@@bostonrailfan2427 Considering how small it is, I doubt it'll add a noticeable amount of weight unless you were packing as lightweight as you could go.
First thing I thought was this would be best applied to camping/backpacking. If you're making coffee for more than one person you'd either have to share the same straw or buy multiples, which instantly detracts any possibility of it replacing a coffee machine.
This is our second K-Classic. We had our first one for many years, so when we had to replace it, we wanted nothing else but this exact th-cam.com/users/postUgkxBrV-RbF5Nk0Rlt9i15aao-YMzqzTG8Vf model. We use it for about three people everyday in the morning. The taste and quick brew is one of the reasons we like it so much. There are so many choices of brands of coffee that we would grab what was on sale and test the different brands from there. I would definitely recommend trying different brands of coffee to find the ones you like the most because there are brands that quite frankly taste horrible.
This idea is taken from a very popular South American drink called Yerba Mate. You pour lots of that “tea” on a special cup. The “filter” part of the “bombilla” ( the name of that straw) filters the Yerba just like this coffee drinker. Now this one has a finer colander style filter than the Bombilla but it works the same. The reason you orange juice didn’t go though is that coffee or tea don’t clog the filter because of the size of the fabules. Orange pulp is too rubbery and clogs it.
Yeap, I said the same thing. But, coffee is VERY different then mate. It gets more and more gross tasting the longer you let it brew. Vers Mate gets even better tasting.
It's probably worth noting that Yerba Mate is brewed a little bit differently, in that you typically use MUCH more of it is pile most of it on one side of the cup, so it forms a wall, rather than stirring it around.
I was actually thinking this would be perfect for a bombillia. The classic ones let some of the finer tea leave through. It doesn't bug me at all, but this could be an improvement.
I ended up buying this because I travel often and live in a small apartment. This worked very well, and it's very easy to clean and takes up almost no space at all. Definitely an upgrade over the instant coffee I used to drink!
It's got a finer filter than any of my bombillas. I'm not from Argentina but have been drinking mate for 20 years, this is a significant upgrade to any bombilla I've ever found.
@Lenny Buttz Seems like there's a bit of confusion, let's try to explain it simple for you. The original poster is explaining that this product is similar to a straw called a bombilla used in Argentina to consume a drink called mate. You may have seen a product at your local grocery, sometimes called yerba mate. The poster then further explains that a filter can be attached to a bombilla and that bombillas are readily available at supermarkets. The poster then finishes with a bit of a rhetorical parthian shot commending the product as a "good idea anyway". Was this a sufficient explanation? Was my use of the English language up to snuff?
Yeah, you could just pour it through a coffee filter before you drink it instead of using this straw. The only thing the straw is doing is filtering the solid bits. There's really no need for this. It adds more problems than it "solves".
Yep. This is the equivalent of using a french press with an infinite steep time. Doing a french press correctly is hardly more work than this, and still no grounds in your cup
This is actually a common myth. Due to the science of how coffee extracts, because all the water and coffee are sitting wiht each other and no new water is being added, the coffee reaches an equilbrium quite quickly where it can't desolve/extract anymore of the coffee. This is why coffee tastings that last 20 minutes do not result in bitter coffee.
Had one since they launched on kickstarter, bloody marvellous, used to take an aeropress when camping or on holiday, now just this straw gets the job done. Also handy to keep in your bag to prevent having to use crap paper straws at fast food type places.
I have this straw, I backed it on Kickstarter. I absolutely love it for loose leaf tea and cold brew coffee. I just leave the coffee grounds and water in a travel tumbler overnight and I have a quick and easy single serve cold brew coffee.
Couldn't you do that same thing and then just pour it through a coffee filter before you drink it, instead of buying this? I don't see what this solves. I only see problems that it adds.
@@niclastname I like the straw because in the morning when I am in a hurry, I don't have to spend time making or filtering coffee. I just grab the cold brew from the fridge, toss in the straw, and then I'm out the door.
I have a few of these! I had backed their Kickstarter back in 2021. They also offer the silicone tips in different colors. They work really well for my loose leaf teas.
I have used this straw. So it does make your coffee taste stronger so if you don't like your coffee super bitter. Or black coffee you probably shouldn't use the straw with just the coffee grains. Because the benefits of a paper filter is that it filters out the some of the oil that causes some of the more bitter taste.
I bought one of these based on this review.. it has made life infinitely simpler at work! I don't have to worry with a coffee pot, waiting on brew time, or any of the other hassle with making coffee through a device. I literally put a scoop of coffee in my insulated cup, drop the straw in and give it a quick stir with the hot water and enjoy. No grounds, super easy to rinse off and put back in the little bag that it comes with. So easy, delicious coffee in an instant.
James, that was intriguing! Just out of curiosity it looks like the bombilla in the chimarrão but using a different filter. Chimarrão is like a container + straw used in Brazil to drink Mate.
I would say that the bombilla plus those little tule bags, used to wrap around to prevent clogging when using fine mate would be just perfect. Definitely gonna try sometime.
I'm a Kickstarter backer for these. I've had one since launch and I freaking love it. I've used it on a nearly daily basis and I have yet to have an issue. It's fantastic at work where there's no coffee maker and being able to sip coffee without using my hands helps a lot while working. They sell replacement filters but mine is still good as new after over a year and a half of use. There's one caveat, though: if you like cinammon with your coffee you're out of luck, since it will clog the filter and not go through it. A solution is to put the cinnamon _inside_ the filter, but it'll be all gone very soon that way.
This is a bombilla! People in the Andes have been drinking tea (mate) with such a straw for generations. One thing I learned the hard way until a lovely person in Argentina educated me, the water used to brew the tea is not hot. Just very warm!
There are actually coffee bags (like tea bags) of filter paper. Amazon has stainless steel mesh balls for coffee or tea for $6.00. I’d rather knock grounds out of a mesh ball than try and scrub congealed cream out of a filter straw.
@@Lavenderrose73 have you tried to brew coffee with one? I’m interested to know if the mesh keeps the coffee grounds in. The balls are listed for tea and coffee, but I never tried.
