Bodum Chambord French Press Coffee Maker, 51 Ounce, 1.5 Liter, Chrome

Product Description

Concerning the CHAMBORD French Press Espresso Maker Uncover the artwork of the right brew with the CHAMBORD French press espresso maker. The French press system is beloved by espresso aficionados worldwide for its simplicity of brewing and purity of style. And the CHAMBORD is the unique and finest French press espresso maker. An icon of Bodum, the CHAMBORD is synonymous with the Bodum title. The unique design dates again to the pre-war interval when the Italian Attilo Calimani developed the fundamental precept. Bodum founder, Jørgen Bodum, started work on his model of the French press within the Seventies, however it was the acquisition of Melior-Martin in 1991 – an organization that produced a dome-shaped French press – that led to the event of the traditional CHAMBORD we all know and love at present. A real authentic, the CHAMBORD has a timeless design and is produced with the identical superior craftsmanship its devotees worldwide have come to count on. An environmentally pleasant methodology of brewing, the French press system epitomizes Bodum’s core perception that we must always ‘make style, not waste’.

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The Chambord is Bodum’s authentic espresso press design, which the corporate started to mass produce in 1982 after buying a small manufacturing unit in Normandy the place craftspeople made these presses by hand. Bodum takes nice care to instill the identical high quality in craftsmanship, and the consequence, based on espresso purists, is a brewing machine that produces a style and aroma superior to any electrical coffeemaker. The key is that the grounds are capable of steep in boiling water for about 4 minutes earlier than they’re pressed with the plunger, producing a richer, full-bodied taste. The glass carafe on this Chambord mannequin holds a most of 48 ounces or 12 cups of brewed espresso or tea, making it a helpful measurement for entertaining or for all-day-long drinkers. The chrome-plated brass body and lid and stainless-steel plunger are sturdy and can maintain as much as years of brewing. For simple cleansing, the carafe and all its elements go proper into the dishwasher. Alternative elements can be found from the producer. –Cristina Vaamonde

From the Producer

When Bodum took over a small clarinet manufacturing unit in Normandy in 1982, it was not due to the effective orchestra clarinets they had been producing. Along with musical devices, the manufacturing unit additionally produced the espresso of a comparatively unknown brewer known as “The Chambord.” Bodum mixed the abilities of those Normandy craftspeople with fashionable manufacturing. The consequence was a novel culinary device, reasonably priced to the numerous who liked the style of what we now know as French press espresso.

Because of Bodum, and due to the growing want for higher espresso, the French press coffeemaker has grow to be some of the in style on the planet. But the design has not strayed a bit from the unique drawings, and Bodum nonetheless makes the Chambord with the identical painstaking care and information they gained from these Normandy craftspeople years in the past. The convenience of brewing and the scrumptious odor and style of French-roasted darkish espresso have remained unchanged.

Awards and Accolades

In 2004 the Bodum Chambord espresso press acquired the American Culinary Institute’s award for finest French press coffeemaker.

The American Culinary Institute judges meals preparation merchandise equivalent to mixers, waffle makers, and electrical teakettles. These merchandise are judged on standards vital to shoppers equivalent to ease of use, security, and the standard of the meals produced. The institute additionally judges meals preparation merchandise utilized in eating places and resorts, together with institutional mixers, large-volume espresso machines, and meals slicers.

Directions for Use

1. Place pot on a dry, flat, nonslip floor. Maintain deal with firmly, then pull the plunger straight up and out of the pot.

2. For every 1.25-deciliter/4-ounce cup, put 1 rounded tablespoon or 1 Bodum scoop of coarse-ground espresso into the pot.

Warning: Use solely coarse-ground espresso. Wonderful grind can clog the filter and create excessive stress. Place coffeemaker on a heatproof, nonslip floor.

3. Pour scorching (not boiling) water into the pot. Go away a minimal of two.5 centimeters/1 inch of house on the high. Stir the brew with a plastic spoon.

Warning: Steel spoons can scratch or chip the glass beaker and trigger breakage.

4. Place the plunger unit on high of the pot. Flip lid to shut off the pour spout opening. (Doesn’t apply to the Brazil fashions.) Don’t press down. Let the espresso brew for a minimum of 4 minutes.

5. Maintain the pot deal with firmly, with the spout turned away from you, then utilizing simply the load of your hand, apply slight stress on high of the knob to decrease the plunger straight down into the pot. Decreasing the plunger slowly with minimal stress produces finest outcomes. If the filter clogs or it turns into tough to push down the plunger it is best to take away the plunger from the pot, stir the brew, after which slowly plunge once more.

WARNING: Utilizing extreme pressure could cause scalding liquid to shoot out of the pot.

