I have always used Italian
stove top expresso makers. I just replaced my nearly 30 year old aluminum 12 cup (small cups) with a SS 10 cup that I bought when I was in Italy. They are very quick and produce excellent coffee. You can vary the amount of ground coffee to get anywhere between dishwater to coffee that you need to slice with a knife. Coffee beans store better than ground coffee and so I used to have a little hand coffee grinder that worked very well. (For the short stuff I do these days I just grind the beans at home.)
Jeff