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Want to make the best coffee at home? Here’s how to make coffee 6 ways: pour over, French press, cold brew, espresso and more!

How to make coffee

Over here at A Couple Cooks, we are unashamedly coffee obsessed. It’s not just about caffeine. It’s that cozy feeling when you’re holding a warm, fragrant cup and embrace the promise of a new day. Since research seems to indicate that drinking coffee is A-OK (as long as you’re not overdoing it), we’re passionate about sharing the love of a great cup of joe. Here’s how to make coffee at home: 6 different ways!

And now…how to make coffee!

The journey toward great coffee

I first got into coffee while studying in Spain. In my university building in Madrid, there was a little cafe that served café con leche. The flavor was intense, and perfect mixed with the creamy milk and sugar it was the best I’d ever tasted.

Café con leche was my gateway to trying espresso, that astringent dark bitter liquid in a tiny cup. On our honeymoon to Rome and the Amalfi Coast, Alex and I drank espresso with breakfast and at a little Roman cafes with a pastry. We brought back our new European coffee habit to the US, mainly drinking dark roast coffee like the Italian espresso that we loved.

After a few years, our coffee tastes changed again when we met our neighbors, Sarah and Andy, who run a local coffee roastery Blue Mind Roasting. They taught us about the nuanced flavor of craft medium roast and light roast coffee. At first, light roast tasted oddly floral and almost like tea! But after starting to drink their light and medium roast coffees, we began to appreciate the unique flavors of single origin beans. We’ve been making this coffee in our Chemex every morning ever since (though I’ve since switched to preferring a morning Americano and a mid-morning cold brew!).

After years of cultivating a passion for coffee brewing, we’ve now perfected our six favorite methods. We hope you enjoy these coffee resources and that they help you in your journey. Let us know in the comments below!

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How to Make Coffee (Hot or Cold!)

Iced coffee
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Here are all the best methods for how to make coffee: hot or cold! 

  • Author: Sonja Overhiser
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 0 minutes
  • Total Time: 10 minutes
  • Yield: Varies
  • Category: Drink
  • Method: Coffee
  • Cuisine: Coffee
  • Diet: Vegan

Ingredients

  • Coffee beans
  • Water

Instructions

  1. Pourover coffee: Go to Perfect Pour Over Coffee
  2. French press: Go to French Press Coffee
  3. Cold brew: Go to Cold Brew Coffee (or French Press Cold Brew).
  4. Iced coffee: Go to Iced Coffee (or Chemex Iced Coffee or French Press Iced Coffee).
  5. Espresso: Go to How to Make Espresso (or French Press Espresso). 
  6. Moka pot: Go to Moka Pot Coffee
  7. Aeropress: Go to Aeropress Coffee

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Alex & Sonja

Hi! We’re Alex & Sonja Overhiser, authors of the acclaimed cookbooks A Couple Cooks and Pretty Simple Cooking—and a real life couple who cooks together. We founded the A Couple Cooks website in 2010 to share seasonal recipes and the joy of home cooking. Now, we’ve got over 3,000 well-tested recipes, including Mediterranean diet, vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, smoothies, cocktails, and more!

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8 Comments

  1. Michele Lynn Osoria says:

    I just came across your Chemex video from 2019. I just got one and can’t wait to use it. What grinder and scale do you use?

  2. Kurt lacefield says:

    Have you ever tried vacuum coffee Belgium style coffee, I was wondering why it was not included in your column, I am researching the best ways and it’s a device that sucks the coffee up to the other pot and filters down to original pot, let me know if you have any information on this please, thank you, Kurt….

    1. Alex Overhiser says:

      We haven’t gotten to that yet but we hope to get some experience with it!

  3. ZOE says:

    THANKS COFFEE YOU ARE THE BEST

  4. Chris Powell says:

    Oh yes finally gonna use my coffee grinder again! French press, espresso and cold brew! Love to try all of these!

  5. Laura Will says:

    There are variety of recipe about coffee, I am glad to find all in one here! You deserve a 5 star! Thanks you!

  6. Titus Hauer says:

    Wow, never knew there were so many ways to do my coffee lol. Definitely going to give those a shot and will report back!