No doubt you’ve heard many times by now that french press coffee is better than standard drip coffee. I will not disagree. I used to drink drip coffee daily and over the past few years I’ve started making coffee with a french press at least a couple times every week. It requires a bit more manual work but… Read More »
Let me guess, you have a bag of old coffee beans that has been cluttering up your kitchen cabinet for a long time now and are wondering if you should throw them out? Am I right? That’s what happened to me a few years back. I ended up researching the shelf life of coffee beans and now I… Read More »
I purchased Trudeau’s Umbria insulated desk mug roughly a month and a half ago. I had been eying it for a long time while surfing Amazon lazily and then I noticed my local Fred Meyer was carrying the mug in it’s insulated mug section. Every time I walked by it I was tempted. Why? Because I don’t like… Read More »
Are you looking to pick up a set of insulated espresso cups or shot glasses for your creations at home? No matter your brewing methods of choice – whether you are making shots of true espresso, cups of stovetop espresso, or small cups of single serve coffee many of the insulated cups on this page would be perfect… Read More »
Do you plan on getting a Keurig Mini sometime soon? It wouldn’t be fun to buy a mug that wouldn’t fit under it. I know which mugs are best for the Keurig mini so let me share them with you. A mug needs to be less than 5-inches high to fit under the machine and the mug should… Read More »
I have officially owned the Bialetti Moka Express 3-Cup stove-top espresso maker for a month since middle of 2013. I bought it in my local Fred Meyer on the 25th of June of that year and in the first month I used it around 30 times. This is obviously not as much as some people but for 30… Read More »
If you’ve just gotten your first french press coffee maker or maybe your dusting off an old gift for the first time in years then you should know that it’s capable of producing some of the best coffee you can find anywhere. So long as you use good coffee and follow basic principals in preparation the resulting coffee… Read More »
Wondering if your coffee pot is taking longer than it should to brew a pot of coffee? Chances are that your coffee maker is just fine. It should take anywhere from 6 to 12 minutes to brew (unless you are using a single cup coffee maker like a Keurig). But anything faster than that and your coffee is… Read More »