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We have a Senseo and a French press. We use neither. On the rare occasion I drink coffee, it's typically at work.

Or sometimes I crave Starbucks in which case nothing stands between me and a triple-grande soy vanilla latte.

I've been trying to cut back since between coffee, cigarettes and red wine, I'll have dentures by the time I'm 35.

I have something called a chorreador, which is a typical way to make coffee here in Costa Rica. You just put your grounds in, pour boiling water over them, and let the delicious blackness drip into your cup.

I go into QuickTrip, walk up to the Columbian Supremo pot and pour myself a cup ;)

A double espresso with one teaspoon of sugar.

I used to have a machine in this house with a housemate who'd grind and roast the beans himself.

That's my preferred choice though. Wakes me up for sure, especially when I'd push the limits and go triple shot espresso.

Open a can of GFIC Orange Cappuccino, spoon into cup, pour hot water over. Yeah, I know, to true coffee conoisseures, it's not even technically "coffee."

And I do like other coffee: I have something like a chorreador, but it's just a thing that holds the grounds and liner in a glass reservoir above the cup, and I have a thing that makes real cappuccino on the stove as well, but those are both too much effort in the morning, and we don't do that electric thingy with grounds anymore at all. I've liked the Orange Cappuccino for 20+ years, so that's what it is.

Filter drip. But, then on those occasions that I want a latte, I use my cappuccino machine to make vanilla lattes. I also use it for espresso.

Aeropress. Super fine espresso grind, 165 degree Fahrenheit water, espresso strength, straight up. It is so good.

If I'm at the coffee shop, I almost always get an Iced Americano.

Filter drip at home, but always grinding my own beans. Very tempted to start roasting my own.

I've never made a coffee myself, but I love Turkish Coffee made the old fashioned way (I found some cafés who still uses that technique).

Final result looks like this: http://www.istanbulguide.net/istguide/im/divers/cafeturc15.jpg

It's very tricky because the coffee doesn't have to be burnt, I love it when it's cooked "twice".

It's my fav kind of coffee...

@hedimac: I'll have to see if any of the coffeeshops around here serve coffee that way.

I just bought a cheap espresso machine and have been grinding Blue Bottle Coffee and Urban Jack beans at home. I also bought the French chocolate that Citizen Cake uses so I can start making iced mochas at home for $1/cup rather than $3.75/cup I pay at Citizen Cake. I've also made coffee ice cubes to prevent watery coffee. Wish I could get the recipe to Blue Bottle's New Orleans iced coffee though.

Every method brings out something different in coffee. When we do reviews at Coffee & Conservation (www.coffeehabitat.com), we always prepare in both a French press and an auto drip. There's also a cool little device called an Aerobie Aeropress which I travel with.

I LOVE the smell of coffee, especially the very moment when I walk into a coffee shop on a cold winter day, with the warm and nice aroma coming towards me. Unfortunately the caffeine of coffee irritates my stomach. I never make coffee myself, but still have one or two, usually cappucino, from time to time, when the smell is too tempting. ;)

With a teabag.

Strong. :)

I'm grinding the beans as I need them to give the best taste. Regular coffee machine or filter drip.

Have any one else noticed that the coffee doesn't smell (or taste) as good as it did a long time ago?

I wonder if they have changed something in the production....

Filter drip.

I just got a Keurig coffee maker. While I adore the convenience, it it not the best coffee in the universe.

I accept this trade-off.

(1) Tear open the 3-in1 sachet.
(2) pour content into cup.
(3) Add hot water.

LOL.

When company's around, I'll whip out the French Press, which makes awesome coffee and kind of a mess to clean up.

Otherwise, (I'm sad to report), I go for the expedient, lazy and not-very-tasty route: my roommate's Senseo.

My boyfriend has an espresso machine (lucky dog) and we make cortados at his place (espresso with a splash of hot milk). In Spain, they serve a tiny piece of dark chocolate alongside the cortado.

Mmm... I could go for some cortado action right now...

With my Keurig. I love it.

At home I use a plunger but at work I have a coffee machine and am a mocha fiend! Soooo good!

Like many others, I rely very much on instant coffee powder. If I feel bored of the taste, I will add other flavours to it like ginger ale, cinnamon powder, toasted almond powder, toasted peanut powder, ice cream and whipped cream.

Espresso! But from a coffee shop, since I don't have an espresso machine (yet).

I'm also a huge, huge fan of lattes, mochas, and caramel macchiatos.

I enjoy my coffee filter-dripped, and with loads of milk and sugar. If it aint "foo-foo coffee" then it aint coffee!

My dad always used to do his coffee "cowboy-style," as in: measure the ground coffee into a pot of simmering water, brew for 5 minutes, then strain through a sieve or hand-strainer into his thermos. Now that's a working man's brew.

It's kind of like French press coffee, but without the equipment and pressing.

My Wife likes to make it "Polish style" - but I'm not sure how authentic that is. Basically it involves using filter coffee but no filter - so you end up with a cup of suprisingly good coffee unless you drink the last mouthful!

French press when I don't get it at the diner. ;)

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It's funny. I use a percolator for my coffee at home but it sounds an awful lot like this chorreador thing. A percolator just runs hot water over grounds and drips through a filter. It's an automatic Chorreador. I never knew that till now.
I also grind the beans just before I use them. MMmmm... so fresh.

Just the percolator at work. But first I pour a packet of hot cocoa powder into my cup first, then coffee and lots of creamer. I need the caffeine but I have to get rid of the horrible taste. Yes, I admit that I totally annihilate the essence of coffee. If I have the chance, I prefer a cookies & cream cappuccino from the gas station. Never even been in a Starbucks even though I have a $5 gift card in my wallet that I'll never use.

You could mail that card to me, if you want. :-)