If your idea of a good coffee is frozen coffee blended with a sugary concoction picked up at the drive-thru window, move on. If you take your coffee really really seriously, this is the coffee maker for you. The Royal Coffee Maker is a balance siphon coffee brewer. Siphon coffee brewers were first seen in the 1850s. The King of Hungary wowed his guests with one during a royal banquet, transforms coffee-making into a high ceremony.
The handcrafted Royal Coffee Maker could be the most extravagant coffee maker in the world. French sculptor Jean-Luc Rieutort designed this precision machine which includes 24-karat gold (or silver) and crystal and semi-precious stone. Only eight of the bespoke coffee makers are produced by hand each month. Each coffee maker takes more than 50 hours of painstaking workmanship to complete. The Royal Coffee Maker costs $24,000.
The Royal Coffee Maker is a fully automated system. It is designed to allow heat, steam, and gravity to brew the coffee at the perfect temperature. Coffee grounds are placed in the Baccarat crystal carafe, along with an optional touch of Grand Marnier or other liqueurs. Hot water is poured into the 24-karat boiling pot and the Baccarat burner vase lit. Perfectly heated water travels to the grounds before suction pulls the finished brew back into the pot. The coffee maker also comes with a matching custom-made coffee scoop. And you can have your family crested engraved on it.
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Intrigued? Prepare to skip your next 4,800 Starbucks to afford the most self-indulgent coffee maker on the planet. Of course, if you are going to be Trumpian about it, you might as well brew up some Kopi Luwak coffee beans in your 24-karat gold balancing siphon coffee brewer.
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