Thank you . I ALWAYS wonder why Fred knew to call Willow in the first place , but the question always gets forgotten in the string of the awesomeness that is this episode . That ' s pretty cool that ' s it documented ! Now I wonder where she read it . <| sep |> Great point ! I do also think that there a couple of understandable reasons why someone might want to use a siphon pot despite the complex looking nature of the product . 1 The siphon pot has a very rich historysiphonpot . IIRC it was the first coffee brewing device invented that didn ' t leave coffee grounds in the coffee . 2 The cloth filter is used by few brew methods . The only other one I know of is the Hario sock dripperDPW 3 DripPot 480 MldpB 0006 HINCO . And while they are harder to clean as many have pointed out they don ' t have the drawbacks of brewing your coffee through a bleached paper filterleaving a papery taste in your coffee , drinking bleach , etc . 3 The siphon pot does a much better job of keeping a stable brew temperature compared to almost every other manual single cup brewing method due to the pronounced heat . Some have arguedtemperature that stable temperature leads to a more stable brew process that creates a tastier cup of coffee .