I am a complete noob at coffee making. Which device should I get? I keep reading about stuff like French Press, Aeropress, etc but idk which is good and easy to use for a beginner. If it helps, until now I have only drunk instant coffee (with either milk or sugar or both). Thanks in advance!
Edit: Thanks a lot for all the replies guys!
I started my coffee journey because I went on internship abroad and didn’t have access to the house coffee machine anymore. I decided instant was too disgusting so I bought a 10€ French Press. Now I’m complaining to my wife that my scale is not good enough, I need to be more precise than a gram to make good espresso. What a rabbit hole.
My dad had me pickup a bag of coffee he liked a lot on a roadtrip of mine. He excitedly brought it over one day and my mom had to tell him as he was explaining brining it while they were driving to my house that my giant fancy $600 grinder is in fact only single dose and doesn’t really “do” whole bags of coffee… he was sad to say the least.
Mr scale at 1/10th of a gram wasn’t even accurate enough to me… you’ll get to a point where a 1/100th of a gram is the difference between great and perfect coffee. 😂
Honestly, I always tell people I’m such a robot about making my coffee in the morning that it only seems complicated. If you did the whole routine every day too you’d end up making a great cup in about 5 minutes with cleanup. Although I’m blessed enough to have one of those instant boiling filtered water things in my kitchen. Cannot recommend that enough, even just for cleaning things. Anyways, I’m right there with you. I started with a cheap IKEA French press and a $40 Mr.Coffee burr grinder and it just rabbit holed from there.
So relatable! And now I’m finding myself often considering that one grinder is not enough because my Mignon does good espresso but isn’t awesome at filter and it’s a huge pain to switch granularity in it.
I remember not so long ago when I watched Hoffman videos and thought he had too many grinders…