Can you brew good coffee with cheap machines? 

You're literally the only video I've found that has managed to succinctly and accurately explain the very basic bloody question "what makes coffee taste good or bad". It's important to me, because I don't drink coffee, but I would like to make nice coffee for my guests.

Bro. You should get a career as an audio book reader. I'd listen to that all day.

This is a very good video done in a calm informative manner that is easy to watch. I've followed the advice of this and other channels about improving your coffee with a cheap machine. Lessons learned have improved my Mr Coffee/Folgers by leaps and bounds so those who don't want it to be their main hobby and who haven't developed those taste desires to the level of an expert the simple things taught: temperature, amounts used, how the water drains through the filter and not letting the coffee cook for hours can really help coffee enjoyment. Coffee is no longer bitter so I don't have to gag down really bad coffee just for a caffiene boost so a bit of research has helped me avoid spending hundreds of dollars and spending hundreds of hours learning to be a coffee expert. And all it takes is a 5 minute video. Thanks Peter Tardigrade.

I appreciate the production value of this video down to the matching glasses and pop filter

I wish you could read a book to me, what a relaxing voice. I might just watch this video before I go to bed, comforting. Thankyou.

Omg, I think you've done it! I've been buying a ton of coffee makers over the years as well trying to get the flavor to come out right. I always noticed that at my mom's house the coffee comes out better tasting and they never clean their machine, but they have a bigger machine than I do. I've used bottled water and filtered water and cleaned my 5 cup coffee maker but with only minor success of making it come out tasting better. I've even had a water test done on my house and resorted to cleaning out my coffee maker with each use lol. I tried going to making the coffee from scratch with grinding beans and heating up water etc. Also with minor success and decided it was not worth the extra work lol. After watching this, come to find out the coffee maker was not only not completely covering all the coffee grinds but It's also not reaching high enough temps. so now I'm back to heating water manually and it's tasting great now. Thanks so much. I get to get rid of the coffee maker graveyard. I figured it was the plastic I was tasting lol. Was about to spend hundreds on something with a metal tank.

Came here from Reddit! I really loved this video. I have a full set up at home, but I don't really like putting people out when I travel. Especially if there isn't a nice coffee shop near by. These are very welcome tips!

I love the tone and humor in this video ! I must subscribe !

Clear, concise, to the point. Great going.

I've been making my coffee with a moka pot or pouring shots with a De'longhi espresso machine. To change things up a bit, I ordered an old school Hamilton Beach mini-drip coffee maker to keep in my bedroom lol!! This video is very helpful & I will follow your steps for hot & fresh daily batches of caffeine goodness!!

I recently found our old extra cheap drip coffee maker which I intend to use in my garage. This video gave me some very useful suggestions and interesting information as I hope to make the best possible coffee with it. I am used to good espresso so this should be fun. Thanks.

That intro is gold thanks for the video 🤘😂

Petition to make his voice a computer voice

Hope you make more like this for different machines!

I once accidentally left my coffee maker lid open causing the water to re-circulate. After the coffee brewed, it was the best coffee that machine made. I’ve been doing it ever since. I’ll def try the stir method. Thanks! ☕️

Great info! I am always trying to explain to my customers about "better coffee". Looking forward to new content!

FINALLY I CAN MAKE A COFFEE I ENJOY!!! I’ve took your advice and I offer many, MANY thanks to you 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻.. you cracked the code 😮

Damn this is one of those rare perfect informational videos great job

Thanks to this video, my coffee turns out better after trying out some of of these trick (the cleaning, swinging the shower head, and the stirring) maybe if i try all the tricks here, it can be much better but even those 3 tricks works out for me. so thank you! such a big help.

Thanks for sharing! This helped me immensely. Your voice is so calming. A nice book narrated by you and a cup of coffee…..AH!!!❤️

Well done, what a proper explanation that was.

Your voice is so relaxing! I need to pay attention and sort my coffee problems.

I can’t wait to try this! Thanks for the great guide

So far so good. Easy to use. Easy to set up. So many modes.

Well done!!! Loved it and saved it! What else do you have in your playlist???💪🔥

just the kind of video i was looking for, props

Excellent. To the point. Very helpful. Thanks!

That's really helpful, thank you.

Well now my coffee problems make sense! 🤔What a great video and it was done very professionally.

I loved this. Thank you. Simple sweet and well said

Wow........great analysis. Sincerely hope a firm from the coffee machine making industry watches this video to manufacture a perfect maker suitable for the mass.

Many thanks for your information. Well explained with reason behind.

Great tips, thanks much!

Made it simple stupid easy. Thanks man.

Such good info and suggestions....

Very detailed information ℹ️

Came here for the first time and I am your 1000th subscriber xD

Finally! Thanks for the vid!!

