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Re:Coffee for people who don't like coffee by alabastervlog on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @07:10PM (#43978849)
IKEA sells a very cheap steel (i.e. your kids won't break it when they knock it off the counter—ask me what happened to my first three of these, which were all ceramic) pourover cup with integrated fine-mesh metal filter (so you can still make coffee if you run out of paper filters—though there's some evidence the oils that paper filters remove are bad for heart health, and it does affect the flavor, too). I think it's like $10 or something. Same external requirements as a French press, which can be as little as "a way to heat water" if you grind your beans at the store (which, don't, but on the other hand, if you want to, sure, go for it)

By far my favorite coffee-making device I've got. I'd just do drip but cleaning the machines is a PITA (lots of people don't bother and their coffee all tastes like mildew, it's disgusting) and they all expose hot water to lots of plastic, seems like. I have a French press but it's a bigger pain to clean. Pourover cup takes up less space than any of that, too.

Re:Coffee for people who don't like coffee by mc3301 on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @09:07PM (#43979647)
Also the Vietnamese "phin" is an excellent coffee maker.
Re:Coffee for people who don't like coffee by rgoulter on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @02:56AM (#43981638)
For the quality of the coffee, the Vietnamese phin is simplest/cheapest device.
Re:Coffee for people who don't like coffee by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @09:46PM (#43979865)
I have a reusable cotton filter that I use in a metal mesh pourover. Seems to work and is easy to clean.
Re:Coffee for people who don't like coffee by quickthoughts on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @12:22AM (#43980777)
Plus one for the IKEA pour over. Its cheap and functional, perfect for travel too.