Watch This BEFORE Buying a Siphon Brewer!

I am looking forward to getting one❤

This seems like something that would be perfect for an autistic chemist or someone wanting to impress company.

I guess the main benefit is that its kind of old school "automation". You turn on the heat and it goes up and you let the grounds steep for a minute and you turn off the heat and it comes down as filtered coffee. And you can take the top off and keep the burner running to keep the coffee warm.

Cafiza will help to wash the bottom flask well

Honestly even you want to filtered immersion brew, a much easier solution would be a Hario switch or Aeropress.

Damn if only there was an easy and cheap way to make good coffee. 🤷

If you don't like the cloth filter and you can't find the paper filters, V60 filters do the trick as well

80 bucks!? I found one on temu for $22.50 ☕

Lol, this guy making mountains out of molehills. “I don’t like going outside, cuz the sun can be so bright sometimes. I mean it looks cool, but there are just so many pitfalls” - this guy.

Now I understand my grandmother’s old stove, top coffee, percolator

Love the Video Hate Your atittude… - Da una Hueva horrible escucharte - jajajajaja pero es un gran video. ¡Gracias!

On one hand, I’m really wanting a very hands-on brewing method that isn’t a pour over…on the other hand, I get annoyed at cleaning a French Press, let alone this -.-

Don’t ask me to subscribe right to beginning let’s just watch this video and see what happens here❤

We need to bye

The bottom thing is a boiling flask, it's used for boiling liquids. The top part is a beaker, it used for mixing.

Your mannerisms rock…. Also, use bong cleaner to clean?

I used to have this, big mistake! It's annoying. Now I'm back to my v60 and moka pot

Me encanto tu reseña, lo vi con mi hija. Aprendimos bastante, gracias y muy bueno el video!! Imagínate vamos a hacer café con café colombiano :))) Saludos desde Ecuador.

Great video, and you did everything so well and with such care! Allow me to alleviate some of the "cons." You can get a vintage Cory Silex stainless steel setup if you like. You don't get the visual marvel of watching the coffee come back down the tube, but you don't have to worry about breaking it. With this setup, you can use a modern steel (or steel and ceramic) filter, such as the ones for the Yama and Hario pots. You don't need to have a cloth filter that needs maintenance and soaking and so forth! These filters unscrew for cleaning, so they're much easier. You also don't need to wait until the water boils to put the top chamber on! You're waiting for air pressure to escape—and the filter doesn't prevent that. If you put the coffee and everything together before you heat the water, you get a longer brew time. Yes, your way probably does keep the fine silt away from the filter, but this is less of an issue if you aren't using the cloth.

I wake up, put water in the bottom (leaving some air space) and coffee in the top, then turn on the stove. Once the water boils up to the top, I stir. When the bubbles stop, I turn off the stove. Then I can go take a shower or whatever. After four minutes or so, the coffee flows back down into the tube and my day begins! Easy peasy, alligator!

I have always used a metal filter with my syphon brewer (my Hario came with one, but you can also buy them separately) specifically because I didn't want to deal with the hassle of a cloth filter. I know some people don't like metal filters, but it tastes fine to me.

I would never use a coffee syphon for daily driving - at work, I usually drink terrible k-cup coffee because it's just easy - but the syphon is a nice experience on the occasional weekend when I want a really good cup of coffee.

This is a really dumb question im expecting a nope or no to.....but i gotta ask ....can you make hot chocolate or rather hot cocoa with this style of coffee maker?

Many years ago I was given an unused Silex wide-mouth siphon brewer, that I've been using regularly for about 30 years. Just be mindful. That way it won't break. It came with a cloth filter, which both compromises flavor and sometimes jams up, so I replaced it with a Cory glass rod filter. Much better and also so easy to clean. It's a stove top brewer with no stand and no exotic heating contraption. Very simple. I do heat the water in a kettle beforehand. With an electric burner, which doesn't cool down quickly like gas, you have to be a bit careful so as to avoid a volcanic-like eruption. I use a metal heat diffuser to avoid this problem and also for the reason that the pot is about 80 years old. Brewing time is 4 minutes. You can get your hand into the wide mouth version so it's a cinch to clean. And, the coffee tastes great every time. PS: No way I would ever purchase this Hario siphon brewer.

Thanks for explaining process so clearly!

