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During Covid: an espresso machine (and quality grinder)

If you're more into coffee and are on more of a budget, the Ninja 12-cup makes an excellent cup of coffee. Combine that with Eight-oclock whole bean Columbian Coffee and any cheap grinder. I prefer this to any coffee-shop coffee.

Don't trust automated coffee machines for filtered coffee. Buy a V60 (ceramic), use your normal kettle and start making poor over coffee.

This way you will get the best out of any coffee, you might need to research a bit and practice somedays until you get the right recipe but after that you will get the same result everytime.

I had a Chemex for years. The Ninja gets very close to it in terms of flavor.

Coffee-shop coffees these days are dark-roasted (i.e. bitter) espresso for adding flavour to an otherwise milky (or your milk alternative) sugary hot or cold concoction.

Filter coffee made from a lightly roasted regional with fruity / tea-like characteristics is a world apart from a watered down Espresso. And really all you need is some filter paper and a pour-over filter holder, if you order your coffee pre-ground.

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