The Chemex Makes Every Other Coffee Maker Seem Tacky

Coffee is the original biohack and the nation’s most popular productivity tool. As we've battled the changeover to daylight saving time, the caffeine-addicted WIRED Reviews team has spent the past week writing about our favorite coffee brewing routines and devices that'll keep us alert and maybe even happy in the morning. Today, we finally write about the mighty Chemex. You can also check out other Java.Base stories where WIRED writers sharing their favorite brewing methods.

It is a profound disappointment to me that, despite reviewing consumer goods while working for the world’s finest publisher of periodicals, I spend very little of my time interacting with objects that would be at home in the lives of Don Draper or James Bond. Writing and editing for WIRED means testing some very nice things, but so few of those things are truly elegant, let alone arguably perfect.

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