That's basically a mate straw. I like the silicon tip as metal straws or metal chopsticks against my tongue feel unpleasant to me. But a price of €34.14 is just outrageous.
It's not even a novelty use for a bombilla, we used to drink coffee like that with my friends back in the 90s. Just a big old metal jug and a regular bombilla, you gave it a sip and passed it to the next person. We called it "chupe y pase"
I'm not a complete coffee snob but I did learn, especially from various TH-camrs, some techniques to make good coffee and the science behind them. Similar to a French Press, you pour in about 200 degree water (to "cook" the coffee since boiling would "burn" it), add in a precise amount of medium grind beans and steep for about 4 minutes, press and pour a cup of coffee. Now the problem with both, is if you don't drink the coffee right away, it will continue to steep and "over-extract" becoming bitter which will kill any other flavors. So, with a French press, you can pour the extra coffee into an insulated carafe, or have a special press that closes of the filter, separating the beans and water. So, if you don't drink the whole cup fairly quickly, it'll become bitter the longer it sits. and personally, adding cream to the cup with the beans still in it, is like adding milk and/or sugar to tea with the tea bag still in it. The bag will absorb some of it and it will lose some of the added flavor when you take the bag out. Still, I think it's an interesting product with some potential. Thank you for the review.
Reading tea leaves. As a kid the first tea I drank was made with loose tea in a cup with boiling water. You allowed the tea to set a little time and then drank it, being careful not to stir up the grounds. Of course the very last of the tea had to be left because it would become impossible to not get tea leaves in your mouth. In the old days, fortunetellers would look into the cup and "read" the tea leaves, supposedly telling your fortune (future).
My other comment was long, roughly explaining over-extraction. I wanted to mention a similar looking coffee device popping up on my feeds from Kickstarter, called FinalPress. Rather than drinking through a filtered straw in a cup of over-steeping water and coffee grounds, you fill the basket with coffee, dip it into the hot water, stirring for a couple minutes. Then you press the plunger button on top of the stem and it acts like a french press, squeezing the water and coffee out before you remove it, to drink the coffee. It makes it similar to the tea leaf steeping ball you had. The coffee you drank right away was still in the "sweet spot" but the longer the Jogo stayed in the cup, the more bitter it would become from over-steeping/over-extracting. Side note, I don't know if the FinalPress Kickstarter is related to the similarly named and styled FinalStraw, FinalFork and FinalSpork.
This is actually a common myth. Due to the science of how coffee extracts, because all the water and coffee are sitting wiht each other and no new water is being added, the coffee reaches an equilbrium quite quickly where it can't desolve/extract anymore of the coffee. This is why coffee tastings that last 20 minutes do not result in bitter coffee.
Tbh I think I’d prefer a cezve/Turkish coffee like that. You drink it with grounds on the bottom of the cup and tastes pretty great. However it’s also much finer grounds almost powdery. Neat idea tho.
Though a nice concept, I fail to see a use case for it. For backpacking, space-wise you'd be better of bringing instant coffee (since you also need to bring coffee for the straw). And since the grounds stay in the beverage, you have the same LDL health issues as with a French press. And even if you have the coffee and the hit water, you could still make coffee cowboy style.
It is an example of a "bombilla" a filtering straw which has been used for a very long time, particularly in Argentina for their traditional "yerba matte" drink.
I did buy this one because of this review. I don't like single use pods and such, but I also only drink a single cup of coffee. I had just been going with tea, because my coffee maker just can't do one cup every well. Love this straw for this. Been using it since just after the review posted, and am still happy with it.
You would be surprised how many hotels that either don’t or are starting to remove coffee machines from the rooms. I actually have a personal coffee and tea kit that I bring when the hotel doesn’t include a coffee maker or hot water boiler in their amenities list. In Vegas it’s especially bad. The lines at Starbucks are usually insane and I don’t want to lose 90 minutes of the day getting a cup of coffee or tea.
That's because so many idiots use the coffee makers for other things like washing out panties and panty hose that no one wants to make coffee in them anymore. If you don't know about the things people do to hotel coffee makers don't investigate it just stop using them.
Lol, Argentines have been drinking tea out of these since prehistory! They're called Bombillas and are used with a Matero, a cup usually made from a silver-adorned gourd.
Thanks for the review. I use a tea strainer and puts coffee in it, then remove the strainer after 4 minutes. I don’t think I would like to use a straw for my coffee. I like to feel the warm cup.
In Colombia we know it as "accented coffee". By the time the water makes contact with the coffee, you are drinking a very high-caffeinated beverage. It's not a "coffee maker", it's just a straw with a filter.
French Press also doesn't work any different. I guess it depends how coarse your ground coffee is weather you end up with something resembling more the one or the other.
I used an 8-inch silicone straw with a ball of coarse copper wool inside the end that goes in the drink. The straw can be rolled, folded or tied in a knot and stuck in your pocket. I'll use it occasionally until the novelty wears off...happy campin'
@@Fridelain I have both stainless steel and copper for woodworking. Stainless steel will break when rolled and copper will not. It's soft, pliable and maintains it's shape
The problem I have with this straw is that the grinds are still soaking in hot water for however long it takes for you to finish your cup. I'd rather not deal with over extraction.
I was ready to give this product a shot after watching the view, I do like French press style coffee... so why not? Then I saw the price for this in Sweden, _72 dollars!_ They've gotta be joking. 😲
I was at a tea shop here in the US the other day and saw that they were selling a tea straw. Similar idea for $8 to $13 Maybe without as fine of a mesh. No silicone part for the straw tip, though
Of course it will work. Its just a miniaturized french press on the end of a straw. Additionally, the coffee should taste better, as the wider mesh will allow the coffee's lipids (fats) through (paper filters do not).
@@RaduRadonys except they aren't. I assume you are referring to the ridiculous news story that says drinking from a French press is bad for you? If you actually read the study, you would have to drink over 8 cups of coffee for it to even start making a difference. There just isn't that much fst in it.
@@finkelmana Yes I read it's bad for your cholesterol levels on more than one occasion. It may be only if consumed in large quantities as you say, however I prefer to eliminate as much bad stuff as possible, especially in this case when paper filtering doesn't affect at all the taste of coffee (for me at least).
