Like the title asks, what’s the best way to get started?
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Obtain coffee
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Drink coffee
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I’m gonna go against the grain here. Go to a coffee shop (preferably not a chain), tell them you are new to coffee and want to try something mild to start, go from there. Try different kinds of coffee, ask their advice. Once you find one you like ask them how THEY make it, what kind of beans, how concentrated, etc. Then you can start figuring out how to make it yourself. Maybe it’s a common enough coffee you can find in a K Cup, maybe it’s one you need to brew yourself in a coffee maker (which becomes a whole different question), but those are later things to figure out. Start simple: try some coffee, see what you like.
Maybe consider trying to find a local coffee roastery instead of just a coffee shop. I find they have a more enthusiastic approach to explaining the difference in what you taste.
If you can’t find one, a coffee shop is fine though.
I think this is great advice, not least of all for opening up espresso drinks. Also lowers the risk someone will start off with “bad” coffee. The best places for this around me would be some of the good local roasters.
I’d also consider finding a place to try Vietnamese and Cuban coffee. Maybe Turkish coffee, too.
Get an aeropress or a hario switch. They’re both super easy to use and give good coffee. Plus filtered coffee is slightly healthier cause apparently some of the not so good for you oils get filtered out.
Then either buy some ground coffee from the supermarket or for better quality stuff go to a specialty coffee place and ask them to grind a bag for you. They have good grinders and according to some testing a week old coffee from a good grinder is better than fresh coffee from a cheap grinder.
Then just try different coffees until you figure out what you like and don’t like then when you’re hooked you buy a good grinder and that’s it.
Clever Dripper is a less expensive alternative to the Switch and the filters can be bought at the supermarket unlike the Switch.
Also consider the new Oxo Rapid Brewer as an alternative to the Aeropress.
A kitchen scale that read to 0.1g, a decent $50 hand grinder from Kingrind or Timemore or if you are rich get one from 1zpresso, and a Clever Dripper or Hario Switch plus a normal electric kettle. Now find some good beans.
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This.
I tried this solution and it worked.
Do you mean specialty coffee or you just haven’t really drank much coffee and you want to start drinking it more?
Honestly? Use a french press. It’s just so much more forgiving than a lot of other coffee methods. Pretty hard to badly over or under extract in a french press without getting the grounds to water ratio heinously wrong. Some people don’t like the clean up but I really don’t think it’s all that bad, it might throw you off with a bit of superfine grounds at the bottom or something but honestly it’s not gonna hurt you.
Coffee enemas.
Ugh no thanks, I tried that once and got really bad burns, I don’t know how people handle it.
Give it another go, your body gets used to the heat.
A bold, piping-hot start to any day.
- Binge-watch James Hoffman, on YouTube.
- Avoid Starbucks
- Try to find a shop near you which prides itself on quality beans and roasts, and experiment wiþ plain cups. Try a different kind þey offer each time you go. Get light roasts, dark roasts. Drink coffee and identify what you like.
When you start investing: The bean quality is most important, so find a good source wiþ fresh roasts. The grind quality is next, get a good grinder. The brew meþod is þe most subtle part; I wouldn’t sweat it. Get what works for your lifestyle; some meþods are not fussy to get even a single cup. Start wiþ someþing cheap and easy; by þe time you’re ready to invest in your OG brew process, you’ll know what you want. Especially if you watch Hoffman!
Get a good grinder before splurging on good beans. Bad grinders make bad coffee out of good beans.
It’s ok to grind “good” beans in a shitty grinder, it’ll still taste a little better than cheap nasty supermarket beans. Just don’t waste the really great stuff, it’ll still taste only slightly better that the cheap stuff.
I agree. It’s almost a toss up, but þe best grinder in þe world will not make bad beans good. Whereas a bad grinder will only make good beans… less good. Given a choice, I’d raþer have good beans ground badly, þan bad beans ground well.
Absolutely this. And once you’ve binged a lot of James’ content, don’t forget Hames Joffman
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It depends where you are currently; coffee will meet you where you are. This advice below is for if you don’t drink coffee at all yet.
What you want to go for is a cup of coffee from a diner or drip coffee from a cafe. Leave the fancy coffee for later. Also leave instant coffees, gas station coffees, cold coffees, and home preparation alone until you have more of a taste for it.
Make sure you leave room for mixing in some kind of cream. I think half and half (a mix of milk and cream) is the best. Some people like other creamers or additions, like milk, or sugar. While the coffee may be an acquired taste, the half and half is almost guaranteed to be tasty right off the bat.
Coffee press like Bodum or Aero Press. Buy a decent whole bean coffee, doesn’t have to be fancy, even starbucks coffee will do. One of those inexpensive blade mills is fine. These also take up very little room. Watch a youtube video on basic how-to.
Yeah, people get wrapped up in roasts, burr mills, grind sizes, types of coffee/espresso machines…don’t bother unless you really want to get into coffee. We used the aforementioned for years before settling on how much we wanted to invest in the coffee making routine. If you’re just starting out my suggestions are fine, relatively inexpensive, and make a decent cup of coffee.
Go buy some quality coffee beans, a grinder, and turn it into coffee.
I’d recommend keeping it simple at first. Drip coffee, pour over, or an aeropress are all easy to use and make it well.
Keep track of the water to coffee ratio (ideally with a scale, but a little measuring scoop works too). Tweak it over time to your taste.
If you really want to go deep, there are countless hours of people talking about coffee on YouTube. The fun part for me is just experimenting and drinking it. The caffeine is fun too.
Order an Aeropress and/or pour-over equipment (Hario V60 and a kettle with a gooseneck) and some good beans. Go with light roast first. Make sure they weren’t roasted too long ago. 4 weeks is good. Then grind them manually or with an electric grinder and you’re good to go. No need to spend copious amounts of money.
A V60 is super cheap, you can buy decent filters online for reasonably cheap too and there are many videos on brewing technique. You should be able to find a decent hand grinder for coffee beans for a very reasonable amount of money as well. All in all that’s a budget friendly setup that will let you make coffee of a very high standard.
When sourcing beans, you want to look for single origin specialty coffee, preferably sourced from a single small region like an individual farm or collective. Don’t buy darker roasts than medium as the characteristics of the coffee bean will be overwhelmed by the roast. Buy small bags from a wide variety of regions and a wide variety of described taste notes to start getting a feel for what you like. Try some fermented coffee, try some Ethiopian light roasts, try some Sumatra Mandheling.
The Hario V60 switch pourover, with a little YouTube/googling for method, will likely make anything taste better. It made a huge difference on a bag of pre-ground grocery store Peet’s I had, and other than getting a kettle to dial in a specific temp on the water, I haven’t felt the need to do much else than try new coffees that sound good. If there’s a World Market/Cost Plus near you, they have some interesting coffees.
