Brew Methods for People Who Don't Want a Gadget Drawer
The coffee internet will happily sell you a drawer full of gear you use twice. You don't need it. You can make genuinely good coffee with almost nothing — the beans matter far more than the kit. Here are three low-clutter methods, roughly easiest to most involved.
1. Cafetiere: the forgiving one
Coarse-ground coffee, hot water, wait four minutes, press. No paper filters, no electricity, hard to mess up, and it makes a full-bodied cup that suits a darker roast beautifully — a rich dark-roast blend is exactly what makes a cafetiere sing.
2. Pour-over: the clean one
A cone, a paper filter and a steady hand. A little more attention, and you're rewarded with a cleaner, brighter cup that shows off the subtler flavours — a dedicated filter blend is what you want here.
3. The cup counts more than you'd think
Here's a small thing that isn't about method at all: what you drink it from. A double-walled glass keeps coffee hot longer and stays cool in the hand, and seeing the colour of the coffee genuinely makes it taste better — call it psychology; it works. A pair of ribbed glass cups does the trick, or a heftier stoneware mug if you prefer a proper handle. Buy good beans, pick one method you'll actually use, and drink it from something you like holding. That beats a cupboard of gadgets gathering dust.
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