🤣 mine's better on rainy and low stress days. Sun is usually optional but I heard it adds some vitamin D, for health.

I mouth brew. Whole beans in mouth. Grind with teeth. Brew with body temp spit. “Drink”

@@TeensierPython this similar to army instant coffee method. very brilliant during war times 😆 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jsWFpchzqrbKqIE.html

Sommeliers be like

@@TeensierPython I have a friend who regularly did that with espresso beans

I don't even drink coffee.

@@drumedorable 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Is this true? You guys don't drink coffee? 🙂 Maybe we can change that

@@johnnynighthawk156 I do. I use a blue bottle pour over with an electric gooseneck kettle. I get my whole bean coffee monthly from atlas coffee Club and grind it in a burr grinder

@@johnnynighthawk156 James Hoffman and I are part of an Anglo-American exchange program. He drinks lots of good coffee, despite being English, and I drink lots of good tea, despite being from you-know-where - a place where 99% of the tea is leftover sweepings in teabags, after they've shipped the good stuff to the British Isles.

But not addressing the people blindly buying these products when their hobby of coffee is extremely wasteful and not eco friendly. The only reason it's not zero waste is because he wants to clean it until it's like new. Why try to make a clay filter platform like a paper one. Faulty logic. If you want a clean brew just use paper, if you want to not go to the store since you want coffee right now use the clay. The eco friendly think is just to get dumb people to buy it and never use it

@@PaendaTube I think in this case, it would take similar energy to produce (and for 100% sure less energy to clean) using a metal filter. I got one for 5 euros from HEMA that doesn't leak almost any fines through. If you are worried about waste of production and want a more "filter paper taste" you can use a coffee sock. Those are much less energy to produce and require marginally more care than the steel mesh.

@@bengerber4542 id argue against that. (Prereply edit, im not trying to come at you at all here i just am passionate about this sort of stuff and have a lot to say) The amount of energy needed for metallurgy is immense. There are so many steps in that process and each step in the process consumes heaps of energy. Stainless steel especially requires so much. I wish I remembered all of the steps and the energy cost of each. I think I've got a textbook on it on my shelf but i couldnt be bothered to confirm atm. Plus where do you get common metals like iron? Deep within the earth extracted using mines that fuck up ecosystems. Ceramic on the other hand can be made relatively easily with low energy and with common surface level materials. Perhaps the energy that the factory uses to make ceramic into ceramic filter would be comparable to making stainless steel + plastic into filter, but the materials used themselves severely differ in energy cost. And thinking about it, the ceramic might only require a mould and the ceramic material plus maybe heat? To make the filter. Whereas cutting and bending and hole punching the stainless steel and that getting that inside of plastic that needs to be molded to fit would have way more steps in terms of the factory and I mean each step you use, you're probably using more energy. Sooooo all around ceramic is going to be "greener" than metal filter. Maybe the next question is, how many cups off coffee do you need to make w the ceramic filter in order to overcome the energy cost per paper filter? Paper filters might be really energy efficient to make. Maybe it takes hundreds of brews before you're using less energy. Ceramic has high initial energy cost, but doesn't really have that recurrent energy cost. Paper has low per brew energy cost but builds up over time

​@@PaendaTube Eco friendly is a misnomer many of the eco-friendly products have a higher upfront waste to produce. Considering this is a ceramic product that probably requires some kind of baking at a high heat to make it and all the energy waste used to produce it. I'd be interested in the waste comparison to standard filters over the standard lifetime of this product and the waste produced by manufacture. Unfortunately there are many zero waste products that have a very wasteful production process it's just hidden from the end user so people on the end think because they are re-using the produce and not producing waste at home that it must be more friendly to the environment where in many cases it's a wash and in quite a few other cases it's actually less friendly.

