Bodum Santos Vacuum Coffee Maker

Don't drink much coffee - especially not at home. But I would consider getting this, I like things that maintain the taste of the beverage to the fullest possible degree. This is generally towards my beer and tea drinking habits however.

Awesome! This is the same principle as the siphon method that most Japanese coffee is brewed. It's such a common practice there that at the recent World Barista Championships held in Tokyo, there was a siphon only competition!

What is tricky about the vac pot method is that there are more variables to consider when brewing the coffee - temperature, brew time, dosage and grind quality. Instead of just dumping in hot water like the French press, the maker has to figure out their parameters, so it's harder to control a good brew. The cool thing about this is that there's no need for a halogen burner base and it also makes more than two cup so you can entertain the masses, unlike other dainty Japanese models.

I'm a bit of a coffee lover and when I tried siphon coffee in Taiwan I found it to be clean, complex, extremely aromatic and tasted incredible, so I'd definitely want to try the Bodum equivalent out!

The only way to make real coffee! i took me a while to get the right parameters for making coffee this way but boy it was great when I knew how. I have had three of these over the years [one in the UK some forty years ago made by Cona !] all of which suffered from mishaps! Unfortunately they are not obtainable in Australia - the last one I saw some years ago was on offer for the ridiculous price of $180 - a lot cheaper in all other countries even allowing for the exchange rate. I have seen them advertised in the US but postal handlers being what they are I am not game to pay for something so delicate. Electrical so-called replacements [with plastic instead of glass no less!] are nowhere near as attractive and I doubt, taste! Ah well, back to the dripper!