Has anyone tried cup at a time coffeemakers?
I second the motion on the single cup filter cone. I use one everyday. We also use a French press (mostly when we need to make coffee for after dinner and mostly, oddly enough, when we are in France) but the cone-paper filter combo makes as good cup a or better. I think Cook’s Illustrated recently tested methods of making American style coffee and the Melitta cone came out on top. The equipment even transports easily — how cool is that. Just add hot water. I can’t say anything about it being messy as I find clean-up to be a snap: take out the grounds-filled filter, rinse the cone and when you’re done there is no machine left cluttering the counter. (Ideally, you have an electric kettle but a pan on the stove works fine for heating the water. 🙂 And Kat is right on the ingredients issue: like most things, it helps to start with tasty bits.