@@dylanmiley5642 Paper may be more energy efficient but the process to get that paper usually is destructive to the environment in different ways. Plastic straws for paper straws sure sounds great in theory but that paper has to come from somewhere. Disposable bamboo from what I understand is a better option for disposable utensils at least. Anyway end of the day the consumer really doesn't care about eco friendly. I mean in a way I do but I'd care a lot more if mandates on big businesses happen. I'm sick of being told things like take shorter showers. There are companies who use 60,000 times the amount of water in a single hour than I will use in the next 30 years having showers. As a consumer, until big business changes leave me alone to be quite frank as my impact on the environment is insignificant. I digressed a bit, heh. Kinda also passionate about this topic.

Huh, I was under the impression aluminium is quite bad to consume (aluminium foil for cooking used normally doesn't give off enough to be enough of a risk), but would this sort of thing be as safe as that?

@@Call-me-Al Aluminum oxide is very different from aluminum metal. ALL commercially available ceramic dishes and cookware contain large amounts of aluminum oxide (its second to silica aka silicon dioxide). Clay is the primary mineral (family of minerals really) in practically all consumer ceramics, and contains a large amount of aluminum oxide.

@@theshannonlimit1114 thanks!

If it had no clay in it can be really call it a ceramic?

@@CatherinePuce yes ceramic is about the phase and arrangement of matter, not the ingredients per se

"I suspect the claims around FIR are purely marketing." I used to be in marketing and I say... duh!!

Yeah, I was gonna say FIR is just... heat. So, it improves taste by retaining more heat I guess.

indeed a marketing gimmick, as a medical doctor, ive seen a lot of patient delaying their evidence based medical therapies and got tricked into alternative medicine like infrared/ magnetic therapy to find out their disease are progressing to get worse without an appopriate therapy.

@@Jeremy-fy1sz "Some marketing points are valid" Like Vitamin C prevents scurvy? Or their coffee is gluten-free? Even the truth is coated in bullshit. Marketers don't care whether their claims are true or misleading or whether they even make sense as long as they can't be sued. They only care whether people will buy the idea and then the product.

Perhaps it actually cooling the coffee, so when comparing something brewed with this and a normal V60, the V60 is hotter and thus "worse"

He double dipped.

Solid use of an interrobang.

Hoff-daddy knows what we really want in life

I had no idea that this ‽ punctuation mark existed. That's rad. The interrobang‽ Thanks for showing me the light.

i honestly thought i overslept for two weeks..

Yes, I like the the idea of using fancy coffee stuff - that's basically useless - as dekor to make it less useless.

The bripe is a wonderful invention that has put a smile on the face of many.

@@Zraknul how much did they pay you to say that

Ho boi, that's going to be an ass to clean out of the ceramic matrices.

Pool acid fixes a lot of problems.

@@peterwexler5737 Hydrochloric acid FTW!

i think the biggest mistake is the grind size, this brewers were designed for japanese style brew, than means the grind is coarse and the roast is dark... that is why a lot of people complaint about the clog issue but is because was used wrong.

Me too. And that the only solution would be the purchase of a crucible oven.

It’s waste tap water. Paper plants use an incredible amount of water, and the filters are bleached. At the end of the day I’d rather have tap waste than chlorine runoff leaching into the ground water.

@@AveragePicker considering that each paper filter is barely a gram of paper i would be interested to see the numbers of how much waste water is actually produced per filter. Also unbleached filters are a thing if youre concerned about the impact on the chlorine on the environment. And as a side note i feel like if you are regularely drinking coffee then the water usage for making the filter is probably less relevant than the water needed to actually grow and handle the coffee in the first place

@@Lasesus a quick Google search says anywhere from 6 gallons of water per pound of paper to around 4.4 gallons for a single sheet. It does take a lot of water to produce paper. And that's for generic printer paper.

At least in germany, the common household "safes" so much water that our canalisation and water treatment plants are short of water. The system needs to have a steady flow of a certain amount of water to function properly. We have to target our efforts at the food, chemical, clothing idustry etc., instead of the individual, who has only limited control over their water consumption and even then, the impact is minuscule compared to the wastage from the industry.

