What are your coffee/tea drinking habits?
Do you prefer coffee, tea, or other beverages? ☕ 🍵
Do you use a coffee maker/machine or something else?

I'm wondering if I should invest in a coffee machine 🤔

TEA all the way(Sometimes choccy milk :> ). Don't really have drinking habits, I just drink tea when I feel like it. Prefer to brew tea with leaves in a kettle, but a teabag in a mug is fine too.

Milk and coffee made with Italian moka in the morning and matcha in the afternoon.

I like having an electric water boiler to make tea anytime.

@rov3rand0m what proportions do you use for milk with moka. I can't get the balance right. If I add too little milk, it feels runny. If I reduce coffee to make space for milk, it becomes more milk than cofffee.

I drink tea, coffee or cola.
I have a mokapot for coffee.
Coffee machine requires space that I don't have and maintenance that I can't afford.

I have a bean gun, it shoots coffee beans to my mouth from the other side of the room

I drink whatever I feel will warm my stone cold heart. But usually coffee in the morning and tea in the evening (if any)

Coffee machines are great, they save you a bit of time and produce tasty results, and you don't even need an expensive one if you're not very particular about your coffee. I personally have no issues with instant coffee, so any coffee machine coffee is a step up anyway xD

Ground coffee in a cup worked well so far. No need for an expensive appliance

@anux I usually put more milk. 3 parts milk 1 part coffe but it is a personal taste. Coffe is pretty strong.
It is what we usually call “caffè latte”.

@rov3rand0m yeah I get the latte part. But it feels like a watery latte. I thought of using cream instead of milk but didn't have heavy cream at hand.
I reduced the milk somewhat to make it thicker but that didn't taste all that great.

https://i.imgur.com/1QInLJh.jpg?1 Tea gang all the way, golden dragon yellow tea for today

@rutee07 I should try one of those sometime. There are so many types of tea

@rov3rand0m It would be less strong with more milk? I've always preferred a classic cappuccino

Yes, I add milk because coffee is too strong for me

Yes.

Extra dark roasted ground coffee, the color of my soul and strong nuff to destroy galaxies. Ye olde regular. Nothing fancy pancy to spoil it. That’s the only way.

I bought a coffee machine couple years ago, a simple one that wasn't expensive at all (you need to buy pre-ground coffee or ground it yourself).
This was the best 150€ I spent, I use it almost every day and it didn't fail me even once :D

i really like mate tea and coffee with milk. coffee makers are practical, but nothing bests a coffee brewed by hand.
at night i go for something without caffeine, chamomile tea mostly.

@darksideofyay you just introduced me to mate tea and I got so excited I've ordered a pack.
Do you use the bombilla and gourd? I didn't feel like spending on them.

@anux ah what you probably ordered is what we call chimarrão. check what kind you've bought. chimarrão is different, very bitter. what i do is a simple infusion 😅

@darksideofyay 😐😟

@darksideofyay ugh fuck. It is indeed chimarrão. What is mate then if not yerba mate?

@anux it's a dark tea, it's kinda sweet

@anux i know a lot of people from the south that love chimarrão 😂 maybe you'll like it. they use the proper equipment, and sit in a circle passing around. it's a very social activity

@darksideofyay yeah I read about that. I was tempted to buy the equipment but didn't want to spend too much before knowing whether I like the tea or not.

Oh and I read about the social activity. Even without covid, I just can't share a straw.

Can you tell me the brand you are using? All my searches for mate tea lead to yerba mate. The Wikipedia page doesn't seem to differentiate either.

@anux the one i buy is this one. it says "roasted mate tea", i think chimarrão would be the same but fresh

@darksideofyay ah!
Makes so much sense now.
Thanks for sharing, yay!

I'll keep my order. When I try it, I'll share if that yay takes a darker turn. :P

Lately often instant coffee in the morning, Aeropress (inverted method with freshly hand-ground organic beans) if I can be bothered. Tea all day, both herbal and real tea. Cup filter for the better (loose) tea, teabags for laziness (and most herbal tea).
Mulled wine in December.