By chance I recently picked up an old Braun coffee grinder at the thrift store for a few bucks. Now, this thing is a design classic, drawn up by an associate of Dieter Rams himself. One of its siblings was shown in the MoMA. These things will go for a hundred dollars plus online. The grounds it produces? 50% dust. But damn if it doesn't look good doing it.
Florian Seiffert! The salt & pepper hair with the wave, the epic moustache, the designer glasses, love of coffee machine aesthetics & design!... Is he Hames Joffmann's long lost father!?
Salt and pepper? _,,It was all a dream, I used to read Word Up! magazine_ *_Salt-n-Pepa_*_ and Heavy D up in the limousine_ _Hangin' pictures on my wall_ _Every Saturday Rap Attack, Mr. Magic, Marley Marl"_ 📀🎶 (Biggie Smalls - Juicy)
They are often confused because they are identical twins. James -- being the younger one -- always aspired to achieve the sheer brilliancy of his older brother Hames. His brotherly feud fueled his obsessive coffee endeavors, but alas, as everything else Hames does, it outshadowed James' work. Pure vigor, disgust, and jealousy filled his lightly-brown aptly-marked "James" paper bag. And so, James "James" Hoffman got to work. Training his palette with bad coffee after bad coffee he finally understood and reached nirvana on Hames' brilliance. James burst out a squeal of joy! An underbreath whisper of the coffee-oli secret recipe could be heard: 'short, concise, and funny facial expressions.' So is the story of James "paperbag" Hoffman. He now peacefully resides (retired) in a shack located somewhere by the shores of dover; being careful to bubble his bripe with the frequency of the waves.
I’ve used this machine for ages and while it isn’t amazing, it’s definitely just as good as any other drip coffee I’ve had. For most of us out there we wouldn’t know much of a difference.
Yeah, drip brews just tend to have a very distinctive taste. It's not my thing at all, but, e.g., my mother prefers them over pour-over brews, because for her, it's what she expects coffee to taste like, and a smooth specialty coffee tastes just "weird" and unexpected to her - missing the bitter bite that she thinks a coffee should have.
Well I mean, I dont think James had one of those flying around at home, so he might just bought a used one and I dont wanna know if that thing was ever cleaned properly. Pretty sure somthing like that has major influence on the taste.
I'm seen a lot of plastic in many coffee brewers (even nowadays, take aeropress as an example). Does anyone care about the presence of endocrine disruptors in them? Such as phtalates or bisphenols. They will leak out of the plastic with hot temperatures and get into the coffee. Maybe you should review this topic in future videos for people that don't know about the hazards of these chemicals.
I had one of these in red for years before it finally died. I thought the coffee was pretty good, but this was still in the days of Peet's being the best you could get. I remember the crowds of old hippies hanging outside of the Berkeley original Peet's around the corner from Chez Panisse, riding on their caffeine high.
This looks to be inspire in a brazilian water filter invented in 1920 called "Filtro de São João". It was made of clay and the factory was called "Cerâmica Lamparelli.
I was just on vacation and I used a Braun coffee maker from the late 80s to early 90s, since my mother-in-law does not drink coffee. I must say that I did not find the coffee to be appauling, but I drank better.
Had one but with the power switch under the tray, almost electrocuting me when the water pipe rotted through and I wanted to power it on🤣🤣🤣 because the bare mains wires were next to those heaterpipes…
I enjoy watching coffee enthusiasts explaining the art of brewing and the science behind all of it. That being said, my favorite coffee either comes from Wawa or out of my black and decker pot from home depot.
Dear James, could you voice your opinion on "Polish coffee"? It occurs to me that the way we Poles traditionally make our coffee (grounds into a tall glass, poured over with hot water and left to settle before drinking) is apparently unique. I'd be happy to know if you ever in your years of experience came upon something similar, maybe called a different way, maybe in another country?
There is a variant called the French press. It is similar to what you describe except that after letting the coffee sit in the water you then separate the coffee grounds from the liquid with a filter attached to a plunger. Popular in English speaking countries and made in Denmark. Not sure why they call it French press.
My son watches your videos with me so he knows who you are. Apparently, he doesn’t know your name because he just asked me to watch one of those “John Soffman” videos. Ha ha 😂 I’m dying.
I still use an original 1972 Mr coffee to make my coffee most mornings. I also have a 1991 Mr coffee that I use with a wall timer if I want to set it up the night before. I can't use the wall timer with the original because it's a three-prong plug and it has two switches one for the Brewer and one for the burner and the Brewer doesn't shut off completely automatically so you have to be right there to shut it off. It has a heat switch built in to shut it off if you don't but it will keep cycling, and it draws so much current that just scares me.
