Syphon Coffee

Syphon, Intelligentsia from Department of the 4th Dimension on Vimeo.
A very cool and interesting video.Singapore do serve syphon coffee, one of them is Cuppachoice Cafe located at No.3 Temple Street.

A Syphon maker brews coffee using two chambers where vapor pressure and vacuum produce coffee which is clean, crisp, rich and smooth compared to other brewing methods. This type of coffee maker is also known as vac pot, siphon or vacuum coffee pot and was invented by Loeff of Berlin in the 1830s. These devices have since been used for more than a century in many parts of the world. Design and composition of the vacuum coffee maker varies. The chamber material is pyrex, metal or plastic, and the filter can either be a glass rod, or a screen from metal, cloth, paper or nylon. The Napier Vacuum Machine, presented in 1840, was an early example of this technique.

While vacuum coffee makers generally were excessively complex for everyday use, they were prized for producing a clear brew, and were quite popular until the middle of the twentieth century. The Bauhaus interpretation of this device can be seen in Gerhard Marcks’ Sintrax coffee maker of 1925.