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I like to imagine that Alan Adler secretly dislikes hipsters.

this thing is a beast. i struggled a bit with it at first because i was pressing way too hard and struggling to grip it in a comfortable manor. once you have used it and emptied the puck out you really get an idea of how much pressure this little thing makes inside. you really don't need to press hard at all. just like he said in the video, pressing hard makes it take longer because it compresses the coffee against the filter and blocks the water coming through

Thank you very much for meeting the inventor. This video is very helpful.

this video is very helpful, thank you european coffee trip

7th: Let your Aeropress cool down after use for at least 5 minute so you can push out the grounds in one piece - nothing sticks to the plunger face this way.

My comment has nothing to do with the coffee. I so much like the way you present, Aleš. You seem to be very present, and free of ego. Your eyes convey to me that there is someone intelligent at home behind them, and your whole face seems to be always on the edge of smiling. The fact that you talk a lot of sense, give a lot of useful information and don't waste words is of course a bonus. I'm a fluent native speaker of (British) English. Although you speak with an accent it is one that is very pleasant to listen to, and your English is very fluent. To summarise, I enjoy how you say anything as much if not more than what you say, and your essential "beingness".

thanks for doing the documentary and preserving his story.

This is a great video!! Awesome tips. The 1L brew option and the final tip for pressing slowly really hit home for me. Love it.

I had no idea that you did the Aeropress Movie! Great work. I'm always skeptical when someone tells me how to use my Aeropress, but its hard to not listen to Alan's insights on these things. ;)

I have tried many different methods and ratios with my AeroPress, but nothing beats the original in my opinion!

this was super helpful, thank you!

Great video in right time, when everyone stays at home and need home-made coffee, thanks!

love your enthusiasm!

Outstanding presentation. You guys are awesome! 😀👍👏☕️

Late to the party, but it's still a party. Just an a simple observational note: A nerdy work friend got me one as a gift, the year they came out. It was so good that I got one for work. We wound up with an IT work-nerd coffee club. We'd meet for coffee, and 4 or 5 of us would run the Aeropress at a time, at least 3 times a day. We'd run our mug's worth, and rinse the filter and hand the press off to the next in line. I wound up being the coffee club steward and kept the logs, and I tested the "re-usable filter" properties. We just kept on re-using filters, until we would occasionally have a blow-out or a tear. We kept one same filter in operation for over 5 weeks. That's about 400 uses on a single filter. I have had to replace the original home press because one thing or another gave out, I'm about to replace the current one because we're getting slippage between the barrel and the plug. This will be the 3rd press for home, but I think it's a great deal having two presses last almost 20 years. After-thought: Based on our normal mug size, at home we run two scoops (two "shots") for a 16 oz mug's worth. I've never really liked going over that - say, for 4 shots, because it felt like a lot of water winds up being trapped in the grounds. For us, 2 is the magic number.

Love this guy. Thanks for the tips. My new press arrives tomorrow. Now I’m ready to go.

awesome, makes me want to experiment with my aeropress again 👍☕️

"The water is drier"....You're killing me!

It would be worth rinsing a filter, and then subjecting the rinsed filter to the same test you did with the unrinsed filter in this video. No one seems to have bothered thinking about whether one would need to rinse a filter for 5 minutes to get enough taste out of it to avoid it tasting like the unrinsed filter did in this video. ;-)

Now I want to drink that 60g concentrate undiluted 😂

Great, now i can serve up to 4 ppl.. Finally! Any recipies for 60grm coffee?

You missed to say that after using the aeropress and before keeping it we should press it until the end (without the cap) so that the plunge lasts longer. If we keep it with the plunge stuck into the walls of the aeropress, it adapt to it's inner size. This way it will be more and more loose.

humble really great thanks alan and everyone pushing slowing but steady onwards

Great to know about the re-use of paper filter. Thank you so much

Simple tips, but still very useful!

A trick for getting 80°C on an electric kettle without temp control: after a couple seconds where the heating gets at its noisiest, turn the kettle off. The noise is caused by the water in contact with the heating element trying to boil and some tiny bubbles of steam form, but these are then immediately cooled down to the sorrounding water which still isn't to boiling temperature, this happens at around 70°C and when the noise pitches down the water is already at 90°C. You'll be going mostly by gut feeling since water amount, shape of the heating element, wattage and even shape of the kettle will throw it off but extreme precision isn't really needed in a daily coffee, could always whip out that thermometer of yours to check if you got close in fewer tries.

I seem to be in a rare group, reusing a steel mesh filter for years on end.

Very informative, thank you!

Great tips overall except I wouldn't bother too much with temperature when brewing with either aeropress or filter it's quite hard to scorch the grounds

Another hack I came up with some time ago is that you can put your coffee into the press as normal, place it over a cup, then very slowly pour the water in covering the grounds repeatedly in all areas, as you are pouring the water in notice that the coffee is slowly dripping through into the cup...guess what you're doing? you're making pour over coffee! You don't have to use the plunger at all, of course true to pour over coffee it does take more time then pressing it through because you have to slowly pour the water over the grounds but it comes out the same taste that you would expect a pour over to have. Another hack I did was that since I own a French Press and the AeroPress is similar, I tried as an experiment once to let the water set with the grounds after stirring it for 5 minutes just as I would with the French Press then push the plunger through, I thought the coffee tasted a bit better after I treated it more like a French Press.

