Balancing Siphon Coffee Maker

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The Gold Plated **0ml capacity set comes complete with: The metal canister for heating the water. Glass jar for the brewing. Pipe connecting the metal canister to the glass jar. Alcohol burner. A stand. Filter parts. Measuring cup & spoon. Additional Information: The balancing siphon coffee maker is an elaborate device for making coffee. It is both beautiful to look at and loads of fun to brew a perfect cup of coffee with. Even though it is not a common sight in most kitchen, the Balancing Siphon coffee maker has been around for more than **0 years. Personally, I think it is a great example of a device that is both aesthetically pleasing and amazingly functional. The principle of a Balancing Siphon coffee maker is simple. It consists of two chambers placed side by side. On one side is the brewing glass jar (for ground coffee) and the other a metal canister (to boil water). The metal canister is sealed, except for a straw-sized pipe which passes from the base area of the metal sanister into the filter end at the lower part of the coffee brewing glass jar. Water is heated in the metal canister to boiling. The heating process creates steam pressure which forces hot water through the pipe and into the brewing glass jar where the ground coffee sits. When all the water has passed into the brewing vessel in this way, the metal chamber becomes lighter and lifts up thereby causing the burner cover to drop. This causes the fire to be extinguished. As the metal container cools, it creates a vacuum which pulls the freshly-brewed coffee back into the metal container. The result is perfectly filtered coffee brewed at the optimum temperature of just below boiling point. The advantage of this process is that since the heat is never directly applied to the coffee, the coffee can never be burned in the brewing process, thus producing a truly smooth cup of coffee.