and doesn't taste much better

a one cup cafetière:

you see them most often in vietnamese restaurants for making cafe sua da.

there are two main modes of employ, the latter of which i have discovered only very recently.

1) put coffee into the main receptacle, screw down the flanged part tightly, pour in hot water and drip into your cup.

2) forget about the flange. put coffee in the receptacle. add just enough hot water to wet the ground coffee, causing it to expand, making a coffee-water slurry that, itself, serves as a filter. now pour the rest of the water. you will see that it drips slowly as in method 1.
- posted by Jesse @ 10:34 AM