Dug out my Bodum Santos last night after quite a few year in the back of the cupboard.
Ground some Sumatra Panjang Mandheling a bot 5 clicks on the Rocky courser than espresso, 500 ml of water 3 heaped tablespoons of coffee, placed over a very low gas flame and allowed the water to rise to the top chamber, left on the flame for a further 2 mins took it of the heat and let it do its thing.
The result, certainly not to my taste, sure the resulting coffee was clean, it was also watery and lacking in character, very much like the kind of coffee I have experienced in the US, and that aint sayin much.
So unless anyone can point out the error in my method I suspect this is one piece of coffee equipment destined to spend the rest of its life in the back of a cupboard.
Ground some Sumatra Panjang Mandheling a bot 5 clicks on the Rocky courser than espresso, 500 ml of water 3 heaped tablespoons of coffee, placed over a very low gas flame and allowed the water to rise to the top chamber, left on the flame for a further 2 mins took it of the heat and let it do its thing.
The result, certainly not to my taste, sure the resulting coffee was clean, it was also watery and lacking in character, very much like the kind of coffee I have experienced in the US, and that aint sayin much.
So unless anyone can point out the error in my method I suspect this is one piece of coffee equipment destined to spend the rest of its life in the back of a cupboard.

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