Waste water is often overlooked, and especially the energy you use to make hot water which is then immediately flushed down the drain. It's not nothing :)

Sadly not always true, however definitely in this case.

I use a French press every morning. Super easy to use. I prefer immersion brewing rather than pour over brewing anyways.

They are annoying to clean

@@boygenius538_8 How do you clean yours? I usually just rinse all parts in soapy water and it takes me less than 1min!

I simply rinse the assembly and beaker with hot water and then dry.

Once you try a Hario Switch I doubt you'd go back to French Press.... At least I didn't

I use a Bripe, and would never buy this filter.

The bripe reference was welcome (bripe fam here), but bear in mind that the bripe is the internet troll of coffee brewing. Yes, we are absurd to bripe. But by that point in the video, it was just a roast; a polite burn (mind the pun). The implication seemed to be that even We The Company of Absurd Bripers and Weird - nay, Fringe - Coffee People approach with caution. TLDR: He seems to assume that it piques everyone's interest and not us specifically.

guilty

lol bripes are hilarious

Well I just learned a new word today, this should be interesting

I wonder what the btu output is... As we know, you can't Bripe in Metric!

The bripe IS the second use for the lighter. In fact, coffee is the second use for the bripe itself. ;)

I once had a lighter like that to light coals for my shisha

He's also used it to light a coffee-scented candle, because he didn't have matches in the studio.

What does water filtered thru it taste like (i.e. no coffee)? Probably should test with one that has never had coffee in it though.

@@EricScheid I feel like a total nerd typing this haha, but it changes the "texture" of the water somehow, like it's "softer"? Also it's less "sharp" and more mellow. I've only tried using the filter abou two times with coffee before I've decided it wasn't for me for brewing. So I did a thorough boil and clean before using it only for water thereafter.

thanks for sharing the long term use experience

Oh - right! Didn't notice that. 😃

A big difference here is the oils that the coffee will leave behind in the filter. Even if you do the 15 minutes over a gas stove flame, you're just going to be getting burned coffee oils in the pores. And that might adhere to the surface of the clay, pretty much forever making your coffee tasted burned. If you don't go the burn it out route, then you're going to eventually have rancid coffee oils in the pores, which will taste just as bad. Neither of which take into account the fact that no matter how you grind it, there are going to be fines that get stuck in the pores. There's really no way you want old coffee taste to linger on like you would with tea. Old coffee taste is absolutely disgusting.

. . . like the chalky taste of Greek yogurt. One swallow and I quit. I haven't had yogurt now for years, fearing that I will encounter that taste, as I try avoiding the American syrup we call yogurt.

@@gaslitworldf.melissab2897 damn what kinda greek yogurt you eating?

@@ccapwell that's was my first thought about this brewer as well! Not treating it very much different than you will with a Yixing teapot, but, I do gotta say that oils in coffee are very different from oils present in tea. Even Yixings will need eventually a full cleaning with lots of hot water and maybe bleach for some extreme cases. The difference with teapots is that we get a patina and that pleasant smell the inner walls acquires after some time. So I guess that just like the chemex, this brewer it's a thing to enjoy more visually rather than making a huge impact on the coffee itself. Which is not a bad thing if it makes you enjoy even more the ritual of making coffee. I do like the idea of Gongfu Cafe ^^

It sort of reminds me of my molcajete, in that the more I grind up spices, herbs, and vegetables in it, the more the oils from the food will infuse into the rock, seasoning it and making it provide better flavor down the line. Could it be possible to 'season' your coffee filter in the same way? Given the nature of coffee oils to go rancid, and the fact that it needs to be thoroughly rinsed to prevent clogging, I'd be inclined to say 'no', but it would be an interesting experiment

Put it in the oven on broil.

Thing is coffee is far more oily than tea, so leaving a patina of coffee in your brewing device is always a bad thing.

