Meet the coffee obsessives

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Meet the Coffee Obsessives Who Go to Any Length—and Pay Any Price—for a Great Cup of Joe

From $30,000 bespoke espresso machines to training with baristas, they're looking for java heaven.

https://robbreport.com/food-drink/dining/coffee-obsessed-men-culture-1236010082/

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[Mik]

Love great coffee, but not that much time or resources to devote to it.

[ShiroKuro]

What @Mik said. If someone else is making it, I’m happy to have the fanciest and most elaborate kinds.

But on a daily basis, simple and quick rules the day.

My theory is that coffee, pizza, panettone… they are all in the category of things that “even when they’re bad, they’re still pretty good.”

[AdagioM]

I’m just not that fussy. As long as Mr. AM brews it and delivers it to my nightstand before I wake up, I’m happy!

[RealPlayer]

Didn’t read the whole thing in depth. I like great coffee and do pour-overs here at home.

But I appear to be out of step with the current coffee movement. I like a dark-ish roast, and the coffee snobs would accuse me of having a leaden palate. I made a trip to a Devoción (mentioned in the article) coffeehouse in NYC and they don’t even offer a dark roast. Nor do other boutique places. Somehow, the fancy light-roast single estate darlings lack body and taste too acidic to me.

Well, I have found a couple of nice coffees that I order consistently. I know there are others out there but it’s Russian Roulette buying random bags and hoping you’ll like them.

[AndyD]

Kettle and cafetiere are all is needed as long as you buy decent beans. We get ours from TKMax

[Jodi]

We have gotten a little more obsessive than we used to be - we hand grind and use a variety of presses. I now don’t like the taste of the coffee the way we used to do it (ground in a machine and then put in a drip machine)

[AndyD]

Just remembered my sister gave us some coffee syrups for christmas. The vanilla and white chocolate look tempting.

[ShiroKuro]

My favorite ever coffee that I ever had anywhere ever was a cold brew at a fancy place that does some super complicated 24 hour process to do a true cold brew.... It was delicious but there's no way I could recreate that at home or do anything remotely like it on a regular basis.