Awesome -- please check out an older French-made Krups F468 MokaBrew. If you run the heater 2 seconds on and 4 seconds off, you get an amazing result that the new models don't match. I'm still regretting having given mine to a friend when I moved. :(
Big fan of your historical coffee articles, I had one of these with a Braun burr style coffee grinder KMM1 from the same era designed by Reinhold Weiss. Any plans to do one on the iconic Atomic espresso machine?
I've an old Black and Decker auto-drip. BAsically works the same way. I find that if I remove the carafe during the first 30s or so while it brews and give the ground a few stirs and then reinsert, the quality improves noticeably (sometimes I make a mess, though)
I think I remember that we had one of those! Those were the days when things were made to last a lifetime! Our Miele oven lastet over 30 years and those Braun coffee makers and toasters also were made as if to survive a nuclear war! So sad that things nowadays are build to break after the guarantee for them had run out!
Can you imagine you much tech you can fit into a device of this size in this age? I could see this as an automated pour over machine like the xbloom studio but much smaller and available in a variety of colors.
who else thought james was just reposting constantly and then realized they were just scrolling the few yt shorts he has, looping back to the beginning, and then scrolling all the way through, looping back, and doing the same thing over and over again
I'm using a "museum piece" as my daily driver, and it's still the best espresso maker available. So much so, in fact, that hipster upstarts have started making knock-offs based on it and selling them for large prices. It's a La Pavoni Europiccola, of course, from 1976 and maintained for daily use.
I had one of those. Completely rebuilt it. It was like brand new. I could never get a single drinkable shot out of it for the 4 years I owned it. I'm 100% sure it was me and not the machine. It and I just didn't gel well. Shame too cause it was beautiful. Half brass, half chrome, I even turned wooden handles for it myself. I use a Silvia with a PID on it now and it's much much better for me, but it's not pretty...at all.
Omg this coffee maker is gorgeous!! Aside from that, couldn't you adjust the grind to compensate the way it extracts? I kinda do that when using my regular not-that-gorgeous drip coffee maker
I have watched your videos with great interest I bought my first Gaggia classic 30years ago regretted getting shut I actually went to some warehouse in West Yorkshire with it maybe where you worked My problem is I have got a dualit 3in 1 I’m thinking of putting new baskets in not pressurised type will it work
We have a 2nd hand electric coffee pot and Folgers mixed with off brand ground coffee. We would love to have espressos everyday but never made it that far. Feel free to send me one of the machines and would put it to good use. 😂 your face matches mine 😂
That face at the end tells it all. I still prefer pour over and french press methods for my coffee. I dont have a grinder that is good enough for espresso nor do I have an espresso machine.
You are surely missing out! Never ever would I have thought just a few years ago that I will one day spend like €700,- for a grinder but I just did so like a week or so ago, buying my Niche Zero and having it shipped to Munich from the UK. I never had such a lovely espresso before! I really enjoy it every morning! 😊
I have a monstrosity of a device for you to test. I bought it out of sheer curiosity. I honestly don’t know how they came up with this device. Id gladly send you mine. It’s the 8 Cup Convenient Craft™ Automatic or Manual Pour-Over Coffee Brewer from Hamilton Beach.
Love the period appropriate cup, that's perfect
Now I see why that was in the AliExpress haul!
Came here to say the same thing
Very appropriate for Brazilian housewares
The delivery of that "no" after all that buildup was so perfect
And we all knew it was coming.
By chance I recently picked up an old Braun coffee grinder at the thrift store for a few bucks. Now, this thing is a design classic, drawn up by an associate of Dieter Rams himself. One of its siblings was shown in the MoMA. These things will go for a hundred dollars plus online.
The grounds it produces? 50% dust. But damn if it doesn't look good doing it.
It's a handsome machine. From the thumbnail, I thought it was a new product, not a 50 year old product! It would look good in my kitchen....
Yeah I thought it was brand new as well
breaks my heart when good looking products are mediocre
I'm really upset that 1970 was 50+ years ago...
The only thing that gives it away is the power switch
The orange and green were quite popular in the 70s (although brown is most notable)
Its minimalist aesthetic still holds up. It's a shame the coffee it makes doesn't.
If it was white, it would have a cult behind it already
the coffee is fine, James is just into his pseudoscience.
@@acex222 lol, pseudoscience? Are you suggesting the variables that go into coffee brewing are arbitrary? Have you ever brewed decent coffee?
