I love those cup/glass top Vietnamese coffee filters! It makes it a lot less healthy, but the condensed milk at the bottom takes it to 11.
Sadly, most of the Pho places I go to pre-make their coffee drinks now, which is a sure sign that it is going to be average, at best, and usually vile.
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It’s quite easy - you boil water, put two tb of ground coffee in, put the screen on top, pour in a little water to bloom, and then fill it all the way up. It’s done when it stops dripping.
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Thanks a lot, now I have to add another piece of coffee gear.
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I love the Viet filter – it’s exactly like the South Indian one, except that comes with its own receptacle at the bottom to collect the coffee “liquor”.
(I use South Indian coffee powder & Cafe du monde interchangeably – both have about the same proportion of chicory.)
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Just curious… Do you think there’s anything special about Cafe du Monde canned coffee in this style of maker? I’ve had it in NOLA several times, and I never thought it was even the equal of their beignets.
This great eBay find for about a quarter of what they are usually offered makes the best non-espresso coffee of anything I have ever used.
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Ceramic moka pot?
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It is a simple pour over that requires no filter, but it also has a diffuser at the top. If I use a fairly coarse grind, very few fines make their way into the coffee.
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it’s a kind of drip-o-lator, yes?
Well, it looks like one might look, having that upper chamber like a Bialetti, but it is 100% drip. Using it is a pour-over experience, but the top piece distributes the water over all the coffee a bit more gently than a pour-over does. As a result you don’t get as much turbidity during the extraction. The result is an extremely rich extraction. I once had a Melitta pour-over. I like the results from this one better. The difference is noticeable.
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when i say “drip o later” that’s what I meant, i hope i didn’t use the word wrong. I use it to describe a fully manual vintage contraption (pour boiling water over a thing that has holes in, no paper or metal filter, no boiling on the stove or via electricity. let it drip down.)
Gotcha. When I hear or read “o-lator” my mind runs straight to percolator.
