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  • Cona frustrations

    Hi All
    Just wondering if anyone can give me any tips on using a glass rod filter in a Cona syphon? Im grinding as coarse as my Sunbeam emo480 will allow and still the coffee is getting stuck in the top chamber after I remove the heat...Can only assume its getting clogged?

    Dave

  • #2
    Re: Cona frustrations

    Hehehe, I feel your pain. My Cona makes me very nervous, I usually hide around the corner whilst its on the draw down. :-[

    FWIW, Ive found circular stirring before the draw down makes the clog factor worse - so I just kinda mash the crust up a bit with the paddle, rather than stirring it. Not sure if thats much help. :

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    • #3
      Re: Cona frustrations

      You can use a cloth filter in your syphon. I found the glass filters just necessitated too coarse a grind for my liking.

      The spring metal/cloth filters we sell can be made to fit most syphons. For larger syphons you can stretch the spring to make it fit.

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      • #4
        Re: Cona frustrations

        Thanks guys,
        Looks like Id better go back to the cloth filter...Shame though, I liked the idea of glass

        Cheers Dave

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        • #5
          Re: Cona frustrations

          Havent had a problem with my Cona, I use a grind of about 14 on my EM0480 with espresso being set at around 9 to 10.

          It should suck the water back through via vacuum effect - remove from any hotplate or ring burning support to a cool area to help speed this process or it WILL take a long time.

          You should find the grounds fairly dry; if you lift the rod and find they stick to it a bit then youre doing ok.

          Cheers - boingk

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          • #6
            Re: Cona frustrations

            Have you tried sieving the fines out from the ground coffee?

            Cheers,
            Luca

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            • #7
              Re: Cona frustrations

              i find that the longer u brew a siphon and the hotter the upper chamber becomes, the narder it is for the water to come back down.

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              • #8
                Re: Cona frustrations

                Ok so now Ive discovered the glass rod works well with a grind just a little coarser than for espresso, and NOT the very coarse grind I was using before. I just assumed that if it was clogging up, the grind was too fine...
                There must be some dusty stuff getting into the grind when I was doing the coarse grind which was clogging the filter... if that makes sense.

                weird but solved!

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