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Toddy coffee

mcohen

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mcohen

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The set-up for the toddy coffee system to make cold brew coffee seems so simple that it would be easy enough to replicate it at home. I'm curious how people have justified the cost of buying the toddy coffee when it doesn't seem that difficult to make cold brew coffee at home- is there an actual difference in taste or flavor that you needed the toddy coffee for?

Alex

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Are you asking about the $35 or so toddy coffee system (big plastic holder, filter, stopper, glass carafe, cover) vs. making your own apparatus? I know there's an old eGullet thread about cold-brewed coffee, so don't be surprised if this thread gets merged into that one. Here's an interesting article about cold-brewed coffee. I use mine for iced coffee and for flavoring in a white milk/chocolate soy milk concoction that I bring to work. It's for convenience more than anything else, but it still tastes just fine to me.

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boilsover

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I have one of these, and I find myself falling in and out of love with it. Apart from there sheer convenience factor, I really like the mellowness and lack of bitterness that it produces. The relative longevity of the brewed concentrate, stored cold in the 'fridge, is also a big + with me.

If you're into the "ritual" aspects of coffeemaking, it's pretty unsatisfying, but I still like it for what it produces.

As to replicating it at home, yes, I'm sure it can be done. I'm not sure how you'd easily rep the filter pad, though. Or the carafe.

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