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I drink iced coffee year-round, so I use this for making tea, oatmeal, rice porridge, and anything else that needs hot water. .

(Try it; it works!) But it still grinds our coffee beans to a decent coarseness, and a year later, we are still happily using it to make our morning coffee.  — Barbara Krasnoff, reviews editor.

I make my daily cup of coffee using a machine that’s about as basic as you can possibly get — you pour coffee grounds into a filter, add water, and press a button.

I’ve already waxed philosophical about this approach for probably far too many words, but the TL;DR is simple: in the morning, I want coffee to make me less tired, and if I’m tired, I don’t want to be fussing with something that requires me to nail timing or temperatures.

This basic 12oz French Press creates great coffee without filters or capsules: just pour in ground coffee, pour in hot water, wait a few minutes, press down, and pour.

I adore the AeroPress for its simplicity, even though I use my 14-cup Cuisinart coffee maker on a daily basis.

It’s quite minimalist, yet it can make a great cup of coffee, and the process is half the fun.

But it’s fun, and when I don’t mess it up, it’s capable of creating the best-tasting coffee in my house.

The coffee maker that has made a name among enthusiasts for great brewing.

I began using one to make espresso for my parents, aunts, and uncles when I was about seven years old.

There’s a treasure to these coffee makers that goes beyond the great espresso they create.

The Bialetti Express is made in Italy and will serve you great coffee for years to come.

AeroPress’ and Bialettis both make great coffee, but over the past couple of years, I’ve settled on the Hario V60 as my go-to brewing method.

When I’m making a single cup, I use Hario’s little ceramic coffee dripper, but more recently, I was gifted one of Hario’s glass decanters, which can make up to three cups at a time, and looks really nice sitting on a breakfast table.

First is, obviously, that it produces great coffee, but it’s also important to me that it looks nice.

There’s more of a skill to it, whether it’s learning how to slowly pour boiling water over your coffee grounds (a goose-neck kettle is helpful here) or experimenting with different grind sizes (consider picking up a flat or conical burr grinder for the task). .

Initially, I was using a cheap blade grinder and a standard electric kettle and getting delicious results using coffee YouTuber James Hoffman’s V60 method.

I own lots of mugs, which I never use because every morning, I make 20 ounces of coffee in my Chemex and pour all 20 straight into the Rambler.

It’s big enough to hold a morning’s worth of coffee, insulated enough to keep it hot all morning, and sturdy enough to survive the occasional over-tired drop or the daily dinging around in my bag.

I bought two lids for the Rambler, too — one with the magnetic slider for sipping and keeping the coffee warm and another that holds a straw for the iced coffee days.

I even get the joy of occasionally updating the firmware on my coffee mug, a sentence that would have made no sense to anyone just a few years ago