We see a lot of Kickstarters for new coffee things here at Sprudge. Some of them are intriguing because the product is new and interesting. Others are intriguing because the campaign is so bonkers we frankly have no idea what it is that we saw. Today we’re introducing a third category: a Kickstarter for potentially cool new coffee gadgets for which the campaign itself is compellingly bizarre. Here we have the Cavat, “the Colombian Coffee Machine,” about which there is much to say.
First and foremost, you just need to watch the campaign video. Are those… Buddhist monks? What does that have to do with a coffee maker? How does the Cavat work? And since when did the summit of Mount Everest become a standard unit of measure for pressure? Is the whole thing AI-generated? No—I don’t think so—but possibly? These questions are all posed by the campaign video, yet none of them appear answerable by the content therein.
So what is the Cavat then? (Other than the “coffee maker of the future,” as stated by the video, which later calls it a “time machine.”) Designed by Colombian brand Freentic, the Cavat is a vacuum brewer of sorts, with a few additional twists. For one, it uses vacuum power to remove all the air out of the chamber holding the coffee grounds, decreasing oxidation and “ensuring that coffee flavors stay fresher and purer.” They claim that the coffee can stay in the Cavat overnight without oxidizing. They also state that it speeds up the degassing process and improves solubility, because the water “doesn’t have to compete with air to fill every space within” the grounds.
Once you are ready to brew your coffee, you simply replace the vacuum chamber with the water reservoir, and the built up pressure inside the brewer will pull the water up through the coffee bed. Then you just flip and serve, and voila, you’ve got coffee.
The Cavat can hold up to 36 grams of ground coffee and is able to use both circular metal and paper filters. You can control the flow over water into the coffee bed using a 20-step adjustment collar, though if I’m being honest I couldn’t tell you what effect it will have on the end product. Which I guess means you’ll just have to find out for yourself.
With just under five weeks left in the campaign, the Cavat is well short of its $84,000 goal, but that also means there are rewards aplenty left for the taking. This includes a Cavat of your very own for $280, 20% off the $352 MSRP, and it comes with a coffee maker as well as both a metal and 100 paper filters. But don’t expect your rewards any time soon. Should the campaign achieve fundatudinal escape velocity, deliveries aren’t expected to begin shipping until October of 2026.
If you’d like to know more, and really how could you not, or to back the campaign, visit the Cavat Kickstarter page, where all your questions will be answered. Or they won’t. But one thing is certain: you will have questions.
Zac Cadwalader is the managing editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas. Read more Zac Cadwalader on Sprudge.
