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The ANN Aftershow - ANN + Kadokawa = ?

Japanese kitchens are small, especially in apartments. There really isn't enough space to have a bunch of kitchen gadgets around that only do one thing. Most Japanese kitchens have a hot water boiler/dispenser (for making tea, instant ramen, and other things that require hot water... but mostly tea) and a rice cooker/warmer, and maybe a microwave, and that's pretty much it. Additionally, most people are only making one cup of coffee at a time, so a full size coffee maker would be a waste.

So if you're having coffee at home, chances are you're using the pour-over method for brewing. Pour-over method is just pouring hot water over some grounds placed in a (usually porcelain) funnel with a paper filter. At first glance, this just looks like a poor-man's attempt to replicate a drip coffee maker, but any coffee otaku will tell you that it tastes much better, due to some subtle differences.

Japanese kitchens are small, especially in apartments. There really isn't enough space to have a bunch of kitchen gadgets around that only do one thing. Most Japanese kitchens have a hot water boiler/dispenser (for making tea, instant ramen, and other things that require hot water... but mostly tea) and a rice cooker/warmer, and maybe a microwave, and that's pretty much it. Additionally, most people are only making one cup of coffee at a time, so a full size coffee maker would be a waste.

Source: animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2017-05-29/.116649

So if you're having coffee at home, chances are you're using the pour-over method for brewing. Pour-over method is just pouring hot water over some grounds placed in a (usually porcelain) funnel with a paper filter. At first glance, this just looks like a poor-man's attempt to replicate a drip coffee maker, but any coffee otaku will tell you that it tastes much better, due to some subtle differences.

:O Having to explain pour-over coffee? A poor man's attempt? Yet another unexpected culture shock moment for me. Over here where I live (and it's not Japan, unfortunately) pour-over is a very popular coffee making method, it never occurred to me that it's not popular/well-known elsewhere. (Myself, I use a French press, not because I'm a coffee gourmand or anything, but because I'm lazy, this makes it the easiest to add spices, and anyway my favorite type of coffee is one I like to describe as "trash Americano".)