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With this Bodum brewer, you can ditch paper filters and enjoy fresh, delicious coffee the old-fashioned way. Fitted with a permanent stainless steel filter, the brewer funnels all of the rich flavors of your favorite coffee grounds into the cup, without changing out a new filter each time—and without pesky grounds seeping through Read More
Agree with most of the technical criticisms, tough to pour, filter is too porous for proper extraction. Wanted to add that I got the 51 oz. version, and it came with a much cheaper looking plastic collar instead of the cork.
MattstarThe $14.99 model Target is selling is the 17oz version. The 17oz version here is $12.99 (-$5 at checkout). The base price in this drop is for the 32oz.
This product is pretty terrible. The design for pouring in and out is problematic at best. The quality of the extraction is inconsistent at best.
There are several pour over sets of better quality. Chemex, v60, kalita, have versions from expensive to very accessible pricing that produce something much better.
Source: I'm a professional coffee roaster with 15 years experience who owns this as well as about 20 other methods.
Rubbish. I bought the one with a rubber collar from Marshall's for $9.99 after the Chemex met an untimely death in the sink, in a million pieces.
But it's just a pour over glass, how bad could it be? The metal filter is awful, half the point of the paper filter is to help 'catch' the oil, but even using a paper Chemex filter that wasn't my biggest gripe.
Pouring brewed coffee out of the vessel is a terrible experience. Anyone who has poured coffee out of a Chemex knows that the spout is about as perfect as it comes, a nice stream far away from the glass and it almost never drips. This thing is terrible, worse, the collar is so narrow that to get even the bottom 1/3 of the coffee out requires a nearly total inverted position. After a week of trying to use this to brew coffee I came to the conclusion it was a far better vase.
kstokleyYou are right. Those are some pretty deceiving descriptions. The 4 cups (32oz) at Target is selling for $14.99 but only brews 17oz. I guess the 4 cup measurement is for the whole unit but you're technically only brewing half of the container.
So, I'm not much of a coffee drinker. Which means I'm not much of a coffee maker either. But my girlfriend is - and so I'm looking at things I get as a gift.
But believe me when I say I have no idea wtf I'm looking at. "Slow Pour-Over Coffee Maker" ? There's 3 pictures of the actual product and they're all the same, just different zooms. Do I get the fat-bottomed jug? Does it come with the weird brown wrap with a leather-looking strap? Do I get the plastic lid and metal mesh looking thing? I wouldn't know, the weird brown wrap is covering it.
Right, read the description... oh, cork-wrapped? oh, stainless steel filter? but how big is the filter? is it double-lined? why does the one variation of the picture look like there's another filter inside the filter? or is the borosilicate-glass carafe just naturally patterned like that? can I remove the cork wrap? It must make some damn fine coffee cause it just looks like someone went through all the trouble of brewing coffee on this thing only to get distracted, drink all the coffee, and forget to take any more pictures.
Don't even get me started on the "feel free to add" additional coffee grinder. There's more pictures of that thing than the actual featured drop. At least I know how to disassemble the thing should I feel free to add it. People who are just quick and casually browsing need pictures. Ain't_nobody_got_time_fo_dat.gif your descriptions. They're nice, but the hook should be the pictures. You want people to go, hey, this looks interesting! and then they look at rest of the pictures, then they read the text. If you have the best product but have no pictures, I ain't plonkin down no money even if it's just $20.
KyrosDon't get this.
If you want advice, go with one of the traditional routes. V60 uses filters, but it's also incredible. Also it's not that expensive. I wouldn't go Chemex unless you know she wants it, or Aeropress, but for me, as someone who roasts his own coffee to make sure I'm getting not just good, but great coffee, as cheap as I can, all I ever want is V60 or French Press. Bodum makes a great press, just get that if you don't want to mess with a filter.
And by the way, anything that pretends to replace a paper filter is sacrificing something. Paper filters, you throw them away/into compost. They are 0 hassle, unless you somehow don't realize until you're out, to order more. Talk about responsibility!
Stainless filters normally won't last very long, and rarely are they cost effective. Plus, you do have to clean it. Rinsing is fine every 10-20 brews, but you should be cleaning that often.