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Your coffee to water ratio is 1/2 of what I use (4 tablespoons to 8 oz water). Your coffee would be weak compared to mine, not only in caffeine content, but more importantly in flavor.
I experimented for a long time to find what works for me, obviously that's not what everyone else might like.
Right! I think your last sentence is the key! "Flavor" depends on blending, brand of beans etc, and individual taste! What works for you....works for you......
My Keurigs lasted about a single year, religiously. I went through 3 of them -- 2 at home and 1 at work. Never got more than 13 months out of any of the 3. In fact, Keurig makes 2 separate lines. Crappy ones for retail use that go on the fritz after a year, and really well made ones for commercial use that they rent out to businesses. The rental one for our office lasted a long time. You can't purchase the rental ones.
My current Cuisinart single-cup coffee maker has lasted years and years. I bought it at Bed, Bath & Beyond. Here is a link to the current version like the one I have. My exact model is no longer in production.
Good luck. I love my Cuisinart. Never plugs. Never fails. Just keeps going, like the Energizer bunny. I want to say it is between 4 and 5 years old. If it dies after 5 years of constant use and constantly being on, I will call that a stellar deal, after all my Keurig's died within 13 months. Anything beyond 5 years will be just gravy. I even have a replacement waiting in the wings that I bought 3 years ago, but just have never needed to unbox it yet since the original just keeps going.
Disclaimer: I do use a mix of 2/3 bottled drinking water to 1/3 tap water in the reservoir, to guard against scaling due to hard water. Not distilled, just bottled drinking water. So far so good.
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I use a French Press every morning to make one 8 ounce cup of coffee. I grind beans with a good burr grinder and do enough to last me about 10 days so I don't have to do it very often. I use four tablespoons of coarse ground coffee.
It takes 2:30 to heat the water to 200 degrees in the microwave and 4:00 to brew the coffee.
$22 and it will last a very long time (unless you break the glass beaker). I've tried lots of coffee makers, none make coffee that tastes as good as a French Press.
I hate French Press coffee with a passion. I love my coffee scalding hot. By the time the French Press brews coffee, it is already getting cold. Many people love them but I hate them for that reason. Whenever my mother makes coffee in a French Press, I have to preheat a mug full of water to boiling in the microwave, and dump it right before filling from the French Press so the heat from the mug warms the luke-warm coffee from the French Press. Still, the 2nd cup will be cold by the time I get to it.
I am baffled how people get a hot cup of coffee from a French Press.
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I stand corrected. You can buy commercial grade Keurig coffee makers that last years. These also have a "strong" button whereby the flow slows down to extract more coffee from the cup. Keurig K-2500 at $489. Prices go up from there. You get what you pay for. Or overpay for if it comes from Germany.
It seems like once a year I am replacing them. I have used Keurig and replaced them less than 6 months or some lasted longer. This one I have is a Hamilton Beach. I really did like it until it would not even brew a cup, more like a 1/4 or less of an inch of a brew. It is not my circuit breaker that did it nor the needle needing cleaning, it just plainly quit working. I tried numerous of times and it just won't work. Does anyone else ever have that problem? Not sure what to get since there isn't much of a choice and Keurig is overtaking the marketplaces wherever I shop (not online).
For one cup when we travel in our RV I use one of those Melitta one cup that sit on top of a coffee cup and use the #2 filters. Makes a pretty ok cup of coffee about equal to my 12 cup coffee maker. Use the microwave to heat the water to boiling and then just pour it into the filter letting it drip. Trick is to learn the amount of coffee to use for the size of the cup. In a standard to go size cup I use 1 1/2 scoops.
I love it. Still makes "hot" coffee. I like that it comes with a basket that I can use my own coffee ground beans.
I prefer French Press on my days when I am not working. The Sboly is a time saver when I have to get up super early on work days.
My son bought me one of those for Christmas a few years ago. I like making lattes with the espresso pods. The regular coffee--I find way too strong for me.
I was looking on that on Amazon recently. It sounds similar to my Hamilton Beach Flex that went out. I asked a question on there but not one person answered. There was a similar machine and I did not know the difference of them and asked. Just a $10 difference in them too. Where is it made?
Mine is a drip one cup coffee maker. I also have reflux. What I have found as a solution is to use alkaline water to brew and I buy 3 types of whole beans to blend my own mix and grind just before brewing. I use 1 cup Blonde Roast, 1/2 cup Medium Roast and 1/4 cup dark roast to make the bean mix then grind 4 tablespoons of that to make a 16oz mug! Works for me! I only have 1 cup/day
Never thought of using Alkaline Water. I use to drink it but no more. Having a variety of beans sounds like a good idea. I do like a medium dark. Light roast is too light sometimes and so is medium.
Your coffee to water ratio is 1/2 of what I use (4 tablespoons to 8 oz water). Your coffee would be weak compared to mine, not only in caffeine content, but more importantly in flavor.
I experimented for a long time to find what works for me, obviously that's not what everyone else might like.
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How did you make the cup of coffee with the ground Allegro? Did you get a French Press?
It doesn't matter how good the coffee beans are if you don't use a good method to make the coffee. Most methods don't get the water hot enough (195-205 degrees F), or brew for the proper amount of time (4 minutes in a French Press). I tried pour over vs French Press, no comparison, French Press wins hands down.
Your coffee sounds awful strong. I doubt I could handle it. Sounds like an expresso. Why not drink or make expressos instead and maybe you would not need that much coffee?
I got a Vienna coffee in the Allergo brand. I think I used too much water when I made it the first time. I used 2 scoops of coffee + 1 bottle water (16.9 oz.) I made some earlier and measured the water in the pot for 2 cups and used 2 scoops. It was a little better not much. Last week I went to a Swedish restaurant and they have a good cup of coffee. It is very smooth and bold tasting. Thanks for the info, I'll check it out.
My Keurigs lasted about a single year, religiously. I went through 3 of them -- 2 at home and 1 at work. Never got more than 13 months out of any of the 3. In fact, Keurig makes 2 separate lines. Crappy ones for retail use that go on the fritz after a year, and really well made ones for commercial use that they rent out to businesses. The rental one for our office lasted a long time. You can't purchase the rental ones.
My current Cuisinart single-cup coffee maker has lasted years and years. I bought it at Bed, Bath & Beyond. Here is a link to the current version like the one I have. My exact model is no longer in production.
Good luck. I love my Cuisinart. Never plugs. Never fails. Just keeps going, like the Energizer bunny. I want to say it is between 4 and 5 years old. If it dies after 5 years of constant use and constantly being on, I will call that a stellar deal, after all my Keurig's died within 13 months. Anything beyond 5 years will be just gravy. I even have a replacement waiting in the wings that I bought 3 years ago, but just have never needed to unbox it yet since the original just keeps going.
Disclaimer: I do use a mix of 2/3 bottled drinking water to 1/3 tap water in the reservoir, to guard against scaling due to hard water. Not distilled, just bottled drinking water. So far so good.
I was getting my Keurig machines from BBB. They use to have a policy you could return so I did that a lot. And I would get the model that made 3 different sizes of cups, and not just a basic one. I did not know that they made different lines. My neighbor told me he has a Cuisinart drip that he's had for a long time.
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