Clever Pour Over Coffee Dripper

...ok, I'm going to say a bit more: Had one of these for a little over 2 years now and used it just about every day and usually more than once a day. It shows zero signs of wear and tear and makes consistently great coffee every time. My own method is simple: Boil 350ml of water. Put a size 4 filter paper in the dripper and use 50 ml of the water to moisten the paper. Drain this through into my cup, then stand the dripper on the worktop and pour the remaining 300ml of water into it. (Discard the 50ml from your cup). Add around 18gm of coffee of choice and lightly mix it so all of it is soaking in the flavour. Wait 3 mins and then put the dripper back onto the cup. Muse on life as the water filters through. Remove the dripper and enjoy. I understand that the reason for putting the water in first is that it speeds up the flow rate. If you put the coffee in first, it clogs up in the centre of the filter and slows it down. PROS: Cheap device producing clear, clean, non-bitter coffee from any bean, every time. Ritualistically therapeutic but simple method. Easy clean up: used filter in the food waste caddy; fill dripper with cold water and empty out, then repeat and let it empty through the valve over the sink. Ready for next use! CONS: Zero. The Clever dripper exceeds the capacity and simplicity of the Hario Switch and is a fraction of the cost. In other words there is no competition. All the benefits of a French press plus drip or pour over. Get one now....before they put the price up after realising what they have!

I love coffee. I have been through many filter coffee machines, espresso machines, bean to cup machines, and have ended up with this and absolutely love it. Why this beats Espresso: +------------------------------------------------------+ Let's face it, most of us drink coffee to wake us up in the mornings. People often think that Espresso has a lot more caffeine than regular drip coffee, but they're wrong. Because Espresso is only a small 'portion', it has less caffeine than say a full mug of regular drip coffee. Not only does the clever have a better effect at waking us up in the mornings, but Espresso machines take up a lot more space and creates more mess! The grind size etc also have to be very specific to make a good espresso. With the Clever Coffee Dripper, because you allow the water to contact all the coffee for as long as you want, grind size really isn't important at all. Why this beats Aeropress: +------------------------------------------------------+ The Aeropress is very very good, but I can only get about 1/2 mug size full of coffee. The clever brews a lot more, and you don't have to push down on the plunger early in the morning... Why this beats French Press: +------------------------------------------------------+ I'm really sorry to say that the French Press in my honest opinion is a horrible way of brewing coffee. Now, I'm not saying that the coffee tastes bad, but in my experience, you get lots of ground coffee in your cup due to the metal filter, and it is a nightmare to clean out. With the Clever, you use a filter paper which is a lot more efficient at keeping those coffee grounds away! Look in your mug after finishing your drink and you'll see no coffee grounds in there at all! It's also a lot easier to clean - just throw the paper with the used coffee grounds in the bin (although you could use the coffee for compost), and just rinse the clever out. The Clever does make a cup that tastes very similar to French press though because of the immersion process. Why this beats Instant Coffee: +------------------------------------------------------+ It uses ground coffee ... Why this beats Filter Machine Coffee: +------------------------------------------------------+ If you look at the water spout in a filter coffee machine, and compare where the holes are to where your coffee is, you'll see that only the central area of the coffee grounds gets used. This means that the coffee in the middle gets overextracted, whilst the coffee closer to the edge of the filter barely gets touched. This makes your coffee not taste that good, but thanks to the Clever, every single coffee ground is used, which leads to a much smoother flavour. So how do we use it? +------------------------------------------------------+ It entirely depends on you! It's a very forgiving process. I like to put 2 scoops of ground coffee in there, pour the hot water in, after 1 minute just stir it a tiny bit (being careful not to rip the paper filter) then leave for another 3 minutes. After that 4 minutes total is up, just sit it on top of a mug! Simple! Although this is large, it is perfect for 1 large mug of coffee (yum!). There's lots of video tutorials on YouTube if you get stuck, but it really is a simple process. I highly recommend the Starbucks House Blend with this, it tastes really smooth! The plastic is BPA free as well, so you know it's safe. There have been issues before where there would be 'cracks' developing in the clever dripper, but apparently they have now changed the plastic to be a lot stronger / safer. I would also recommend the Filtropa size 4 filter papers for this - they fit perfectly! I hope this review helps, but for the price, the coffee you get out of it tastes absolutely outstanding. I think coffee shops will struggle to beat this for brewed coffee!

