Coffee

Kinggrinder P0 and a Clever.

I used to bring an Aeropress with me, with Airgrind. Nowadays I'm bringing a Flair Pro with 1ZPresso JMax with my trusty Acaia Lunar with beans. More time away from the computer the better.

Biggest problem was water temperature. They'd have a microwave, and one of those fancy taps that gives chilled or instant-coffee-hot water, but not hot enough for brewing, and no electric kettle. Can't put the gooseneck kettle in the microwave. I had a plastic gravy separator thing to microwave the water in for a while. Better to just use something less dependent on pouring technique, like aeropress or clever.

I used to use my aeropress in the office and would bring grounds with me. The coffee maker had a hot water dispenser so that was handy.

Now I work from home.

Clever Dripper, a scale, a kettle, and a Knock Feldgrind 2 (I've had this grinder for years) but any of the reasonably priced decent grinders from Kingrind, Timemore, or 1zpresso would be fine.

I have tried a few different options for brewing at the office:

French Press: Pros - few user inputs and reasonably good/consistent cups of coffee. Cons - major pain to clean up and I don't like the fines and micro grounds in the bottom of the cup.

Moka Pot (with a hot plate): Pros: not too many user inputs and fairly easy clean up. Cons - too hard to consistently get a good cup of coffee.

Regular pour over (Melita and V60): Pros -easy clean up and fairly easy to get repeatable good cups of coffee. Cons - too many user inputs. Must take time to get the pours right.

The winner: Clever Dripper! The lowest user inputs, easy clean up, clean cup of coffee with no fines or micro grounds in cup, very repeatable and consistent good cups of coffee.