On 2011-02-17 14:02 , frank theriault wrote:
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...
well, there is a thriving market in such things, and there are new
models out -- even Bodum makes them
<http://www.amazon.com/Bodum-Santos-Stovetop-Vacuum-34-Ounce/dp/B00005NCX5>
personally, i use a cheap plastic Krups boiler-type espresso machine
that i found in an alley and rehabilitated -- someone had filled the
water chamber with tea leaves; i do have a burr grinder ($6 from
Goodwill), and i grind a few days-worth at a time, sometimes with a
cardamom seed thrown in; i keep my unground beans in the freezer (but
warm them before grinding); some wouldn't call the effluent from this
process espresso, but if you stop before it starts spitting steam
through the grind, i think it's pretty good; i drink it straight or with
a little whole grain chocolate rice milk (which doesn't curdle)
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