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Bob Laughton is something of a coffee fanatic. He needs to have his coffee strong and hot, and will go to great lengths to ensure that his morning cup satisfies these needs. Recently, while visiting a friend who had effectively stopped drinking coffee, he found himself forced to rig up a makeshift drip coffee maker in order to get his daily delivery of caffeine.
As you can see in the picture (if you follow that link, he's annotated his version with a series of entertaining notes) he wrapped a pre-heated Mason jar in a towel (to prevent heat loss) and placed that in a bowl. On top of that he perched a warmed, old yellow porcelain Melitta filter (the handles always seem to be broken off those old models, my parents had a cracked white one for years). In that went a Chemex unbleached filter and then, finally, into that filter he put his grounds, fresh Blue Bottle coffee from Chiapas. A lot of effort but I'm certain that the coffee tasted all the better for the work.
I'm sure that there are lots of you out there that are like Bob, willing to put a little extra work in so that you can have the best version of your favorite food or drink. Tell us about your food quest. Upload a picture of your set-up to our Flickr group and include the story with the image. We'll feature the fun and interesting ones here on the site.
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5-20-2008 @11:33AM Paul Cohen said... Always take along a plastic Melitta single cup cone and some #2 filters. Only a few dollars and definitely worth it!
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5-20-2008 @11:47AM joshua said... i boiled water
put coffee grounds in the pan
let it sit for 3-4 minutes
drained it through a filter into a cup
i've used a paper towel when no filters were handy
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5-20-2008 @11:14PM badfrog said... I just take my plastic unbreakable French press with me when I vacation. Sometimes I will leave it if my friends beg enough, after having had fresh roasted properly brewed coffee for the first time in their lives.
Alas, I have become an unutterably insufferable coffee snob.
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5-21-2008 @8:08AM Leslie said... I used to work at an office where the owner didn't drink coffee. One day he offered some business guests coffee and when they all accepted--well guess what I had to do? Make a round of 10 coffees using a stupid one-cup melita filter rig...I promised if that ever happened again I would just buy a Mr. Coffee for the office out of my own money--lol!
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