Recently, my love affair with coffee has expanded into territories greater than it tastes good and keeps me awake. It all started with the Chemex; I have always been interested in the slow food movement, and the Chemex seemed like a great way to start. Plus, it’s all food + science + art… How can you go wrong?

Oh, that’s right– it needs filters! That little detail has kept me at bay (for now), because above all, I like to keep it real and by “real” I mean I am too forking lazy to go hunting around for a special series of filters.

Then I found a French press at Goodwill for a few bucks and have been testing the waters with that. It’s not the fanciest by any means (and I even cracked the lid my first time using it. Oops!), but it gets the jyurb dun, makes better tasting coffee than I’ve ever made at home, and is easy to store.