To ask you to choose which coffee machine (for someone who hates coffee!) and how to force myself to love coffee as top drs have told me I HAVE to drink it and lots of it

I use an aeropress and really like it, but I like coffee!

You could try a dirty chai? Chai latte with coffee, bit like a mocha (hot chocolate and coffee). You could try them out and if you like it try replicating at home?

Otherwise, I would focus on espresso. You’d get your coffee in a concentrated shot - a bit like a medicine!

Grind have a machine that might suit your environmental requirements. I have switched to their coffee recently, used to get an independant brand. Seems to work better in the aeropress. I froth milk with a lavazza milk frother - oat milk due to my high cholesterol.

all the best!

The OP has been very clear about her prognosis and also that this approach has been medically suggested.

What has she got to lose by trying?

Why are you trying to make this thread about you?

It's not the caffeine in the coffee thats beneficial. It's kahweol and cafestol, 2 chemical compounds found in coffee beans. Decaffeinated and instant also have protective effects on the liver - just in case you're running out to buy cans of monster thinking it's good for your liver 😊

I would get something quick and easy. If you don’t like coffee don’t waste your money. Drink an espresso shot and have a juice chaser. You don’t want to be faffing with a cafetière just for a quick shot. You can buy refillable pods if you don’t want the waste associated with an nespresso machine.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/23/coffee-drinkers-much-lower-risk-bowel-cancer-recurrence-study

I would try an aero press. The coffee will taste less harsh than some other methods. It’s environmentally friendly as the waste is a puck of coffee and a filter paper.

Try different coffee varieties. I generally like Colombian coffee as I find it smoother and more rounded.

Disappointed my comment was deleted, presumably after reporting by the alternative health brigade. Even the weblinks shared show very weak associations, "may be" beneficial and so on. This is giving people false hope.

Get a bean to cup magi one and if you have it with lots of milk it's quite nice.

I am very sorry to hear about your diagnosis.

I’m a coffee addict so not much help on the ‘getting to like coffee’ front, but I wouldn’t bother with pods. I suggest a small cafetière or, even better, a stove-top espresso maker. There’s a ceremony to using those that is intrinsically pleasurable, and espressos are by definition small. You can add sugar, leave it to cool a bit, then down it in one like a shot. Quite authentically Italian, in fact.

If instant coffee has the same benefits I would simply make a strong shot and neck it like medicine a couple of times a day.
No need to waste money on machines etc.

I got this recently. Really enjoying it. I buy espresso ground coffee to put in.
I used to detest coffee, even the smell of it when my mum would buy a freshly ground pack from whittard I felt I could smell it all day.
I got used to it though and now love it! Same with green tea, after a week I started craving it. Good luck, really hope you get through this as smoothly as possible.

I'm not a coffee fan but have two non sleepers so I drink it when needed. For me instant coffee, with caramel syrup in the coffee and squirty cream on top works well. Very sweet but it feels like a proper treat. Getting one of those milk frothers to make it nice and fluffy without spending loads on a fancy machine could help too.

I'm sure the OP is intelligent enough to have already considered all of this. Bit of a shitty comment from you, OP was asking about coffee machines, not whether you think she should just enjoy what time she has left 🤯

I wasn’t a coffee fan, still hate instant coffee with a passion, but am a real convert to coffee made in an espresso maker on the hob, and topped up with Oatly Barista (grey carton) heated in an electric milk frother. I use ready ground Columbian coffee. All from Lidl.

Of course real bean to cup coffee would be the ideal but do you want all that cleaning?

I’m so sorry to hear about your prognosis. I hope you learn to love coffee if it will help your illness.

Sorry about your diagnosis.

How old are your boys?

Does it have to be hot coffee? And are you allowed anything sugary with it or will that exacerbate the cancer?

I ask because I'm not really a coffee fan but give me an iced coffee with a syrup in the summer and I'm happy as Larry. I think it doesn't matter so much about it the quality of the coffee brewing with iced coffees either.

Just a possibility to get you to enjoy them.

OP, I wouldn’t spend ££ on a machine. I am a coffee lover and I use a cafitiere and a stove top espresso maker.

Don’t go for a high roast. Lidl sell bags of ‘Deluxe’ ground coffee and the Colombian in the green bag is smooth and rounded , not bitter.

Ways to drink it: it sounds gross but coffee with evaporated milk in it is good. Rich and creamy but not as calorific or fatty as cream.

Cold Over ice and with evaporated milk is good too.

An espresso tipped over a scoop of vanilla, chocolate or salt caramel ice cream as dessert after lunch?

My espresso maker makes two little cups so I drink one and freeze the rest in an ice cube tray. A cube in a glass of milk… lovely. But then I like coffee.

[Haven't read the thread- I have no appetite for reading an argument about cancer atm] @CocoBellaSparkle I'm sorry to hear about your diagnosis and wish you strength going forward.

Try pour over coffee; you can make a fabulous tasting coffee for a relatively small investment compared with buying an expensive machine 😍 It's also super convenient to dump the used coffee filter paper in the compost bin.

I recommend this ceramic dripper and if you phone them they will recommend a filter paper and coffee to order to go with them, too. They are the experts 😀

https://www.monmouthcoffee.co.uk/product/ceramic-filter-cone/

I've no idea why people are being so disbelieving of the OP. I've been reading about research into the benefits of coffee on the liver for many years.

I'm sorry about your diagnosis OP. If coffee causes symptoms such as migraine I'd definitely try decaffeinated first. I imagine a migraine and the shakes is the last thing you want when you are already ill! I'd just get a cafetiere until you know whether you can tolerate it.

If you really dislike coffee have you looked at other options? Dandelion tea has long been known to support liver health (though obviously check with your Dr's first) . Have you also looked into taking milk thistle and Liv.52 DS? (But again check with your Dr's).

Totally agree

I'm ad much of coffee snob as they come but if you don't like coffee then I'd say instant is a good starting point

Less faff for you to make as well. You can also make a really weak cup with eg half a teaspoon of instant and build yourself up to a normal one as you get used to the taste

Have you tried things like mochas? Hides the taste of coffee pretty well. Also iced coffee with lots of flavourings in it?

Can you get used to drinking instant coffee? I don’t like it myself but lots of people drink instant all day in my place of work.

I mean, can you not consume other caffeine products?

If you hate coffee I suggest making a double shot and topping up with a lot of hot frothy milk- latte type and having a sugar. Get a nespresso vertuo with the aerocino frothed. Join the nespresso club and there’s always loads of offers. So sorry for your diagnosis xx

I'm sorry to hear of your diagnosis OP.

I've worked in oncology for many years and the message as far as food goes has always been 'eat whatever you can fancy'. I've no idea on the coffee side of things but food wise are you able to access a dietician? As aside from a very few drugs which interact with a very few foods ( MSG, pineapple, grapefruit), I've not known patients be told to avoid whole categories of food. Especially in a palliative scenario, patients are encouraged to eat whatever they enjoy. I'd hate to think you were denying yourself foods you enjoy.

All the best

The liver specialists I used to see also told me frequently that instant had exactly the same health benefits as more expensive types of coffee.