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The insulated flasks
Unlike most filter coffee makers, this one doesn’t rely on a hotplate to keep
your coffee warm. Instead, it uses insulated flasks. This means that you’re no
longer tied to the kitchen. You can take the coffee with you anywhere in the
home, garage or garden. You can even use it to make tea.
For best results, rinse the flasks with hot water, to pre-warm them before
putting into the coffee maker. Used properly, the flasks should keep your drink
hot and tasty for about half an hour. After about half an hour, chemical
changes in the brewed liquor start to make it bitter.
The lids
To prevent heat loss by evaporation, each flask has two lids. Leave the inner
lids on when making your drink and when drinking it. Put the outer lids on to
keep the liquid hot when you’re carrying it. Keep the flasks upright — they’re
not watertight, though they’re “spill-resistant”, up to a point. The cut-outs in
the outer lids fit over the tabs on the inner lids.
Tea
Use good quality teabags, one per flask.
Coffee
Use medium-ground filter coffee. The amount will vary with the type of coffee
and individual taste. We suggest two rounded teaspoons of coffee per flask.
Milk
Our view is that personal taste should rule, not convention. What we do say is
that if you like milk in your coffee, use warm or hot milk, to avoid overcooling
the coffee. To extract maximum flavour from the coffee, it should be cool
enough not to scald or burn the mouth, but hot enough to let the flavour fill
the mouth, sinuses and nose, not just the taste buds.
Bottled water
If you use bottled water, make sure it has no added ingredients, flavourings,
etc., and use “flat” water, not “sparkling”. The carbon dioxide which gives the
“sparkle” will adversely affect the flavour of your drink.
Position
1.Position the coffee maker on a firm, level, heat-resistant surface, close to
a power socket and out of reach of children.
2.Don’t plug it in yet.
Water fill
3.Lift the lid of the coffee maker up and back. It’ll open a bit more than 90
degrees. Don’t try to move it more than this, or you’ll break it.
4.Pour fresh cold water into the upper rear of the coffee maker.
5.Fill to the 1 mark if you’re making one flask, or up to the 2 mark if you’re
making two flasks.
Remember: If you’re making one flask, just fill to the 1 mark. The drip tray
will catch drips and dribbles, but it can’t cope with a whole
flask’s worth.
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