So basically it works like the Bialetti stove top coffee pot except the Bialetti (and similar brands)is mad of metal, which doesn't break easily.

I've had a Siphon Coffee maker for a few years and was never satisfied with the coffee.. well lets say I was using it wrong.. duh! Watched your video and brewed a wicked cuo of coffee.. ordered a bugane burner already.. cheers. 🤘

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Vodka has only 40%, alcohol burner need much more alcohol %

Reminds me of how we made coffee over the campfire with a blue enamel percolation pot - works via siphon too but constantly cycles the water through the coffee.

This is absolutely ridiculous. I need one.

vodka is like 40-45% ethanol right? 90 proof or something.... that's 45%

way too much water to fuel any kind of flame. I think even 70% rubbing alcohol is slightly too weak - you need the 91%-99% isopropyl.

or I guess everclear which is 95% ethanol (190 proof). liquor seems way too expensive to burn like that though.

alcohol lamps are kinda weird sometimes too - they can be unpredictable and occasionally just catch the whole exterior of the lamp on fire for no clear reason... or maybe that's just my experience because I’ve always made them myself and I might not know what I’m doing.

Totally worth it. Great tasting coffee every morning. Don’t mind the extra effort.

I use a siphon brewer from the 1930s and I love it. The carafe is actually pretty easy to clean - fill it halfway with warm soapy water, take a paper towel and stick it in, hold it in one hand and the other over the opening - shake it baby - pour content out and rinse with clean water.

OK! Good pun. I'm watching the whole video!

Thanks you convinced me not to buy this and save 100 bucks

So basically, just "Koffie Toebroek" (Kopi Tubruk) but with fancy equipment + filter.

knock - after 2 years, lol...

- clear explanation, of course the definition of siphon is a little altered in this context - siphon usually involves moving materials under gravitational potential action from a top vessel to a lower one - up and over the edge of the upper vessel (with liquids exhibiting low surface tension, usually require a continuously filled "leak free" path through (throughout the "sub atmospheric" pressure length at least).

(Some liquids self siphon - high surface tension - and some solids can siphon too (chains) - air pressure plays no part in these materials.)

The vacuum infuser uses modified vapour pressure to lift the liquid and then the cooling vapour created a pressure differential causing / allowing the liquid to return. The vapour to atmospheric pressure differential causes a faster and more complete return of the liquid to the lower chamber resulting in less water remaining in the coffee than gravitational potential fighting surface tension achieves in a drip extraction method.

Not really a siphon, but I think we all accept the common use of the term...

In 2024 I recently picked one up (not a historical coffee geek, but totally in with chemistry-lab style glassware) - as it was cheaper to purchase an economical version than travel vast distances to experience the "experience" - NB, enough of a geek to think it would be fun - a steel filter has given me less filter bypass. (I have also used a pre-ground espresso coffee I happened to have - and the fines in the cup afterwards are very low - similar to a fine pour-over - with drier resulting grounds)..

Experimenting is fun - those who don't like experimenting probably don't cook much either.

Cona Coffee Makers have an even nicer design and use a kind of glass stopper instead of the filter cloth and spring. Everything that touches the coffee is glass and will not change the taste. Oils won't get filtered out by the cloth and it is easier to clean.

If I’m not mistaken, the beads on the bottom of the filter spring are supposed to be used a nucleation points to help the water boil, so should be in when trying to heat.

for cleaning the bottom pot, you could use lemon + salt + hot water and swish it around by hand, that's what we did in a restaurant I worked in

Well explained, thanks. Left a like.

How 2 clean entire coffee maker, peroxide, h20, baking soda and some dry rice for contact. Shake well and rise, sanitized 😆 After brewing dash with cayenne pepper 🌶 A whole nutha level. 😜😜

Not even doing it right

terrible video, putting the coffee in after it boiled is basically doing an instant coffee.

I didn’t know Paul Giamatti likes coffee

You have blue eyes 😳

I loved my syphon brewer and miss it. That one looks like it belongs in a science lab. Mine looked more refined and classy. I don't remember it was that complicated. I used to add my coffee in the top chamber and the water eventually filled it, let it sit a couple of minutes, then turned it off. No cons.

Thanks

If you own a siphon, what are your thoughts on the brewer? Did we miss anything important about this brewer? Let us know!