I use Aeropress for 7 years. I made prob. more than a thousand cups of coffee. It's still running. This is the best 29.95 (yes it was 3 bucks cheaper when I bought it in 2012) I've ever spent on something that works that long. I always wash and reuse my paper filter, it can be used for 2-3-4--5 times with absolutely no problems. I have to say that making 4 cups with lots of grounds isn't working as good as splitting grounds in two and making two pushes --> 2 cups each push. However, it depends on how fine your grinder is set to. If it's a course grind then pressing 4 cups can be done.

I rinse paper filters with water (partially to rinse away residual paper flavor but) mostly so that the absorbency is already fully saturated and, therefore, the filters will not absorb the initial part of the extraction.

the microwave trick sounds nice, but only works accurately if the initial temperature of the water is exactly the same. This temp changes throughout the year as the weather changes, and there are other variables like whether you ran hot water through the sink recently for example.

I'm not sure of that," just add more coffee to get more servings" I feel this entirely changes the profile of the coffee.

The MW hack is such a great idea. Copied and thanks!!!

Oh, I just realized I am doing the same thing as Mr Adler, resting the arms on the plunger during brewing 😅

making a stronger coffee and diluting it afterwards never tastes the same to me. way watery

Great vid as usual. Love my aeropress. .

I always bring my microwave camping

Super video kluci! :)

Great video! Can you post the recipe you used for the larger brew?

Just got one, thanks for the tips

James Hoffmann (or anyone understanding coffee) would disagree with #4. Makes very different coffee. Grind size and brewing time would need to be adjusted

The microwave method is less reliable than this video suggests because of variations in the starting temperature of the water. In very cold or very hot days, the temperature wont quite end up being the 80 degrees Celsius you expect to get.

Question: would it workout to separately steep 200ml hot water + coffee ground in a separate cup for few minutes, when ready, pour both liquid and ground into aeropress and extract.

"Water with a paper filter is a little bit dry" !!! How?

most people rinse the filter because if you use the inverted brewing method, if you don't rinse the filter first it will just fall down into the aeropress when you turn it upside down

Then there’s the guy I know that stamps out his new paper filters. And he uses them up to a dozen times to prove that cat skinning is still in vogue.

i see a coffee flavour wheel at the back. anychance you guys have a pdf file of it for me to print?

Not only that, pressing hard may cause the watar to create channels through the grounds leading to unevan extraction.

I found out about the aeropress in 4 Hour Chef lol. Omg coffee is sooo good.

In the experiment with the paper taste, there should be a 2nd cup with the pre-wet paper sunk into wanter. Cause what the inventor said is there is no need in pre-wetting, but what you did - you just compared the taste of the water with the filter and water without the filter

I like Alan's method of pressing with his forearm. gonna give it a try!

Best reference

Thanks for the video. Maybe I will return to using paper filters, my metal filter is very quick to get dirty and not letting liquid through and it's hard to clean. What do you think is the better filter? Paper or metal?

What's the "standard" amount of water to use per number off of the Aeropress? Is it 8 ounces of water per number line off of the press? Then adjust to taste from there? Just looking for a baseline, I know it's all to taste, but assuming you use 15g of coffee per line on the press, and fill to middle of the circle around the number on the press, then dilute, how much water do you use for the diluting part? Thank you, great video, quality was super.

If you don't have/want to use a microwave. Can we suggest bringing to a boil/simmer and letting cool to desired temp?

I have literally never tasted the paper flavor in a cup of coffee. Maybe if you just tasted the water, but any coffee brewed "1 : 15" or "1 : 16" is easily going to cover up the taste. Honestly people ought to be more concerned over water quality and brew temperature..

Great! Where did you get the little glass jar you put the water in microwave? Link please!

I cut some of my wife's old knickers into a filter shape and use that....sweeeet coffee😜

best invention ever

What do the numbers on the sidewall of the aeropress mean?

The microwave time thing might work if your starting water temperature is always the same… If you keep the water in the fridge? It varies massively from my tap depending on the weather. If you have a jug and a probe thermometer why not just put the thermometer in the jug and pour the water from the kettle into that, then wait 20 seconds or so until it reaches 80, that’s what I do anyway

Aeropress is my savior.

Yeah I've reused paper filters for months at a time. Though now I stick to a stainless steel filter.

I have brewed strong coffee and diluted it before and never rinse any filter and have never noticed the difference. Not even the chemex filter, which with or without rinsing still has that papery taste.

Is there any difference between using a microwave to heat up the water to the required temperature, or boiling a kettle (with the same amount each time), pouring it in to a jug and waiting a certain amount of time to reach the same required temperature?

Can you be more specific on the weights of the big aeropress recipe?