So many "environmentally friendly" products are like that. All marketing. If you really want to see a wild one, I encourage everyone to look up the studies on disposable plastic grocery store bags vs. reusable organic cotton bags. The numbers are crazy. You'd literally have to keep the same cotton bag for something like 50+ years of continuous use.

qz.com/1585027/when-it-comes-to-climate-change-cotton-totes-might-be-worse-than-plastic/

Totally agre. One of the things I love about the aeropress is that the inventor explains how the paper filter can be reused multiple times. I go the compost route myself but, if needed, I would certainly reuse those small paper disks to make another press of joe.

@@SladeWeston Thats how it is like 90% of the time or more. Its all to look good to others, the "im making a difference" mentality when in reality you did essentially nothing. Or even created more waste in the end.

@@SladeWeston depends on the bag. For example, If it’s made from old clothing it is a good substitute. Or from discarded plastic bags (there are people who weave old plastic bags into tote bags). Also some of the reusable bags are compostable. BTW, I have a vague memory that the number of times you have to use a reusable bag to make it worthwhile is in the hundreds (not 50 years worth). Since I use these bags at least twice/week, using them for a couple of years takes care of that and I’ve definitely had some of my bags that long. Edited to add: went back and read the article and you were right about cotton reusable bags taking many many years to be worthwhile. But other types of reusable bags need less than 100 uses to be environmentally better than plastic bags. And as I said, cotton bags sewn from old garments are a good environmental choice.

They'll go wild over a Belgian balance siphon coffee maker. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lc-nbK-AsZa6nJc.html

Just for coffee? Water jet? Seems like washing my car port. Ultrasonic ? Seems like washing my jewelry, I guess the vibration will do no good, it's ceramic after all.

I was thinking the same. An ultrasonic cleaner would, I suspect, do a great job of removing fine particles.

Everyone's got a spare Bripe, if you don't, what are you waiting for?

Himalayan Salt lamp has what plants crave!

@@UrbanPaniccorrect - bullshit!

Himalayan salt laps are awesome though, they look beautiful and they double as emergency salt licks xD

@@Call-me-Al, I have thought about the salt lick aspect….

They are pretty tho

I suspect the carbon footprint of the coffee itself dwarfs the footprint of a paper filter.

@@RobertBlair For sure, from the numbers I've seen about an order of magnitude greater ~.01 kg/CO2 per gram of coffee, or ~.15 kg/C02 for a 15 gram dose. Though that number can change dramatically, being highly dependent on the farming and processing practices.

"I have a very efficient natural gas water heater (~70%)" - and that gas is not popping up magically. It has to be purified, compressed, transported to your house and all of that isn't very efficient either, so from the well to the heater there goes, let me pull an estimate out of my behind, another like 30% to 40%, sort of..?

@@brixomatic My understanding is that since natural gas lines are relatively low pressure, the transportation energy usage through those is only ~10%, so long as the municipal gas supply has a direct pipe links to wells (which is the case in most of North America, including where I live). That's why I didn't include it, just as I didn't include transportation for the paper filters. If the natural gas supply has to be trucked or shipped as compressed or liquified natural gas, then the losses will be much higher.

Must you wash in hot water?

Yea Tokyu Hands is an awesome shop especially for those into DIY and crafts

The "Tokyu Hands" caught me off guard!

@@chynnsuu7605 wasnt expecting that at all

@@chynnsuu7605 he said it perfectly too🤣

But how much are you spending on water for rinsing, and how much on gas or electricity to heat that water? Pouring gallons of water down the drain is not zero-waste.