@@RaduRadonys I can clearly taste the difference between paper and french press filtering. Also, I am assuming if you put cream in to your coffee it is a moot point, as cream is 18% fat by volume, and therefore FAR greater than any fat in the coffee. And that doesnt count any sugar - or whatever artificial sweetener does
I don't know about you, but I actually love orange juice with pulp in it. I wouldn't want to try and use a straw for that anyway. That Simply Orange with all the pulp is just absolutely delicious, it tastes like someone picked an orange from a tree and squeezed it right into the glass!
JUST SO YOU KNOW…..your video made me like it and want it. Watched it last night (may 20th and promptly ordered on Amazon, it was delivered next day may 21st) Lol damn it. Anyway, love all your reviews and trust your reviews more than anyone else on TH-cam. Thank you for all your reviews through the years. You are interesting, entertaining, funny and just awesome! My fiancé loves watching your channel with me too.
Hello James, I quite liked the idea of this straw, so just checked the price here in the UK and it's £32.94 from Amazon, which I'm afraid is a bit steep for me. But thank you for your demonstration and review. Best wishes, Penny from Christchurch. 🇬🇧
This straw is called a bombilla. It's a traditional straw used to drink a tea called yerba mate from South America. Search for bombilla and you'll find loads of different designs, pretty much all less than £30.
You will definitely over extract your coffee this way, but considering that any coffee maker will take up much more space than this... It would be a nice ultra portable way to still have coffee
do you though? most formal coffee tastings are done this way, except they sip with a spoon instead of a straw. i have to admit though, i'm not sure how it doesn't overextract.
Have something like that for Yerba mate but the holes are bigger. Should try it. Coffee would be too strong by the time it cool’s enough. Check out the BRIPE. It’s the best thing ever
One con to using straws of any sort: they cause gas. That doesn't seem like a big deal for most people, however, there are people with digestive issues (such as myself) where added gas is painful. I had been drinking water from a Britta water bottle, which uses a straw system, and once I quit using it, I felt so much better, and a lot of my issues went away. Something like this would just make things worse for me, unfortunately. :(
I don't understand 😅. With my Folgers coffee it says to boil the water in microwave. And when doing so the grounds melt in the water....i have never had a grounds problem 😮
The problem with this idea is that the coffee is gonna get stronger and stronger and stronger. I'm assuming this'd work fine for tea as well, but either way it probably means "Drink it while it's hot or you're gonna have a bad time". Still a pretty simple, nifty and cool thing though. Definitely useful for camping.
@@remnant24 Stronger is relative in this context, I think we can assume stronger as in more water soluble compounds of coffee are getting dissolved into the water. James Hoffman had some scientific numbers about what the ideal percentage of solubles in coffee for optimal taste, and I think it was around 20% if memory serves correctly. It's safe to assume that you will blow by that mark with keeping the coffee grounds in the cup and stirring it around. Probably also why it's recommended to keep the temperature lower than what you'd normally use for making coffee to lessen the rate of dissolving.
I thought the thumbnail said Coffee Marker. I was like what the heck is a coffee marker? Then I read the title as "Can this STRAW replace a COFFEE MARKER" What the heck is a coffee marker!? Video starts, I read a few comments. Oh. ☺️🤣
While it seems to work well, I just don't see myself drinking coffee or tea through a straw. It's pretty easy to make coffee without a coffee maker. But I will say this takes up very little space and doesn't require any kind of filter. I'm tempted to get one for emergency use.
I go camping quite a bit and make campfire coffee two ways. One is my French press mug. Easy and done, cup is lightweight as well and takes minimal space in the bag. You need a mug either way. Second way is what I used to do before I had a fp mug. It's a normal mug and toss the grounds in. After the brew time add a tiny splash of cool water and the grounds will sink to the bottom. It's not perfect, but it's never been an issue to me.
I would imagine the further down the liquid gets into the cup the more potent the coffee would taste considering the grounds are still present. I rather have a Homogeneous consistency than a heterogeneous one in terms of potency, despite the coffee being filtered successfully.
If you let it sit the full amount, and stir with every drink, it should be relatively uniform just because you've pulled as much of the potential out of the grounds as possible. I've done a semi similar thing with a sort of french press cup before, and even with the liquid still being able to flow through the grounds a bit, the uniformity wasn't bad because of letting it sit for quite a few minutes before pressing it.
@@RyuRaeArashi letting grounds sit on the coffee for too long is quite bad though as there is a range of extraction that you would want, otherwise unpleasant-tasting stuff would start leeching into your coffee.
I've never experienced this personally, and I used to make big batches of coffee in dutch ovens with the grounds sitting in them for the entire day. It's all down to tastes, but uniformity wise it's not as bad as people might expect in a cup like I described, and even better with the straw because you have the ability to properly stir as you go.
This really reminds me of a yerbamate straw. They have been using those in the jungles for centuries. Very similar concept but this one has a finer filter on it.
Lol yeah I'm surprised he didn't cover the cleaning part.. also wondering how long the filter and silicone tip would last using it daily in place of a coffee maker.
@@beanshady seems like a future revision and a way o keep income coming is to make the tip detachable and refillable. I imagine there is a market for this, technically doing it this way is probably better tasting, coffee makers can scorch it.. but maybe thats too high falootin for that customer base.
This is a bombilla. It's a traditional straw used to drink yerba mate, mainly in Argentina, but a few other countries drink it also, and have bombilla's.
Maybe so you wouldn't burn your mouth? Maybe the inside of your mouth is more sensitive than ones lips? Then again, I'm probably blowing smoke out my 🍑 & it's the other way around 😁
Neat concept and if people like it, great. But you are most likely drinking the very fine powdery grind that is inevitable from grinding coffee. Of course this thing would work, it is a filter on a straw ( moves the filter from the maker to the straw end). I would personally rather throw the filter from the maker away than empty a cup or mug of grounds and clean a straw (filter). For camping/ hunting, we just make cowboy coffee by the pot. Same thing but larger quantity and only one pot (=many cups) to clean. Still a pain.