@@Drspoe maybe he doesn’t know what pseudoscience is
@@acex222 So a subjective opinion of how something tastes is pseudoscience now?
Florian Seiffert! The salt & pepper hair with the wave, the epic moustache, the designer glasses, love of coffee machine aesthetics & design!... Is he Hames Joffmann's long lost father!?
Salt and pepper?
_,,It was all a dream, I used to read Word Up! magazine_
*_Salt-n-Pepa_*_ and Heavy D up in the limousine_
_Hangin' pictures on my wall_
_Every Saturday Rap Attack, Mr. Magic, Marley Marl"_ 📀🎶
(Biggie Smalls - Juicy)
If you look around on TH-cam, there’s a whole video by this guy named James on how to get better coffee out of a standard drip machine 😊
I've been following a guy called Hames. He seems to have some good guides there too
They're quite different though. Hames always comes directly to the point.
They are often confused because they are identical twins. James -- being the younger one -- always aspired to achieve the sheer brilliancy of his older brother Hames. His brotherly feud fueled his obsessive coffee endeavors, but alas, as everything else Hames does, it outshadowed James' work. Pure vigor, disgust, and jealousy filled his lightly-brown aptly-marked "James" paper bag. And so, James "James" Hoffman got to work. Training his palette with bad coffee after bad coffee he finally understood and reached nirvana on Hames' brilliance. James burst out a squeal of joy! An underbreath whisper of the coffee-oli secret recipe could be heard: 'short, concise, and funny facial expressions.'
So is the story of James "paperbag" Hoffman. He now peacefully resides (retired) in a shack located somewhere by the shores of dover; being careful to bubble his bripe with the frequency of the waves.
@@vokay that's one heck of a poetic diss... And I love it.
@@vokay That's one hell of a read!
OMG, we used to have this one!!!! It used to make pretty bad coffee, but you can always use it to make bad tea instead!
Trivia: a KF20 was used as set dressing in the galley of the Nostromo in the 1979 film Alien.
I noticed it the other day but thought it was plumbing pieces on top of a coffee pot!
Funny how this made it into my recommendations not too long after the Xenomorph became a killer in Dead by Daylight (I do like coffee as well though)
Why'd you write that?! You know my next step, and then I have to watch ALL of them!
I’ve used this machine for ages and while it isn’t amazing, it’s definitely just as good as any other drip coffee I’ve had. For most of us out there we wouldn’t know much of a difference.
Yeah, drip brews just tend to have a very distinctive taste. It's not my thing at all, but, e.g., my mother prefers them over pour-over brews, because for her, it's what she expects coffee to taste like, and a smooth specialty coffee tastes just "weird" and unexpected to her - missing the bitter bite that she thinks a coffee should have.
@@berlinflight_tv - that continental breakfast smooth paper filter flavour.. Homely for millions.
Well I mean, I dont think James had one of those flying around at home, so he might just bought a used one and I dont wanna know if that thing was ever cleaned properly. Pretty sure somthing like that has major influence on the taste.
Braun should bring it back with improvements to the brewing!
(improved shower head and lift pump - get the temps the connoisseurs demand.)..
I'm seen a lot of plastic in many coffee brewers (even nowadays, take aeropress as an example). Does anyone care about the presence of endocrine disruptors in them? Such as phtalates or bisphenols. They will leak out of the plastic with hot temperatures and get into the coffee. Maybe you should review this topic in future videos for people that don't know about the hazards of these chemicals.
I love the design, and drip is still my favorite coffee method.
I used to have this one. It was from my grandmother
I was transported back in time to a caravan park on the Scottish coast for a minute...
They are still in use here in Scotland, time hasn’t moved much since 72’ in some parts, believe me 😅
Coast?
,,Boasty, boasty, house on the coast G
My money so long it doesn't know me" 🎶
(Idris Elba ft. Wiley - Boasty)
@@walnutsandbeastiality866
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@@i-love-comountains3850 I'm leaning English by using movie quotes and lyrics lol
@@walnutsandbeastiality866
Oh nice! That's very helpful, subtitles are such a great way to learn other languages.
Was really hopeful there for most of this vid
We had one of these at home. Loved the design. Chatted with my parents about this machine the other week.
Braun is excellent! I still use my Braun KM 3 food processor from 1957 and it‘s doing a great job
I had one of these in red for years before it finally died. I thought the coffee was pretty good, but this was still in the days of Peet's being the best you could get. I remember the crowds of old hippies hanging outside of the Berkeley original Peet's around the corner from Chez Panisse, riding on their caffeine high.
Peets is still very good
That color and finish are gorgeous!
