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bunnies wrote

Have you considered getting pourover equipment with higher capacity? French press coffee is always going to be inferior to well made pourover imho, and while moka tastes amazing as a small shot I have my doubts about diluting it.

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hollyhoppet wrote

despite the way i wrote that, i'm more concerned about paper waste than i am about capacity

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twovests wrote

They make reusable metal filters (albeit they may take awhile to "even out" ecologically). The metal will also keep the oils and the 'siltiness' like a french press (which you might or might not want)

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hollyhoppet wrote

i can't stand the siltiness but i think in the long run i'm going to get cloth filters (there's some highly rated ones out there) and a pourover thingy that'll let me make 2-3 cups

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emma wrote

can't speak to moka pots, but french presses tend to make the coffee quite bitter or "impure" for lack of a better way to describe it. i make decaf in mine sometimes when i'm too lazy to clean the machine, and i'm satisfied with the result but it's not amazing by any stretch of the imagination.

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hollyhoppet wrote

yeah that's been my impression with french press as well. guess i'm gonna dive into the moka pot world

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twovests wrote (edited )

French presses are good for both tea and coffee, and IMO are much easier to use.

If you get a moka pot, make sure to get the deceptively-named '6-cup one', which will make about 3 "espresso shots" worth (and maybe one cup in volume.) They make strong flavored coffee that you'll want to dilute to make a "standard" cup.

Moka pots are definitely a lot trickier to use, I've used one maybe 100 times and have yet to get the hang of it.

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emma wrote

There needs to be an industry-wide reckoning among coffee equipment manufacturers with the unrealistically low volume that constitutes a "cup"

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twovests wrote

I think it's meant to measure how many cups of espresso they produce. I think we can give Bialetti a pass. Did they even use imperial measurements in Italy 3000 years ago when they invented the Moka pot?

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toasthaste wrote

I have a french press and I like it but I always kinda wished I'd gotten a moka pot instead (but I have never used one so idk if I would actually have liked it better) so that's a data point for ya