I can see it being nice for ice coffee, but at the same time, I'm tempted to just runmbber band a piece of coffee filter to a straw and toss it afterward. I really hate washing straws lol
I have the straw. Really comes in handy when you want to have a cup of coffee quickly. The only issue with it is that you will have to shake the straw now and then for finer ground coffee (due to it clumping up along the filter section of the straw now and then). Though medium/coarse ground coffee doesn't really that issue at all.
The reason you aren't getting and grounds as you drink is because of the filter... the same thing an actually coffee maker filter does: keeps coffee grounds out of your drink.
I love seeing niche gadgets executed well. I don't drink coffee myself, but this is an interesting option for a lot of my co-workers that spend too much on Starbucks.
In Paraguay 30 years ago, they'd typically drink mate tea in a similar device. I still have mine though I'm not sure if I want to deal with the grinds.
If you go to Miami you will find a very popular local soda "Materva." It's a carbonated tea brewed from yerba mate leaves. The logo on the front of the can is a bombilla.
It seems like it's just a straw with a coffee filter on the end, in which case you could do this exact same thing, but instead of using this straw, just pour it through a coffee filter to get the grounds out. Then you have the choice to use a straw or not, and you don't have to worry about your coffee/tea getting stronger and stronger as it sits while you drink it lol. Like the straw isn't replacing a coffee maker, the process of making the coffee in the cup is. The straw is only making it so that you don't have to take a few seconds to filter the grounds out, while also making it so you must use a straw.
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I think most places you'd usually be making coffee would have a coffee maker around, but this would be great in a lightweight camping/backpacking kit.
@@bostonrailfan2427 Considering how small it is, I doubt it'll add a noticeable amount of weight unless you were packing as lightweight as you could go.
It's just a filter straw.
@@bostonrailfan2427the quality of coffee you could make compared to instant though… some people actually enjoy coffee
@@Mikesusendsadasdcand it works.
First thing I thought was this would be best applied to camping/backpacking. If you're making coffee for more than one person you'd either have to share the same straw or buy multiples, which instantly detracts any possibility of it replacing a coffee machine.
This is our second K-Classic. We had our first one for many years, so when we had to replace it, we wanted nothing else but this exact th-cam.com/users/postUgkxBrV-RbF5Nk0Rlt9i15aao-YMzqzTG8Vf model. We use it for about three people everyday in the morning. The taste and quick brew is one of the reasons we like it so much. There are so many choices of brands of coffee that we would grab what was on sale and test the different brands from there. I would definitely recommend trying different brands of coffee to find the ones you like the most because there are brands that quite frankly taste horrible.
This idea is taken from a very popular South American drink called Yerba Mate. You pour lots of that “tea” on a special cup. The “filter” part of the “bombilla” ( the name of that straw) filters the Yerba just like this coffee drinker. Now this one has a finer colander style filter than the Bombilla but it works the same. The reason you orange juice didn’t go though is that coffee or tea don’t clog the filter because of the size of the fabules. Orange pulp is too rubbery and clogs it.
Yeap, I said the same thing. But, coffee is VERY different then mate. It gets more and more gross tasting the longer you let it brew. Vers Mate gets even better tasting.
It's probably worth noting that Yerba Mate is brewed a little bit differently, in that you typically use MUCH more of it is pile most of it on one side of the cup, so it forms a wall, rather than stirring it around.
I was actually thinking this would be perfect for a bombillia. The classic ones let some of the finer tea leave through. It doesn't bug me at all, but this could be an improvement.
Thank you I said the same thing but in another thread
I ended up buying this because I travel often and live in a small apartment. This worked very well, and it's very easy to clean and takes up almost no space at all. Definitely an upgrade over the instant coffee I used to drink!
Looks even better for travelling than an Aeropress.
It's not more than a "bombilla" used to drink Mate here in Argentina, the filter can be added easily, it's sold in supermarkets, good idea anyway.
That was my first thought. Arabic friends of mine would pass around tea with a straw similar to this.
@@lennybuttz2162 if you don't understand what was written, maybe you are the one who doesn't understand English.
It's got a finer filter than any of my bombillas. I'm not from Argentina but have been drinking mate for 20 years, this is a significant upgrade to any bombilla I've ever found.
@Lenny Buttz Seems like there's a bit of confusion, let's try to explain it simple for you.
The original poster is explaining that this product is similar to a straw called a bombilla used in Argentina to consume a drink called mate. You may have seen a product at your local grocery, sometimes called yerba mate. The poster then further explains that a filter can be attached to a bombilla and that bombillas are readily available at supermarkets. The poster then finishes with a bit of a rhetorical parthian shot commending the product as a "good idea anyway".
Was this a sufficient explanation? Was my use of the English language up to snuff?
@@BradyPatterson They sell filters like this for bombillas, just google "filtros para bombillas"
the biggest problem I see is that the tea/coffee is going to be very over steeped unless you drink it quick.
Yeah, you could just pour it through a coffee filter before you drink it instead of using this straw. The only thing the straw is doing is filtering the solid bits. There's really no need for this. It adds more problems than it "solves".
Yep. This is the equivalent of using a french press with an infinite steep time. Doing a french press correctly is hardly more work than this, and still no grounds in your cup
That was my first thought as well, but for people who don't care about brewing the perfect cup of tea/coffee seems like it is targeted for them.
I dont really see the issue with oversteeped tea.
This is actually a common myth. Due to the science of how coffee extracts, because all the water and coffee are sitting wiht each other and no new water is being added, the coffee reaches an equilbrium quite quickly where it can't desolve/extract anymore of the coffee. This is why coffee tastings that last 20 minutes do not result in bitter coffee.
Had one since they launched on kickstarter, bloody marvellous, used to take an aeropress when camping or on holiday, now just this straw gets the job done. Also handy to keep in your bag to prevent having to use crap paper straws at fast food type places.
I have this straw, I backed it on Kickstarter. I absolutely love it for loose leaf tea and cold brew coffee. I just leave the coffee grounds and water in a travel tumbler overnight and I have a quick and easy single serve cold brew coffee.
