The Clever is just about my favorite brewed coffee maker. You can grind coarse, steep for three and half to four minutes and get a clarified brew by letting the filter and valve do its work

... but ...


It's built from the what has to be the world's crappiest and seediest plastic. I've gone through two of them and am now on my third. On the first, the ball valve fell out when I dropped it on the floor. When I tried to replace it, the whole thing broke apart. The second turned into a Salvador Dali statue after a run in the dish washer. The plastic is so bad, the dripper needs to be treated as if it were made of paper thin ceramic or crystal.

My two cents: if they charge a few bucks more, make it out of something that would survive normal kitchen wear and tear, and that looks like something more desirable than discarded packaging; it would sell a whole lot better.

Thanks for the tip on the Timolino. It appears to have a built in mesh filter, so it wouldn't work for clarified brews.

I hope that's it, since I bought two in this go round