There are probably more people who think that manually butting tubes for individual riders is ridiculously obsessive than those who don't so I'm hardly in a position to make slight against the craft others' passions, least of all when it comes to coffee.
Still, this is one of those things that is either crazy or awesome. Or crazy-awesome.
With its brass-trimmed halogen heating elements, glass globes and bamboo paddles, the new contraption that is to begin making coffee this week at the Blue Bottle Café here looks like a machine from a Jules Verne novel, a 19th-century vision of the future.
More over at the NYT.
...the coffee grounds are stirred by hand with a bamboo paddle. The goal is to create a deep whirlpool in no more than four turns without touching the glass. Timing is important: the brewing cycle lasts 45 to 90 seconds.
"The whirlpool, it messes with your mind," said Mr. Freeman, who practiced stirring plain water for months to develop muscle memory before he brewed his first cup of siphon coffee. "There’s no way to rush it."
Sound familiar? Of course the question is, if this is the perfect collision of obsessiveness, hand-makedness and coffee-lovin'ness can the boys afford not get one?
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