Thank you for the great tips. I cleaned my machine as you instructed. Too bad I started brewing my coffee right before you mentioned the water temp tip 💀lol. I got a 175 F temp! I will heat my water first next time!

I needed these tips from a coffee connoisseur 👏☕️

I would also suggest changing the filter for a stainless steel one or paper, my cheap machine came with a plastic filter

I want to tell you I just made the best cup of coffee better than Starbucks by following your steps I heated my water first also! Thank you 😊 May you be blessed with many blessings🙏🏻Jesus come into my heart ❤️ Holy Spirit fill me 💦Father thank you for saving me🙏🏻 Amen

Very informative video because I just ordered a old school machine.

Good stuff my man!

3:47 Love the humor! And yet very informative

Good and helpful research

Great content! I would love to see a video on espresso machine tips or French press.

Excellent video.

Excellent! Thank you.

Great video. Very interesting. I of course imagine you do have a good coffee maker you use each morning to avoid this process? Or Aeropress

I'm thinking perfect coffee will make perfect voice too . Thanks for being honest coffee lover.

I just cleaned my Mr. Coffee coffee maker with four cups of vinegar. Turned it off after 2 1/2 cups had ran through. Waited a half hour ran the other 1 1/2 cups. Then recirculated the hot vinegar like he's talking about doing with the coffee. And omg. My coffee pot's cleaner than when I got it I think. Guess I'll make some coffee in the morning. The trick is a Burr grinder from what I have learned so far.

Your voice is so relaxing!

Such a badass, well educated coffee guy!

I wake up at 4am, I don't have time or patience to do all of this. But Thank you for the information

Come for the food hacks, stayed for them and that adorable lil water bear.

Amazing ! I believe my sour coffee was due to not being mixed properly. I see the kitchen smith has the bad drip 💧 system. Pre-mixing solve this thank you so much thanks 🙏🏽

The last coffee maker I bought stopped working after about 6 months, I got tired of buying new machines every few months, so CHEMEX is my current maker with no continuing electrical problems.

Quality video am glad

Excellent!

I may be four years late, but great tips and thank you for the informative and helpful video! ☕

Is there significant water loss in the recirculation process? Should a little water be added after the first run-through?

Good video. Needs more B-roll

I am your 300th subscriber

My first drip maker cost; 8.$ it lasyed for about 10 years. I was completly happy with it. When It died and I went to replace it; the cost went up to 14. Still worth it.

I used distilled water in my machine so it doesn't leave mineral deposits. I'm sure it changes the flavor of the coffee, but I'm used to it. The recirculating tip is one I'm going to try.

put it in warming mode and use it as a pour over coffee maker with a separate kettle

Perfect voice. Soothing! Try to make guided sleep meditation video :) Thanks for the tips tho ;)

can you use mesh cloth instead of paper?

this video definitely helped me lol why does coffee have to be complicated

Simple nice video

I came here because my brewed coffee at home has always tasted like it came from a sewer. It was always bitter, sour, too strong and just gross -no matter what I did. I had given up hope of a good at home brew. Then I realized through watching this-1. I’m always broke so my machine isn’t very good (I didn’t think it mattered) and 2. Of course a $15 piece of plastic won’t brew like a machine made of metal. It does the pathetic squirt even though it does have a rain shower style head, it comes out in spurts. SO! Determined to stop going broke by giving baristas all my money, I looked up on RU-vid thinking it was a ratio of coffee to water problem! Saw several videos that were trying to make me do *MATH* 🧮 and you might as well tell me to put roller-skates on a chicken. Every where I looked it was some ratio of grams/ounces/spoons-- I’m not measuring or adding or multiplying when I haven’t EVEN HAD MY DANG COFFEE! Then my aching head (from lack of caffeine) stumbled on this BLESSING of a video. It’s not my machine, it’s MY DUMB ASS!!! 🦍 And how the hell did he know how much I weighed?!! Besides that! I was about to take out a loan against a future child to buy a Nespresso machine (because EASY AND NO MATH). I still might, BUT!, this has saved me in the meantime! I already always clean my pot and the basket in the dishwasher because screw hand cleaning. I always use bottled water because for being broke I’m boujie that way. BUT OF COURSE there are FUNDAMENTAL things wrong with a $15 machine!!! I did the 3rd step and PRE BREWED MY WATER!!!! And was like uhhh this seems crazy when I’m in desperate need of caffeine. BUT I’m in desperate need to enjoy the mechanism by which I get that sweet kick in my ass too! So I patiently waited less than 5 min which is hard for me. THEN I POURED THAT HOT BOTTLED WATER RIGHT BACK IN!!! Next?!!! I took a chance on my death trap of a coffeemaker NOT boiling me alive, and I opened up that very angry lid despite how much spitting and hissing 🐍 it was giving me! Guess what?? It only burned a little. Like bacon 🥓 grease. And I suffer for my bacon, why not for the sake of good coffee? So I STIRRED THE 💩 OUT OF IT! And guess what, he’s right!!! It was all stuck together with only some grounds getting wet and most in a big dry clump underneath it!!! So I risked the health of the skin of my hand and reached in with a spoon and stirred it, and I could tell it needed a LOT of stirring!!! I still didn’t think this pot of coffee held hope, UNTIL, I heard the sweet sizzle of the whole thing stopping its death rattle of a hissing fit. I didn’t do the last step with metal cuz I’m a girl and I don’t have random pieces of metal lying around. I poured a little into my cup... and WHAT THE WHAT?!!! It didn’t suck!!! And then I added half n half (as is my way of things) and it was smooth perfection, not bitter or sour!!! I added just a DASH of my fav sugar free vanilla and BOOM!!! I have the best cuppa ☕️ I’ve EVER MADE EVER AT HOME!!! Want to know something more crazy??? I am a former barista!!! But they have machines. And fancy things. I have $15 from Walmart and a prayer 🙏. Thank you for coming to my TedTalks. ❤️☕️❤️☕️❤️☕️❤️☕️❤️☕️❤️☕️❤️

