AeroPress Premium Review: The Cult Favorite Brand’s Plastic-Free Coffeemaker Mostly Hits Its Marks

Coffee snobbery is a world of interrelated and occasionally warring tribes. There are light-roast and dark-roast people, pour-over and espresso people, and fiercely partisan fans of various grinders. (Baratza brothers unite, we will wash our beans in the blood of the Fellow fellows.) AeroPress people are among the quirkiest lots on the farm. Invented by the same guy who invented the Aerobie flying ring, the AeroPress is a unique single-serve coffeemaker that uses pressure applied by hand to extract a smooth but richly flavorful cup of coffee. A well-made AeroPress brew resembles espresso in its lack of bitterness but comes by the cup instead of a shot. Best of all, the plastic device will last a decade and cost only as much as five Starbucks mochas. The WIRED team has long admired AeroPress; columnist Steven Levy profiled the inventor in his Palo Alto office a decade ago, and contributor Joe Ray is on record calling the AeroPress “ingenious.” The one obvious downside—and sensitivity ... Read full article.