Can remember that machine really well as a kid my parents and grandparents had that machine back in the 80‘s
Braun was making beautiful products during that time period. Great designers and engineers.
i got one from my grandparents when i moved out 20 years ago and i still use this in the garage. this is probably the first designer thing i own
dream piece.
You have the most relaxing voice ever. Please do audio-books.
Oh but he already did! :D
Truly great designers design products that are visually appealing AND useful (sometimes exceptionally useful!)
I have the late 80s version of this, still works. Strongly doubt my coffee would illicit a different response though.
I love that coffee maker.
It looks like minifigs from lego
Dope Lego piece
By contrast, the technivorm moccamaster has been made exactly the same since they originally released it and it still makes great coffee.
“And all you had to do was hit brew!” So simple it even rhymes
This was my introduction to coffee
Amazing
This looks to be inspire in a brazilian water filter invented in 1920 called "Filtro de São João". It was made of clay and the factory was called "Cerâmica Lamparelli.
I was just on vacation and I used a Braun coffee maker from the late 80s to early 90s, since my mother-in-law does not drink coffee. I must say that I did not find the coffee to be appauling, but I drank better.
I want that so much
Had one but with the power switch under the tray, almost electrocuting me when the water pipe rotted through and I wanted to power it on🤣🤣🤣 because the bare mains wires were next to those heaterpipes…
I enjoy watching coffee enthusiasts explaining the art of brewing and the science behind all of it. That being said, my favorite coffee either comes from Wawa or out of my black and decker pot from home depot.
Very nice and minimalistic design.
Love the expression after tasting.
I love the look of this! I would purchase this!
That coffee maker is beautiful!
Braun is the king of design and function for appliances
JH rating an average coffee machine is like Gordon Ramsey doing drive through food reviews
Colour is perfect to match the kitchen of my childhood house also! 😂👌😉
Different time different focus. What we have learned about coffee brewing has changed how to brew a good cup of coffee
I’ve wanted one of these for almost a decade at this point 😭 jealous
It belongs in a museum!
🤠
Dear James, could you voice your opinion on "Polish coffee"? It occurs to me that the way we Poles traditionally make our coffee (grounds into a tall glass, poured over with hot water and left to settle before drinking) is apparently unique. I'd be happy to know if you ever in your years of experience came upon something similar, maybe called a different way, maybe in another country?
There is a variant called the French press. It is similar to what you describe except that after letting the coffee sit in the water you then separate the coffee grounds from the liquid with a filter attached to a plunger. Popular in English speaking countries and made in Denmark. Not sure why they call it French press.
We had a red one i remember as a kid thinking it was a fine looking machine
That’s a cool ass machine! Love it 😍
My son watches your videos with me so he knows who you are. Apparently, he doesn’t know your name because he just asked me to watch one of those “John Soffman” videos. Ha ha 😂 I’m dying.
Sup Zach! Small world!
Hey Kevin!! I have been watching James’ videos for a while. Its not everyday that you run into someone you know in the TH-cam comments!
Who you two?
Who us two? Who you?
@@ZacharyPittman good question.
It is soooo cool
James does a great job with costumes.
Funny design !!! It looks exactly like a giant LEGO piece 😅😂🤣😭 for real ❤️🥰❤️
I have a Braun electric bean grinder from that era. Still functions great.
With a slight refresh, this design could very well be sold today. And I'm sure the internals could be improved as well to make good coffee.
The 1970s were truly the swan-song era of ergonomic design. Even coffee machines respected ones eyes and aesthetic sensibilities.
Love the AliExpress mug
I still use an original 1972 Mr coffee to make my coffee most mornings. I also have a 1991 Mr coffee that I use with a wall timer if I want to set it up the night before. I can't use the wall timer with the original because it's a three-prong plug and it has two switches one for the Brewer and one for the burner and the Brewer doesn't shut off completely automatically so you have to be right there to shut it off. It has a heat switch built in to shut it off if you don't but it will keep cycling, and it draws so much current that just scares me.
Awesome -- please check out an older French-made Krups F468 MokaBrew. If you run the heater 2 seconds on and 4 seconds off, you get an amazing result that the new models don't match. I'm still regretting having given mine to a friend when I moved. :(
I hope there will be a full video on this. Looks really cool!
think him saying that it is a museum piece is a hard no.
crazy how good looking some of Braun designs are. Wish they still made new watches too.
Big fan of your historical coffee articles, I had one of these with a Braun burr style coffee grinder KMM1 from the same era designed by Reinhold Weiss.
Any plans to do one on the iconic Atomic espresso machine?
I love the facial expression on your first sip! That said it all for me ha ha.
