Clear Black Coffee Press, French Press, Pour-Over & Espresso Style

I have to admit, my expectations were very low. I just wanted an easy and inexpensive way to make espresso without buying yet another kitchen gadget. I saw the reviews and the high stars and thought “why not? I’ll give it a try. The price is reasonable.” Let me tell you, I could not be happier with this coffee press! It sincerely makes some of the best coffee I have had in a LONG time! It’s faster to clean than my regular coffee pot and insanely easy to make. If I could give it 6 or 7 stars, I would. I can absolutely see how this would be easy to camp with and I’ll likely take it with me whenever I travel. It’s fast and the coffee is smooth and not bitter at all! Best $30 I’ve spent in years!!!! Cannot recommend this product highly enough!

I worked at a coffee shop for over five years and was a finalist in a number of regional barista competitions from California to Missouri. So I have a thing for good coffee, which starts with the roast and the purity and temperature of the water. But when it comes to extraction, very few, if any, brewing devices put so much control into the hands of the brewer. With this brewer, I have made some of the best cups of coffee I've ever had. You can achieve the quality of brewed coffee as with a classic pour-over but in a much more convenient and durable system. It's faster than a crappy Mr. Coffee, easier and more forgiving than a pour over like the Hario V60 and more durable than anything else I've ever used, besides of course a Turkish coffee brewing pot. Sometimes you're just too busy to brew a coffee everyday (even it is does only take 2-3 minutes from start to finish). Or perhaps you hate being stuck with the crappy coffee found at your office. The versatility to brew a regular cup of coffee or an "espresso extract" is awesome. On a busy week, I will brew a heavy concentrated brew of coffee and store in a vacuumed, air-free, glass Porto bottle. When I want to make a coffee, I simply pour a measure of the coffee extract into a cup, cut with either iced or hot water and enjoy my quick, dead simple brew. When traveling, this thing really shows off. If you travel and hate using hotel coffee and coffee makers, take this on your next trip, use the in-room coffee maker to heat up bottled water and use the Aerobie's coffee cavity to hold your coffee safe for travel. You can then brew the best cup of coffee you'll ever have at a hotel. This goes for camping, business travel or backpacking. The whole system breaks down to really only two parts, the plunger and the reservoir with filters. You can leave the rest behind (scoop, funnel, stirrer) if you want. Learn where your coffee grinds should reach vertically in the brewer and free pour your coffee, stir the brewing grinds with the spoons or straws made available in most hotel rooms. Cleaning the system is easy, just rinse and air-dry or wipe dry. I reuse my paper filters 2-4 times and see little to no difference in taste or consistency. This a company that makes permanent metal disk filters for this brewer that many people love. I am reluctant to use them as a metal disc will not remove any extra oils left in darker roast coffee but some people like the flavor of the oils so to each their own. Bottom line, this is the perfect brewer for the everyday coffee drinker, the business traveler, college guy/gal stuck in a dorm room, tiny New York apartment goer or backpacker. Get it, use it and love it.

This thing is pretty cool. I'm new to coffee but had heard about this device 3 yrs ago. When I found I loved lattes, I decided to make my own as best as possible without buying an expensive espresso machine. This is the perfect device to nearly mimic espressos without the expensive machine. No it won't heat the milk for you or put the coffee grinds under intense steam pressure but it will brew up a pretty mean cup. With quality beans and a grinder and a milk frother you have what it takes to make a $5 latte every day for a fraction of the cost. It won't take you long to pay for this device at that savings rate. This is a kit and comes with the plunger press, the paper filters, filter holders, stirring blade, scoop for the beans or grinds and a funnel to help with pouring ground up beans into the press without spillage. Youtube has lots of videos on how to use this thing. What's interesting is that parameters for how to make a cup of coffee in this device vary all over the spectrum. So ultimately it's a subjective decision on what tastes good to you. My recipe so far... For me start with placing a paper filter into the filter cap and place that into a narrow mug that has a diameter that narrows, stopping the descent of the cap half way down inside the mug. I then pour very hot water over the filter to rinse the paper taste away. The mug prevents scalding my fingers if I were to hold it. It also catches the poured-through water, which I dump after removing the filter cap. I then identify my mug i will press the coffee into and add any sugar/sweetner desired at this time into the empty mug. I then grind 1 scoop of some quality beans to a fairly fine grind. I then pour them into the press turned upside down (plunger extending from the bottom of the tube with filter end on top) using the funnel. I add just enough hot water from my hot water pump (it's set to 208F but is usually cooler by the time it hits the press) to cover the grounds. I then insert the stirring blade and stir gently to expose water to all grounds evenly for 10 sec. Then I add water to near the top of the plunger tube which ends up being about 6-8oz total. I gently stir a couple of times to get the floating grounds near the top to mix into the added water better. Then remove it and twist on the filter cap. After a total of 60 sec. from time I add more water I carefully invert the press (plunger and tube assembly) over my mug. Then start gently pressing on the plunger so that it slowly slowly starts depressing into the tube. Total time to press the plunger is about 30 sec. There should be a small air cavity between the filter cap lid and the plunger rubber head so as you near the bottom of pressing on the plunger, you will hear a hissing as air passes through the paper filter cap at the very end of the press. LIft off, shake drips off over mug, then twist off the filter cap. The paper filter is likely still stuck to the coffee grinds. Place the lid aside for rinsing and press the plunger the rest of the way through the tube OVER the trash can. Grounds will fall off with the paper filter. Rinse the plunger assembly under hot tap water. Same for the filter lid. You now have 6-8 oz of strong coffee. At this point you can add more water to dilute to your taste or continue on with the milk prep. I put 1/2c milk or alternate milk (soy is my fave) into a tall 2 c measuring cup. Heat for 30 sec in 1200w microwave. If you have a frother, insert it into the 2c glass and froth to desired consistency. Pour this into the top of your coffee mug. I assume your mug holds at least 16oz or you may run over with the milk and foam. Yumm! This device is very simple to use, cleanup is rinse-off easy, and the whole kit is very portable. It's probably a little slow if you have a half-dozen friends wanting coffee but for one or two, this thing is super easy to use. It delivers a terrific mug of coffee.

