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Aeropress is awesome, I'm still using mine for 7 years with Able brewing's fine filter. You can make coffee for two by use more coffee ground and dilute with hot water.
What’s your recipe for two?
But "never" increase the immersion to make stronger coffee.
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I'm sure the plastic is fine, I'd just prefer a metal or glass version. On every discussion of the Aeropress, I've seen the ask for a non-plastic version pop up. Every time I've then seen essentially your reply above. I'd just prefer a metal or glass version.
You might be able to re purpose a lab device I don't know the english name for. See pictures: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=kolbenprober
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I'm surprised there isn't a premium version available. There's surely a huge market for people willing to spend ~$100 on a non-plastic version.
There is a premium version available. It costs only $30. As you can see at https://aeropressinc.com/use-it-now/evolution-of-aeropress/ , they’ve continued to re-evaluate materials, including testing for contamination while brewing coffee. You can boil an aeropress at pH 5 for an hour without detecting any leaching. The interesting bit is how it ages—how cracks form, where bacteria might find a home, that sort of thin…
I don't worry about crap leaching out of the plastic as much as bacterial creepy critters lodging in the cracks. Also rancid coffee in the cracks isn't nice. Perhaps I should buy a new one, hopefully the polypropylene is more durable.
I bought the metal screen filters off of amazon for cheap. Far better than the paper filters. I can't really tell the difference between the different metal filters, but I've settled on using the wire mess screen for some reason.
Interestingly enough, you can get solid knock offs in Vietnam [1] for pretty cheap (450k vnd / $19.50).
If you haven't tried inverted method, do it! Lots of instruction videos on youtube.
[1] http://barista1.viennam.vn/San-pham/dung-cu-pha-cafe-aeropre...
I love my AeroPress. It makes some of the best coffee ever. But I had to stop. Putting hot water in a plastic cup everyday for coffee? I wish there was a metal version. I’ll still use it once every so many months. But the plastic nature of the contraption has turned me away.
I'm surprised there isn't a premium version available. There's surely a huge market for people willing to spend ~$100 on a non-plastic version.
https://www.artisansmith.com.au/collections/press
Steel press is $149AUD, which is about $110USD.
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I'm surprised there isn't a premium version available. There's surely a huge market for people willing to spend ~$100 on a non-plastic version.
This company in Australia makes copper and steel adaptations of the aeropress: https://www.artisansmith.com.au/collections/press Steel press is $149AUD, which is about $110USD.
I love my AeroPress. It makes some of the best coffee ever. But I had to stop. Putting hot water in a plastic cup everyday for coffee? I wish there was a metal version. I’ll still use it once every so many months. But the plastic nature of the contraption has turned me away.
I'm surprised there isn't a premium version available. There's surely a huge market for people willing to spend ~$100 on a non-plastic version.
Handling metal at boiling temperatures is miserable. Burning yourself in your pre-coffee haze makes the ritual less enjoyable. Plastic is pretty damn good brewing material thanks to it's insulation. Metal and ceramics look great but you end up needing to add cladding and they are still inferior.
Fortunately aeropress is forgiving compared to espresso so you might get away with the temperature changes but I would not be suprised by mixed results.
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I'm currently at step 2, and was deciding between getting an aeropress or a v60. What do you prefer about the pourover setup?
Not op, but I've gone through the same-ish progression, and I prefer the pourover because it ends up being tidier. I always manage to spill grounds getting them into the Aeropress, and cleaning it out is messier, too. Plus there's the risk of your cup flying away with the amount of pressure you're putting on the top of the press. With the pourover, I dump the grounds into the filter, make the coffee, dump the filter…
> I always manage to spill grounds getting them into the Aeropress,
Use the scoop but don't pour or tap them in - instead put the scoop into the cylinder and then spin the handle to dump out the grounds. Makes it impossible to spill.
> Plus there's the risk of your cup flying away with the amount of pressure you're putting on the top of the press
That sounds like way too much pressure - some new aeropresses can be tight (which can be remedied) but maybe you have too fine a grind. It should definitely not be espresso level which requires that type of muscle. It's not brewing by the pressure you are applying but time + agitation. The press is just removing the grounds.
I have however frequently knocked over a pourover while pouring... my own fault... tend to use a heavy ass kettle which turns it into some weird strength endurance exercise.
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>> But the plastic nature of the contraption has turned me away Why? If you fear BPA or other materials leaching... they've been testing since 2009 and never found anything. And anything recent has been BPA-free.
https://www.npr.org/2011/03/02/134196209/study-most-plastics... > The team concentrated on BPA-free baby bottles and water bottles, Bittner says, "and all of them released chemicals having estrogenic activity." Sometimes the BPA-free products had even more activity than products known to contain BPA. That was just the top search engine result for "plastic leaching". Not quite the "see, nothing to worry about" hill I…
Don't worry, you'll be fine. If that worked, I'd be sucking on plastic spoons all day.
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Not op, but I've gone through the same-ish progression, and I prefer the pourover because it ends up being tidier. I always manage to spill grounds getting them into the Aeropress, and cleaning it out is messier, too. Plus there's the risk of your cup flying away with the amount of pressure you're putting on the top of the press. With the pourover, I dump the grounds into the filter, make the coffee, dump the filter…
I think I need a video of you making aeropress! It's super clean for me. Some suggestions: > I always manage to spill grounds getting them into the Aeropress, Use the scoop but don't pour or tap them in - instead put the scoop into the cylinder and then spin the handle to dump out the grounds. Makes it impossible to spill. > Plus there's the risk of your cup flying away with the amount of pressure you're putting on t…
Is that right? I’ve never understood the purpose of the high pressure air pocket inside the Aeropress. If the pressure has no effect, why does the Aeropress brew more quickly than a French press?