On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 5:50 PM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17/02/2011 3:02 PM, frank theriault wrote: > >> >> Yesterday on the way home I bought paper cones and used the old >> Melitta manual drip. Makes surprisingly good coffee, but not as good >> as the Bodum. Oh well. > > Two Melitta scoops each of Ethiopian Harrar and Colombian, grind just prior > to use. > Pour boiling water through the coffee (I use a Melitta #2) into a 16 oz > thermos cup. > I think it's quite good.
Sounds complicated to me, but I'm sure it tastes great. Lately I've been using a French roast from a local bulk drygoods store. Good in the Bodum, but in the Melitta drip I prefer a medium roast. >> When company comes and I need to make more than a cup at a time, I'll >> have to pull out the even-older 1940s Silex vacuum coffee maker. >> Unlike the French press, if ~that~ breaks, there's no replacing it... >> >> ;-) >> > > Yeah, I had one of those while I was living in Calgary. Unfortunately, we > had a house fire one night and it got broken by the fire persons. I still > miss that thing. It made excellent coffee. It does make good coffee, but the last few times (I only pull it out about once a year, just for fun) I've made horrible coffee with it. Way too weak. I'm thinking it needs larger amounts of coffee than other makers. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
