If you’re making drip coffee, chances are it’s with a filter in a plastic holder sitting over a generic glass coffee pot. I was. That setup has always delivered good coffee, but I thought it was ugly. Now I have a cute porcelain setup from Melitta. My mom scored one of these at a secondhand store, and I was holding out for my own thrifting luck, but I finally broke down and ordered one from Melitta’s website. I did manage to find a single-serve ceramic filter-holder at Goodwill, but for serving at a dinner party this is the way to go. It looks good going from stove to table, and serves six. I appreciate the well-designed pouring spout that doesn’t drip everywhere, and I like that I’m not running my coffee through any plastic whatsoever.
Porcelain 6 Cup Manual Coffeemaker, $39.99
That’s an awesome snag from a thrift shop. The art of manual drip coffee is a wonderful one.
I myself prefer using a Chemex, a nice glass setup. The best part though about the Chemex are the laboratory grade paper filters you use in the brewer.
The Eva Solo is waaay sexier.
Not that you can’t make wonderful coffee with a manual drip like a Mellita, just have found that the consistency is not so good. Between getting the temp just right and pouring the water in just so, I found that I was not getting consistly good coffee.
What is the Eva Solo?
Eva Solo http://www.evasolo.com/products-cafesolo.html
It’s not hard to make good manual drip coffee, and before I purchased my Chemex, a number of years back, I used an old glass melitta. I found that the straight drip grind (not auto drip) was best. For your water, I would use a saucepan so I could keep an eye on it, removing it from the heat before it reached the boil.