Making proper coffee

[SherlockHolmes]

How do you make yours? I prefer to use a cafetiere at home, so have been looking at stainless steel/polycarbonate versions, which are all a bit pricy (around £20). Do you think a metal teapot and a tea strainer would do the job adequately? I'm sure there are some fellow caffeine addicts out there who can offer some advice

thanks again for responses. I already have, and use, a stove-top pot, but as DH has recently gained a liking for coffee in the mornings as well, it means boiling the pot, and then having to boil a kettle/saucepan of milk. As we only have 1 stove it takes much too long! When it was just me, I'd drink the whole pot of coffee, but it just doesn't make enough for us two. I tend to use red Lavazza, but always feel guilty for not buying fair trade, so I alternate between that and Taylors of Harrogate (to help ease my conscience).

buy a bigger stovetop one...

Ah, we've got a stove-top cappuchino maker - works on the same idea as the stove top espresso makers (it's made by Bialeti too) but you put milk in the top compartment, so you don't have to heat milk separately. It's not mega-frothy, but it tastes v good and makes me more prepared to crawl out of bed when camping..... think it's called the moka-express, something like that.

but we aren't coffee snobs at all, clearly, - it's not as if DH grinds a stash of beans for the week to bring away in a tub - if we camp with friends, they always laugh at us. And then they scrounge a cup of coffee.....

gosh, that sounds fantastic, I am going to have to have a look at that. We only have a single gas hob too, but I do the coffee, put in thermal cups, put lids on, then boil milk and top up. It works ok.

Lavazza are or have bought out a rainforest alliance coffee.

God i'm a coffee ponce, aren't I.

Next time you pop into the supermarket go down the coffee isle. They sell in a long box in a pack of ten one cup filters. You just put the filter over the mug and pout water in. The about two minutes later the coffee will have finished going through the filter and its nice. Just throw away the empty filter no mess.

biscuit - but lots of waste to recycle? Actually I do use those sometimes at work.

Not as nice as the stove-top cappuchino maker!

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