jevenator wrote:Just to throw maybe a small curveball here. It is not as fancy as the bean cellars you guys are talking about but I found these at IKEA for $3 for two.

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I forgot the name of them but can search for them if someone is interested.

They also carry these glass test tubes with a bamboo holder for them but I thought they were very tall and would look funny with only 16-20g of beans in there.

I like them a lot for single dosing and feel good that I spent $6 instead of ~$150 w/o tax & shipping.

My plastic V60 has found use also by acting as a funnel to load them up.

jpsm wrote:The problem with test tubes without the gas release valve is that some of them explode and break or the covers pop out. Also I prefer the plastic ones over glass as a possibility of dropping them down the hopper while dosing it is quite possible(I know i have a wild imagination LOL)

Bret wrote:I got the Rimforsa product from IKEA. I can't recommend it: the caps and seals don't behave the same, loose and leaky on some tubes, very tight on others. I assume this is variances in the borosilicate glass, which seems to be problematic in terms of matching tight tolerances in every application I have had experience with (including the LWW bean cellars). The images presenting them on the IKEA page are not accurate/deceptive: that ''stand" that holds four of them will not work as shown, sitting upright on the counter. It only works if you back it up against something, or if you hang it from the specific wall mount rack. I decided to use them (since they are too large for espresso single dosing) to hold a 'dose' for drip coffee. The seals are just not consistently good enough, so some tubes will have rapidly staling coffee, some will have a slightly better result. I don't have the wall mount, so using these without it is just too much hassle. One could drill some holes and workaround that, but the value of the tubes themselves just doesn't, for me, warrant even that minimal effort.

jevenator wrote:I've heard of a mason jar exploading once. I always burp my containers once a day if they are fresh. Never had a problem wiht pressure buildup because I'm usually going to be using them within 2 days.

Dropping them is a valid concern however. I wasn't careful and actually dropped mine on the tip of the origami dripper. It chipped off some of the porcelain.



Those are true points. Another reason I didn't want to get it was because I don't have a wall to hang them up on either. The small glass containers I have work fine for my purposes though because I usually only use 4 at a time. That will be good enough for 2 days. If you plan on storing a 1/2lb+ more in these to have for a while then yah I could see why one would want the pricer set. But in my honest opinion the cellars are just super luxury things for home use and just add convenience and looks. Which I guess that's what the hobby drags you into.