I've tried: espresso machines - too cumbersome and big on the worktop, and hard to clean up, and only makes a small cup. I like a mug of coffee, and I don't like having to transfer a tiny cup of espresso in to the mug and add water. It's just another cup to wash up! Aerobie press - messy and hard to get it right, and it uses twice as much coffee as any other method. french press/cafetierre - good coffee but hard to clean afterwards (lots of messy grounds to try and rinse away), and it tastes a bit "cloudy" because you don't filter the very small grains out. All the above methods mean you have to wash out the equipment and clean all the messy coffee grounds out of your sink. By far the easiest and best way to make a mug of coffee is to use a plastic cone, with a filter paper in it, and park it on top of your mug. Then add freshly ground coffee, and pour hot water through. At the end, you simply throw away the filter paper. No mess, and you get a good, "clean" mug of coffee. The only slight downside is that the water doesn't sit in the cone very long. It starts to drain through as soon as you pour the water in, so the cooffee doesn't develop the full flavour you get in the French press. I've been racking my brains to fid a decent way of slowing the water flow. Blocking some of the cone holes is the best I came up with, but it's not ideal. This clever dripper solves that problem. The water is held in the cone, building up the flavour, until you decide to release it directly in to your mug. You get a fuller flavour than the normal cone method (because water is in contact with coffee longer) and you still have the convenience of smply throwing the filter paper/grounds straight in to the bin. Better tasting coffee, clean sink. What more do you want?

Buy a pack of quality filter papers, and some good coffee, follow the very simple instructions... in 10 minutes you will be drinking the best coffee you ever tasted (that you made). The difference between coffee out of this and pretty much anything else is truly amazing: in your own home, with no fuss, no mess and the first time you use it, you will get all those subtle, deep, bright flavours you get in the specialist artisan coffee shop (and no, we are not talking about Starbucks/ Costa here). In the box are three components: the dripper, a lid and a coaster. The packaging is good: bubble wrap keeps everything safe in transit. The whole shooting match is made of BPA free plastic: it feels like a quality product, and provided you follow the very simple instructions and use reasonable care, then I can't see any reason why it wouldn't last a long time. There are probably 2 notes of caution: 1: don't use boiling water straight from the kettle: let it sit for a couple of minutes ( boiling water will scald the coffee, may shorten the life of the components). 2: don't tinker with the valve when it is full of nearly boiling water ( there is an element of 'natural selection' at work here: you shouldn't need to be told 'be careful with that knife'). This retails at £20 in lots of specialist coffee shops, and is worth every penny, so at £12.50 it is an incredible bargain. I recommend spending the saving on a really good coffee to go in it: something from Union, or Has Bean, Lewis and Cooper, Big Maggy... If you only ever drink chain store coffee (Starbucks/ Costa/ etc) you will be amazed at what you have been missing. Enjoy!

For many years I have used a clear plastic Melitta filter cone but with a small rubber stopper with a length of nylon thread attached to it, inserted into the single drain hole. The cone with filter paper and coffee inside sits on top of the mug or jug. This ideal solution allows me to add a splash of hot but not boiling water to the ground coffee for a minute or so to drive off the initial release of carbon dioxide, then to add the rest of the water and to brew it for a further four or five minutes, with a small melamine saucer over the top to keep the heat in. Pulling out the bung allows the coffee to drain into the mug. The filter paper traps the oils and sediment and so it all makes a perfectly brewed cup of hot coffee. The bung and lid were all my own invention and I am surprised that no enterprising manufacturer has copied my simple idea, until now. When the time came to replace my yellowing and brittle cone I found that nowadays Melitta only make soft plastic polypropylene ones which quickly become discoloured and retain the smell of the coffee grounds. Cafetieres and percolators don't filter out the bitter oils, and the modern Aeropress plunger gets very mixed reviews. I therefore settled on this Mark 2 'clever coffee dripper' which builds on my idea of brewing the coffee in the filter cone by using a simple gravity-weighted rubber plug over the drain hole. It works, it's well made, the plastic looks tough and resilient, and there's little washing up afterwards. Five stars then, even though it's a bit over-priced. Mind you, the atrocious translation into English on the box is a lost art!

