Hey, coffee snobs

[buffcoat]

The Aeropress rocks.  I'm getting one for the office, too.  I'm never going back.   Thanks, break.

The hilarious thing is I'm just using coffee I ground at the store.  It just takes all the sourness out, all of it.  And it's really easy to use, provided you can heat your water to 175 degrees F somewhere (I recommend an electric kettle, but you could use the microwave).

Do it.  The Chemex just looked too complicated and too hard to clean, but maybe it's good, as well.

[Sarah]

I wish you could send me a cup of coffee made with your new device so that I could see whether I like it.  All this talk of "smoothness" and "low acidity" gives me pause.  Still, I seem to be on some insane roll, so I may get one of these gizmos as well just so I can do a comparison.

Tomorrow I will report on the brew produced by the stainless steel stovetop espresso pot that arrived this afternoon.  Thus far, all I can say is that it is handsome and heavy.

[buffcoat]

All this talk of "smoothness" and "low acidity" gives me pause.

Afraid all that deliciousness will force you to crack a smile, Lubec?

[Sarah]

Hell, you just made me crack a smile--I'm easy.

Reading further about the AeroPress, I find that it scares me.  My hands are clumsy, and I could see disaster striking.

Report on the coffee produced by the new stovetop pot:  perfectly all right but not superb.  A problem is that I like strong coffee but am so sensitive to caffeine now that I have to use a combination of caffeinated and decaffeinated beans (ah, for times gone by, when I could down countless double espressos a day with no ill effect but stained teeth).  This means that my coffee is never going to be as good as it can be.  Poor, poor me.

[buffcoat]

Hell, you just made me crack a smile--I'm easy.

Reading further about the AeroPress, I find that it scares me.  My hands are clumsy, and I could see disaster striking.

Report on the coffee produced by the new stovetop pot:  perfectly all right but not superb.  A problem is that I like strong coffee but am so sensitive to caffeine now that I have to use a combination of caffeinated and decaffeinated beans (ah, for times gone by, when I could down countless double espressos a day with no ill effect but stained teeth).  This means that my coffee is never going to be as good as it can be.  Poor, poor me.

Coffee for me is mainly a caffeine-delivery device (the most effective one for me).  I have grown to appreciate the taste but not love it, per se.  I do love the ritual of a hot morning drink as I work.

Sorry you've become sensitive to the stuff, Lubec.  Nothing on the planet is more effective at lifting my mood.  Sometimes it still bothers me, but then I think, "it's not cocaine - all it does is give you more energy.  They sell it in countless shops." and I feel better.  Or at least ok.

[Sarah]

Just lately, my sensitivity has been less pronounced, I'm happy to report.  Or, rather, my level of exhaustion is such that I fall asleep regularly throughout the day and sleep more or less normally (for me) at night even with extra caffeine.  And boy am I ever craving it.  For the first time, I'm appreciating the high, not just taking advantage of the illusion of energy.  Why, I had an extra eight ounces this morning and just made another pot (another sixteen ounces, made with an extra scoop of coffee, so it's almost exactly the way I like it).  It's all very exciting--not least because I broke my coffee grinder in the process (it was a genuine accident, I promise: the top got caught in my sleeve and flew off the counter, and the switch portion shattered on impact with the floor), so now I can justify purchasing a burr grinder. 

Like I said--exciting.

[buffcoat]

Just lately, my sensitivity has been less pronounced, I'm happy to report.  Or, rather, my level of exhaustion is such that I fall asleep regularly throughout the day and sleep more or less normally (for me) at night even with extra caffeine.  And boy am I ever craving it.  For the first time, I'm appreciating the high, not just taking advantage of the illusion of energy.  Why, I had an extra eight ounces this morning and just made another pot (another sixteen ounces, made with an extra scoop of coffee, so it's almost exactly the way I like it).  It's all very exciting--not least because I broke my coffee grinder in the process (it was a genuine accident, I promise: the top got caught in my sleeve and flew off the counter, and the switch portion shattered on impact with the floor), so now I can justify purchasing a burr grinder. 

Like I said--exciting.

Get the Aeropress - it'll chaynge yer lahf, as we say where I'm from (but not where I am).