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@vanden when I still had a coffee machine, I had it on a timer, ao I'd have coffee when I needed it. Of course I then had the problem that late at night, before going to sleep, I could not reliably prepare the machine, so I'd sometimes end up with just ground coffee, and at other times with just hot water.
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@vanden the names mean nothing to me, but with a fully-automatic coffee maker (tat also grinds the beans for you) all you'd need to do is connect it with a timer that provides power to the machine each morning. I think.
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@mk hey look: another missing 'h'!
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@mk I hereby invent a new hashtag (aka astag): #noh
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@vanden Bialetti: o, that's just an ordinary coffee maker with a brand name stuck on. AeroPress: interesting because it's hand-powered. Not what I would buy for my guests ;-)
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@vanden but it's just a percolator. My parents had one, only the model was different - the mechanism is exactly the same. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_Bialetti#Mechanics_of_coffee_percolation That is what I was referring to with my 'brand name stuck on'. The mechanism was used before that model - including putting it on the stove. (I still have original glasses for the coffee maker, but the rest is sadly missing.)
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@vanden so explain how it is (mechanically) different
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@vanden isn't that's the key similarity? - and why my parents' one had (like everyone else's in the fifties at least) a glass in the lid so you could judge the strength
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@vanden in that case the Wikipedia article is wrong: it says it's a percolator. And I always thought that model was a percolator.
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@vanden we all have preferences :) but one should not let a percolator boil.
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@vanden no, the water rises in the tube before it's actually boiling, and it also cools somewhat when percolating down through the grounds
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@luke @vanden I always thought it was a percolator, and one Wikipedia article says it is, wile another says it's different. Anyway, I always liked the coffee from our percolator (black! even when 9 yrs old!), and would love to have one again (preferably one that can use the spare glasses I have for the lid!).Later we got an electric filter drip machine which made good coffee, but the taste was definitely different from that from the percolator.
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To be consistent, that should be #no
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@bobjonkman true, but then that is even more incomprehensible than my !ytpo s (if that's what they are) :)
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@zoowar I sampled coffee from starbucks exactly twice - both times because I needed the caffeine, but I found the coffee foul. I haven't set foot in a starbucks since then. ;-)
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