For Christmas my next door neighbor gifted me a new Aeropress Coffee Maker. I really had no experience with one of these before so it was a bit of a learning curve to get the coffee just how I liked. My first reaction when I saw the setup was this looks like something I could order from one of those late night infomercials. But I decided to read the instructions and give it a go anyway.
I don't have a coffee grinder here in the house so I usually buy pre-ground coffee. But to be honest the last few years I've been using a Keurig with the prefilled K-cups because it's easy and pretty much mess free. Fortunately my neighbor also gave me a small bag of Dunkin medium roast Colombian coffee which was nice of her. I usually prefer dark roast or expresso, but as they say never look a gift horse in the mouth....
My first round did not go well.... The coffee came out really weak so I tossed it down the drain. Second round I doubled the amount of coffee grounds and increased the soak time from thirty seconds to two minutes. It came out much better and tasted like coffee you would buy at the coffee shop. As a matter of fact it was really good.
So today I made up a cup so you can see what it entails and give you a few tips I have learned from trial and error. First off you can see a steaming cup of coffee. My coffee cup was in the dishwasher so I used one of these old ones the ex-wife bought and were never really used. Somehow I got stuck with all the junk and she took all the nice stuff, go figure....
First off this is the basic setup. It's kind of like a syringe modified for coffee making. There is the tube with a black coffee filter holder at the bottom, a top like a syringe, and the weird looking black thing is the stir the grounds after adding the water.
First you twist of the filter receptacle and place an included coffee filter inside. The replace it back onto tube.
Next up select you favorite coffee to brew up. In this case like I mentioned it's a medium roast Colombian which isn't bad. But I prefer dark roast.
Now I realize I forgot to take a picture of the measuring cup that is provided to properly measure your coffee grounds to add. One heaping scoop for me was way too weak, so I add two heaping scoops and it comes out nice and strong!
Add the grounds into the tube on top of the coffee filter and place on the top of your cup.
Next add about two cups boiling water carefully into the tube onto the grounds and stir with the black plastic stirrer.
Then this is an important note, as soon as you mix place the syringe like top onto the top of the tube to hold the fluid in place. The suction keeps it in the tube to brew with the coffee grounds. If you don't it will start to drain into your cup rather than brew in the tube.
After about two minutes you push down on the syringe to drain the coffee into your cup. The instructions said thirty seconds but it just wasn't enough time to really brew in the flavor.
And you have a great cup of coffee!
The coffee honestly tastes great, but the only problem I have found is I tend to make a bit of a mess so I did this all on top of paper towels. My other issue is that it's not as simple as put in a k-cup and push start. There's a lot more work and cleanup involved. So I will likely stay with my Keurig coffee maker for the most part, even though this little device does make great coffee. If you're looking to make a single cup of coffee and don't have a Keurig this would be a great option, and ground coffee is much less expensive that k-cups.
So I do recommend it for a single cup of coffee, and it does taste great!
Thanks for stopping by to read my post, and I hope you enjoyed it. If you have any questions, comments or concerns feel free to leave them below. Have a great Thursday!
All photos taken with my Samsung phone.
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