Stainless Steel Pour Over Coffee Cone Dripper with Cup Stand – Paperless and Reusable – Ultra Fine Micro Mesh Filter – BONUS: Coffee Scooping Spoon + Cleaning Brush – [1-4 Cup]

The BEST balance between convenience, cost, flavor, and environmental impact. This is my “go to” product for great coffee!
This is truly one of my best purchases in the last 2 years. I love coffee. I have 3 different conical burr grinders, one manual and 2 electrical (different reviews) in an attempt to get the best/most consistent grind of coffee beans- at home and on demand. I love french press coffee and percolated coffee. I like being able to determine my brew time, by grind consistency, and roast. I’m also VERY big on having my coffee/hot beverages NOT come in contact with plastic (BPA free or not). Part of the reason I love both french press and percolated coffee is because it can be brewed without contact with plastic. I also like both because they retain the (beneficial) oils, from the coffee beans, which paper filters often remove completely. When I finally discovered the pour over option, I found it to be a great, less time consuming process that gave me the full flavor of my coffee, with no plastic, and minimal to no “sludge” at the bottom of my cup.. Then I was frustrated by the cost and availability of filters and ended up buying more than one ceramic pour over product (1 for each filter style- true cone like Hario V60 or flat bottom) to be able to use a pour over option. The taste was (is) great, but buying paper filters for them was a problem. After 6 months of contemplating the Yitelle pour over, I finally decided to give it a try. I will NEVER GO BACK to paper filters. I was skeptical about how well it would work and clean after use, as well as ability to control brew/steep time. My biggest disappointment is the 6 months I waited and the $$money$$ I spent on filters before “taking a chance” on the Yitelle stainless steal pour over cone. It’s not chance. It is the perfect balance between French Press and Percolator with (nearly) the convenience of a k-cup AND without the environmental impact of either a paper filter or (worse) another plastic “cup” as a by-product. I LOVE IT. It is now my first choice for coffee brewing and consumption. Getting the grinds consistent and “just so” for a french press is a project, even with a conical grinder. Consistency still counts (very much) but the Yitelle SS pour over is more forgiving and minimizes the about of particles (sludge) in each cup exceptionally well. The only reason that I ever use a drip coffee maker is because I can set a timer to have coffee ready for me when I wake up. After that first cup, I go straight to this Yitelle SS pour over. Once you identify you ideal grind, water temp, and amount of grounds for your cup size, I dare say, there’s nothing better. Grind fresh, get the right water temp, and use this Yitelle pour over for the best cup of coffee you’ll have outside of a Paris restaurant that serves the perfect cup of French press coffee. Sorry for the long winded review, but wanted to convey just how great this product is the reason(s) I feel so strongly about using it.*Another benefit!!- ever tried to use your ceramic pour over with your travel mug? Doesn’t fit, won’t balance on the mouth of most travel mugs. The Yitelle SS pour over fits and sits very well on the top of even the smallest opening travel container I have! No more pour over into a coffee mug, then pouring that into a travel mug. This thing fits! Pour over straight into you favorite “to go” travel mug. Love it!

