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Chemex is just an expensive, proprietary coffee pot.
by nukeop 8y ago
Chemex is just an expensive, proprietary coffee pot.
- kawfey 8y agoYes, but it looks nice on a shelf in the background of an Instagram photo. Plain old conical drippers have exactly the same effect on the coffee, but they don't make it look like you're performing a science experiment.
- ubermonkey 8y agoChemex pots are NOT expensive. I don't know where you got that idea. The classic (which is to say, fancier, with the wooden collar) 8-cup model is $37 on Amazon right now. At our house, going to Chemex meant shifting from genuinely expensive drip machines that were hard or impossible to properly clean, and which therefore got replaced every few years. It's a drastically LESS expensive method than most.
- blackguardx 8y agoExpense is relative. I use a $2 plastic cone that does pretty much the same thing. It was the cheapest option in the store and I was a poor grad student when I bought it ten years ago.
- ubermonkey 8y agoWhen someone says "x is more expensive than y", yeah, it's relative. When someone says "x is expensive", it's asserting that the item is a costly example of its genre. Given that drip coffee machines run from about $40 to hundreds and hundreds, it still seems disingenuous to say that Chemex is expensive. Can you do pourover cheaper? Sure. But the good news is that in this area of coffeemaking, even the higher-end, beautiful option (the OG Chemex is literally in design museums) is pretty damn cheap.
- spurcell93 8y agoIMO, $37 for what amounts to a flanged glass jar is ludicrous for many people. Even if it ends up cheaper in the long run. For what it's worth, I live with a couple roommates and they are on their third chemex, since glass breaks easily. Maybe our brand is bad. Maybe our coordination is worse.
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- ubermonkey 8y agoSure, if you're clumsy, then maybe a nice glass coffee device isn't for you. I've had mine for > 10 years.
- gambiting 8y agoAt my house everyone always drank coffee that wasn't going through any machine whatsoever. You just put a teaspoon of ground coffee in a cup and poured water over it, drinking it after the grounds settled down. I don't know, I feel like $37 for a glass container that still needs filters is asking for quite a lot. A nice french press is like $10.
- falcolas 8y agoFWIW, drip and french press produce different tasting coffees. For example, using the same coffee, I like french press coffee and hate chemex-style drip coffee. The latter brings out too much bitterness for my tastes.
- ghostbrainalpha 8y agoI worked at Starbucks for a few years and was always grossed out by the idea of "Instant Coffee", (dumping grounds in hot water). But after doing a week long hiking trip I got pretty addicted to the simplicity and punch of the instant coffee method. I even premix my Carnation instant coffee with a little cocoa powder and some sugar, so I can just do 1 spoon and I have an instant fun drink that tastes a little fancy.
- darkstar999 8y agoThe filters are expensive.
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- nukeop 8y agoUnintentional "let them eat cake" style comedy. $37 isn't expensive only for people drinking designer coffee out of avocados.
- dfxm12 8y agoWhat does "proprietary" refer to with regards to a pour over coffee maker? Do you think you can only use chemex filters with the chemex carafe? This isn't true. You can also use the chemex filters with other pour over makers.