The Morning Coffee

If you’ve poked around on my main web site, you know that I’m a coffee fanatic. Well, maybe not a fanatic, but I like my espresso, my Americano’s (espresso + hot water for an American-style cup of coffee), my drip coffee and my vacuum pot coffee. Oh, yeah, I roast my own coffee, too.

I make my daily pot of brewed coffee in my Cuisinart Brew Central DCC-1200. This is a retro-look stainless and black model drip machine. Coffee had a noticeably better flavor out of this pot, as it heated the water to the proper temperature.

Cuisinart DCC-1200 12-Cup Brew Central Coffeemaker, Black and Stainless Steel (Kitchen) Manufacturer:Cuisinart Released:

I combined the BrewCentral with a SwissGold� filter. The flavor is much more concentrated than when I tried using either bleached or unbleached paper filters.

SwissGold Coffee Filter, KF-4 Universal Cone (Kitchen) Manufacturer:Frieling Released:

My mornings usually start with an eye-opening Americano from my Rancilio Miss Silvia espresso machine. While I’m drinking it, I fix my daily pot of drip coffee in the BrewCentral.

Why the Americano? It’s strong, it’s intense, and it’s fast!