6. Flip the lid to open the pour spout after which pour espresso.

7. Unscrew the filter meeting and clear the plunger unit after every use. All elements are dishwasher-safe.

Security Directions

• Not for stovetop use.
• Test glass beaker for scratches, cracks, or chips. Don’t use a pot that’s scratched, chipped, or cracked. Set up a alternative beaker earlier than utilizing the pot once more.
• Hold youngsters away whereas utilizing. Sizzling water is a hazard to young children!
• Don’t enable youngsters to make use of this coffeemaker. Scald Hazard
  
  • Extreme plunging pressure could cause scalding scorching liquid to shoot out of pot.
  • Don’t plunge with pressure.
  • Flip lid to shut spout.
  • Use solely coarse-ground espresso.

    Firm Historical past
    

    In 1944 Peter Bodum, the daddy of at present’s proprietor, Joergen Bodum, began Bodum in Copenhagen. Occasions had been tough on the finish of World Battle II; there was hardly any commerce and other people had been out of labor. Peter Bodum managed to wholesale a really small number of housewares merchandise by Danish producers.

    After the struggle Peter Bodum bought an import license for kitchen and tabletop merchandise; he traveled throughout Europe and ended up importing kitchen and housewares to Denmark. As in the remainder of Europe in these days, a scarcity of merchandise in Denmark meant a market existed for nearly something to be offered. He specialised in glassware from Japanese Europe.

    Within the ’50s Peter Bodum began creating his personal merchandise. He collaborated with the Danish architect Kaas Klaeson for a variety of coffeemakers. On the time, industrial-design-type kitchen merchandise had been very uncommon. The primary Bodum product to hit the market in 1958 was the Santos coffeemaker–based on a vacuum espresso brewing system. It grew to become an instantaneous sensation not solely in Denmark however in all of Europe. Bodum nonetheless produces the unique Santos design to this very day.

    Bodum grew steadily through the ’60s, however sadly, in 1967, on the age of solely 57, Peter Bodum handed away. His spouse managed the corporate till 1974, when she supplied her 26-year-old son Joergen to hitch her within the administration of the corporate. Joergen shortly introduced on board Carsten Joergensen–then a trainer on the Danish College of Artwork in Copenhagen–and quickly put him answerable for total design for Bodum, together with all the pieces from merchandise to company design, exhibitions, outlets, buildings, catalogs, and promoting. It turned out to be a really lengthy and fruitful collaboration. The 2 males started to satisfy Bodum’s credo–“good design does not must be costly”–in a number of alternative ways.

    In 1974 the primary fruit of Joergen and Carsten’s collaboration was launched: the French espresso press Bistro. It was additionally the primary incorporation of the brand new Bodum design language–beautiful simplicity and glorious supplies for on a regular basis life. Many extra variations of espresso presses adopted. Since 1974, Bodum has produced over 50 million French presses, taken the leap from “espresso” to “kitchen,” and developed and produced a big number of lovely family and tabletop designs.

    In 1979, when he took over the corporate, Joergen Bodum determined to maneuver to Switzerland with a purpose to be extra centrally situated in Europe. He selected the Lucerne space, the place Bodum’s head workplace has been situated because the early ’80s.

    In 1980 Bodum Switzerland and its design unit, Pi-Design, had been based. Then, in 1986, the opening of Bodum’s first store in London marked one other milestone within the Bodum historical past. It was designed not solely to be the right showcase for the big number of Bodum merchandise however to embody a fair stronger presentation of Bodum as a world model. Many extra outlets in lots of extra cities everywhere in the world adopted: Paris, Copenhagen, Zurich, Lucerne, Tokyo, New York, Dallas, Okinawa, Auckland, and plenty of extra. To this present day there are 52 Bodum shops worldwide.

    With increasingly more of its personal shops in place, Bodum continued broadening its assortment of fantastically designed on a regular basis life products–from kitchen to dwelling. As we speak Bodum affords its prospects all the pieces from the most recent coffee- and tea-making merchandise to tabletop, kitchen, storage, textiles, lavatory, and residential workplace merchandise. Some shops even have a café the place Bodum’s personal number of coffees and teas are served.

    The Bodum Group is, and all the time has been, a one hundred pc family-owned enterprise. As we speak the corporate operates in 14 completely different nations with over 700 workers worldwide. Bodum has holding corporations in Denmark and Switzerland in addition to 12 gross sales corporations, 3 manufacturing corporations, and a design firm known as Bodum Design Group, situated in Switzerland.

Iconic French press espresso maker that brings out the complete taste and aroma of your brew
Giant 1-liter capability, sufficient for 8 cups*
The carafe is product of non-stain, heat-resistant borosilicate glass that gained’t alter or impair the espresso’s pure taste
The body and lid is comprised of sturdy chrome steel that’s undergone a number of chrome-plating processes to end in a sturdy, shiny floor able to withstanding a few years of use
The black deal with is comprised of Polypropylene with a matte end that provides a cushty grip whereas serving and provides to the traditional high quality of the design
Stainless-steel plunger prevents floor beans escaping when the espresso is poured
Extra environmentally pleasant than many coffee-brewing strategies – no paper filters or plastic capsules required
Simple to make use of and straightforward to scrub