Coffee Preference: Percolated, Drip, French Press, Instant, etc.?

Why, thank you, J, I'll have the FRENCH PRESS.

With room for milk, please & have a great day.

I almost always drink Folger's Coffee. And have a Percolator for it. I even bring a supply back the the UK with me as it is not available here. I take it with a little milk, no sugar. The only time I do not drink it is if I have coffee when we are out somewhere. Then I will have Cappuccino. If we go to visit someone I take tea rather than suffer instant coffee.

Beulah

I prefer the drip, but will settle for any coffee. I guess I don't know what a French press is. Up until last year I worked with a Conductor who would boil loose coffee grounds in a small soup pan with a vented lid. He placed the pan on top of the locomotive's diesel engine just under the exhaust stacks. So we always had coffee on the train. It turned out different each time, and you had to spit out the grounds all morning. Just one of those things you miss when it's gone.

I use drip for convenience, prefer Perc. Never used a french press myself but coffee from it seem a bit like perc. Always have instant on hand too.

When goofing around in the kitchen or like camping we'd make 'Hobo or Cowboy coffee.' I've seen Hobos do it this way but no Cowboys. By just heating the water to very near boiling with fresh ground coffee already in it. Or by using coffee that comes in tea-like bags. Some put a chicken egg in with it to help take bitterness out if any and can really make a difference. (Too much heat and too fine of a grind tends to make coffee more bitter and releases the bitter tasting oils from it.) Then taking off the fire, putting a cup of cold water around and on top of any still floating grounds ( like to a 12 or 14 cup pot), which stops the near boil process and makes the majority, if not all, of the grounds sink to the bottom of the pan or coffee pot, allow to simmer and calm/settle down several minutes, and then carefully without agitating it pour the coffee off from the grounds. Or filter it. Made to suit your own taste and strength so has to be played with along with type/size of grind used. Best tasting cup of coffee I've ever had. I can make it strong enough to make a spoon stand up in it too if I want. Just about everyone I"ve made this for flipped over it, loving it, after teasing the daylights out of me.

If there is a lot of bitterness in that pot of Joe then eat the boiled egg after using it you can taste the bitterness in it, and can be nasty tasting.

I prefer percolated for company because the fresh-ground coffee aroma and anticipation is so wonderful after a good meal with good homemade dessert. When by myself, however, I usually use the drip 4-cup "Mr Coffee." It's faster.

I prefer Instant as it is a taste I am used to.

Some others such as percolated are too

bitter for me.

Percolated Coffee but I am using drip right now..=)

For the last 23 years drip before that perk.

Percolated coffee to me is the best for a fuller, richer flavor and you can't beat the aroma while perking!

Folgers coffee always, a drip or perk. I can't stand instant coffee.

Makes no difference to me. I drink one cup a day, so instant does the trick.