Have you ever pondered on how a siphon coffee maker works? Or just "wondered" at it's theatre?
We have a full and complete how to on this unique and scientific brewing process.
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https://coffeegeek.com/guides/howtos/siphon-coffee-maker-how-to/
Late night thought:
Coffee people who trash siphon coffee don't know how to brew with a siphon coffee maker.
Siphon coffee is very much an art, but it is also every bit as consistent as pour over is, if you nail down your "recipe" and follow it religiously. To do so, you have to be just as practiced and attentive as any demanding brewing method.
Those who trash it just don't get it. And probably aren't worth listening to on the subject. 😎
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The Bodum eSantos is a very interesting beast. They sold the electric Santos in various forms (including Apple iMac colours!) for about 7 years. But for just 2 of those years, they also did a mini model, and only in two colours (clear, smoke grey). I have both.
Bodum used an angled interior base to determine automatically when to shut the water heater off. Two temperature probes under the hot pad, one higher up, one lower down. As water boiled off, and the water level lowered, the upper probe would register over 105C, and shut the heater off, completing the brew.
Lots of plastic too, but BPA free, apparently.
Early last year, I also bought a KitchenAid Electric Siphon Coffee Maker to review and test on the website. KitchenAid doesn't work with content publishers at all, but I thought it would be an interesting subject, so we bought one.
3 months into the review, and close to publication, PHOQUING Kitchenaid discontinued it.
Bastards.
Here's one of the siphon coffee makers I bought in the last year: a new old stock, vintage 1970s Cona Model D unit. I posted it to Mastodon last fall.
Attached: 4 images I managed to score a 1970s-80s vintage, New in Box (#NiB) Cona siphon coffee maker recently. Says "Made in West Germany" on it. I already own a Model C (bought from Sweet Marias in USA in 1999), now I have a Model "D" (larger version). Fellow I bought it from says he bought it in early 1980s, but was stored away in the attic. Never used. Box, everything is mint. Veddy happy! #siphoncoffee #vacpot #vacuumbrewer #antique #conasiphon #conavacpot
I also own over 100 siphon coffee makers. It might be closer to 125 these days, as I bought another 10 or so in the last year.
One of my more rare ones is a Hario "O'share" tulip model from the 1970s. Still New Old Stock (I never brewed with it).
The rarest of all that I own is most of a 1919 vintage Silex. It's in rough shape, but is a copper finish model, with a crack in the siphon tube.
Here's the Hario.
I've done a ton of historical research into siphon coffee makers over the past decade, and have documented most of the history of siphons in the USA.
For instance, here's the original patent for the first siphon coffee maker designed and sold in the USA: the original Silex Siphon patent from 1914; this is pre Corning Pyrex, which came a year later.
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Silex coffee siphon.
Vogue, in 1917. Also the world's first consumer Pyrex product. I love this ad's vibe.
The first "professional" product review we ever posted on CoffeeGeek: it was our "launch" review, back on Dec 18, 2001. Screenshot is below.
For our 20th anniversary, we re-did the review entirely for the best siphon coffee maker ever made: the Hario Nouveau.
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Link ⬇️
https://www.coffeegeek.com/reviews/hario-nouveau-siphon-coffee-quickshot-review/
Some siphon news...
A new siphon design coming from a company out of Portugal very soon. They modelled their design on the 1916-1922 version of the original Silex siphon coffee maker, one of the first consumer products ever made with pyrex glass.
Here's a very exclusive look at the prototype.
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