​@@beeble2003 I have well water with a 50 m deep well and low drought concerns 1 kg × 9.8 m/s² × 50 m ÷ 50% efficiency ÷ 1 kg = 980 J/kg 980 J/kg ÷ 3600000 J/kWh = 0.00027 kWh / kg So about 0.00005 USD/kg at $0.20/kWh, to pump the water Local municipal water currently costs 0.004256 USD/kg, or about 85 times the cost to pump it from a well (they maintain the pipes, pump it more, and chlorinate it, so this makes sense). I'll assume I'm heating the water by 50 K, so 4186 J/kg•K × 50 K = 209300 J/kg 209300 J/kg ÷ 3600000 J/kWh = 0.058 kWh So add 0.0012 USD/kg at $0.20/kWh, to heat the water. If I wanted to save money I could install a heat pump hot water heater, those have COP values of 2 to 5 depending on model and the weather, so divide that 0.0012 by 2 to 5. Alternatives include solar and natural gas water heaters. In total, that's roughly 0.0055 USD/kg for hot municipal water, or 0.0013 USD/kg for hot well water. Paper coffee filters are roughly $0.05 each, so unless I use around 9 kg (2.4 US gal) of very hot municipal water rinsing (or 38 kg of very hot well water, possibly 100 kg of well water with a heat pump, or more with solar), it's cheaper than the paper.

@@beeble2003 I don't think there is a one-size-fits-all solution, but some people live on sustainable properties where they collect and recycle grey-water, excess heat from appliances, and energy from the sun. A person like that would prefer to be able to brew coffee that they grow on-site without the need for any manufacturing byproducts, such as paper filters. I can imagine backpackers and climbers would prefer it as well, since it's light-weight and produces no waste other than the grounds themselves.

The whole 'zero-waste' is literally that, a marketing ploy which banks on you not throwing away the product you bought like you would with the regular 'old-fashioned' product. It doesn't mean that's environmentally friendly at all. It just means that you don't produce waste, like with Metal/Glass straws vs Plastic Straws. Before this 'green-washing', the product would just be called 'Re-usable'

@@NoraNoita And yet another marketing scheme that places the responsibility for climate change on consumers rather than industrial polluters.

It seems like a really hard sell from that perspective over a reusable metallic filter.

@@heyitsmort7744 it’s both and, not either or.

This is my feeling about almost all green initiatives. Why do they think I’m not already doing it?

There are better options if you want reusable. Those fine mesh work just fine and are much easier to clean. If they get clogged, you can always throw them through an ultrasonic cleaner, but that's usually not needed. Also, I'm sure that fabric would work fine, even though it would probably be slightly worse for the environment.

Actual stoneware (clay that has vitrified) should be inert with no flavor or aftertaste glazed or unglazed; trouble is that actual stoneware is non porous.

@@robertopics it def is inert but it doesn’t mean it won’t have a taste. Like stone grinders. You’ll taste if you have sensitive taste bud but won’t cause any harm.

@@Mikey-ym6ok does glass impart flavor to coffee?

​@@robertopics is glass the same thing as clay or stone? Have you ever licked a rock as a kid? if you haven't go do it and tell us what you taste. Stone sure as shit does have a taste.

@@blond-diver9998 no glass is not the same thing as rocks or clay that's been fired at relatively lower temperatures. I never lucked rocks as a child but not all rocks are the same. Stone rocks are very porous and can grow bacteria and some react to mild acids like saliva so ymmv.

Luckily, ceramic remains an excellent material for cups, saucers, pitchers, serving pots, flower pots .etc

Paper production is also incredibly wasteful when it comes to water, i would estimate that a single filter paper would be about 3 gallons of wasted water

@@hcm5467 I wonder how long you'd need to use a metal plate or mesh filter to balance this out - steel production uses huge amounts of of water & energy also. Or a cloth filter - reusable sure, but they still degrade over time, while you could theoretically use a steel filter for a lifetime

Not great for the planet? Why does “great” have to be the achievable level? It’s likely no worse than paper filters. There are, and going to be, a lot of environmental choices where neither option is great but you mitigate what you can.) And not great for coffee? When was the last time on this channel you heard about something that was great for coffee. Lol. It’s one nitpick after another. (There’s also the issue that filters are bleached and the whole paper process puts a lot of chemicals into the ground water…would you rather run a tap a bit, or constantly pour chlorine in your yard?)

@@hcm5467 according to others in this set of comments, it takes about 1/2 liter of water to produce 1g of paper. So the ceramic cone filter is likely worse for the environment.

