I did the routine too, even considered the Moccamaster. The best I had was cold brew, did it for a few years, likewise pour over. Like most methods I tried they just ended up as too much effort for 2 cups 5 or 6 hours apart.

We were given a Kourig, it’s fine, and easy.

I love the French press. but cleaning the thing afterwards isn't fun or worth it for me.

I use a Stanley pour over every morning that I think is for camping

Fun fact: I'm in my early 60's and in my entire life I took one tiny sip of coffee, spit it out, and that was the end of my coffee drinking forevermore.

You are missing out!

I think as a kid what got me hooked on coffee was all the sugar. I recall after church there was always a huge pot of coffee on in some social gathering room, and I remember piles of sugar cubes which I loaded up on along with creamer. Today its straight black.

Every once in awhile I pull out one of these Moka pots and make it on the stove. Once you learn the trick to these, its coffee heaven. And with all the coffee these take, its also like 8 cups of coffee concentrated into a single-dose small cup. Only need one of these. But they are very good.

1 hour ago, FloridaFishinFool said:

You are missing out!

I think as a kid what got me hooked on coffee was all the sugar. I recall after church there was always a huge pot of coffee on in some social gathering room, and I remember piles of sugar cubes which I loaded up on along with creamer. Today its straight black.

Every once in awhile I pull out one of these Moka pots and make it on the stove. Once you learn the trick to these, its coffee heaven. And with all the coffee these take, its also like 8 cups of coffee concentrated into a single-dose small cup. Only need one of these. But they are very good.

At my age I make it a point to avoid sugar whenever I can. I look at food packaging labels to see both the sugar and carb content. If it's not low I avoid it.

As we age our metabolism slows down, and that means I need to make changes to what I eat if I don't want to spend a lot of my last years being in poor health when I could be fishing or spending time with the ones I love. I do still indulge now and then, like apple pie and ice cream over the 4th of July weekend.

Getting old sucks, but everybody's doing it.

I've been playing with the dose. I have it down to about 58 grams of coffee for 1.25L of water.

my new coffee machine is fantastic. it heats the water to just 195-205 and the coffee is delicious. I didnt think it would make that big of a difference, but even my non-pro level coffee taste buds can tell the quality improvement by not over heating my grind.