Pour over will taste just like the k cup or better if you do it right, but there’s a learning curve.

French press is not as filtered usually and has a bolder taste and usually has more sediment in it.

Both are great just depends how you like your coffee.

I recommend aeropress as it’s a hybrid of both and really hard to mess up. Makes delicious coffee and super easy to clean.

I’m a bit of a coffee nerd. Pour over will def be the better cup. But it is much more difficult to achieve a perfect pour-over cup than a French press. Firstly you are going to want fresh beans for pour over, but you will also need a good grinder ($100+). This is hugely important and I didn’t believe it was such a big deal when I first started. Basically any grinder can do a decent fine grind but only a few good ones can do a chunky corse grind that is good for pour over. If you want to go this route I recommend the Chemex carafes and their paper filters.

I'd suggest checking out any sort of "Clever Dripper" style of product if you're wanting to give pour over or french press a go. I love the idea of french press, but REALLY can't stand the sediment. I use my french press a couple times a year and always think I'll be fine with the sediment... and I never am.

Pour over is my personal favorite taste wise, but definitely takes a bit more finesse and effort. More so than I'm sometimes willing to put in at 5:30 in the morning when my alarm goes off.

Imo anything like the Clever Dripper is a perfect middle ground. It's an immersion brew, BUT it's paper filtered so you don't have to deal with the sediment/silt of a french press. It also takes less effort than a pour over. I tend to do what James Hoffman recommends, and it pretty much always works out well.

I'd say the only real downside to it is that you can't make quite as much as you can in a larger french press, but pour overs also tend to have that "issue" depending on what you're using. If I'm making coffee for more than just myself, though, I tend to use my drip machine.

I've been down this road. I grew up drinking percolated coffee, then when I moved out on my own I bought a drip pot. Replaced it with a Keurig and bought a Keurig for work. Got tired of how expensive K cups were then moved back to drip. Messed around with a lot of different types of beans and grinders and such, got really into that. Then I discovered French press and tried probably 25 brands of coffee (all preground now, I don't have the time to grind myself anymore and deal w/ making French press). I've settled on Primos brand medium ground and that's what I use now.

French press is not hard, it's just a bit of work and requires some attention.

Think it depends on how much coffee youre making, I prefer French press but typically make coffee for two people