Bought this in 2008 and am still using it in 2023. It’s compact, durable and has produced great coffee for me, nearly everyday, for the last 15 years. All you need is a kettle and good coffee beans. Add coffee, pour hot water, wait 1 minute then press the plunger to get your morning brew.

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    I’ve had one for 2 years and I absolutely love it. It allows you to make really good coffee simply, or endlessly tweak recipes and really deep dive into specialty coffee. So the best of both worlds!

    There are some really good community recipes here: https://aeroprecipe.com/

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    I love the inversion method of brewing with this device. It’s produced some of most memorable cups to date! Nowadays I favor a simple pour over machine made coffee since I’ve had to significantly lower my caffeine intake over the years.

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    That reminds me - I need to get back to my Aeropress for that “first cup” of the day. I have a pourover-style machine that works great and produces very consistent cups, but I use that more for convenience and speed.

    I need to slow down and make a nice cup sometimes.

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      It uses small round paper filters, so you can grind finer and get different types of extraction and faster.

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      If you want to get closer to Espresso, an Aeropress allows you to rather than a French press.

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      Pressure. It’s like a halfway point between French press and an espresso like drink say a moka or brikka.

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    As the only coffee drinker in my family it is my go to method and it makes a great cup. If I’m not drinking cold brew I’m making coffee in my aeropress.

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    I’ve been interested in upgrading from ground coffee with a french press, to this with a grinder as the Aeropress is very affordable for what it does.

    Only problem is I can’t gauge what grinder to match with it, seems like grinders can cost hundreds of £/$/EuroDollars.

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      Any kind of burr mill grinder in your price range is recommended. For my first couple years of use I would daily a hand crank burr grinder I ordered from Amazon around $30 usd.

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      A conical burr grinder with incremental adjustments is my recommendation. I hand a Bartaza Encore and it was a great grinder but I gave up caffeine for a while and gave it away. I picked up a 1Zpresso Q2 S after I decided to ease back into the coffee world and I don’t have many complaints.

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      Hi, so I went from using an electric coffee/spice mill that gave wildly inconsistent results to a Hario Mini-Mill Plus and I’m very happy with it. This is a hand-wound ceramic burr grinder. I did a tonne of research before hand and one reason I picked this one is because having looked at some other options I couldn’t at the time justify spending more than £100/$150 on the ones other people were recommending like the Baratza Encore, Timemore etc. I purchased the Hario as part of the V60 pour over kit for about £35 (actually cheaper than buying the grinder on it’s own for some reason and meant I got an extra funnel and a bunch of filters). My experience with it so far is it is enjoyable to use, produces a great result for my stage in the coffee making journey, is light for travel-- if that’s your thing-- and was way, WAY cheaper than other options. Granted my coffee habits have gone from instant freeze dried to jug machine to moka pot to Nanopresso to V60/Nanopresso, so the more experienced might have more objective info! Hope you find what you need.

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      3 years ago, I bought a Graef CM7xx series (now they are selling the 720) for a delonghi espresso machine. The cheapest of Graef, conical burrs, many grinding settings, easy to clean… I got it for less than 100€. We grind between 20 to 40g of coffee daily. So far I’m happy with it

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      I had this exact same transition a couple years ago. I can highly recommend Timemore hand grinders. They are very affordable and perform very well for budget grinders.

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    We have an AeroPress and a Delter press, and they’re both fantastic.

    AeroPress is better for more espresso-ish coffee, and of course its market dominance means there’s a great ecosystem for add-ons, accessories, mods, and technique/tutorial content. The Delter IMO gives a more pourover-ish result, so it’s really just down to what kind of cuppa you’re generally in the mood for.

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    People are asking what the difference between an Aero Press and French Press. The benefit to an aero press is the paper filters. They filter out some of the oils when making a cup. French press you get the oils or whatever you want to call it. I have tried several coffee makers over the years, gadgets like the vacuum coffee maker from bodium etc, and nothing comes close to the simplistic aero press for a decent cup of coffee.

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      Not to mention you get fine particulate with a French press compared to aeropress. There are better ways to make coffee out there, but I don’t think there’s better value for money/time than an aeropress.

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        Call me weird, but I’ve done somewhat ok attempting to avoid the oils/fines with a French press by basically putting a paper towel over the glass before putting the plunger thing back into it. So the paper towel wraps around the metal mesh, not only adding its filtering to the mesh but also improving the seal it makes against the side of the glass. It does mean that I have to press it down more slowly before pouring, but that’s just because it’s doing its job so I don’t mind. It also means that the mesh/plunger bit requires less cleaning afterward.

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        Depends what you mean. I’ve used one before, and it worked well, but with mesh filters you will always get the oils coming through that paper removes. Some people like it that way, others don’t. James Hoffman prefers paper filters; when I heard him say that and why, I gave them another try and decided he was right. They do give a “cleaner” quality to the taste.

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