First thing is first. I am a coffee snob. I have edited this review a few times. After a few years, I have come to the conclusion that this is a really good product. I'm leaving the review intact because it kind of shows the evolution and the learning curve that exists with this product. Typically, I find that most "bad" coffee is simply stale coffee. When I grind my own beans, I find that after a few days, they start losing their flavor. And after a week, they have started to pick up a card-board like flavor. I taste tested this product in a couple of ways. I just had a buddy over, and we had a coffee taste-test party. I typically prepare my coffee one of two ways. I either use the do-it-yourself coffee pod that you can get from Keurig or, if I have company, I will use a french press. For the purpose of this taste test, we did it both ways, And then we made some with this contraption in two different ways. I used a fine grind (just shy of an espresso grind) for one, and we used my preferred coarser grind for the other. In all, we tasted four different cups of coffee. 1. French Press 2. Keurig Machine 3. Aeropress with fine grind 4. Aeropress with coarse grind We used my favorite coffee bean for this test. I was going to use a commercial bean (Illy). I will explain why we ended up not using Illy at the end of my review. The bean we used was a freshly roasted grade 1 Ethiopian Yrgacheffe. I made sure I made a couple of cups of coffee using the Aeropress before we began this test to make sure I had gotten the hang of it. My conclusion based on these two cups of coffee was that 1) I needed to add a little bit of water (Americano) to the Aeropressed coffee to achieve my desired strength and 2) I needed to use a more robust bean in order to achieve any kind of flavor (hence the reason I didn't use the Illy beans). Now don't get me wrong. Illy makes a good coffee bean, and I usually get my cans of Illy coffee still relatively fresh. They are, in my opinion, one of the best mass produced coffee beans on the market. I brewed one cup of coffee in each of the four methods. I then poured a small amount into an espresso mug and labeled them 1, 2, 3, and 4. I wrote down what each one was on a separate piece of paper so that it would be a blind taste test. My buddy did the same for me. And then we sat down and tasted them. My preferences, in order: 1. The french press. I had actually never done a bind taste test with the french press before, but there may have been some bias here because I could immediately tell that it was french pressed. It had all of the vaguely sweet, earthy tones that I love so much about Ethiopian Yrgacheffe coffee. It was pure bliss. Ten out of ten. 2. The Keurig. There is a pretty big gap in flavor between the french press and the Keurig, but the Keurig still retained much of the flavors that I love about Ethiopian Yrgacheffe. They were just more faint. Eight out of ten. 3. Aeropress Course Grind. I will submit that the result was a very strong yet mellow coffee, but it was missing all of the character. The earthy tones were missing. It tasted like a generic cup of coffee. It was good, but it was nothing to write home about. Six out of ten. 4. Aeropress Fine Grind. Definitely over-extracted. Very bitter. I stirred for about 10 seconds, so it did not steep too long. To be truthful, most espressos taste over extracted to me, so this was not a surprise. It's the reason why I prefer a coarser grind. This cup of coffee tasted like someone put cardboard shavings into the grounds prior to pressing. I would not call this undrinkable, but if someone served it to me in a restaurant, I'd ask for water instead. Three out of ten. I'm not yet concluding that this was a waste of money. I think there is a high likelihood that the paper filter could be the reason why there was a serious lack of flavor using this contraption, so I'm going to try to order a metal filter for it. I can't think of any other reason, logically speaking, why the coffee would have turned out so bad other than the fact that it uses a paper filter. The only time I ever use a paper filter is on the rare occasions where I use a pre-made Keurig pod, and I typically don't like the flavor of them. I always figured that it was because the grounds were stale, but I have not ruled the paper out as a possible culprit. If I find out that the metal filter changes the flavor for the better, I will come back and update my review. However, at this point, I have to recommend a french press if someone wants a good cup of coffee. It's not any harder to use, and it's just as easy to clean. EDIT I purchased one of the wire mesh screens to see if that would improve the flavor of the coffee. It did make a significant difference; however, I still don't think that the cup of coffee I made was as good as a traditional french press. The one big disadvantage with a french press is that there is sediment at the bottom of your cup. This turns a lot of people off, and I will submit that it takes some getting used to. However, there is nothing on this planet that I have yet discovered that compares with the flavor of a french pressed bean that has been freshly roasted. I used a medium-course grind, and I steep for about twice as long as the 10 seconds recommended by the instruction manual. I make sure not to push out the very last of the water because that's likely where all of the overextracted bitterness lies. The end result was a good cup of very strong coffee. I'll even go so far as to say that when using the wire mesh screen instead of the paper, what comes out is good enough to drink without adding water. It's still not as good as the french press, though. I submit that it's about equal to the Keurig machine, though the flavors are much different. The Keurig machine is far easier to use. Plus, the cost of this thing with the additional $10 I had to spend on the wire mesh screen costs almost as much as a low-end Keurig. Therefore, I can't give it more than three stars. ANOTHER UPDATE: I'm providing another update an adding another star. The reason why is because once I learned that you cannot let your coffee steep for the ten seconds that the instruction manual recommends, I was able to produce some pretty good cups of coffee. It's still not as good as a french press, though. Plus, the price tag once you factor in $30 for the kit and another $10 for a metal screen is very steep. One can almost buy a Keurig machine for that price, and my french press, which makes better coffee, cost less than $15 even after I upgraded to a polycarbonate carafe. YET ANOTHER UPDATE: A couple of years have gone by, and I am finding myself using this more and more. Over time, I have gotten better at making a good cup of coffee with it. In fact, I got to the point where I was using this more than any of my other machines. Now, I have gotten to the point where a cup of coffee made with this is nearly as good or possibly even just as good as one that I French press. A big bonus for a lot of folks is that there is no sediment on the bottom of my cup. So, yes. I have gradually moved on and decided that this is an excellent product. I've increased my star total to 5 because it deserves it. The learning curve is difficult, but the eventual results are quite good.

