8 cup vacuum pot coffee brewer. The Yama Vacuum Brewer ships with one filter cloth, the filter assembly, a measuring spoon, lid/stand, and vacuum brewer. Additional filters are available for an additional charge. "Cup" refers to Yama's idea of what a cup should be and equals about 3-4 ounces for each cup. Directions for use:Use a slightly finer grind of coffee, somewhere around "auto drip" however you may experiment to taste.Dropthe washable, reusable cloth covered filter into the infusion chamberwith the chain hanging down into the glass syphon tube. Pull the chaindown until you can hook it to the bottom of the siphon tube.Fill the bottom carafe to the 8 cup mark with hot water and place 8 measuring spoons of coffee mark in top chamber.Using the wire trivet between the coffee siphon and the burner place the coffee siphon on the burner and turn on to medium heat. DO NOT TURN THE BURNER ON HIGH As the water boils, it will be siphoned up to the top chamber where it will infuse with the ground coffee. A little water will always remain in the bottom water chamber.Let brew about 60 seconds, then remove the pot from the heat source. Oncethe coffee starts to cool the liquid is siphoned back down into thebottom carafe. Remove the top, placing it in its convertible lid/stand,and bring the pot to the table for serving.Gently rock the upper carafe back and forth until it can easily be removed and placed into it's stand.Serve and enjoy your fresh great tasting coffee.AlthoughIsopropyl (Rubbing) Alcohol which is available at all drug stores canbe used in the alcohol burner, Denatured Alcohol which can be purhcasedmost hardware stores will burn hotter and help heat the water quicker.Check out Old Timey Dave's (Dave W) Flickr feed to follow our EspressoParts adventure brewing with the Yama 5 Cup Tabletop Vacpot.For more information Mark Prince has provided an excellent FAQ on Coffee Vacpots on Coffeekid.comThe information below was taken from Wikipedia.HistoryThe device was inve
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Customer Rating: Summary: A great product Comment: I have used a Yama 8 cup vac-Pot for some two years now and am totally delighted with it. It is not only visually attractive, I still love to watch the vacuum siphon the brewed coffee into the pot below. I'm still amazed at how dry the spent coffee is after the siphon has drawn the coffee down through the grounds and into the pot. I've found that the ideal brewing time for the best tasting coffee is four (4) minutes, just like brew time for a French Press. The coffee is consistently delicious to the last drop.
My only wish is that it would make more coffee as it only makes about two and a half standard cups of coffee.
I couldn't recommend it higher. I'm going to buy an extra one to have on the shelf just in case I drop and break the one I use daily.
Dick - Houston
