- published: 05 Mar 2016
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A chorreador is a coffee making device used in Costa Rica in which hot water leaches slowly through coffee grounds held in a cloth filter mounted on a wooden stand, and drips into a container.
The chorreador consists of a wooden stand which holds an elongated cotton bolsita (Spanish, "little bag"), shaped rather like a pocket. The mouth of the bolsita is held open by a circular wire or wooden rim that is attached to a handle. The stand is used to hold a coffee cup or coffee pot on its base and the bolsita is suspended from the top of the chorreador stand, hanging above the container.
The chorreador can be made at home simply and cheaply with very basic carpentry and sewing skills, or crafted from beautiful, decorative, softwoods or hardwoods by an artisan.
The word chorreador is related to the Spanish verb, chorrear, meaning to drip or trickle, and refers to the action of hot water seeping through the coffee grounds, and dripping out. A coffee cup or pot is placed on the bottom of the stand, and fine to medium-fine ground coffee is spooned into a dry bolsita. This is then suspended from the top of the stand so it hangs over the container. Boiling water is poured slowly over the coffee grounds and the liquid seeps through, making coffee, which drips into the waiting container.
Out there in the shadows of suburbia
Minds consumed by substance, only cold hearts survived
A gathering of mutants in disorder
Way below the surface something is still alive
Confrontation, terror is the law
Beneath the ruins of this ghetto war
Ghetto war
Losers in this sickening Reich of Mammon
Penetrate realities of fake plastic men
Side by side, their heads filled with adrenaline
Nothing stops this hate flow, now the war begins
Confrontation, terror is the law
Beneath the ruins of this ghetto war
Ghetto war
Energy explodes as one
Neon rays erase the sun
Bitter end of harmony
Filled with hate and misery
Ghetto war, ghetto war