This is the best coffee maker invention of all time and the best coffee maker for health believe it or not, but it has been proven by science. Brewing with an AeroPress yields the highest levels of antioxidants and polyphenols among common coffee methods, plus it retains the highest concentration of several essential minerals like manganese, magnesium, and chromium for example. I did not know all this until this year, and had slept on AeroPress for years. Also I was not planning to buy an AeroPress made out of plastic. In fact I preordered the AeroPress Coffee Maker made out of stainless steel, but it could take weeks or months to ship, so I bought the AeroPress Clear in red because red is my favorite color. I don't regret the purchase because it makes the best cup of coffee for me, and it is made out Tritan plastic, which is known as the safest plastic available, which is also the same plastic used on the Clearly Filtered Water Pitcher that I already owned. Now I can enjoy the benefits of the AeroPress while I wait for my AeroPress Stainless Steel to finally ship. Now I understand the hype for AeroPress, and I don't use my Keurig machine, French Press, or Drip coffee machine much anymore. I find the AeroPress easier to use, and the clean up is really easy. Plus it allows you to experiment with different coffee recipes. I just like my coffee black.

Stop what you're doing and make note of the date and time. Then, buy this. Your life will never be the same. I can't really think of anything to say that hasn't been said before, but this is basically the iPhone of the coffee world. It changes the game: 1) Easy to use, easy to clean, doesn't require elaborate rituals 2) Makes REALLY GOOD coffee, that can be easily adjusted to suit your taste 3) It's FREAKING CHEAP compared to owning a whole counter full of coffee appliances (trust me, I've been there) 4) It's portable. You can take it on trips, use it in hotels. You can take it camping, hunting, or fishing. You can take it to your office. In fact, I bought a second one for my office. This thing can make the best coffee anywhere you have boiling water. I'm going to keep this brief, because. Really. Just buy it already. The more time you spend reading this, the longer until Aeropress changes your life. UPDATED - Okay, it's been maybe 4 months since I bought my first Aeropress. I liked it so much I got another one for my office. The first Aeropress has had maybe 500 cups through it, the second maybe 100. The problem is, the seal on that first unit is totally, completely shot. You can't even really push down on it, or air burps past the plunger. Worse, sometimes hot coffee makes it past, and spurts out the top all over your hand. This started a few weeks ago and has gotten steadily worse. Googling, it looks like this does happen to people from time to time, and Aerobie do make a replacement part, but apparently you have to call and order it - it's not available on Amazon or Aerobee's website that I can find. I don't mind replacing a worn out part, but this thing is 4 months old. There's only two coffee drinkers in my house. Yeah, we both drink a lot of coffee, but there's two of us. Two people wearing out a coffee appliance in 3 or 4 months is kind of ridiculous. I don't know how much the seals cost, but I am probably going to ask for several. I'm not going to stop using this, and I do still believe it's the single best way to make coffee, but I am pretty disappointed. Hopefully this is an isolated incident. I'll report back in a few months when the second unit has a similar volume through it, or once the first one hits the next ~500 cups. In the meantime, I'm sadly deducting a star from