I would love freshly ground coffee. but it is very expensive compared to Maxwell House. Please, anyone, do you have a suggestion?

Yea, i like waiting till the pot is done brewing to grab a cup. Or close to being done and grab like a quarter cup lol. I try to not offset the coffee and do that thing to it.

I always do a hot water pour over in my auto dripper as I turn it on. That makes a huge difference. Than I stir the grounds after pot is half way through. No hot water in reservoir necessary if you do it that way 😏

I don't drink coffee but I watched this so I could make better coffee for my wife. Subscribed to help get you to 1000 :)

Water temperature, grind size, NO PLASTIC and time on the bean. These are the important parameters. Thanks for addressing most of these. Plastic bodied coffee makers are still a concern. Glass and steel are better. See, for example Chemex. Kruve has a range of sifters to control the grind size, better than your grinder can achieve, at the price of some waste.

I had a big long comment about the coffee rabbit hole I think we all fell down at one point or another to end up on this video. I just wanted to say I tried the stirring, after checking and finding a massive dry island. That alone made the coffee 1000x better. Do you have a grinder that you'd recommend for grinding your own fresh beans? Thanks again for the info! :D

What is water recirculation?

this is my kind of thinking

I can tell your smart as hell what a god

My trick is adding a pinch of chicory. It’s actually a very old trick my grandmother taught it to me

I'm surprised those peices of metal haven't made your pot break.

I heated my water first, the coffee maker brewed so slow, I thought I had ruined it. They are designed to start with room temp water. You could ruin your coffee maker by doing so.

Good ideas here ... we only brew with a percolator style coffee maker. Any tips specific to those?

You can clean the entire machine with water? Is the heating element gonna be mad if it gets water? Do cheap makers even allow you to clean it like that?

My personal experience is that if you are going with a basic 10 or 12 cup machine, stick with the 900 watt models. The 700 watt models just do not get hot enough, and the resulting coffee is so so.

What ratio?

1:40 Recirculate water; why have I never thought of that?!

thank you bro. luckily my coffee machine already has one of those special showerheads even though its cheap. so i just needed to pour the water back once and then brew.

I happen to be that new gorrila 😂 I've been using the tips you've mentioned like making coffee in a high security lab. The thing is I've developed this taste of having coffee in all milk and no water. How to extract coffee in milk with no water as solvent? I can't use my drip machine for the same!

I got 2 coffee makers gift from friends And dayyyuum I'm not even coffee fan😂

1:45 200 F is 93.3 C, not 71 C.

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My take away from this was just use a blessed kettle and have pour over. It'd end up being less faff

I do two rounds of vinegar and two rounds of water. After that I make me a cup of coffee.

A lot of college students would seriously benefit from seeing this vid

Bonavita coffee maker $99.00 it works with out being a pain.

4-7 minutes? I have a 12 cup brewer that takes 14 minutes to fully brew.

My coffee maker makes coffee taste bitter or too strong and my moms is really good and I can’t figure out why. I have a mr coffee 5 cup I’ve adjusted everything from the amount of water and coffee to the filters I’d use and tried the same coffee I use in her machine and hers taste better. I’m angry and I have to take it back because it’s gross and I like my coffee to be sweet. I’ve changed the amount of water and it taste too watered down, I tried putting more coffee and it’s gross. I changed the water temps and kind like faucet vs spring, cold vs room temp. Everything is gross.