Hmm. It does all that it claims to do: It makes a nice, clean-tasting cup of coffee with maximum convenience. It combines the plus-points of the cafetier method and the drip filter method to make a cup that is bright and non-sludgy without being too thin. BUT. It doesn't match the hype surrounding it. For all the hipster cooing and anorak-ish obsession with the fine details of its brewing method that you see elsewhere on the internet, it is still basically filter coffee. It is a bit of a one-note affair, with none of the sweetness and crema and general loveliness of espresso coffee. I bought it to cure myself of my expensive and environmentally unfriendly Nespresso habit. I wanted something as tasty and convenient as Nespresso, without being tied in to purchasing poddy coffee. But it certainly doesn't match Nespresso for taste. [EDIT: I tried stirring the coffee while it brewed. That does improve the flavour I think.] However, it is a nicer way of making coffee because it doesn't sucker me into sticking with a brand or make me feel hugely guilty about excessive packaging. I will stick with it, and buy Nespresso for use on high days and holidays only. I wish it wasn't plastic. It would be nice if it could have a glass or ceramic structure. Then it would be an enjoyable object as well as a functional one. By the way, a nice thing about it is the cheery and clunky blurb written on the box, which has clearly been written by someone for whom English is not their first language. It makes me feel fonder of the gadget.

This is simple idea that mixes a number of different coffee making methodologies to produce a dripper that produces a large mug of coffee that on the face of it is similar to a french press. The real advantage over a french press is the grounds are contained in a filter paper which you can throw into the compost or bin - and they do not get into the cup. For how to use this device, James Hoffmann has an informative video on You Tube With this device, you can easily experiment with differing coffees, water to coffee ratios, grind size, water temperatures, brewing times etc to your hearts content until you get a recipe that works for you. Be careful how far you descend into this particular rabbit hole! As with all coffee makers, I believe that the better the quality of the coffee beans, the better the result - but better does not necessarily mean more expensive. The one thing to be careful of here - and this is nothing to do with the clever dripper- is that the description states that 100 clever filters are included. I understand that this is not always the case - some sellers do, some do not. However if you contact Amazon customer service they will sort this out.

Pros: This is the second clever pour dripper I've owned, and I'm a big fan. Aside from making delicious coffee, these are much more compact than having a full coffee machine, which makes extra sense if you have a small kitchen and already have a kettle for tea. The biggest advantage it has over similar products is precisely that it doesn't pour until you place it on top of a mug and the seal is released. The fact that you can choose how long to let the coffee brew before dripping is a big plus. We swapped over from a French press after noting that the lack of a filter was staining our teeth when used regularly. It's also much easier to clean up afterwards given the filter. When filling it to the top, my partner and I each get one medium cup out of a single brew (note these aren't huge cups, but enough for us). Ours is slightly tinted rather than clear (like the past one), which is an advantage because my last one got stained. Cons: While the lid helps retain the heat a bit more, evidently this dripper doesn't keep coffee warm, so if your routine requires a heating base, this isn't the product for you. As far as I know, it isn't dish washer safe, so it does require hand washing as well. Also, be careful when you are filling up a mug because if you aren't careful, it can overflow (has happened a couple of times when I've not paid attention).

Deze clever dripper is echt top. Ik gebruik hem al jaren op de camping kf in een hotel.

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Me ha gustado su diseño, es muy útil, fácil de hacer el café. No me gusta que no ponga en ningún sitio que necesita filtros (que si que los necesita) y que no trae ningún tipo de indicaciones a la hora de preparar café (cuántas cucharadas para cuántos etc...)

I love this filter as it stops running the second you lift it off a cup or pot. You can place it safely onto the bench top without it leaking. I would never use another filter. I am onto my second one after many years as the silicon closure stopped working reliably after several years. Would buy it again anytime. Great gift too.

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