After a brief period in the cells at Royal Mail I picked this up and was immediately confused - I'd been chatting back and forth with my Secret Santa and couldn't place the shape of the package as related to anything we'd talked about.

Opening it left me almost as confused. 'Vacuum Coffee Maker', the box said, although it looked more like something from a chemistry lab. I'd never heard of anything like this before despite drinking a probably unhealthy amount of coffee.

It promised the best coffee I'd ever had though, and I'd coincidentally just been given a new Colombian roast so decided to give it a go. Some top science activity and lots of Breaking Bad jokes later we got some pretty excellent coffee - will definitely be using this more in future!

Thanks Santa - 10/10 gifting.