The title pretty much says it all. I bought a Chemex.
Do you know what that is? It’s a pour over coffee apparatus – basically, you put a bonded filter inside the upper compartment, put freshly ground coffee into the filter, and then you pour hot water over the grounds and watch the coffee just happen.
Sounds pretty low-tech, right? Well, it is – but it makes phenomenal, well extracted coffee that surpasses the taste of most restaurants and cafes. Definitely worth going a little low-tech if you ask me. I opened my Chemex box up as soon as it showed up in the mail, taking it out and marveling over its elegant design. The thing is beautiful, the glass is hand blown.
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And I got it for only $40. Well, that’s not entirely true, it was actually less than $40. Worth every penny, I’m actually drinking a cup of perfectly extracted Brazilian single origin right now – I swear, I can taste all the flavor notes of the Brazilian bean in this cup.
Better Living Through Chemistry
The Chemex was actually invented by a chemist who truly loved coffee, his mission was to create the best cup of coffee in the world. Which is why the Chemex looks kind of like something you would see in a lab. But not just any lab, this brilliant pour over coffee maker belongs in a coffee lab, like ours over at project vvlgar.
If You Haven’t Got One, You’re Missing Out
Any time I have friends over they always ask what that crazy looking contraption on my counter is…after I make them a cup of coffee in it all they want to know is where they can get one for themselves.
Yep, that’s the Chemex coffee maker. Just some hand blown glass, designed by a chemist, that is making me the best coffee I have ever tasted.
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