Couldn't you do that same thing and then just pour it through a coffee filter before you drink it, instead of buying this? I don't see what this solves. I only see problems that it adds.
@@niclastname I like the straw because in the morning when I am in a hurry, I don't have to spend time making or filtering coffee. I just grab the cold brew from the fridge, toss in the straw, and then I'm out the door.
I have a few of these! I had backed their Kickstarter back in 2021. They also offer the silicone tips in different colors. They work really well for my loose leaf teas.
@Louanne Cataford: How often do you have to replace the straw and/or the filter?
@@annerohrbacker6097 great question.
@@annerohrbacker6097 essentially never as it seems to all be metal and theres no parts of it thatd go bad except the silicone
How does it feel to be scammed?
@@lukejposadas how is it a scam?
Everyone in Argentina right now is like this is just a frickin bombilla
total herano
Oh man I'd love to see James Hoffman try this straw. I don't drink coffee but if i do it's mostly lactose free milk with a splash of coffee lol.
+1
I think he'd get a chuckle out of this one haha
Sounds like Dunkin Donuts Coffee
according to his subreddit, he apparently backed it on kickstarter back in the day. Would be cool to see a video.
I have used this straw. So it does make your coffee taste stronger so if you don't like your coffee super bitter. Or black coffee you probably shouldn't use the straw with just the coffee grains. Because the benefits of a paper filter is that it filters out the some of the oil that causes some of the more bitter taste.
I bought one of these based on this review.. it has made life infinitely simpler at work! I don't have to worry with a coffee pot, waiting on brew time, or any of the other hassle with making coffee through a device. I literally put a scoop of coffee in my insulated cup, drop the straw in and give it a quick stir with the hot water and enjoy. No grounds, super easy to rinse off and put back in the little bag that it comes with. So easy, delicious coffee in an instant.
James, that was intriguing! Just out of curiosity it looks like the bombilla in the chimarrão but using a different filter. Chimarrão is like a container + straw used in Brazil to drink Mate.
Yep, same thing I was thinking! I think they're used in Argentina as well
@@carlostypes3942 popular In alot of SA i have a cup and straw i got from Argentina.
Yup, its a mate straw that was rebranded to try and profit off of coffee drinkers, who spend billions on quirky coffee equipment.
I agree, I live in Argentina and while watching the video, I was drinking mate 🧉 with a similar straw we call bombilla.
I would say that the bombilla plus those little tule bags, used to wrap around to prevent clogging when using fine mate would be just perfect. Definitely gonna try sometime.
I'm a Kickstarter backer for these. I've had one since launch and I freaking love it. I've used it on a nearly daily basis and I have yet to have an issue. It's fantastic at work where there's no coffee maker and being able to sip coffee without using my hands helps a lot while working. They sell replacement filters but mine is still good as new after over a year and a half of use. There's one caveat, though: if you like cinammon with your coffee you're out of luck, since it will clog the filter and not go through it. A solution is to put the cinnamon _inside_ the filter, but it'll be all gone very soon that way.
Should be able to get around that with cinnamon extract. Wouldn’t have thought you’d have such an issue infusing the cinnamon though
I believe they make a cinnamon syrup for coffee.
Try brewing the coffee with a stick of cinnamon in the water.
This is a bombilla! People in the Andes have been drinking tea (mate) with such a straw for generations. One thing I learned the hard way until a lovely person in Argentina educated me, the water used to brew the tea is not hot. Just very warm!
There are actually coffee bags (like tea bags) of filter paper. Amazon has stainless steel mesh balls for coffee or tea for $6.00. I’d rather knock grounds out of a mesh ball than try and scrub congealed cream out of a filter straw.
I have two of those mesh balls, a small one and one that's a little bit bigger.
@@Lavenderrose73 have you tried to brew coffee with one? I’m interested to know if the mesh keeps the coffee grounds in. The balls are listed for tea and coffee, but I never tried.
Got it. Works great!! I am glad I watched this because I would totally have missed that a cleaning brush comes with it and would have left it in.
That's basically a mate straw.
I like the silicon tip as metal straws or metal chopsticks against my tongue feel unpleasant to me. But a price of €34.14 is just outrageous.
Ive had one of those straws on my wish list for awhile now one day ill be able to get one i hear it can make coffee taste really good
Really neat product concept and design. I will definitely be giving this a try. Thanks for the review, James! 👍
Couldn't find TIME in any of their promos - thanks for thorough, not too chatty review!!
It's called an "Bombilla", in South America the y drink Yerba Máte with them.
4:27 James. If you ever disrespect my high pulp orange juice again…. 😂😂😂😂 I freaking love that stuff!!!!!
Same
This is basically bombilla, its used to drink yerbamate
For real, you gotta love the way people take traditional tools, rebrand them and sell them for high price as a new invention xD
It's not even a novelty use for a bombilla, we used to drink coffee like that with my friends back in the 90s. Just a big old metal jug and a regular bombilla, you gave it a sip and passed it to the next person. We called it "chupe y pase"
Same, been using bombilla for about 20 years now with my maté and tea :) they work great
"Chimarrão" here in Brazil...!
😂, yeah, I was thinking the same, actually the silicone would be helpful on a bombilla because that thing gets hot!!
I'm not a complete coffee snob but I did learn, especially from various TH-camrs, some techniques to make good coffee and the science behind them. Similar to a French Press, you pour in about 200 degree water (to "cook" the coffee since boiling would "burn" it), add in a precise amount of medium grind beans and steep for about 4 minutes, press and pour a cup of coffee. Now the problem with both, is if you don't drink the coffee right away, it will continue to steep and "over-extract" becoming bitter which will kill any other flavors. So, with a French press, you can pour the extra coffee into an insulated carafe, or have a special press that closes of the filter, separating the beans and water.
So, if you don't drink the whole cup fairly quickly, it'll become bitter the longer it sits. and personally, adding cream to the cup with the beans still in it, is like adding milk and/or sugar to tea with the tea bag still in it. The bag will absorb some of it and it will lose some of the added flavor when you take the bag out.
