The Aero Press.

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It is a great device for making coffee, but kind of hard to describe if you don't already know what it is so here is a picture.


I got one fairly recently and yeah it works quite nicely, once you get the hang of it...it can be a little bit confusing, the directions were kind of unclear. Makes quite the delicious cup of coffee though.

Part of why I got it was my boyfriends sister(i've never even met her) sent a christmas gift of espresso coffee with a coffee mug. Well I don't have an espresso machine and I didn't want to spend the money on one as I understand they are kind of pricey so I figured I'd just have to give or gift the coffee to someone else. Then I learned about the Aeropress and that it works with espresso coffee so there was my solution.

So yes does anyone else have one, or heard of it? Also if there was a food/drink section on this website I'd have put this there...but there's not.

I've seen them before but I've never used one.

I'd like to get another stove top vacuum pot because the coffee was so good from that that I didn't feel like coffee brewed that way needed any cream.

I used a french press for quite a few years and still have one but never seem to use it.

I've just been using a cone shaped pour over filter that uses unbleached paper filters and sits atop the mug. I've seen that you can buy stainless steel versions of those eliminating the need for the paper filters so I might get such a thing.

Does that Aero Press leave any sediment in the bottom of the cup when you're done like a french press does?

Does the Aero Press require replaceable filters of some kind?

I've tried many many different kinds of coffee brewing methods over the years from the french press, cone pour over, Rancilio "Sylvia" espresso machine, cold brew "Toddy" system, moka pot, percolator and vacuum press.

The cold brew "toddy" system was one of the best tasting, but I think the vacuum pot was the best. I had one of these:



The only problem with it was this plastic piece that acts as the filter and it stopped working no matter what I tried. The customer service at the company was of no help at all and I abandoned that method and went to something else.