We moved into a smaller place and have no room for the Keurig, so we switched to an EXCELLENT instant coffee. It's the same brand as the cups were were using:
Posted on 01/17/2017 2:01:25 PM PST by zeugma
Is anything made in the USA anymore?
I'm looking for a coffee press.
Requirements:
I've been searching all over Amazon/Google/Elsewhere, and I'm not finding anything that matches the above requirements. Plenty match on items 1, 2, and 3, but nothing on number 4. I'm astounded that there is literally nothing out there. Lots of folks make these, and some are pretty darned expensive, but when you look at the fine print, or dig through the comments, they ALL end up being sourced in China.
Frankly, I'm surprised. This isn't a particularly high-tech item. I don't even mind paying a premium for an American-made product, but there is literally nothing that fits the bill, at any price.
And in the description, it is made in the USA.
I use an old school crank grinder. The only complaints I have added tearing a little hole in the filter to get it over the little brew pipe, and emptying the coffee drawer into the perculator basket.
Got an electric perculator for Christmas three years ago, and haven’t looked back.
“....it does lack something...”
The higher prolonged temps of the perc draw out far more oils than a press or cone. Some people prefer that, others not so much. I like both, but they definitely are different.
Yes, percolating over-extracts ... pulling out more bitter flavors.
Electric drip makers work OK when new, but they gradually lose the ability to heat the water hot enough to extract the flavor from the grounds. It’s probably marginal even when brandy new.
I’ve tried a dozen different makers over the years. I’m getting ready to throw out a few that have died, I’m done trying to nurse the POS along. What do I do now?
Currently roast 1 to 1 and a half pounds at a time, good green beans in a huge Lodge cast iron pan in the oven. Then grind enough to make a pot and pour just boiling water through an old Bunn filter cradle into a thermos or bunn glass container. It’s more or less a Melita type deal. A percolater will work too, check eBay for a vintage unit. Bonus points for Avocado.
The sweetest coffee is “Cowboy” coffee - just set the grounds and cold water in a big boiler near the coals. Near. It takes a long time, it’s not like the movies, where they have five foot flames torching their food on a spit.
And that's why yours doesn't taste burnt: you don't leave it on the burner like everyone else.
We moved into a smaller place and have no room for the Keurig, so we switched to an EXCELLENT instant coffee. It's the same brand as the cups were were using:
Can’t help with the coffee maker, so off topic, but I just this week needed a new hair trimmer. Wanted LiIon instead of the old, unreliable NiMH tech, and the best product I found after some cursory search was from the Wahl Co., Ill. Made in the USA, $15, delivered to the door here in Germany. How about that!
Do you mean 10 8 oz cups, or 10 ‘coffee’ cups?
The biggest coffee presses I’ve seen are 48 oz. or a little larger. That would be about eight 6-ounce cups. Press makers use 4 ounces as their standard cup.
My coffee comes from Porto Rico Coffee Company on Bleecker Street, in Manhattan. French Peruvian for the last year and absolutely delicious. This company has been in business for 60 year at least. We get it ground because we’re lazy but could easily have it ground each morning in our little grinder. A little sugar and milk every morning and it makes our viewing of Fox and Friends all the more pleasurable. And makes us endure the travails of a couple of minutes of Morning Joe.
After looking and looking for a coffee maker made in the USA, I finally found one on Ebay. Used but it works just fine for us.
Paul Newman agrees...
I’m an idiot. I don’t know what a coffee “press” is.
Bodium Columbia...different sizes...stainless steel double walled...keeps coffee hot all morning. Find it at Amazon. Very durable and can go in the dishwasher
I agree. The only thing that the Chemex doesn’t have on the original poster’s list is the double wall.
However, as the whole thing is made of glass, you can microwave the whole thing to heat it up, no problemo.
On the bodium website they sell a 51 oz which is the biggest one they have.
Or as someone said, pour the finished Java into a thermos.
Sorry, that coffee press is not made in America; it’s made in California. :-)
Just kidding folks!
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