Becoming a Coffee Expert Chapter 5: Drip Coffee
- Chelsea Magyar
- Mar 21
- 2 min read
The first wedding present my husband and I opened after we got married was our Black+Decker Drip Coffee Maker. My husband broke his a few weeks before we got married, and we were eager to embark on our life of forever coffee drinking together. ❤️ Drip coffee maker for the win!
Drip is one of my favorite kinds of coffee, and making it in a coffee maker is probably the most common method for brewing coffee in general. The key is getting the water and coffee ground ratios correct. I am still not an expert, so I only know how to get the ratios using an OXO coffee grinder...but I will share what I know and you experiment to learn the rest! 😉
What You Need for Making Drip Coffee
• Coffee beans or grounds
• Coffee grinder if you have whole coffee beans
• Coffee maker!
Instructions
1. Obtain your coffee grounds. If making one serving of coffee, set the OXO grinder to 7 seconds; if making two servings of coffee, set the grinder to 13 seconds; if making 3 cups of coffee, set the grinder to 20 seconds; and if making coffee for a big group, set the grinder to the highest number of seconds and fill the coffee pot water reservoir to the top.
2. If you already have ground coffee, do 2-3 heaping tablespoons of coffee per serving.
3. Line the coffee maker basket with a single coffee filter (if you have an older coffee maker, or just a ratchet one that lets grounds through, you might use two coffee filters for a smoother drip).
4. Add your grounds on top of the filter.
5. Fill the resevoir with the appropriate amount of water. There are 2, 4, 6, 8, etc. cup marks, and you can see the water rise to the various levels. For one serving of coffee, fill the resevoir to the 4 cup line; for two servings of coffee, fill the reservoir to the 6 cup line; for three servings of coffee, fill the reservoir to the 8 cup line; as aforementioned, if making a pot of coffee for a large group, fill the resevoir to the max fill line.
6. Plug the coffee pot in if it isn't already, and hit the on button. Let the drip coffee maker take car of the rest. 😎
7. There is a heating unit on the bottom of the coffee maker that keeps the coffee warm once it's brewed. Once you empty the coffee pot, make sure to push the off button on the coffee maker so that the heating unit turns off. Yay safety!
8. When you are ready to clean the coffee maker, throw away the filter with the coffee grounds (or compost if you are super cool!), rinse out the filter basket and coffee pot with hot water, and every once in a while, clean those with soap and water as well. The easy clean up of this method of making coffee is a big appeal.
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