john_pifer
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How are you making your coffee?
These days I'm traveling a lot (driving, not flying), and since I can't count on the quality of coffee at hotels or Airbnbs, I've been carrying a Chemex-style pour-over unit, along with an electric grinder and a Pyrex measuring cup to boil water in the microwave. Works well, but there are a few issues - one, the electric grinder, while it is a burr-style grinder with the ability to adjust grind, it's bulky, and it's about as quiet as a rock crusher. Another thing is, it can take well over 10 minutes to boil water in that Pyrex measuring cup in a microwave. And then there's the fact that not all hotel rooms have microwaves. Another problem is that making a proper pour-over coffee requires pouring the water slowly, and, the nature of the measuring cup method means that the water temp has already decreased significantly by the time you pour the last several ounces of water.
Seems that it would really help to have an electric kettle and a manual hand-crank grinder, so I asked for these items for birthday/Christmas:
Hand-crank grinder:
http://www.muellerdirect.com/produc...held-mini-k-cup-brushed-stainless-steel/
OXO electric kettle:
https://www.oxo.com/products/small-appliances/coffee-and-tea/adjustable-temperature-pour-over-kettle
That electric kettle is really cool. 1-liter capacity, and it has a monster of a heating element (1500 watts), so they claim it brings a full liter of water to a boil from room temp in under 5 minutes. Also has adjustable temp, as well as a "hold" feature that will hold the water at a certain temp for 30 min. And it solves the problems of water temp decreasing from the optimal 200*F during the pour, and it has a "gooseneck" spout to make it easy to do a slow pour.
These days I'm traveling a lot (driving, not flying), and since I can't count on the quality of coffee at hotels or Airbnbs, I've been carrying a Chemex-style pour-over unit, along with an electric grinder and a Pyrex measuring cup to boil water in the microwave. Works well, but there are a few issues - one, the electric grinder, while it is a burr-style grinder with the ability to adjust grind, it's bulky, and it's about as quiet as a rock crusher. Another thing is, it can take well over 10 minutes to boil water in that Pyrex measuring cup in a microwave. And then there's the fact that not all hotel rooms have microwaves. Another problem is that making a proper pour-over coffee requires pouring the water slowly, and, the nature of the measuring cup method means that the water temp has already decreased significantly by the time you pour the last several ounces of water.
Seems that it would really help to have an electric kettle and a manual hand-crank grinder, so I asked for these items for birthday/Christmas:
Hand-crank grinder:
http://www.muellerdirect.com/produc...held-mini-k-cup-brushed-stainless-steel/
OXO electric kettle:
https://www.oxo.com/products/small-appliances/coffee-and-tea/adjustable-temperature-pour-over-kettle
That electric kettle is really cool. 1-liter capacity, and it has a monster of a heating element (1500 watts), so they claim it brings a full liter of water to a boil from room temp in under 5 minutes. Also has adjustable temp, as well as a "hold" feature that will hold the water at a certain temp for 30 min. And it solves the problems of water temp decreasing from the optimal 200*F during the pour, and it has a "gooseneck" spout to make it easy to do a slow pour.