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I am a big fan of the steel "drip-o-lator"-style coffee brewers. They are a predecessor of electric coffee makers. It is similar to a pour-over, but you can jus
by oftenwrong 8y ago
I am a big fan of the steel "drip-o-lator"-style coffee brewers. They are a predecessor of electric coffee makers. It is similar to a pour-over, but you can just dump the hot water in and walk away. Unfortunately, they are no longer in production, but I have purchased several from eBay. One day I would like to design and build my own version with vacuum-insulated walls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg4ncWWqjno https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg4ncWWqjno
Their layered construction can be described, from top to bottom, as follows:
1. A chamber for hot water. The top is open and has a lid. The bottom of the chamber has a number of very small holes, so that water will slowly drip through the bottom of the chamber.
2. A holder for coffee grounds. There are larger holes in this layer, so that water passes relatively quickly through the grounds during brewing.
3. A chamber to catch the brewed coffee.
- JoeAltmaier 8y agoSounds like the Vietnamese single-serving coffee apparatus! Fun to use too.
- Scown 8y agoBig fan too! They're still around, really popular in Europe at least (Bialetti is probably the best-known brand). Quite hard not to over-extract the coffee, but still my go to when I need an industrial-scale caffeine hit...
- oftenwrong 8y agoThe Bialetti moka pots are different, although they look similar. They are heated on the stove-top, and water moves from the bottom chamber, through the grounds, to the top chamber under pressure. The drip-o-lator style pots are NOT heated on the stove-top (a separate kettle is used), and the water moves from the top chamber, through the grounds, to the bottom chamber via gravity.