Simple and easy-to-clean dripper w/ pour over method explained
UPDATE #3: I have taken this product review from 5 stars to 1 star to 4 stars for this little conical dripper. I give it 5 stars in functionality as using this dripper makes the most superior cup of coffee at home, hands down. I prefer the dripper over the French Press, the Aeropress, Espresso, Turkish coffee, Chemex, and other paper-filtered pour over drippers. I feel like I get the best cupping without the foreknowledge of tiny bits of paper that one would be drinking if using a paper filter, in the case of filtered pour overs and Chemex. Furthermore, since I know that I can make the best cup of coffee at home, I have little motivation to venture to coffee shops unless I go for the social aspects.I use 2T of course ground coffee using the Capresso 565 Burr Grinder for every 6 ounces of water, heated to 205F degrees using the Bonavita Electric Kettle. The quality/workmanship of the product is the main concern, but if I treat it delicately, like fine china, empty its contents each time with a spoon, wash and scrub the inside, and let it air dry, its structure has held up for many months now for the 3rd one I’ve owned. If it breaks again, it’s $15 I will simply buy another one.UPDATE #2: Yitelle was kind of enough to send me a replacement although it took 2 weeks to ship. Furthermore, after a couple weeks of daily use both the rubber thumb tab and the rubber ring around the base has fallen off. The former is not so much the issue as is the latter, since the rubber base helps hold the dripper in place for large mouthed coffee mugs like the ones I use. Yitelle claimed in my last correspondence that “they’ve had issues with one of their manufacturers” and they sent me one from a new batch that has corrected the manufacturing defects. As far as I can tell, this is not true, the dripper is simply just cheaply made, designed to take peoples money since after about a month of use it becomes useless. Very disappointed.UPDATE #1: After 3 weeks of daily use, 2-3 times per day, the top metal bracketed rim broke off while dumping the grounds into the trash can. Will attempt to contact Yitelle for a replacement. Reduced 5 star rating to 1 star in the interim. A 3-week product lifetime is simply unacceptable.I love pour over coffee and this coffee dripper fits the bill in so many ways. Pros: 1) one-piece; 2) easy to clean; 3) base is big enough for most large-mouthed mugs; 4) the thumb tab at top can be held without burning fingers; 5) does not need a paper filter; 6) holds quite a bit of coffee, I bet I could fit 3/4-1 full cup of coffee grounds, which is more than enough for a 32 oz coffee carafe. The only con I see so far is that it’s hard to measure, when pouring, how much coffee is in the mug through the holes at base, but the dripper can just as easily be picked up to check.This is how I prepare a great cup of pour over coffee: I start with 2T of grounds for every 8-10 oz of coffee desired (the included spoon measures 1T exactly). I currently have medium ground coffee but may grind it to medium-fine next time. It’s recommended to wait 30 seconds or so after the kettle stops boiling before starting to pour (aiming for about 195-205F water temperature, with darker roasts closer to 195F). You may want to transfer the boiling water to a measuring flask or a goose-necked pitcher so that you know exactly how much water you should pour out so as to not overflow your coffee mug. Once the coffee grounds are in the filter, pour just enough water over them to wet all the grounds. You may notice the coffee grounds rise, or bloom, which is indicative of CO^2 escaping from the individual grounds. Wait until the coffee grounds stop blooming, and then pour a bit more water. You may notice it takes 2-3 pours before the CO^2 escapes completely. Now, gently but steadily pour water around the surface of the grounds so that just enough water covers the entire coffee bed but doesn’t “unearth” it. You should be able to keep this stream up until all the desired liquid has been poured out. Let the final drops of water drip out of the filter and voila, a great cup of coffee! If you find the coffee too weak, consider adding more grounds next time or grinding to a finer ground. If too strong, add less coffee or dilute with extra water.Justification of this pouring process as follows: in order to extract the best tasting acids and sugars from your coffee grounds, only 20% of the mass should be extracted. By pouring evenly across the entire bed of coffee grounds, you’ll ensure that you gain as much flavor from as many grounds as possible. This is the main downside to drip coffee makers: the water stream hits one point in the coffee bed which over-extracts taste from the point it hits while under-extracting taste from the outlying grounds in the filter. Pouring your water too fast will result in weak or flavorless coffee whereas submerging grounds too much or for too long might risk the less desirable, astringent flavors from being extracted. (This is why the French Press method can lead to bitter tasting coffee for the uninitiated, because leaving the grounds submerged in water past 4-5 minutes will extract the bitter tasting polyphenols from the grounds). There’s definitely a balance to having a great tasting pour over coffee. If desired, you can time the process, shooting for about 2.5-3 minutes total from the time you initially wet the grounds for the bloom to the last drops dripping into the mug. Cheers!