Mar 23 2009
Flip Your Lid for Coffee
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| Neapolitan flip coffee pot, picture taken by User:Csant on 2007-12-29 |
Just when I start thinking I know a lot about making coffee and coffee makers, along comes something I’ve never seen before. I happened to run into this little beauty while I was looking for a photo of a Puerto Rican coffee sock the other day. It’s a Neapolitan flip coffee pot - something I’ve never even heard of before, despite the fact that my grandmother was Napolitana and half my family still lives there. Even my sister-in-law, who grew up there and only came to the U.S. about 12 years ago, has never seen one. Go figure.
That said, I kinda like the flip coffee pot. I’ve seen pictures of several different versions of it now - and when it’s standing the other way up, it kinda looks like Mama standing with one hand on her hip and pointing down at that piece of paper you just walked over and didn’t pick up. Check out this picture of three flip coffee pots over at Illy Coffee to see really see what I mean.
Illy also gives you instructions on how to use a flip pot - basically, you fill the bottom part (which is on top in the picture with this - the part without the spout is the bottom) with water, put ground coffee in the filter part in the middle, and put it on the fire. As soon as it starts to boil, you take it off the fire and flip the whole thing over so that the spout part is on the bottom. The water drips from the top (which used to be on the bottom) through the filter with the coffee and into the bottom. To serve, just pour.
So now I’m on a quest to find a Neapolitan flip coffee pot that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg (that is, more than $25 or so) so that I can add it to my collection of unusual coffee makers. Anyone seen one? Got one? Got a different unusual coffee maker that I might not know about? I’m all ears!
Have you tried ebay?? that site has got everything
Oh wow, I have never seen a pot like this before.
Unusual coffee pot. I have not seen the old fashioned perculator type coffee pots around. I like the smell of fresh perked coffee - done the old fashioned way. If you loose your electricity - these modern coffee machines are done for - I keep an old fashioned pot around to throw on the wood stove if I loose power in the winter.
I woke up to the sound of coffee perking throughout my childhood, mpaulin, and I love the way it sings in the pot - but I’m not a huge fan of the taste. I agree with you about keeping aa non-electric coffee maker around in case your electricity goes out, though. I have several different ways to make coffee if I can’t use the electric drip pot.