Cafec is a Japanese specialty coffee brand manufactured by Sanyo Sangyo. The Cafec dripper line is unusual in that it ships multiple cone geometries designed to match specific roast levels. The idea is that roast development changes bean density and solubility, so no single dripper geometry is optimal across the roast spectrum.
How the Cafec brews
The Cafec line divides into two geometric families:
- Flower — shallower cone with flower-shaped filter ridges. Designed for lighter roasts, where longer contact time and even wetting help extract harder-to-dissolve compounds in dense beans.
- Deep — steeper cone with deep vertical ribs. Designed for darker roasts, where faster drawdown prevents over-extraction of already-soluble compounds.
Both styles use proprietary Cafec paper filters (fabric-based in some premium variants). The filters themselves come in different paper grades — Medium Roast, Light Roast, Dark Roast — each with a different thickness and drainage rate. This gives you two ways to match the dripper to the bean: cone geometry and filter grade.
Models in this family
- Cafec Flower 01 — single-cup Flower dripper. 10-18 g dose.
- Cafec Flower 02 — standard Flower size. 15-25 g dose.
- Cafec Deep 27 — Deep dripper with 27-degree cone angle. Single-cup.
- Cafec Deep 45 — Deep dripper with steeper 45-degree angle. For darker roasts and faster drawdown.
All accept V60-compatible paper filters in emergency, but Cafec's own filter line is designed to match each dripper's flow characteristics.
What Cafec recipes in this collection share
Cafec recipes tend to be roast-matched: lighter-roast single origins go to Flower with Light Roast paper, darker roasts go to Deep with Dark Roast paper. This creates a strong pairing discipline that the V60's one-size-fits-all approach sidesteps. Typical parameter ranges across both styles:
- Ratio: 1:14 to 1:17
- Water temperature: 88 to 95 °C (lower for Deep with dark roasts)
- Grind: medium-fine to medium
- Total brew time: 2:30 to 4:00
Choose Cafec when you frequently brew across roast levels and want a dripper + filter system engineered for each, or when you want a V60 alternative with more explicit roast-level guidance.