{"id":3683,"date":"2009-05-05T07:03:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T01:08:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-07-15T21:28:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T15:28:08","slug":"dosacaffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/dosacaffe\/","title":{"rendered":"Dosacaffe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first saw this tool 15 years ago, when a friend who&#8217;s a devotee of good coffee taught me how to use a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moka_pot\">moka-style<\/a> espresso pot. Anyone who makes their own coffee &#8212; and especially those who do moka &#8212; knows a fine layer of grounds comes to inhabit the counter space where you fill your coffee pot. The difference between this dispenser and using a spoon is two-fold: the Dosacaffe isn&#8217;t messy, at all. And it&#8217;s much more accurate.<\/p>\n<p>Just put the dispenser over the bottom half of the moka pot. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g2_uwXtYtMg&#038;feature=related\">Flip the lever<\/a> 6 times, for a six-cup pot. (If you are having a rough day, bang the base of the pot against the counter to make room for a few more flip&#8217;s worth of coffee.) Screw the top half of the moka to the bottom half. Make your coffee on the stove, and enjoy. <\/p>\n<p>For 15 years, I have looked for this dispenser off and on, and finally found it at a small general store\/online retailer in Vermont, which claims to be the first US supplier of the Dosacaffe. I can say that the thing lives up to its promise: mess-free grounds dispensing, accurate coffee measurements, and the elegant simplicity of a tool that does exactly one thing relentlessly well.<\/p>\n<p>The cleaning is easy, just rinse it out between refills. I can&#8217;t imagine any maintenance, though I bet the little springs will wear out eventually (I&#8217;ve had mine 3 months). Regardless, it easily holds a full can of coffee (12 oz.), so refills aren&#8217;t inconvenient. It actually seems bottomless to me.<\/p>\n<p>I just learned there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paracafe.com\/learn_more.html\">sugar-dosing<\/a> companion piece, too.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moka espresso\/coffee dispenser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}