Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #12150 in Kitchen & Housewares
- Size: 4-Cup
- Color: White
- Brand: Sowden
- Model: S002
- Dimensions: 6.50" h x
4.80" w x
7.50" l,
Features
- Easy to clean
- All parts dishwasher safe
- High quality porcelain
- 18/8 Stainless steel filter
- Slow pour spout
Sowden Oskar SoftBrew Coffee Maker with Scoop, 4-Cup
Product Description
Using hi-tech photo-etching technology, Sowden has developed a micro-thin filter with more than half a million microscopic holes giving outstanding filtering ability and making it possible to produce what we call SoftBrew Coffee. Put your preferred amount of ground coffee into the filter and pour in hot water, just off the boil. Let it brew for four to eight minutes and your coffee is ready. It is that simple. Nothing to worry about except the hot water. We have followed our principle of reducing things to a minimum in order to make coffee brewing the simple treat it is supposed to be and bringing out the natural flavour of coffee. The new Sowden SoftBrew filter is definitely an easy way of brewing an excellent cup of natural coffee.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
26 of 28 people found the following review helpful.
I returned it.
By ChicagoCPA
I really wanted to like this device. It received good reviews from some respectable coffee "experts" and it seemed to be a nearly ideal setup for making consistently great coffee and it seemed easy to keep clean.Our drip coffee maker broke and I was looking for an alternative that was easier to keep clean and more landfill friendly.However, this pot just requires too much effort to get good tasting coffee from it. I came to the conclusion that method is flawed and I ultimately returned it.The reason this CAN achieve so little sediment is that after 4 minutes, much of the sediment has settled to the bottom and the way this thing pours, the sediment slides into a pocket towards the front and does not easily pour out of the pitcher (cool design this part).If you follow the instructions, you will get great tasting coffee with some particulate matter, but not too much. It will be weak and your 2nd cup will be room temperature, but good tasting.If you preheat this pot, I found that the sediment increased dramatically, even at the coursest setting on my Breville BCG800XL Smart Grinder. We did not like it.Getting all the coffee grounds out of a cylindrical filter this large is a pain to do each and every day and if I had to live with water restrictions, this would not be the way to go. Perhaps if it were rectangular to allow the water to flow thru from the outside or if the holes were smaller? As it is, 80% the water just flows around the filter if you rinse from the outside and if you rinse from the inside, not enough water stays in the pot to wash away the grinds.Since I returned it (about 7 months ago), I have been achieving the same effect every morning by simply putting the coffee grinds into an empty preheated $2 porcelain pot and pouring 205 degree water over the grounds, whisking it up a bit, let it steep for 30 seconds, then pour this cowboy style coffee thru a metal filter Fresco Cone Shaped Coffee Filter inside a silicon Java Drip Coffee Maker into a pre-heated thermos. A #4 metal filter is MUCH easier to clean and the entire setup costs 1/3rd the price.One advantage to this method is that it is easy to brew 12oz or less with no negative effect on taste. On the Sowden, the filter does not reach the bottom, so you still have a minimum amount of coffee that needs to be made.Another advantage to using a $2 pot: it allows me to use a paper filter when I want to get ALL the particulate matter. Although this stops the oils from getting thru, most guests just do not want any grounds whatsoever in their coffee.In short, the Sowden is overly expensive, difficult to clean, has no allowance for paper filters, and the coffee quickly gets ice cold.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
Great little coffee pot!
By lablanche
I love this little pot. I ordered the 4 cup, and make coffee and tea in it every day. I find I use a full 6 scoops of coffee to brew, but I am measuring whole beans. I have a tiny kitchen, and I am the only one in the house who drinks coffee or tea, so the smaller size fits my needs. If I have guests, I just make it stronger and dilute it with a bit more water. As is, it makes three of my mugs of brew.The coffee is wonderful. I have a problem with acid reflux and prefer black coffee, and I find I can usually drink it that way in the Sowden. I have yet to make the cold brew, but will try that when summer comes around. One thing I should add is the filter needs a good washing and rinsing because it does harbor little bits of coffee, but a soft sponge will do the job. I used to use a French press, but this is my new coffee pot of choice. No filters, not complicated or messy to clean, simple. And I can make tea in it, too. The instructions say not to microwave, but I think they meant with the metal filter. I just remove the filter, fill the pot with water, and it's fine. That compensates for the cooling of the water if you pour it over the coffee in a cold pot, so you can brew at the recommended temperature for optimum coffee brewing.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful.This is a keeper!
By Now and Zen Girl
Makes great tasting hot coffee with almost no effort. Has a small footprint and looks stylish enough to leave out between uses. Really easy to clean; but basket needs washing between uses, contrary to instructions which say to just rinse. If you wash the basket by hand, be sure to rinse, and rinse, and rinse. Those micro perforations can hold soap as well as remnants of grounds.For iced coffee, the recommended amounts make a very weak brew that tastes fine but thin. Use at least twice as much coffee for full flavor.This has replaced a Melitta cone-topped, glass coffee maker; SoftBrew doesn't need filter papers, is much sturdier, and takes less room to store. When the 4 cup size becomes available, I'm going to order it to use for breakfast coffee, even though the 8 cup works well for smaller quantities.
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