that fits over a cup. Just find a way to keep the hole at the bottom closed until you decide to allow the coffee to drip out.
NO dirty coffee grinds to clean out of the bottom of the French Press' screen and bottom of the Glass.
Give it a try. You have nothing to lose. Just improvise a little and you can do a lot of amazing things that are so simple.

Here is a method that seems to work just fine.
French Pressing allows the coffee to sit in the water for however long you like it to, to extract more flavor from the grinds.
Messy to clean up, also dust gets through the metal screen.
However, you can pour the coffee through a paper filter after this process is completed.
A Percolator is fine for allowing water to continually drip through the grinds, again for however long you like, but it BURNS the coffee.
Here is a method that I just used today and it works great. You can almost get the best from both worlds.
I used my Hamilton Beach Cone Drip Coffee Maker. It has an automatic stop when the Carafe is removed as many coffee makers do.
If you swing out the Basket approx. 1/2 inch, the coffee does not drip through the bottom.
Important, this coffee maker has one hole up above for the hot water drip into the basket from. If there are multiple holes spread out around the entire circumference of the top, you could have water dripping all over the place. So please make sure that if you swing out the basket on your coffee maker, that the hot water still drips directly into the basket and that the coffee does not drip through the bottom of the basket until you push it back into place.
So, here is my method.
Place the desired amount of coffee grinds into the basket and pour the desired amount of water into the reservoir.
Now, swing out the basket just enough so that you can see into the basket. Turn the coffee maker on.......Watch the water as it fills into the grinds in the basket. When the water in the basket rises to about a half inch below the top of your filter, turn off the coffee maker. Now, let the water sit in the basket for 5 minutes. More or less is up to you.
I did this with 48 ounces of water and 8 tablespoons of coffee.
Now push the basket back into place and let the coffee drip into the Carafe. When drained, do this process again. I did this 3 times and then I just allowed the remaining water to drip right in the basket and into the carafe.
This method allows you to have coffee grinds submerged in the water for however long you like. You don't have to go through this process for the entire brew either. You can do it for only the first or second basket fills or through the entire process.
You'll get more flavor out of the grinds like french press.
You can also do this by removing the basket and placing it over the carafe on the counter top. Pour your hot water into the Basket........Let it sit. Then depress the lever underneath the basket to release the stopper and let the coffee drip into your carafe. Then pour more water into the basket.
Just like using a Melitta portable coffee brewer with the cone basket that sits over a carafe or the smaller one that fits over a cup. Just find a way to keep the hole at the bottom closed until you decide to allow the coffee to drip out.
NO dirty coffee grinds to clean out of the bottom of the French Press' screen and bottom of the Glass.
Give it a try. You have nothing to lose. Just improvise a little and you can do a lot of amazing things that are so simple.

Eh, cappuccino, extra foam, please?