Still, I think it's an interesting product with some potential. Thank you for the review.
I posted basically your comment. I have one, it makes terribly extracted coffee unless you drink it immediately.
Reading tea leaves. As a kid the first tea I drank was made with loose tea in a cup with boiling water. You allowed the tea to set a little time and then drank it, being careful not to stir up the grounds. Of course the very last of the tea had to be left because it would become impossible to not get tea leaves in your mouth. In the old days, fortunetellers would look into the cup and "read" the tea leaves, supposedly telling your fortune (future).
Tasseography for the win, once upon a time.
My other comment was long, roughly explaining over-extraction. I wanted to mention a similar looking coffee device popping up on my feeds from Kickstarter, called FinalPress. Rather than drinking through a filtered straw in a cup of over-steeping water and coffee grounds, you fill the basket with coffee, dip it into the hot water, stirring for a couple minutes. Then you press the plunger button on top of the stem and it acts like a french press, squeezing the water and coffee out before you remove it, to drink the coffee. It makes it similar to the tea leaf steeping ball you had. The coffee you drank right away was still in the "sweet spot" but the longer the Jogo stayed in the cup, the more bitter it would become from over-steeping/over-extracting.
Side note, I don't know if the FinalPress Kickstarter is related to the similarly named and styled FinalStraw, FinalFork and FinalSpork.
This is actually a common myth. Due to the science of how coffee extracts, because all the water and coffee are sitting wiht each other and no new water is being added, the coffee reaches an equilbrium quite quickly where it can't desolve/extract anymore of the coffee. This is why coffee tastings that last 20 minutes do not result in bitter coffee.
Tbh I think I’d prefer a cezve/Turkish coffee like that. You drink it with grounds on the bottom of the cup and tastes pretty great. However it’s also much finer grounds almost powdery. Neat idea tho.
Though a nice concept, I fail to see a use case for it. For backpacking, space-wise you'd be better of bringing instant coffee (since you also need to bring coffee for the straw). And since the grounds stay in the beverage, you have the same LDL health issues as with a French press.
And even if you have the coffee and the hit water, you could still make coffee cowboy style.
Boy oh boy I love nothing more than sucking down hot coffee through a staw.
Just what I was thinking. I guess if you're just in it for the caffeine, and no other part of the coffee drinking pleasure.
@@sherrybirchall8677what is the name of that straw?
@@haniaxobsessiono I don't know. I'd have to watch it again.
Might be real good for backpacking, camping. I just got the glocusent neck light from your last video. I might need to get one of these too.
It is an example of a "bombilla" a filtering straw which has been used for a very long time, particularly in Argentina for their traditional "yerba matte" drink.
it's basically just the yerba mate straws but updated for coffee lol
Reminds me of the straws or cups people use for Yerba Mate
I did buy this one because of this review. I don't like single use pods and such, but I also only drink a single cup of coffee. I had just been going with tea, because my coffee maker just can't do one cup every well. Love this straw for this. Been using it since just after the review posted, and am still happy with it.
You would be surprised how many hotels that either don’t or are starting to remove coffee machines from the rooms. I actually have a personal coffee and tea kit that I bring when the hotel doesn’t include a coffee maker or hot water boiler in their amenities list. In Vegas it’s especially bad. The lines at Starbucks are usually insane and I don’t want to lose 90 minutes of the day getting a cup of coffee or tea.
That's because so many idiots use the coffee makers for other things like washing out panties and panty hose that no one wants to make coffee in them anymore. If you don't know about the things people do to hotel coffee makers don't investigate it just stop using them.
Lol, Argentines have been drinking tea out of these since prehistory! They're called Bombillas and are used with a Matero, a cup usually made from a silver-adorned gourd.
Reminds me of a mate straw! Probably would work better for mate honestly.
Thanks for the review. I use a tea strainer and puts coffee in it, then remove the strainer after 4 minutes. I don’t think I would like to use a straw for my coffee. I like to feel the warm cup.
In Colombia we know it as "accented coffee". By the time the water makes contact with the coffee, you are drinking a very high-caffeinated beverage. It's not a "coffee maker", it's just a straw with a filter.
It's basically Turkish coffee.
@@engelsseele2 Yes, it is.
French Press also doesn't work any different. I guess it depends how coarse your ground coffee is weather you end up with something resembling more the one or the other.
....and it will end up in the dark corner of the kitchen drawer.
I used an 8-inch silicone straw with a ball of coarse copper wool inside the end that goes in the drink. The straw can be rolled, folded or tied in a knot and stuck in your pocket. I'll use it occasionally until the novelty wears off...happy campin'
why copper
@@Fridelain I have both stainless steel and copper for woodworking. Stainless steel will break when rolled and copper will not. It's soft, pliable and maintains it's shape
Makes sense, it's just a french press filter wrapped around a straw. If you like french pressed coffee, This is a great idea. Reminds me of The Bripe.
The smoothness is probably from not over heating the grounds. Doing so beings out more bitter tasting acids.
The problem I have with this straw is that the grinds are still soaking in hot water for however long it takes for you to finish your cup. I'd rather not deal with over extraction.
@@bostonrailfan2427Yup
My thoughts exactly, the last sip is going to be very different from the first.
I was thinking that too. Maybe better to scoop away the grounds floating at the top after the brew phase is done.
Was a barista for 10 years and that was my first thought as well
This is just a cupping with extra steps a special straw lol
Watching him try to "Casually" talk as he drinks the coffee is fkn hilarious. Dudes about to Bounce out of his studio.
I was ready to give this product a shot after watching the view, I do like French press style coffee... so why not? Then I saw the price for this in Sweden, _72 dollars!_ They've gotta be joking. 😲
I was at a tea shop here in the US the other day and saw that they were selling a tea straw. Similar idea for $8 to $13 Maybe without as fine of a mesh. No silicone part for the straw tip, though
Look for mate straws or “bombillas”, this is the same but gentrified
@@Carlika Thanks for the tip!