I've an old Black and Decker auto-drip. BAsically works the same way. I find that if I remove the carafe during the first 30s or so while it brews and give the ground a few stirs and then reinsert, the quality improves noticeably (sometimes I make a mess, though)
Had it in my childhood home.
holy moly… we had one of those. the sound when you let it run just threw me way back into our morning kitchen, my dad making his breakfast…
Looks like a Lego persons head! Lovely design classic
Their watches are design icons too and they still tell the time as well as they did decades ago!
😂 this made me laugh. Good one James 👍👌
I think I remember that we had one of those! Those were the days when things were made to last a lifetime! Our Miele oven lastet over 30 years and those Braun coffee makers and toasters also were made as if to survive a nuclear war!
So sad that things nowadays are build to break after the guarantee for them had run out!
Still would look amazing on my counter❤
It’s so pretty though :)
Would love a proper drip machine with this design. Very clean.
I didn’t know this brand where designer! Had it trough childhood, dad always brewed coffee on it in the morning 😂 he later got nespresso thought
Braun had some solid industrial design.
So we're just gonna ignore the Inventor's magnificent, glorious moustache
Very simple❤
I feel like a re-go of this would work well
That would look amazing as a decorative piece in an home office.
Using a museum piece as intended tickles my fancy :D
Can you imagine you much tech you can fit into a device of this size in this age? I could see this as an automated pour over machine like the xbloom studio but much smaller and available in a variety of colors.
who else thought james was just reposting constantly and then realized they were just scrolling the few yt shorts he has, looping back to the beginning, and then scrolling all the way through, looping back, and doing the same thing over and over again
I'm using a "museum piece" as my daily driver, and it's still the best espresso maker available. So much so, in fact, that hipster upstarts have started making knock-offs based on it and selling them for large prices.
It's a La Pavoni Europiccola, of course, from 1976 and maintained for daily use.
I had one of those. Completely rebuilt it. It was like brand new. I could never get a single drinkable shot out of it for the 4 years I owned it. I'm 100% sure it was me and not the machine. It and I just didn't gel well. Shame too cause it was beautiful. Half brass, half chrome, I even turned wooden handles for it myself. I use a Silvia with a PID on it now and it's much much better for me, but it's not pretty...at all.
It'd be interesting for those with the maker know-how to mod a brewer this up to specialty coffee spec.
What a beautiful machine. Machine drip coffee sucks though, this model would work best as an exhibition piece.
Omg this coffee maker is gorgeous!! Aside from that, couldn't you adjust the grind to compensate the way it extracts? I kinda do that when using my regular not-that-gorgeous drip coffee maker
I’m quite sure that this was the coffeemaker people had in their condos at Marina City in 1972.
That's great content. Keep it going James 👌👌
That was class… I was awaiting that look of distaste before it even happened 😂
I have watched your videos with great interest I bought my first Gaggia classic 30years ago regretted getting shut I actually went to some warehouse in West Yorkshire with it maybe where you worked
My problem is I have got a dualit 3in 1 I’m thinking of putting new baskets in not pressurised type will it work
Can you test the modern version? It's really great and heats the water up just right.
We have a 2nd hand electric coffee pot and Folgers mixed with off brand ground coffee. We would love to have espressos everyday but never made it that far. Feel free to send me one of the machines and would put it to good use. 😂 your face matches mine 😂
'No!' Honesty. This is why you are trusted by coffee enthusiasts around the world. Thanks for the video.
that coffee maker is still gorgeous
brilliant
could you modify it with new internals and keep the aesthetic? that would be a really interesting video in my opinion
I need that cup. Where can I cup!? Good gravy please! I NEED THAT CUP!!
That face at the end tells it all. I still prefer pour over and french press methods for my coffee. I dont have a grinder that is good enough for espresso nor do I have an espresso machine.
You are surely missing out! Never ever would I have thought just a few years ago that I will one day spend like €700,- for a grinder but I just did so like a week or so ago, buying my Niche Zero and having it shipped to Munich from the UK.
I never had such a lovely espresso before!
I really enjoy it every morning! 😊
ngl, Florian Seiffert looks like an aged-up Moustache James (Makita/in-car brewers), especially with those glasses.
he should do movember and see how close he looks
I thought he looked like Matthew McConaughey in disguise…
I have a monstrosity of a device for you to test. I bought it out of sheer curiosity. I honestly don’t know how they came up with this device. Id gladly send you mine. It’s the 8 Cup Convenient Craft™ Automatic or Manual Pour-Over Coffee Brewer from Hamilton Beach.