my prior 5 star rating. UPDATED AGAIN - 6 months (roughly) later. The high-use unit at home is juuuuust starting to wear out again. It's been a little more robust this time but is still starting to wear. The lower-use unit at my office is still going strong on it's first rubber bit. It looks like the rubber part has a useful life of maybe 750-1,000 cups of coffee. For some people that's gonna be years maybe? For us, it's not very long. I still love this thing, I'm still gonna keep using it, but I'm still slightly disappointed. They should just bundle the rubber part with the filters. It's a little annoying to order, there is apparently one online source in Canada or you can call (yes, CALL on a phone - no online ordering) the manufacturer. Also, I want to share a useful tip. Once the rubber seal does start to wear, if you soak it in very hot water for a minute before use, it sometimes rejuvenates it and lets it seal. So, even once it's worn you can kind of still use it, but with an extra step that only works some of the time.

I am 65 years old and have been drinking pre-ground, name brand, grocery store coffee from a cheap drip coffee maker for years. I am not a coffee connoisseur so it was fine. The old coffee maker died mid brew and I bought the aeropress original due to the reviews. It came at 7am the next morning ! (a sign?) so I made a cup using the same cheap coffee as a test. A very noticeable improvement already. I now see what they say about smoother. Wow. Super fast and easy to use and clean. Bonus that I can take it with me on vacations. I love it.

Makes an excellent cup of coffee. Easy to use and very affordable. Taste so much better than coffee made with a K-cup!

Bir onceki klasik modeli vardi. Uc kismindaki delikler yenide biraz buyumus sanki. Uzun kullanimda seffaf plastik sararmiyor dediler gorecegiz. Simdilik goruntusu ve malzeme kalitesi cok iyi. Icinden 1 kasik, 1 karistirma cubugu ve bir miktar filtre de cikti.

i find this coffee press amazing its simple to use and easy to store and it makes a really nice coffee

Auf unserer Reise von DE nach Österreich, Slowenien, Kroatien, Bosnien bis nach Montenegro haben wir diese Maschiene mit gehabt. Pulver war Dalmayer Classic gemahlenen Kaffee. Wir haben einen Reisebecher genommen, haben 1,5 Messlöffel Kaffee Pulver eingegeben , voll aufgefüllt, kurz gewartet, nochmal etwas Wasser nachgefüllt. Und dann einfach durch gedrückt. Den vollen Becher durch 2 geteilt ... Milch rein ... perfekter Kaffee ... besser als Maschienen Kaffee ... jeder der frischen Kaffee mag, und unterwegs ist, kauft dieses Teil und es ist jeden Penny wert

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Also wir sind ganz begeistert, der Kaffee schmeckt super und ich spiele nochein wenig mit der Wassertemperatur, der Kaffeemenge und dem Mahlgrad herum. Da wir viel mit dem Wohnmobil unterwegs sind, finde ich es besonders klasse, dass man zum reinigen nicht jedesmal Wasser benötigt. Ich werde noch einen permanentenFilter aus Metall kaufen und testen, aber mit den Papierfiltern ist das schonmal klasse. Da wir nur die mitgelieferten Filter hatten und noch eine zeitlang unterwegs sind, habe ich mit eine Schablone aus Pappe ausgeschnitten und schneide nun erstmal aus normalen grossen Filtertüten die Filter zurecht. Aus einer Filtertüte bekomme ich so 4 Filter geschnitten. Wir haben schon etliche Lösungen ausprobiert, aber vom Platzbedarf und vom Händling her ist das bisher die für uns optimalste Lösung. Für uns ist die XL perfekt, ich denke aber, dass die normale ausreichend sein wird. Da kann man dann für mehrere Kaffee einfach alles stärker machen und dann halt mit heissem Wasser verdünnen.