This is literally a mate straw. Ridiculous for a kickstarter for something thats been around for a hundred years in its current form
My problem with this is over extracting. If this happens, you will start to get a bitter taste.
the only flaw with it, guess you just gotta drink it quick
@@Inexpressable CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG
*bitter
@@Eidolon1andOnly nah, you bedder not correct them, bidder is fine
@@Inexpressable So the coffee tastes like someone who bids at an auction? No wonder it would taste off then.
On Amazon:
Brew Straw: $24.95.
Bombrilla: $6.99-$11.99.
Of course it will work. Its just a miniaturized french press on the end of a straw. Additionally, the coffee should taste better, as the wider mesh will allow the coffee's lipids (fats) through (paper filters do not).
True, but ive had some shit french pressed coffee (grounds always made it out) so im impressed with this haha
Those fats are bad for your health though.
@@RaduRadonys except they aren't. I assume you are referring to the ridiculous news story that says drinking from a French press is bad for you? If you actually read the study, you would have to drink over 8 cups of coffee for it to even start making a difference. There just isn't that much fst in it.
@@finkelmana Yes I read it's bad for your cholesterol levels on more than one occasion. It may be only if consumed in large quantities as you say, however I prefer to eliminate as much bad stuff as possible, especially in this case when paper filtering doesn't affect at all the taste of coffee (for me at least).
@@RaduRadonys I can clearly taste the difference between paper and french press filtering. Also, I am assuming if you put cream in to your coffee it is a moot point, as cream is 18% fat by volume, and therefore FAR greater than any fat in the coffee. And that doesnt count any sugar - or whatever artificial sweetener does
That's gonna clog your sink so bad you'll just yeet that straw down the window *several times*
Dude, that’s not for coffee. That’s for Yerba Mate and they’re advertising it for coffee 🤦♂️
I don't know about you, but I actually love orange juice with pulp in it. I wouldn't want to try and use a straw for that anyway. That Simply Orange with all the pulp is just absolutely delicious, it tastes like someone picked an orange from a tree and squeezed it right into the glass!
So it’s a Yerba mate straw for like double the price😂
JUST SO YOU KNOW…..your video made me like it and want it. Watched it last night (may 20th and promptly ordered on Amazon, it was delivered next day may 21st) Lol damn it. Anyway, love all your reviews and trust your reviews more than anyone else on TH-cam. Thank you for all your reviews through the years. You are interesting, entertaining, funny and just awesome! My fiancé loves watching your channel with me too.
Hello James,
I quite liked the idea of this straw, so just checked the price here in the UK and it's £32.94 from Amazon, which I'm afraid is a bit steep for me. But thank you for your demonstration and review. Best wishes,
Penny from Christchurch. 🇬🇧
This straw is called a bombilla. It's a traditional straw used to drink a tea called yerba mate from South America. Search for bombilla and you'll find loads of different designs, pretty much all less than £30.
Haha, steep.
Just buy a French press.
The orange juice segment had me laughing harder than i should have been. You've earned a new subscriber.
That’s a (Yerba matè) 🧉 straw!
This would be great for real camping! Thanks for the review
You will definitely over extract your coffee this way, but considering that any coffee maker will take up much more space than this... It would be a nice ultra portable way to still have coffee
do you though? most formal coffee tastings are done this way, except they sip with a spoon instead of a straw. i have to admit though, i'm not sure how it doesn't overextract.
No it won't. Immersion brewing does not overextract due to the equilibrium of coffe and water. Common myth.
@@Icebitten nah it won't. Common myth that many people still believe. I'm trying to spread some facts here lol.
@@Adam-vx6to Thanks, that's what I thought too but didn't want to make a claim out of my ass since I didn't know the details.
Have something like that for Yerba mate but the holes are bigger. Should try it. Coffee would be too strong by the time it cool’s enough. Check out the BRIPE. It’s the best thing ever
Isn’t this just a yerba mate straw?
This is perfect for my yerba mate. Definitely gonna pick this up.
Thats a normal 'mate' straw haha
For camping or working somewhere remote could be of a great use!
One con to using straws of any sort: they cause gas. That doesn't seem like a big deal for most people, however, there are people with digestive issues (such as myself) where added gas is painful. I had been drinking water from a Britta water bottle, which uses a straw system, and once I quit using it, I felt so much better, and a lot of my issues went away. Something like this would just make things worse for me, unfortunately. :(
I don't understand 😅. With my Folgers coffee it says to boil the water in microwave. And when doing so the grounds melt in the water....i have never had a grounds problem 😮
The problem with this idea is that the coffee is gonna get stronger and stronger and stronger.
I'm assuming this'd work fine for tea as well, but either way it probably means "Drink it while it's hot or you're gonna have a bad time".
Still a pretty simple, nifty and cool thing though. Definitely useful for camping.
It's not getting stronger it's just getting worse. In immersion brewing, strength is determined by the ratio of grounds to water.
He steeped that tea for 15min and said it was fine. Blaaah.
@@remnant24 Stronger is relative in this context, I think we can assume stronger as in more water soluble compounds of coffee are getting dissolved into the water. James Hoffman had some scientific numbers about what the ideal percentage of solubles in coffee for optimal taste, and I think it was around 20% if memory serves correctly. It's safe to assume that you will blow by that mark with keeping the coffee grounds in the cup and stirring it around. Probably also why it's recommended to keep the temperature lower than what you'd normally use for making coffee to lessen the rate of dissolving.
@@Tomazack Yeah it's relative to the brewing method, which is why I specified immersion brewing. Also, strength and extraction are not the same thing.
I thought the thumbnail said Coffee Marker. I was like what the heck is a coffee marker? Then I read the title as "Can this STRAW replace a COFFEE MARKER"
What the heck is a coffee marker!?
Video starts, I read a few comments.
Oh. ☺️🤣
This is like a Lifestraw except you're filtering our coffee grounds instead of life threatening contaminates 😄
Pot-tay-toe, pot-tah-toe.
A straw with a filter.. I'm glad I'm in the future I always dreamed of.
While it seems to work well, I just don't see myself drinking coffee or tea through a straw. It's pretty easy to make coffee without a coffee maker. But I will say this takes up very little space and doesn't require any kind of filter. I'm tempted to get one for emergency use.
