Pete, that wouldn't have been me, but I'm not surprised the Toddy left an impression on you. The first time I used mine was after a trip to Mexico in the late '70s. A buddy and I drove up the coast from Acapulco to Ixtapa, before Ixtapa was anything more than a couple of new beach hotels and a useless bunch of souvenir shops. We stopped about midway in the tiny seaside town of San Jeronimo and visited an small outdoor marketplace. We had coffee there and when I tasted it, I decided to buy a kilo of it to bring home. It was ground so coarsely that the best way to brew it was in the Toddy (I wasn't grinding my own beans yet back then), and it made the most delicious coffee I'd ever had.
The Toddy renders a highly concentrated mixture that will coat the sides of a cup if not diluted, but it's very smooth. A little can go a long way, depending on how strong you like it. When people gift me coffee that doesn't quite hit the mark, I make cold brew with it and it I'm never disappointed, but as I wrote above, I prefer to drink cold brew iced. There's something about freshly ground and brewed beans that cold brew can't match for my morning fix.
