Programmers, college kids and anyone else who needs one or two (or more!) cups of joe (n. Morning Joe) to get through the day might enjoy this unusual coffee maker, Kahva. (”Kawa,” pronounced the same as “kahva,” is “coffee” in Polish. Other cognates exist, too. We’re educational.) While the premise is not all too dissimilar to a percolator, the fact that the water flows upward bemused more than one passerby.
Not me, though. Not bemused.
UPDATE~! Oh man, egg on my face. Seems Kahva can more accurately (read: “correctly”) be described as a vacuum coffee maker. What do I know? I go to Starbucks and spend $2 on a grande bold every day.
No, not at all like a percolator. This is a vacuum coffee maker, like the Bodum Santos. It makes a cup of coffee similar to that made by a French press. A percolator continually cycles the water through the ground. This coffee maker simply mixes grounds and water together and then the coffee drops to the carafe due to the air pressure returning to normal.
Where can you purchase one of these? I can’t find any online but I’m blind in one eye…duh!