Before it was always so sandy and icky yucky so I would buy a french press. Now, I got the brand of coffee with a course grind so it doesn’t fall through my fine mesh strainer too much and shittify my coffee—side note, ‘enshittify’ feels overwrought; ‘shittify’ would already mean ‘to become shit’—so now I get to sit high on my horse for not needing another unitasker in my itty bitty baby sized kitchen. AND I get to drink good coffee while I do it.
One of my thought experiments is to envision the minimum set of cooking supplies I would need to make all of my repertoire of foods. The only ‘extras’ that feel really essential to me are my pressure cooker and a peeler.
Recently, my whisk broke again and I got a new one that’s just a single piece of metal from the secondhand shop. I really like it a lot. I want to get a little chef hat and a fake moustache so I can really get into my little chefy vibes. The only thing I miss about starting laser hair removal is I cannot have a little rakish moustache every once in a while. I teach little guys so sometimes I would wear a mask for a week and come back with a moustache and whenever I wear a mask my students are like ‘oooooh what they got cookin’ under there?’
What are your kitchen bugboos? What are the ‘frivolous’ things you will defend doing/having?
If you’re worried about breaking something, you could get a cezve/ibrik or a mokapot, either of those are pretty indestructible. But that might not work with your workflow for french press, since these are stovetop
You could get an aeropress or one of these things https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RV3JJBG/
I don’t have a microwave any more (I do but it’s in the basement somewhere.) It can be a little inconvenient but I wouldn’t have space for my ninja foodi if I had it out. I will defend that foodie with all the knives in my kitchen. It does everything, I’m even learning to bake in it.
I also kept breaking mine so I bought a fully metal pour over and use that instead. I highly recommend. You aren’t gonna break it and pour over makes the coffee have a neat texture I enjoy
shout out to my loose leaf tea chads enjoying their nightly cup of Egyptian chamomile while malding coffee drinkers gnash their teeth without a tasty evening sleep-conducive beverage to enjoy
