Coffee Stuff

I have a couple collections, being middle class and comfortable enough to afford them, but my biggest collection is practical — in a way. I collect coffee pots.

I have several ways of making coffee. My daily coffee is made in a Technivorm Moccamaster, which is a high-end automatic drip coffee pot that I bought at a discount. My husband roasts beans with a Behmor coffee roaster, which will roast one pound at a time.

Then there are my other coffeemakers, which I don’t use on a daily basis. I have two dripolators made of aluminum and ceramic, two different styles/sizes of aluminum moka pots, a Chemex auto-drip pot, a WWII-era glass vacuum pot (no rubber gaskets), a later (1950s) glass vacuum pot, a modern Cona glass vacuum pot, a stainless steel vacuum pot, a Royal Belgian siphon pot (which I got for $50 used), two press pots, a cold brew pot, and an iconic Pyrex glass stovetop percolator.

I have all my coffee pots in a display cabinet where they share space with a few teapots (which I have collected in the past). I don’t have room for any more, which means I won’t be collecting more esoteric pots like a Neapolitan flip pot or a Bohemian coffee pot.

I don’t know why I collected all these coffee pots. I have a veritable coffee museum. Now to drink another cup of coffee…