Great Coffee

This is the Bodum Santos coffee machine in action.

There's three parts missing in the video: The heating phase, the brewing phase in the middle (that's when the sun got back) and some bubble time at the end.

The reflection guy, that's me btw.
Hope to make a landscape version soon.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• bodum
• coffee
• santos
• machine
• vacuum
• tasty
• ground
• heat
• water

[k00ltube]

I have one of these and they're fun to watch but the result is not good. The main problem is that the coffee doesn't steep long enough (need 4 minutes). And the second big problem is the plastic filter used. It's held in place with a loose metal spring and loses strength over time. Result: lots of grounds with your weak coffee.

[jos2]

If you're careful, you can let it boil a little longer, as long as there's water in the bottom. If your coffee needs four minutes, this one might not work for you though. My coffee doesn't need four, I think.

I don't know what you do with the spring, but it should be fine as long as you don't overflex it, keeping away the _coarse_ ground coffee. Powder like you put into filter machines won't work here.

[fongyiktze]

The 4mins of the brewing started when the steam passes through and saturates the ground coffee with 95C water. Ideally, the machine should be kept over the fire throughout the brewing, the heat was required to force all the water up into the brewing pot to create a full vacuum thus when the water was sucked back down, the downward pressure will hold the filter down tightly to prevent loose grounds.

[jos2]

Muss ja auch nicht sein, dass die "Location" was bedeutet. :)

Ja, letzteres ist das, was ich meinte.

Genausowenig sollte man aber auch eine Kanne voll mit kaltem Wasser auf die Platte stellen, wenn die schon heiß ist. Und natürlich Vorsicht beim Spülen. Und und und.. Nichts für Speedfreaks oder Grobmotoriker. ;-)

Wie sieht's aus, bekommst du auch eine?

[lookin2000]

coffee expo in Vancover canada

[Hewson60]

Ach, "Location: Germany", und ich Depp schreib alles auf Englisch.^^

"Explode" war das falsche Wort. Bei dem anderen Video, wo so eine Kanne kaputt gegangen ist, las ich, dass es am Temperaturunterschied lag. Vielleicht hatte das Glas auch schon eine Art Haarriss, oder sowas.

Der Punkt ist warscheinlich, dass man dabei bleiben und die Kanne von der Platte nehmen muss, wenn unten nix mehr drin ist.

[jos2]

No, actually not. What will probably happen if the pressure gets too high is that the top container pops out of the other, but I don't think it'll explode. I've heard stories about the lower container breaking though. If you leave it on the heat too long, all water will vaporize and the glass will get too hot and crack.

But who knows, maybe it _will_ explode one day. Let's hope it doesn't.

[Hewson60]

Thx!

Aren´t you afraid that it will explode one day? I´ve already seen a video of that kind here (that wasn´t a Bodum though).

[jos2]

It can boil up to 1l of water, yielding a little less than that of coffee.

[jos2]

Good for you! Where did get yours? I got mine on a large auction platform.