India. What are we going to see from them in the lineup later on this year?
It is always fun to have new product to show to our friends. Zachary spends a serious
amount of time aloft on his way to work with our factory partners. "These guys are always holding a little something back to show me when I visit" and that is part of the reason we stay at the forefront of innovative product and design.
There is a casting company that we found, through several rounds of samples and a visit to the facility... that has produced quite a nice range of aluminum bowls and platters in mellow metallic colors that we will be featuring at the NRA show. Some of the shapes mirror our perennial best sellers, as well as several original designs. The aluminum we are using has the colorization mixed in with the raw metal, making the compound consistently colored through and through. The benefit is that any wear marks or mars in the finish will not ruin the appearance of the item. "If these pieces are well received, we will definitely expand the amount of items we will offer".
There are also some wine buckets that combine wood and cast iron that were sneak peaked at the Catersource show. The common thread is that all these items are part of our Indian partnership and we are very excited to see how our customers will receive them.
Coffee lays in a disposable filter and introduced hot water drips into a container below. It is slow, yields a rich cup and can be a little greedy with the grounds. Lo tech versions in glass with permanent filters and some technique are a step up in results to Mr. Coffee.
Coffee and hot water mingle in a glass pot and a fine mesh strainer locks the grounds at the bottom. This has a nice presentation value (Michael Mina used to use this same tool to serve Court Bullion table-side) and brews in about 5 minutes. Pretty good results for an above average cup of Joe.
Hands down the heavy weight champion of home coffee brewing. The geniuses who executed this simple design must have worked dozens of iterations before they arrived at this nearly perfect tool kit. Fine ground coffee is poured into the 2" tube and water poured atop and inserting the plunger, you press with air, the coffee through a 2" flat round filter into a mug waiting below (You need a good sturdy mug to carry out the operation without wearing a java explosion -- I use a cocktail mixing glass.) The results are just south of a full blown espresso machine, and the clean up is the simplest of all of the above. Coffee shop coffee gets a run for it's money ... without the wait at the end of the counter.