» Japanese coffee brewing maching
San Francisco’s new Blue Bottle Café brews its coffee in an ultra-engineered “siphon bar” from Japan. The Steampunk-looking machine uses halogen bulbs to heat the water. The grounds are hand-stirred into the perfect whirlpool using bamboo paddles. Apparently, the siphon bar is the only one of its kind in the United States. The cost to buy and import it? $20,000. Yesterday’s New York Times featured an article on the resurgence in brewed coffee and a slideshow of coffeemaker fetish photos by…