I obtained a Yama 40oz. Coffee siphon. This thing makes the best coffee.
The water in the lower vessel/carafe is heated. Then then upper vessel with filter and coffee in it is joined to the lower vessel to create a seal. The pressure build above the water in the lower vessel which pushes the water up the tube into the upper vessel. The coffee is brewed in the upper vessel for a minute or two then the heat is removed. The air/water vapor in the lower vessel cools and shrinks. This creates a partial vacuum. The weight of the atmosphere above the upper vessel pushes the coffee back down through the filter into the lower vessel. It makes a very smooth, strong pot of coffee with no sediment in the coffee.
The iPad stopped the video a little short. I put the coffee in my big Thermos to keep it hot.
Note: this arrangement works even if the upper vessel is lower than the lower vessel. Several homemade designs work this way. It will siphon up into the lower vessel.
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Narration please, Sir. Ala Martha Stewart or Julia Child.
I remember having one of those, but we just set it all up before it went on the stove... no boiling first. I remember it working well.
quick search on Amazon = $56.27 ... ouch!
but compared to a common coffee maker not so bad. 🙂
My last fancy automatic coffeemaker cost over $100 and lasted a year and a half when it died. Plus it took up a lot of space.
Started using an enamel French drip coffee pot in the 70s. Then in the late 80s added a little Gaggia expresso/cappuccino machine. VG machine. Then in the 90s started doing cold drip concentrate which produced a VG coffee. Finally got tired of all the prep and clean up and reheating that is bad for coffee, so in 2000 went to a Capresso 8 cup electric with thermal glass carafe plus a small bean grinder and it was ok but repeated elec. surges fried it after 7 or so years. Bean grinder still works. Then went to a Mr. Coffee with a stainless thermal carafe and that died about 3 weeks ago after 7 or so years. Electronics again but it had some other issues that I lived with.
So I looked around the web and bought a Zojirushi coffee maker on Amazon. Japanese company that makes commercial rice cookers and VG thermal containers. It cost me $70 on Amazon which was about $10 over what I wanted to spend and I noticed that they have now gone up in price to $80 something (Bunns start at $100).
The Zojirushi is 1200w so the water gets hot quick. The stainless carafe is top grade and keeps coffee hot for 7 hours.
So I can grind beans in 10 seconds or less, one minute to prepare the Zojirushi and in a few minutes have a good brew. Very simple and easy clean up in seconds. I kept the old Mr Coffee carafe to store ice coffee in the fridge. ( Jamaican Coffee - 8 oz of coffee, two fingers Mt.Gay Rum, 1 finger of Tia Maria)
I like your little system there but to much work and clean up for me.
Dave Karoly, post: 332101, member: 94 wrote: It makes a very smooth, strong pot of coffee with no sediment in the coffee.
I liked the crunchy coffee, maybe i'm the only one who does.
R.J. Schneider, post: 332137, member: 409 wrote: I liked the crunchy coffee, maybe i'm the only one who does.
I don't mind the sediment either but this think just makes the most acid free coffee I have had, I don't know why it does. And it is strong too.
Holy Cow, post: 332104, member: 50 wrote: Narration please, Sir. Ala Martha Stewart or Julia Child.
A narrated video for HC:
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Not narrated but a champion Siphonista practices his craft:
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Robert Hill,
Do you use chickory in your coffee. It depends on my mood/taste as to whether I like it or not. At Caf̩ DuMonde I like it though.
Andy
Luzianne Coffee & Chickory ROCKS!! Load up that little adapter thingie and run it through my Keurig! Good stuff right there. (Byt remember, I spent MANY years drinking coffee that came in LARGE silver cans that listed an expiration date around the early 1950"s. - The Army does not throw away any food stuffs that are not trying to escape undre its own power and ingenuity.)
Robert Hill, post: 332129, member: 378 wrote: I like your little system there but to much work and clean up for me.
I don't drink coffee at all - easy clean up:-)
I'd never heard of siphoning coffee - only gasoline.:-P
geonerd, post: 332218, member: 8268 wrote: I don't drink coffee at all - easy clean up:-)
Swmbo also doesn't drink coffee . She drinks hot tea on the morning and then in the later in the day switches to decaffeinated unsweetened ice tea blends that she makes by the gallon.
But she says that coffee brewing is one of her favorite aromas but just doesn't care for the taste.
Andy Bruner, post: 332169, member: 1123 wrote: Robert Hill,
Do you use chickory in your coffee. It depends on my mood/taste as to whether I like it or not. At Caf̩ DuMonde I like it though.
Andy
Not that often nowadays . I drink French/Dark roast coffee preferably from Central America more specifically Guatemala.
There is a trick or two to making good cafe au lait with chicory coffee. I learned a long long time ago when I worked in a French Quarter restaurant.
