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I usually start the day by brewing a moka pot, but I’m okay skipping it every once in a while under certain circumstances. What would you do/not do for yours?
I rotate my daily coffee with breakfast between a french press, aeropress, cuccumella, and a moka pot.
An aeropress is the fastest, and if I really need to get out the door quickly, that’s what I’m using.
Weekdays at the office are a 430ml/27g Clever Dripper every working day. Just the one mug. At home on the weekends are a 425ml/25g Kono pour over. Just the one mug.
Both of these happen at least an hour or more after getting up.
I just forget one day and then don’t have coffee for a month or two before I remember 🤷♂️
Otherwise it’s either using my picopresso or a tiny french press.
I’m working on cutting back because it’s getting more expensive and I’m definitely addicted. I’ve tried titrating to decaffeinated, but it is even more expensive and hard to find good decaffeinated coffee.
Aeropress most days, because I like the paper filter. Occasionally French Press, especially cold brew or light roasts that can use the extra robustness. Automatic pour over occasionally, if there’s multiple people. Aeropress for 3 is too much.
I’ll skip it if I can’t get something palatable but I will be a slow person, probably with a headache.
I find that I can water down coffee pretty substantially after it’s brewed, without changing the flavor significantly (although it is weaker obviously)
It means if I’m ever wanting reduced caffeine intake, it’s easier to do that than decaffeinated coffee.
Works much better when I’m making any kind of coffee that uses milk, but it does work black as well.
How do you go about watering it down? Just pour room temp water into the brew?
Yup. More water seems to affect the brewing a lot more than the final product, so once I have it brewed the way I want, it’s fine to water it.
First time I did it, I went “well that makes sense I guess, this cup is already like 99% water, everything I did brewing it was just to change the 1%, and that’s done”.