If it was glaced, then it wouldn't be pourus anymore. The water/coffee wouldn't be able to go through.

The minerals should be washed away after a few brews so the taste would become less each time if it was this..

Think most ceramic is zirconium/aluminium oxide. Most of those minerals are very insoluble so it's not the ceramic itself. I would have thought the first time you use it should taste neutral and then the aftertaste develops with build up of residue in pore space? I wonder about traditional ceramic water filters (which have an even lower permeability and are used for makeing drinking water safe).I think they have a family neutral taste but can't say I used too often!

The tastes sounds similar to that imparted by "purple clay teapots" in Chinese tea. In Chinese tea, particular purple clay teapots are kept to brew certain subvarieties of tea (particularly oolong), and over time develops a sought after character of their own.

@@jinglongtan2297 I'm interested to know what kind of tastes are wanted from a pot like this. What parts of the tea are brought out? Tea sounds fun and exciting.

James Hoffman drinking makes the funniest yet rarest reviews, you're right about it feeling earned

James delivered a very politely British euphemism for "total horseshit".

Yess, giving the important details here! Was looking for this mug. Great taste might come with the name ;) Thanks!

"I call BS on FIR therapy" I mean - warmth can help, but you might as well just take a hot shower.

Made me think of the crucibles. Which makes me think that the only true cleaning solution would be a rather large crucible oven. Which doesn’t feel environmentally friendly at all…

I have a reusable coffee filter. You toss the majority in the trash, and the rest definitely doesnt affect your plumbing at all

@@skeetsmcgrew3282 with normal reusable filter out is much easier to push grinds from outside or tap them out.

@@paveloleynikov4715 is it super fragile? You cant tap it a few times on the edge of a trash can?

@@skeetsmcgrew3282 frankly, this thing looks really fragile, even if it's not.

Yeah - Malkönig do a little Lego version

The key phrase in your comment is “as far as I am concerned.” Complaining about something you think is pseudoscience without citing any science is so funny to me.

@@kevinpenfold1116 wait, your criticism is literally that I used a contraction? And it's not my job to debunk every idiotic claim, it's the idiots making claims. To be clear, my disdain is for the manufacturer, touting this "science", not at James. And if you disagree, where's your sources? Hypocrite.

@@kevinpenfold1116 There's a famous citation: "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence." The original claim (FIR improves coffee) has no evidence behind it, so we can dismiss it. It's not our job to disprove the claim.

@@kevinpenfold1116er, the thing about pseudo science is that there has often not been and studies published. Because who wants to have that study on their CV? Ok, I would, but I am “that guy”.

@@kevinpenfold1116 If you understood what black body radiation is, you'd understand how hilarious it is to claim it has an effect on coffee, or to call it far infrared radiation and act like it does anything When a thing gets hot and changes color because of it, thats black body radiation. This ceramic does exhibit that effect in truly, hilariously, outrageously small ways when it comes to making coffee, just like a number of other things do when they get hot. It also doesn't really do anything even in pretty significant amounts, but on the scale of "above room temperature ceramic", it really really REALLY doesn't do anything, and also technically does exist. But only technically. The only way its going to have an effect on your coffee is if you believe it does hard enough, but that can be said for anything.

As my friend said to me once, you are a conceited individual, “stop thinking about yourself”. Or did you really think he was talking to you? If so you need help.

@@user9b2 thanks for your input, I'll be sure to discuss this with my psychologist. You're so wise, you saved my life with your youtube comment.

Completely agree, I use a single-layer steel filter and it works beautifully. The single layer means there is nothing to trap the grains so they wash out easily. I’d be interested to hear his thoughts on how it compares to a Chemex or V filter.

I watch him, and pretty much everything on KZfaq, at 1.5x speed. It allows me to get through my vids in a timely manner.

@@danielseelye6005 I believe, James deserves his videos to be watched in a timely manner and at his usual speed 😌 It's not fastfood he's talking about.