/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Have you? Pics or stop being hipster trash. Or both.

No, I'm happy with my cheap french press.

>>4917570
Instant is better

>>4917570
>master race
that's the code word for dumb fucking nazi posting sarah palin type stupidity!

Been rocking the Chemex, looking at getting an aero sometime. Worth the hype?

>>4917754
Unbiased opinion coming through.
It's easy. It's quick. It brews a good cup with little specialised know-how. It's simple to clean.
If you don't know much about other brewing methods and have little interest in learning, it's the best you can use. It's superior to chemex and most other gravity brewers such as other manual pour over methods and autodrip.
Its drawbacks include that it is a chintzy product that can crack or get other damage in transport. It uses proprietary parts and filters, so you can't buy them from anyone else other than Aeropress. Going back to its chintz, it feels like brewing a very good cup of coffee with a plastic toy. The biggest drawback, however, is that using good beans, it will never brew a great cup. It will also never brew a shitty cup. It will always brew a very good cup, 8/10, but never above or below that.
If you learn to use another brewing method that allows for more variation, you can brew great or wonderful cups. If you don't care to learn another, it's the best you can use.

>>4917763
Not OP, but I do have interest in learning. Any sources

>>4917763
>It uses proprietary parts and filters, so you can't buy them from anyone else other than Aeropress.
Replacement stainless steel filters are available dude, even Amazon stock them. Users report they give a *better* flavour than the paper filters.

I have one and like it quite a bit. The coffee I usually use seems to taste richer made in my Aeropress than a regular cafetiere, it requires virtually no cleaning and having decent coffee in 30 seconds flat is such a fucking joy.

Having said that, I am not incredibly into coffee and I don't roast and grind my own beans or any of that, so I wouldn't be surprised if the guy above is correct. The Aeropress is a pretty nifty gadget for getting the most out of a bag of coffee without much time or fuss, but probably not the absolute best coffee you can make if you really want to.

>>4917763
>The biggest drawback, however, is that using good beans, it will never brew a great cup

Bulshieeet. Some of the best coffeshops in the world use the aeropress as their only black coffee method. Educate yourself fool.

Perfect aeropress every time: 14 g beans to 200 g water. Brew time: 1 minute. Stir three times after you added water and before you plunge.

>>4920288
>Perfect aeropress
>not using inverted method

>>4920306
Its ok, but completely unnecessary

>>4917570

>Calling a press brewer master race

< This is mastee race.

>>4920335
>drinking shitty half-assed espresso knock-off
Those things are shit compared to real espresso, and a completely different thing than regular coffee.

>>4920371

That is the original normal way of doing coffee you amerifag, that is not an espresso maker.

>>4917763
Whats the difference in quality between an aeropress and french press?