As beautiful as sculpture, as fascinating as chemistry, and as entertaining as theater, this coffeemaker from Switzerland converts the ordinary process of brewing coffee into an artful performance.
And it makes six 5-ounce cups of full-flavored coffee while it entrances.
The coffeemaker fits together like this:
- water goes into the carafe,
- a filter fits into the mouth of a tube in the top globe,
- ground coffee goes into the globe (a scoop is included),
- the globe fits atop the carafe with the tube extending into the carafe, and
- the carafe goes onto the stovetop with a trivet or heat diffuser between it and electric or gas heat.
(This is all much simpler and quicker than it sounds.) Water boils up through the tube into the globe and brews the coffee. When brewing is complete and the carafe has been taken off the stovetop and set into its accompanying sculpted trivet, the coffee drains through the filter into the carafe.
The globe can then be lifted off the carafe and set (more on use and prices...)