I go camping quite a bit and make campfire coffee two ways. One is my French press mug. Easy and done, cup is lightweight as well and takes minimal space in the bag. You need a mug either way.
Second way is what I used to do before I had a fp mug. It's a normal mug and toss the grounds in. After the brew time add a tiny splash of cool water and the grounds will sink to the bottom. It's not perfect, but it's never been an issue to me.
Nescafé is the solution. Pure product, no additional toys necessary.
I would imagine the further down the liquid gets into the cup the more potent the coffee would taste considering the grounds are still present. I rather have a Homogeneous consistency than a heterogeneous one in terms of potency, despite the coffee being filtered successfully.
If you let it sit the full amount, and stir with every drink, it should be relatively uniform just because you've pulled as much of the potential out of the grounds as possible. I've done a semi similar thing with a sort of french press cup before, and even with the liquid still being able to flow through the grounds a bit, the uniformity wasn't bad because of letting it sit for quite a few minutes before pressing it.
@@RyuRaeArashi letting grounds sit on the coffee for too long is quite bad though as there is a range of extraction that you would want, otherwise unpleasant-tasting stuff would start leeching into your coffee.
I've never experienced this personally, and I used to make big batches of coffee in dutch ovens with the grounds sitting in them for the entire day. It's all down to tastes, but uniformity wise it's not as bad as people might expect in a cup like I described, and even better with the straw because you have the ability to properly stir as you go.
This really reminds me of a yerbamate straw. They have been using those in the jungles for centuries. Very similar concept but this one has a finer filter on it.
Yes it's, i'm un Brasil Paraguay Argentina and Uruguay they drinks mate and tereré, the name it's bombilla
Cleaning that to keep the filter clear will be great fun
Lol yeah I'm surprised he didn't cover the cleaning part.. also wondering how long the filter and silicone tip would last using it daily in place of a coffee maker.
@@beanshady seems like a future revision and a way o keep income coming is to make the tip detachable and refillable. I imagine there is a market for this, technically doing it this way is probably better tasting, coffee makers can scorch it.. but maybe thats too high falootin for that customer base.
This is a bombilla. It's a traditional straw used to drink yerba mate, mainly in Argentina, but a few other countries drink it also, and have bombilla's.
I was told as a kid you don't drink hot things through a straw. Not really sure why though. I just never did because that's what I was told 😂
Easier to burn your throat
Maybe so you wouldn't burn your mouth? Maybe the inside of your mouth is more sensitive than ones lips? Then again, I'm probably blowing smoke out my 🍑 & it's the other way around 😁
@@munkustrap2 s a kid I drank hot chocolate through a straw.... ONCE. It burned my tongue and the roof of my mouth worse than hot pizza.
I just bought one. I can see some practical reasons why and where this can be good for/
Seems like it could be useful for camping although, would not want to leave my grounds in water for a long time
Neat concept and if people like it, great. But you are most likely drinking the very fine powdery grind that is inevitable from grinding coffee. Of course this thing would work, it is a filter on a straw ( moves the filter from the maker to the straw end). I would personally rather throw the filter from the maker away than empty a cup or mug of grounds and clean a straw (filter). For camping/ hunting, we just make cowboy coffee by the pot. Same thing but larger quantity and only one pot (=many cups) to clean. Still a pain.
I can see it being nice for ice coffee, but at the same time, I'm tempted to just runmbber band a piece of coffee filter to a straw and toss it afterward. I really hate washing straws lol
The coffee filter will clog.
I need one of those. I love loose leaf tea but hate having to locate my infusers.
It looks like it's great from what it's suppose to do. I just don't wanna drink coffee through a straw. Coffee filter for the win!
Yes, exactly, washing straws is crazy especially if milk fat and sugar are involved. You're just asking for a food born illness.
Note that water temp should be about 200F, just before boiling (212F) for the smoothest brew.
I'd rather just make coffee pour over or French press. There are better alternatives that don't require drinking hot coffee through a straw.
I have the straw. Really comes in handy when you want to have a cup of coffee quickly. The only issue with it is that you will have to shake the straw now and then for finer ground coffee (due to it clumping up along the filter section of the straw now and then). Though medium/coarse ground coffee doesn't really that issue at all.
I wonder how it would work with real strawberry milk? (to filter out the seeds of the strawberry's)
Maybe for camping?? But, nothing like a fresh brew coffee while camping.
The reason you aren't getting and grounds as you drink is because of the filter... the same thing an actually coffee maker filter does: keeps coffee grounds out of your drink.
I love seeing niche gadgets executed well. I don't drink coffee myself, but this is an interesting option for a lot of my co-workers that spend too much on Starbucks.
You don't really go to Starbucks for coffee
Starbucks consumers don't drink coffee.😂
@@AdodgerWho I once had the "Coffee Of The Day". Good Lord, I'd rather drink horse piss.
@@manoman0 I get it you never tried drinking horse piss before.
In Paraguay 30 years ago, they'd typically drink mate tea in a similar device. I still have mine though I'm not sure if I want to deal with the grinds.
I think heating cream with a little water and sugar to make almost like a milky simple syrup then adding the grounds would likely taste amazing.
If you go to Miami you will find a very popular local soda "Materva." It's a carbonated tea brewed from yerba mate leaves. The logo on the front of the can is a bombilla.
In South America they've been drinking Yerba mate tea through a filtered straw for decades.
Love your videos, James!!! Keep up the good work!!!
What temperature was the water you poured into the cups? Just seems it would have to be pretty hot to still be drinkably hot four minutes later.
It’s a Lifestraw for we coffee drinkers!
It seems like it's just a straw with a coffee filter on the end, in which case you could do this exact same thing, but instead of using this straw, just pour it through a coffee filter to get the grounds out. Then you have the choice to use a straw or not, and you don't have to worry about your coffee/tea getting stronger and stronger as it sits while you drink it lol. Like the straw isn't replacing a coffee maker, the process of making the coffee in the cup is. The straw is only making it so that you don't have to take a few seconds to filter the grounds out, while also making it so you must use a straw.