Vacuum brewed coffee has played second or 3rd fiddle to more popular techniques …like drip, percolate, French press, espresso and even Turkish and more recently pod-based coffee makers… for quite some time. The relative unpopularity of vacpot or siphon-brewed coffee, as it’s also called, is due to the more extensive cleanup effort, even though some say the resulting coffee is better.

The recently-opened Blue Bottle Café in San Francisco with the country’s only halogen powered siphon bar probably will not revive the fate of vacuum-brewed coffee…although it’s a step in the right direction. Exotic-looking with it’s penta-core Bluetooth-enabled halogen-heated control-panelled $20,000-priced base station, the Japan-sourced thing is supposed to produce an amazing pot of coffee. Nice, but we’re waiting for the USB powered laser based model.

At Last, a $20,000 Cup of Coffee - NY Times, January 23 2008

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