Tag Archives: vacpot

A silly vacpot brew

By James Hoffmann | Published: March 22, 2009

I make no apologies for coveting the fancy halogen heaters people are using for their syphon bars around the world.  Frustratingly they all seem to be weird voltages – 110v – and thus useless to me.
Anette had an old 1000W photography lamp around – I’ve used it in the past for high speed espresso droplet [...]

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The Marco Über Boiler

By James Hoffmann | Published: February 11, 2009

This will probably end up being quite a long post, and sorry for being a bit cryptic on here the other day.  I want to explain the history of this little project, and give credit where it is due.
This morning I got up early to fly over to Dublin, to the CatEx show there.  Apart [...]

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Making coffee with snow

By James Hoffmann | Published: February 2, 2009

Once again pulled from Mark Prince’s twitter1 , I loved this idea and with a few inches outside it seemed inevitable the inner child would take over…

Footnotes:Yes, yes – I know we are all bored to tears with hearing about Twitter, but sadly we are stuck with it so we might as well embrace it [...]

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