Coffee

That is a glass of milk with a splash of coffee.

Honestly, I use my drip brewer for tea more than coffee. Coffee goes into my Hario Mizudashi instead because I don't have to worry about my grinder's excessive fines clogging up the filter.

Though you can make the case for a drip brewer just being a funny looking electric kettle too.

I got a variation of that machine VERY cheap second hand and It's been fantastic.

Make coffee how you like and enjoy it, You don't need to spend big money on something just because others have.

Use hot chocolate mix instead of some creamer or sugar. Approximates the mocha flavor along the same lines of laziness for payoff.

Coffee House owner chiming in: drink whatever the hell you enjoy.

I mean, I'd consider myself a coffee snob (although I don't have hundreds of dollars worth of gear like others, just weird beans) but I do enjoy myself instant coffee as well. And there's plenty of local style coffee here in my south east Asian country that's not espresso style that I enjoy as well.

I don't understand what's so hard about espresso :-)

I chug a mason jar every morning. Do you think this is playing a part in my workplace stress/anxiety?

Used to drink 3 monsters a day, coffee equivalent is high but coffee hits me differently and idk, something is fucking me up.

I think it could be really interesting to see the nutrition label on the creamer container

hell yeah my friend, my morning microwaved-mug-of-water-with-instant-coffee salutes you

Espresso is a type of coffee. Some like Café Crème, some Americano, some Lungo, some filter coffee, some french press.

My recommendation for you: try the french press. Even more simple and mostly glass/metal instead of plastic.

I love shitty coffee, I love fancy coffee, I love coffee.

I’ve used pretty much every method of coffee making for extended periods except for a siphon and I have also settled on auto drip.

I switched from “cream; no sugar” for the past ~30 years to “black” at some point in the past 6 months.

One man's trash is another man's treasure.

I'm an iced americano guy myself. My new job has an espresso machine. All I need to do to get a triple espresso is push 3 buttons and the beans they get are decent

It's ok if you like drip coffee. It's ok if you hate drip coffee. The important thing is to know what you like: I once had a friend who was regularly buying fancy machines, always dissatisfied. One time he mentioned that he really liked the coffee at my house - I was serving regular drip coffee from an old-fashioned cuisinart. Don't buy into coffee snobbery.

Does it make you happy? Then you do you with the resources you have. Treasure those fleeting moments of warm bliss. They are becoming rarer and rarer these days.

with a pourover, you'd be doing even less work with less cleanup

Espresso is hard to do at an office but a French press and hand grinder are very easy to keep in a drawer at your desk. And if you're desperate you can use the drop brewer to get your hot water.

I was rocking a $20 Proctor-Silex drip maker for the last 5+ years until it started leaking out the bottom. I ponied up and bought a Bunn Speed Brew earlier this year. Now I get a full pot of drip made in 4 minutes or less. chef kiss

I also have an espresso machine, aeropress, and French press, but I commit horrific coffee sins like making a double shot of espresso into my mug and then filling the rest with drip coffee. I may have a caffeine problem