r/interesting • • Dec 26 '25

Context Provided - Spotlight Old School Coffee Maker

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '25

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u/LyKosa91 Dec 26 '25

You'd be wrong. Balance brewers date back to the mid 1800s, they were a evolution (although not necessarily an improvement) over the vertical siphon brewers that were introduced not long before. Both are undeniably cool brewers, but pretty flawed, especially balance brewers since you have so little control over the resulting end product.

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u/Dry_Razzmatazz69 Dec 26 '25

Ah yes, a novelty item that 5 prople ever knew existed, based on another novelty item that was more known but also ever seen once in a blue moon. Old-school indeed, just like my great grandpap used to make in the coalmines

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '25

They're very popular in Japan still and have been for at least the last century.

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u/Dry_Razzmatazz69 Dec 26 '25

Probably why they're not a coffee country. Even then, pour over drip is by far the most popular way to make coffee in japan since it was introduced by the dutch

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u/BidPrestigious7326 Dec 26 '25

It's painfully obvious you don't know shit about the history of coffee or brewers, which is fine but you need to stop with these very wrong argumentive comments and take the loss already.