MeAtHome
Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2024
For the love of coffee, I wanted to try something new. There are several recipes online to suit your taste but I think Vietnamese iced coffee is similar to the taste of a melted Affogato. Yum! This is the first time I have seen, purchased and made coffee using this type of filter maker. So in that respect, I can't say that this maker is made correctly or traditionally but it looks like the ones that I've seen online. The gold color shows smudges but it makes it look a bit vintage. Inside the lid, I noticed a manufacturing mark, see picture. Making coffee this way, is a test of patience, as it is a slow drip but it can be made into a peaceful time-out. This little maker made enough to fill two espresso cups of coffee, melted ice and sweetened condensed milk. More ice or cream can be added to suit your taste. I immediately poured more hot water into the maker to see if I could get another cup of coffee. The coffee was obviously weaker but it worked so, two for one. Easy to clean, as I just scraped the used coffee grounds into the compost, with a silicone spatula, and rinsed the maker clean. I left all the pieces to dry completely before I put them away.
Diane Kistner
Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2024
We make a pot of coffee in the morning, which gives us 3.5 cups of caffeinated coffee. I get 1.5 cup out of it. Later in the day, I’ll often want one cup of either caffeinated or decaf coffee, and sometimes I really enjoy a decaf at night. But I don’t want to make a pot. I have one of those OXO single-mug drip coffee makers, but I’ve been wanting to get away from plastic and also having to use more coffee filters (because they don’t compost all that well).I didn’t know what Vietnamese coffee drip filter maker was, but since I ordered this one, I’ve been reading about them. I was glad that this one is of the screw-down type. It took me a few times to get the hang of it, but I figured out I can put in about one 1-ounce scoop of coffee grounds, pour a third of the little pot full, put the lid on and let it percolate down, then fill it up one more time to the top. That makes a good-sized mug of coffee.We have some pretty crappy old decaf coffee, Folgers I bought maybe two years ago. I haven’t been able to bring myself to throw it out. I was surprised how much better it tastes when brewed using this Vietnamese pot…not like fantastic freshly ground gourmet coffee, mind you, but good enough that I can drink it and not have to waste what I have before buying more. This coffee is your typical grocery store drip grind, and I have not had a single particle of the ground beans make it through the filter pot into my cup.And I love the brass look of this pot. It just feels very rich and classy to make a cup. When I’m done, cleaning it is just a matter of dumping the grounds into one of my planters, then rinsing the three parts well. It’s so pretty, I just keep it on display on my kitchen counter.