The tip with timing the first time you microwave it, only works if you always have constant temperature coming out of your tap. Say you start with 11 degree water one day and 4 degree water another day the timing will be different to reach 80 degrees. And I thought the point of rinsing your filter (with it in the filterholder) is to raise the temperature of brew vessel, in this case the aeropress so your water doesn’t have a sudden temperature drop. So wouldn’t really call these great tips!

Direct Induction cook tops/devices have accurate temp and timer settings. Mine is the NuWave

I kept having leaks brewing normal side up, and ended up pressing to quickly otherwise the water just all seep out. Is this because of the grind size? I can't pinpoint where to fix it

Where can I get the print behind you?

De gustibus non est disputandum. There is no accounting for taste. I came across an article on coffee snobbery that mentioned the Aeropress about four years ago. I got one and have used it ever since, because it is so convenient. I guess I'm not a coffee snob because I adulterate my coffee. Before I got the Aeropress I used a Mr. Coffee brewer, but, being an engineer, I weighed the coffee and sugar (7 grams of each). Nowadays I can eyeball it close enough, and I no longer use sugar, but xylitol. No half-and-half for me; it has to be heavy whipping cream. I know all of that is heresy, but I rarely drink coffee by itself. I generally have it with a mildly sweet pastry or a crescent roll. Sometimes the flavor combination is just perfect.

I have a Zojirushi water boiler with 3 temp settings, one being 80C/175F. I use this to brew green tea (which you should not use boiling water like many ppl unknowingly do), but I feel this is not hot enough for coffee. I like my coffee really hot and 80C is not that hot.

1:05 no. A microwave will give out a certain amount of energy in a certain amount of time. The time taken to heat the water to 80degC depends on the starting temperature of the water. Your water could be at 16degC in summer but only 5degC in winter, so would need more energy and therefore more time to reach the 80degC.

(Using the inverted method, fill the final amount of water to #2) I discovered that compressing espresso grind coffee (16 gms.)(I use a cap from a prescription bottle and press it with a smaller bottle) when it is first put in the Aeropress, gives me the least bitter, and richest tasting coffee when gently pressed. I first add enough hot water for a first blooming of the grounds, and then add a a little more hot water until the grounds appear to resemble wet mud, Then I proceed with the rest of the hot water, wait 3 minutes and gently press.

I think what he meant was that you don't have to wet the filter because it has such a small surface area compared to that of a chemex. So while you can tell the difference in normal water, it wouldn't make a noticeable difference to the coffee

Having my first coffee with it and it almost taste like from an expensive espresso machine 😋

Not sure why it was recommended but interesing

Instead of 1 get a kettle with a temperature gauge!

Super scientific tests

Hi guys, thanks for sharing the video 😉 Of course you’ll need to rinse the paper 😂 I mean for some people may be ok, but yes you better rinse it.

These are really good advices thanks!

Some really weird tips here to be honest. I think multiple cup tip could be good but would need some experimenting with in terms of brew time/ratio and then how much water to add. In terms of the paper I would always rinse it before use and always only use twice at most. They should at least look clean and white after the rinse, if they're browned like the ones shown in the video I'd chuck them as there will be a lot of old coffee oils in there that'll effect how much pressure you have to use and the overall taste.

If u want to make several cups as explained by adding 4 scoops or 60 grams of coffee for 1 litre of coffee the scoop that comes with the AP how many grams of coffee does that scoop hold ?

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Steeping the paper filters for your experiment was a fantastic idea

I’m here because I ran out of filters, thank god you can reuse them 🥳

Alan always presses it to the end, most reviews are showing not to and stop when you hear the hissing sound

I'm confused by last tip. What is the difference between quick press (which he said will produce a sweater coffee) and hard press (bitter one)? Assuming your grind is not that corse... wouldn't a "hard" press = a quick press?

can you make a dedicated video on brewing 4 cups / 1L coffee through a single brew in the aeropress? I just tried to do it myself using 60g coffee but the end result was a very very diluted coffee

If you are making a brew for 4 cups of coffee, is the brew time still the same as brewing for 1 cup? I usually brew for about 2 minutes + pressing time.

You should have put a rinsed paper gilter in the other cut. I suspect it will taste the same.

ok? no word about inverted? no word about grain size? yeah americano much, but what if i want to drink a stronger coffee like mocca or espresso-likeish i mean, yeah its not the right machine but on travel etc... there is so much to say about that. just how much powder you need... also the rubber in my aeropress somehow expanded and now its harder to press than in first months even without any coffee in it lol, no idea why, but thats way more problematic than compressed coffee that makes pressing harder and for the paper question, there are metal filters, but im not sure if they are good?

I like my coffee hot. I let the water boil and then I pour it onto the coffee. I don't care if it's an Aeropress, a V60 or a French press. It always loses temperature during the brewing. If I STARTED with 80c/175f water, the coffee would be lukewarm by the time it was done brewing.

I’m so lazy the first time I used one I microwaved the water 🤣

Way off topic, but what kind of glasses are you wearing?