Has a rube goldberg feel to it.

Also, I hope he wasn’t soldering with leaded solder…

Wow… must be a bitch to clean every morning…

goddammit! i was totally doing this! oh well, guess I can try to improve or something.

very cool.

I disagree with the poster. the grind *is* important — maybe not as important as when making espresso — and a coarse, *consistent* grind does affect the result. of course, as the poster pointed out (and I agree), brewing temperature/time is much more important.

I disagree with the French Press method. It’s the best way to get good coffee if you’re going to insist on using heat directly against the bean. The downside to heat extraction is that the more heat you use the more crap (acid, bitterness…) comes out.

If you haven’t tried it, try cold brewing which makes coffee like the good folks of Latin America drink it. It’s called “essence of coffee”. By steeping a pound of coarse ground coffee in nine cups of water you end up with a concentrate that you refrigerate and you just mix with hot water to a one to four ratio (adjust for your taste).

It has WAY less acid and a much better taste.

You should add and timer or an alarm clock.

If your are too much geek, meabe you could put an network card whit ‘wake on lan’ function. So you could start your machine anywhere :)

p.s
you are really good in welding

One word for perfect coffee
“Sanka”
Why waste your time with all this stuff? When all you need to do is open a jar and scoop out some freeze dried goodness into a hot cup of water. :-)

somone stab megadoodie 8 or 9 times with a old, slightly rusted spoon and then give him a PROPER glass of coffee
4 shots of espresso, consistant filtered(through some windowscreen, its cheap, its dirty, it works) grounds with a tablespoon of sucrose and 2 ounces of milk of cow added
coffee making is an art and everyone has their own style but a good cup of coffee is a good cup of coffee, no matter how its made
me personally, i like a slightly acidic, insanely strong cup
heres somthing that you all might wanna try if you have a cheap espresso maker(wouldnt wanna risk a $1000 unit), double(or triple) brewed :D(run a full load of water with no grounds to clean the machine)
the other day i ended up with a glass that was the same consistancy as cough syrup, triple brewed, 50% half and half(if you all cant tell, im highly caffinated as im typing this) now off to go play a high energy game before bed…