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the only coffee maker that brews by boiling its own work back over itself, forever
means A coffee pot that brews by repeatedly cycling boiling water up through a tube and down over the coffee grounds until the brew reaches the desired strength.
from From the Latin 'percolare,' meaning 'to strain through' — built from 'per-' (through) and 'colare' (to strain or filter), which traces to 'colum,' a strainer or sieve. The verb 'percolate' entered English by the early 17th century in the sense of filtering liquid through something porous, and the 'percolator' as a named coffee device followed in the 19th century, when the back-over-itself brewing method came into vogue.
- the loop
- Pumps boiling water up a tube, over grounds, repeats endlessly
- the sound
- That bubbling gurgle gave the device its nickname
- over-extraction
- Recycling brew often scorches grounds into bitter sludge
- the fall
- Drip machines crushed its popularity by the 1970s
- camp loyalty
- Still rules campfires where electricity refuses to attend
chemex — hourglass-shaped glass coffee maker invented by peter schlumbohm in 1941
moka pot — three-chamber stovetop brewer patented by alfonso bialetti in italy, 1933
cowboy coffee — traditional method used by cattle ranchers in the american west where grounds settle in a pot over fire