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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
I know nothing about coffee but I like coffee. Looking for a low effort/low-med cost/decent cup of homemade coffee. Just ballpark, no idea if what I want is actually low-med cost or will produce a decent cup of coffee.
Any suggestions for how to proceed for a newbie? Let's say my budget is $200-250 for a machine but I'm potentially flexible depending on features and such.
1. How should I make my coffee? I'm lazy so I use a Keurig. What could I buy to replace it that will make better tasting single cups that isn't gonna break the bank? Can I get something for a couple hundred? I am not interested in anything that requires effort (french press). Been there, done that. I'm willing to spend money to buy a machine that does it for me. Max effort is maybe cleaning the machine every 6 mos or whatever, if required.
2. How should I buy my coffee? Online seems to be the way from reading this thread. Do I buy beans? That's what fancy people do right? I think I saw a machine where you load the beans and it grinds them for each cup or did I just make that up? I really don't want to be responsible for grinding my own. Remember, lazy is a priority. I'm willing to pay extra for laziness.
3. Related to #1. Is there a machine that will allow me to make regular coffee and espresso and I can just buy different beans? Or should I stick to a moka pot?
Once we've figured out what kind of machine I should use and where to buy, we can move on to talking about types of coffee.
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Nespresso coffee is really good - lots of different variations, you can do espresso pods, they’re all $0.50 a cup, they come in sleeves of ten. Pod goes in the top, press a button, and coffee appears.
There’s a descaling process that you need every couple months and that takes about 20 minutes, but it’s nothing too bad.
You can order online or in store at chinook - can also mail your used pods back - they give you a Canada post bag, and you just drop it in the mailbox to recycle them.
The machine, as I mentioned above, I’ve had build issues with, but Amazon/Nespresso have been good about it so far - they’ve sent two new machines in 10 months.
There are many Nespresso machines that aren’t the Vertuo Next and I’d recommend looking at an older, more dependable machine.
But the coffee is real good.