Moka pot is fiddly to grind for and easy to spill and you have to pack the grounds right and control the brew speed and cleanup is more mess; hardly beginner-friendly.
[For me] the juice is well worth the squeeze, so to speak, but it’s a lot to ask of someone starting out.
Palmetto bugs are fine, they don’t bother and if they’re in your house it’s 'cause they got lost. American cockroaches are big enough to be funny to watch and also don’t cause trouble. The smaller German roach is the nasty pest to kill with fire.
Horrifying fecal demons, rising up out of the caverns below
2026, year of the Linux… desktop coffeemaker.
It sounded good but eighteen is kind of a lot of bananas.
Cheap drip machine from a big box store, bag of ground whatever. That’s the cheapest and most cleanable setup.
Next step up in economy and flavor is buy a (again, cheap) blade grinder and switch to buying whole beans - they stay fresh longer and cost a bit less. Then you can get an electric or rangetop kettle and really start branching out to different brews and techniques.
Caveat the first, through all this, research by exploring Coffee YouTube and asking baristas and hanging out with that one coffee snob who actually will likely be entirely willing to help you out.
Caveat the second, beware equipment creep. Your collection of filters, kettles, cups, cones, scales, grinders, thermometers, and weird glassware will tend to expand to overfill whatever shelf you set aside for it. And that’s without getting into espresso at all.