Re: [at-l] Clear Skies

["Ern & Anneke Grover" <ern@ticktock.bizhosting.com>]

Pop in at any Gloria Jean's (if you don't mind spending a lot of money) or
at a kitchen specialty shop at the mall.  What you're looking for is a cast
metal pot.  It is hexagonal in shape, two main pieces.  The water goes in
the bottom compartment, the coffee goes into a filter chamber and drops to
the top rim of the bottom compartment, then the empty serving receptacle
screws onto the base.

As the water heats, it begins to boil/steam and is forced up through the
coffee chamber, as you'd experience with a cappuccino maker.  Having passed
through the coffee, the brew travels up a tube through a deflector and ends
up accumulating in the top serving compartment.  It's not Perc coffee
because it doesn't recycle.  Hence, it isn't burned like perc.

The coffee tastes like cappuccino because of the boil/steam extraction
method of brewing.

Mine weighs in at 7 ounces, and they normally come in a 1.5 cup and a 2.5
cup model.  Europeans use smaller cups, you see, but their brew is much
stronger.  I found mine at Gloria Jean's on sale last Christmas for $17.95,
though they typically price around $35 for starters.

Ern

----- Original Message -----
From: Kenneth R. Knight <krk@home.msen.com>
To: Ern & Anneke Grover <ern@ticktock.bizhosting.com>; AT-L
<at-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 2:52 AM
Subject: Re: [at-l] Clear Skies


> OK, I'm curious. Just what sort of contraption are you using to make your
> coffee? You said, "I'd already put water in the bottom compartment and
> coffee in the filter chamber the night before...." and so I'm wondering
> what this means. What is the "filter chamber" and how does the water pass
> through the grounds? I assume you pack out the grounds with you, correct?
>
> I'd like to carry coffee with me more than I have, but the hassle has
> prevented it. I do take hot chocolate mix (disolves nicely so it isn't a
> concern to pack out) or cider mix (same reason - even better). But,
> sometimes you just can't beat a good cup of coffee even though it is  a
> bit of a dierrhetic (sp?) and could, I suppose if really careless, lead
> to de-hydration.
>
>   ** Ken **
>
>
> **  Kenneth Knight    Web Design, IT Consultant, Software Engineer  **
> **        krk@home.msen.com           http://home.msen.com/~krk     **
>
>
>

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