In the early 20th century, Melitta Bentz, a German housewife, forever revolutionized coffee preparation with her invention of a new coffee brewing process the pour-over. Today, more than 100 years later, coffee shops and coffee aficionados across the world still consider the pour over brewing process the best and easiest way to prepare fresh gourmet coffee. Melitta pour-over coffee brewers give you full control over the coffee extraction process, allowing you to brew the ultimate, hand crafted cup of coffee in just seconds. Discover the true flavor of gourmet coffee with Melitta’s full range of pour-over coffee brewers. It’s the hottest trend in coffee brewing, except we invented it over 100 years ago.
Product Features
- Stainless Steel Carafe holds 10 cups of hot coffee and keeps it warm for hours.
- Ideal for use at home, office or college
- Heavy duty plastic filter cone and lid are BPA Free and top rack dishwasher safe.
- Includes brewing cone, plastic top, and a start up supply of Melitta #4 cone filters.
Perfection through simplicity The main difference between the 21st century version of this coffee maker and its mid-century incarnation is the color of the filter cone, the latter being transparent plastic. The borosilicate glass carafe still bears the name Schott, one of Germany’s most respected glass works. The design and operation are the same: slip in the filter, measure in the ground coffee, bloom it with a careful splash of boiling water, wait about a half- to a full minute, pour in the rest in a steady circular…
Great coffeepot, whether it’s glass-lined or all-stainless The carafe I received is not what’s shown in the picture – for that, I have to dock a star.
Big pot, little cone I bought this coffee maker because my previous carafe did not insulate well and the coffee would become tepid after about ten minutes. I also was using it with a drip cone whose fit was very precarious on the top of the carafe, leading to occasional messy spills. By buying a unified carafe/cone combo, I hoped to solve both problems.