Many of you commenters are missing the point. It's not about time, convenience, price, etc. It's about trying new ways of making something and thus finding new flavour profiles and nuances in the coffee. Aside from that, experimenting with new techniques is just simply part of keeping your passion for brewing alive. Maybe you don't really care much about what you drink and how it's made; but a lot of us others do.
See what makes this great is the way he takes so much care in it without being pompous or pretending that this is "the best way" to make coffee. Sometimes part of the enjoyment is doing it the more difficult way, then you're more invested in the result.
My mom used to work in a coffee shop since I was very young, so I've drank all kinds of coffee with different flavors. Seeing how the Syphon coffee is made and how different it is, is like experiencing coffee in a whole different level. The process and how it looks is so beautiful.
I like to do a little bit finer ground than for Hario V60 and 1:30 min contact time. Kenyan and Ethiopian coffees come out beautifully in the syphon Would have been nice to see better close up of grounds to see the finess/coarseness of it but it looked like a bit coarser that what I use.
It depends on how well you clean it. At the shop I worked at, we would use them 3-5 times, but that was more for practicality: after the 3rd time rinsing it out, it was easier to just replace the filter. You can also get metal mesh or paper filters. They give a different body to the cup, though.
Thank you I would not have been able to figure out why that coffee looked so spectacular without your observation. The muted colors in production do indeed highlight the subject matter!
*8am:* Customer - _"1 coffee please!"_ *8am:* Syphonista - _"Coming right up!"_ *10am:* Syphonista - _"Now we let it saturate, as you can see from the prestiguous coloring it gives, it lets you know it's almost done"_ *1pm:* _"....... and here is your coffee!"_
This makes me want to truly enter the world of coffee. It's also worth noting that while the method used to make the coffee is extraordinary, I love what the director of this clip did. The fact that he used selective coloring to make the coffee stand out just adds so much extra to this clip.
Someone gave me a siphon as a gift. People can knock on this, but I when I brew my usual coffee with it, it tastes different and is smoother. I don't use it often because it's a lot of work, but it makes better tasting coffee.
Just ordered one of these to add to my coffee brewing collection (Chemex, Hario V60, Bialetti Moka). Can't wait to try it out, this video was quite useful and informative. For the record, it's a Yama 5-cup Siphon pot.
It's no more trouble and less time than a moka pot or french press, and you can buy a coffee siphon on amazon for 50 bucks. I don't know why the commenters here are so offended by this coffee brewing method.
Because someone left this link on a reddit thread to make a point about hipsters being pretentious so now people are going to aggressively try and make fun of a coffee machine. Sure, the guy in the video could very well be a pretentious hipster, but I also have to imagine that the coffee does taste better if people are willing to go thru such an arduous process to make a cup of coffee.
Yeah I imagine it doesn't actually take much longer to make than a drip coffee pot actually. But with a drip machine you set it and forget it, so you can do other stuff, whereas this one you have to stay by the equipment and work with it.
I met Chris Owens in New York City. This video allowed me to run a mental voice print analysis and confirm that it was him sitting next to me at Joe Pro Shop.
The main difference is that you're using a felt or paper filter instead of a metal mesh. Even the most expensive professional grinders cannot grind coffee without some variation in grind size. Using a laser diffraction machine, we can tell that most coffee put through an EK43 on the coarsest setting still has nearly 4% of the volume of the ground coffee consisting of particles in the range of 20-50 microns. These particles will not be filtered through a metal mesh but they will be filtered through a felt or paper filter. The term he uses to describe syphon coffee as a "crisp clean cup" is in reference to what a lot of people refer to as the "mouthfeel" of the coffee. In a traditional french press, your metal filter will allow a lot of those 20-50 micron particles to escape through and into your cup of coffee. Some people find this enjoyable while others do not. The act of using a paper or felt filter allows you to filter out *all* the coffee, even those microscopic particles. This results in non-colloidal cup of coffee that will oftentimes not linger on your palette and will have a quick finish. It's simply a different way to enjoy your coffee.
@@jaiguru9538 I agree, its BS how he talks about it. But I still like my siphon, just for the fun process, it feels like im at a chem lab, and I love how it looks. But yes, this guy is a total douche about it.
Dimitry Lyashuk said this takes too long time and that he loves an espresso in under a minute from a machine called Saeco Intuita which is a super automatic espresso machine that grinds,tamps and brews the coffee for you. I've ever had a decent coffee from those machines.
There should be an adapter piece that allows you to use the stovetop flame as a heat source for that thing because regular stovetop syphons are fat and goofy lookin'. Maybe one day...
I personally hating baristas who make things seem more complex or harder than it really is. This is a very easy brewing method. Of course it can be more or less perfected, but this guy is adding so much FLUFF to make it seem more complex. Things like the part of the chain for bubbles to form and it not exploding (W T F?! Yeah, right dude.). He's commenting on boiling water (wow, that sure is complex). "You dont wanna seal it too hard" - literally pretty much not possible. You would press it so hard then that you would crush the brewer and throw boiling water everywhere lol. Dont worry about a too-hard-seal! :P Other than that, nice video and an even nicer brewing method. I will take issue with his crazy short brewing time tho, that coffee looks (and likely is) way too bland for my taste.
what makes me sad is that all the people dying of hunger in Syria can never make this in their bunkers...send them all ur stupid coffee lab and the money to get those tattoo sleeves, that will make the hem and the world a better place
