French Press all the way. Just simple Bodum ones - nothing fancy. Large and small versions here in the staffroom in work. Same at home. Did have a little, inexpensive espresso maker bought for me last Christmas. A kind thought by my girlfriend but a really time consuming faff to use - so I usually don't. Please don't tell her!
Staceyboy
yeah a bodum one for me too . I am particularly partial to a decaf cappucino but i save that for Starbucks
Used to take the trouble. Don't any longer. Found all that getting through the tins of Tim Hortons' too time-consuming. I tend to avoid drinking coffee out of the house. Too many crimes in England are committed in the name of coffee and scrambled eggs (as doubtless our American visitors will be able to tell us).
Jim, Mark. In Paris, Vietnamese-run place directly opposite Gare Du Nord (have I got that right? I'm still tingling after the Little Rock blunder) is highly recommended for cafe au lait and simple cheap sandwiches.
I'm now beginning to lean in Kingstonian's direction and drinking more tea. Twinings. My wife is of Irish-Liverpudlian descent and a confirmed tea drinker.
I feel like such a rube - at home it's Nescafé Mild topped up with a Tefal Quick & Hot into pint mugs with milk and sugar.
At work and out and about just plain black coffee, wherever it's from. I must have fried tastebuds as it all tastes the same to me...
I used to go in for something called Cafe Noir. Pure schtick, I'm sure. My wife's sister enjoys the distinction of being able to produce neither decent tea or coffee. Nothing 'rube' about it, Moose. Was given the jar of Maxwell House my mother-in-law had won at bingo (she still thinks coffee is part of some communist plot) and my other half mixed it in the jar with All-Gold.
She is not a coffee drinker.
What's been the reception of coffee in British in the twentieth century? And its relation to tea as a choice?
I guess there are Starbucks everywhere now. I hate that coffee. Those the last time I was in the smoke, there weren't many chain coffee stores -- but that was a few years ago.
Dunkin Donuts up and down New England always had good coffee, surprisingly. I bought some at the store and it was horrible.
^ Same here sir. The 2 cup Bialetta gets about as much use as the 6 cup Cupola. And then there's that sextagonal mid century monster with the red bakelite tip and handle that can brew 12 cups just sitting there. A bargain at the flea market, haven't put it to use yet. I need a fourth 4 cup specimen so I can line 'em up like the Daltons.
Is it not time we had some input on our choice of cigarette lighters, watch straps, flight bags, shavers and toilet waters? Or, indeed, the length of our fingernails and whether we remove our nasal hairs with tweezers or a special 'gadget'? For the record, I use 'Extract of Limes'.
I wonder what those uber 'straight' men who don't like music or clothes talk about when they meet...
Does anybody here ever mix with them?
Personally I tend to run a mile whenever they come near.
I'm sure that together we can encorage Mike to come back and post...
The few good batches of coffee I've ever brewed (I have tried, I have. I love coffee.) have been hand-filtered. I have a lovely old 1920s silver-plated cup filter and a classic white stoneware size 2 filter, both Melitta. Hand-filtering with a stoneware filter into a porcelain jug can make a damn fine brew.