I don’t know if you’re a coffee person or not, but I’m definitely a coffee person. As a Turkish citizen, you might expect my coffee to be Turkish coffee — but it’s not! To be honest, I haven’t found my perfect “coffee” yet I don’t like milky coffees, I prefer black ones. So what’s your coffee of choice?
I prefer black coffee and very rarely, a good cappuccino. Hand-ground coffee, with reusable coffee pods (steel, not plastic), fed into a “dolce gusto” machine (I hate the pre-filled coffee pods that come in a box). This is the most budget-friendly setup I could come up with; having a “barista” espresso machine it’s prohibitively expensive here, but one of my dreams.
Unfortunately, I don’t have knowledge/skills in coffee profiles to pinpoint them. I just buy “arabica” beans from a decent specialty-coffee store, and take note of which ones I liked.
At morning, I have an “americano” (double-espresso shot diluted with a bit of water). For a really enjoyable experience, french press method. When I have visits at home, I use a “moka pot” (Italian coffee maker).
I’ve got myself hold of a “cezve” for trying Turkish coffee, but the required grinding pitch is really fine and takes me an eternity with my manual grind. (Plus, I haven’t got it right yet )
I’ve never been a coffee person. As I get older, I’ve become more fond of it and have been experimenting with different variations. However, my favorite remains the one I’ve always enjoyed, which is called pod coffee.
I like black coffee (no milk, no sugar) as my default option. Can be an americano (or canadiano) or a brewed coffee. I also sometimes enjoy a good capuchino or flat white when I’ve had too much caffeine for a day.
I love a good dark roast. I start most days by grinding the beans and using a French Press. In the afternoons I am usually only making a single cup for myself, so switch to the pour over.
Over the years I’ve had a couple of different solutions for offices without coffee (or with bad coffee). Once a colleague and I went in on a Keurig machine (we thought there was no kitchen). I took that machine to a second stop and starting grinding the beans at home in the morning and using a re-usable K-cup: better coffee, cheaper, less waste. At another client, I bought a hand grinder and used it for pour overs. The hand grinder is a bit like meditation.
I love coffee. The short answer is a strong black coffee, no sugar or milk.
But for me, coffee is also tied to travel. I’m not sure why, but the scent always brings back that feeling. I love discovering different ways of making coffee wherever I go, like a latte macchiato in Germany, or a small, intensely dark coffee in Italy.
Whenever I visit my home country, Mexico, I always bring back whole beans from Chiapas and Oaxaca, they’re just perfect for me.
I like to keep switching the beans I use, so in a way, it feels like I’m traveling all the time.
I love your setup! I hope you get your barista-style machine someday. Aside from the “cezve”, it’s really nice to hear someone has one in this forum I’d be happy to bring you some Turkish coffee when we meet at a Ruby meetup
Another black coffee lover — YES! I love your coffee adventure. Some scents really do bring back memories, don’t they? It’s wonderful that you’ve connected travel with coffee like that. I’ve never tried Mexican coffee before. I don’t think I can find any in Turkey, but I’ll try! I still haven’t found my perfect beans yet
“Feature Envy” code coffee smell when I looked up that RG machine in Google
Agree… even if I tend to gravitate to medium roasted beans, too much roasting ruins the flavor (IMO); some coffees are excessively roasted and taste like a burnt tire to me (although I used to drink it like that in the past though, because I thought it was all there was to it )
The canadiano is a tongue in cheek renaming of the americano to protest threats made by Donald Trump against Canada, specifically the threat of tarriffs and the threat to turn Canada into the 51st state of America.
I hate burnt coffee. I used to drink a lot of coffee at Starbucks. Now, even walking past it makes me nauseous. How did I ever drink that burnt, industrial coffee?