Comments on: Blue Bottle ups the brewed coffee ante: At Last, a $20,000 Cup of Coffee http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2008/01/blue-bottle-siphon-bar/ Rants and Raves on Espresso Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:18:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: TheShot http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2008/01/blue-bottle-siphon-bar/comment-page-1/#comment-3566 TheShot Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:05:38 +0000 http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2008/01/blue-bottle-siphon-bar/#comment-3566 Btw, it's sometimes easy to forget what we write around here. Here's a post from June 2006 that foreshadowed the arrival of the Blue Bottle Cafe siphon bar: http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2006/05/filter-drip-coffee/ Btw, it’s sometimes easy to forget what we write around here. Here’s a post from June 2006 that foreshadowed the arrival of the Blue Bottle Cafe siphon bar:

http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2006/05/filter-drip-coffee/

]]> By: Paul Bostwick http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2008/01/blue-bottle-siphon-bar/comment-page-1/#comment-3499 Paul Bostwick Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:09:24 +0000 http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2008/01/blue-bottle-siphon-bar/#comment-3499 There is a YouTube film of the machine in action. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjH1hzl-Iq0 The ability to brew, at the same time, a variety of, um, well varieties and to do it in a proper vac pot is neat. Plus the look is sharp. But it could be sharper I think. And with a qualified staffer it might be just as well to use gas or electric burners and timers and spend the savings on other stuff (like a bunch of stuff $20K? I suspect they are counting lots of stuff in that cost just to get the number "story worthy"). For those unfamiliar with vac brewing The stirring stuff in the story is mostly hokum, IMHO. A single cup brew with a nice tall funnel like that should, with a simple stir get the job done nicely. Touching the sides? Maybe it gets irritating as the day progresses to hear all that tinkling but otherwise... extra magical hokum that is not needed. Vac pots deserve a renascence in the coffee bar world: this just has some inevitable hype attached. color me on the way to check it out. There is a YouTube film of the machine in action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjH1hzl-Iq0

The ability to brew, at the same time, a variety of, um, well varieties and to do it in a proper vac pot is neat. Plus the look is sharp. But it could be sharper I think. And with a qualified staffer it might be just as well to use gas or electric burners and timers and spend the savings on other stuff (like a bunch of stuff $20K? I suspect they are counting lots of stuff in that cost just to get the number “story worthy”). For those unfamiliar with vac brewing The stirring stuff in the story is mostly hokum, IMHO. A single cup brew with a nice tall funnel like that should, with a simple stir get the job done nicely. Touching the sides? Maybe it gets irritating as the day progresses to hear all that tinkling but otherwise… extra magical hokum that is not needed. Vac pots deserve a renascence in the coffee bar world: this just has some inevitable hype attached.

color me on the way to check it out.

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