Classier Coffee

Published on Monday, December 8, 2008, by Roxanne Webber / Edit Post

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

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  • 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.

  • Eva Solo http://www.evasolo.com/products-cafesolo.html

  • What is the Eva Solo?

  • 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.

  • The Eva Solo is waaay sexier.

  • 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.