KonaCandleSearcher
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I once enjoyed restaurant tableside coffee service delivered with a brewer unlike any syphon or balancing-syphon brewers I've seen searching the web.
The brewer used mostly or exclusively glass vessels and glass tubes. The glass tubes served as interconnects between the vessels.
The appearance was a bit like a graceful, artful, chemistry set... mostly leaning towards graceful and artistic.
This restaurant elected to use a CANDLE as the heat source and as I remember things the lit candle was strategically placed under a thin glass tube.
There was such a small volume of water in the thin glass tube that the candle provided enough heat to heat the water. The heated water was
driven up a tube and (speculation due to hazy memory) it's plausible that the water basically dripped from that point through the coffee beans
and into a vessel to capture brewed coffee.
The heated water tube ran at an angle, perhaps 45 degrees. I recall the possibility of some loops of glass as well; it was not a "simple" design.
The resulting brewer seemed to me, at the time, to be as much a work of art and "industrial" design as I had seen in a brewer.
No amount of searching I've done on the web has turned up the identity, or photo, or diagram of a brewer like this.
So... who knows the answer? What is this coffee brewer??
The brewer used mostly or exclusively glass vessels and glass tubes. The glass tubes served as interconnects between the vessels.
The appearance was a bit like a graceful, artful, chemistry set... mostly leaning towards graceful and artistic.
This restaurant elected to use a CANDLE as the heat source and as I remember things the lit candle was strategically placed under a thin glass tube.
There was such a small volume of water in the thin glass tube that the candle provided enough heat to heat the water. The heated water was
driven up a tube and (speculation due to hazy memory) it's plausible that the water basically dripped from that point through the coffee beans
and into a vessel to capture brewed coffee.
The heated water tube ran at an angle, perhaps 45 degrees. I recall the possibility of some loops of glass as well; it was not a "simple" design.
The resulting brewer seemed to me, at the time, to be as much a work of art and "industrial" design as I had seen in a brewer.
No amount of searching I've done on the web has turned up the identity, or photo, or diagram of a brewer like this.
So... who knows the answer? What is this coffee brewer??
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