Moka pot, certainly. Easy to manage, cheap (compared to a espresso machine), and does great coffee if done right.

Here’s a good tutorial that served me well: https://youtu.be/BfDLoIvb0w4

Order an Aeropress and/or pour-over equipment (Hario V60 and a kettle with a gooseneck) and some good beans. Go with light roast first. Make sure they weren’t roasted too long ago. 4 weeks is good. Then grind them manually or with an electric grinder and you’re good to go. No need to spend copious amounts of money.

Mokka pot, French press are really friendly ways. Honestly the first time I had French press I used the same normal coffee we put in the drip everyday and the different was so noticeable it sent me down the rabbit hole. Then ya get the mokka pot or pour over, the coffee gets stronger, the methods more complex, finally you buy the Gaggia evo Pro, a normcore tamp, some screens some puro, a grinder, a lil spray bottle to pre moisten and you’re hooked

After starting on a thrift store Keurig with a refillable cup one that thankfully came with a tablespoon measure with a bag clip

I really got started semi-seriously on a french press, but I really started to pay attention to brew time when I accidentally bought a bag of medium roast.

Dark roasts are very forgiving as far as brew time, but medium roasts are a lot more finicky to brew without over extracting and getting astringent coffee.

From there, I’ve accumulated an Aeropress, a cucumella, and a moka pot, and they all brew different tastes and textures with the same bag.

1. Obtain coffee

2. Drink coffee

I’m gonna go against the grain here. Go to a coffee shop (preferably not a chain), tell them you are new to coffee and want to try something mild to start, go from there. Try different kinds of coffee, ask their advice. Once you find one you like ask them how THEY make it, what kind of beans, how concentrated, etc. Then you can start figuring out how to make it yourself. Maybe it’s a common enough coffee you can find in a K Cup, maybe it’s one you need to brew yourself in a coffee maker (which becomes a whole different question), but those are later things to figure out. Start simple: try some coffee, see what you like.

A kitchen scale that read to 0.1g, a decent $50 hand grinder from Kingrind or Timemore or if you are rich get one from 1zpresso, and a Clever Dripper or Hario Switch plus a normal electric kettle. Now find some good beans.

Get an aeropress or a hario switch. They’re both super easy to use and give good coffee. Plus filtered coffee is slightly healthier cause apparently some of the not so good for you oils get filtered out.

Then either buy some ground coffee from the supermarket or for better quality stuff go to a specialty coffee place and ask them to grind a bag for you. They have good grinders and according to some testing a week old coffee from a good grinder is better than fresh coffee from a cheap grinder.

Then just try different coffees until you figure out what you like and don’t like then when you’re hooked you buy a good grinder and that’s it.

Go buy some quality coffee beans, a grinder, and turn it into coffee.

I’d recommend keeping it simple at first. Drip coffee, pour over, or an aeropress are all easy to use and make it well.

Keep track of the water to coffee ratio (ideally with a scale, but a little measuring scoop works too). Tweak it over time to your taste.

If you really want to go deep, there are countless hours of people talking about coffee on YouTube. The fun part for me is just experimenting and drinking it. The caffeine is fun too.

Coffee press like Bodum or Aero Press. Buy a decent whole bean coffee, doesn’t have to be fancy, even starbucks coffee will do. One of those inexpensive blade mills is fine. These also take up very little room. Watch a youtube video on basic how-to.

Yeah, people get wrapped up in roasts, burr mills, grind sizes, types of coffee/espresso machines…don’t bother unless you really want to get into coffee. We used the aforementioned for years before settling on how much we wanted to invest in the coffee making routine. If you’re just starting out my suggestions are fine, relatively inexpensive, and make a decent cup of coffee.

by drinking it

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Do you mean specialty coffee or you just haven’t really drank much coffee and you want to start drinking it more?

Honestly? Use a french press. It’s just so much more forgiving than a lot of other coffee methods. Pretty hard to badly over or under extract in a french press without getting the grounds to water ratio heinously wrong. Some people don’t like the clean up but I really don’t think it’s all that bad, it might throw you off with a bit of superfine grounds at the bottom or something but honestly it’s not gonna hurt you.

It depends where you are currently; coffee will meet you where you are. This advice below is for if you don’t drink coffee at all yet.

What you want to go for is a cup of coffee from a diner or drip coffee from a cafe. Leave the fancy coffee for later. Also leave instant coffees, gas station coffees, cold coffees, and home preparation alone until you have more of a taste for it.

Make sure you leave room for mixing in some kind of cream. I think half and half (a mix of milk and cream) is the best. Some people like other creamers or additions, like milk, or sugar. While the coffee may be an acquired taste, the half and half is almost guaranteed to be tasty right off the bat.

Coffee enemas.