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Aeropress, coffee maker.

Stove top Bialetti is my sweet spot for coffee (price, taste, effort), honestly. But, I've tried Aero Press when friends have offered and they're a little better, for sure.

I've been using an aeropress for years now. Makes a good coffee.

I went on a bit of a thing collecting manual brewers. I've got stove top vacuum pots, a french press, a delter press and a couple of coffee siphons (which are awesome because they make you feel like a mad scientist) but for ease of use and cleanup when making a single coffee, the aeropress beats them all.

Me too! Hard to justify using my regular brewing machine anymore. Aeropress just makes a higher quality cup. Quantity be damned, I’ll make multiple cups on the aeropress all day.

Wow I’m tempted to order one. It almost looks like a gimmic but it would be cool to get the counter space back from the coffee maker.

How do you heat the water though? Does it taste like cold brew?

It makes a great cup of a coffee with a bit of effort. I've had one for 10 years and it gets used often and brought on camping trips, but as another posted suggested, if you are making more than 1 cup it is best to use something like a Chemex. Making multiple cups of coffee with the Aeropress can be a little time consuming. Here is a how to video showing it being used for camping:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmjPjZZRhNQ

I heat one cup of water at a time in a small stove pan. It's quicker for one cup than drip. It tastes a bit like espresso, but not quite as strong. Similar to cold brew in that it doesn't taste "acid-y" (like from when you heat the coffee pot to long), and is pretty smooth.

In the UK, electric kettles [0] are in every household, and even the puniest of ones boil 4 cups of water in about 3 minutes.

[0] https://www.dualit.com/products/lite-jug-kettles

I like the Aeropress, but when making coffee for two, I use a Chemex jug, and Wilfa Svart grinder. Would recommend, gets used most days.

This is a great thing to bring along for backpacking trips. It barely takes up pack space and makes a great cup of black coffee.

This was amazing until my nephew teleported it to another dimension

Is it really better than a small cafetière/French press?

I think what makes it so magical is that it's airtight and so the pressure inside goes up when you brew it, also most French presses I have used have just a steel mesh instead of a coffee filter so you get silt in it.

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