AeroPress Micro-Filters, Package of 350
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of AeroPress Micro-Filters, Package of 350
Customer Review: This is a simple but really good product, buy some if you've got the Aero Press!
Summary: 5 Stars
Might be silly to write a review, but this accessory to this new espresso maker is very good. Just a simple pile of micro filters and highly reccomend to everyone they buy 1 or 2 of these packages once they get the hang of their new machine and like it.
First, perhaps I'm paranoid but when there's anything I actually LIKE it seems it's cursed to disappear or go out of business. Movie series, comic book, TV show, software... So I'm stocking up on filters to keep making it a long time. Might even get a second press... No, I'm not kidding.
Second, there are exceptions, like "Star Wars" (the fictional franchise, not the RL horror waste of money) and I'm hoping this is one of them. That it'll catch on and the makers of the automated ones will panic and both drop their prices and make better systems.
So for the reasons I gave, it's good to buy more filters and perhaps a back-up device. This is a very good product that delivers what it promises; excellent coffee (espressos, lattes, etc.) for a microscopic price ($30) compared to the multi-thousand dollar machines. This company deserves the support of anyone and everyone who likes good quality coffee in this horrible recession. Give them that extra sale, spread the word to your friends, get those extra units moving, they deserve the business. If this works out, and they get bigger and expand, well you can give your extra back up device (sturdy, the first one should last years or more) as a gift, and if they disappear you'll have good coffee for years and probably use your "desktop fabricator" to make another!
Also, I've tried some re-using of the filters, just to give feedback on that issue. I've done it twice in a row, both within an hour and leaving it overnight to dry. It does work with no noticeable depreciation in quality. One thing I'd recommend is to switch directions per pressing, obviously rinsing it first to dislodge stuff. A to B, B to A, and so forth. This reduces trapped micro particles that'll eventually clog the filter. Any fractional particles that get through into your drink are not noticeable and far smaller than those that swim through a regular coffee filter.
However, there is nothing to be 'guilty' about using a filter as one-use. As I said, they deserve the extra sales -and- as their manual points out there is less material used in one thousand filters than is used in a single newspaper.
Customer Review: It works ok but you can get by with a filter
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought the Aerobie press after buying a Bialetti Mokka. What I found was that for a three cup (6oz) of coffee, with the Bialetti espresso maker you use one scoop which is three teaspoons of coffee. With the Aerobie, you use one scoop or 9 teaspoons for 6oz and you are lucky if you get the 6oz. I know its supposed to behighly rated, (thats why I bought it) but it uses tons of coffee. Better buy cheap coffee! Don't buy Illy... Even Bustello and you will be burning up cans of coffee like no tomorrow.
The way it works is you put a little filter into the syringe, add coffee, add hot water. Then it begins acting as a filter with the liquid coffee falling through the filter. You finish it off by pressing the rest of the water through the filter... With quite a push I might add. You are left with a huge puck of coffee in the syringe that you dipose of. Its pretty easy to use but I am finding instead I just choose an easier way.
What I found was that I could get a one cup Melitta plastic funnel with filters at Kroger's for $3.00. It uses Melitta #2 filters. I can then just put the coffee into the filter (just like the aerobie)... add hot water (just like the aerobie) and stir (just like the aerobie)... the only difference is that with the Melitta filter, you don't have a plunger to force all of the coffee through a smaller filter surface area.
I am able to get coffee of just as good quality with the Melitta and its only one plastic part. (the aerobie has a bunch of parts to store somewhere) What makes the Aerobie coffee taste so good is you use so much coffee to so little water. You could do that with the Melitta too. The Melitta is so cheap, I bought one for the office too! heck, three bucks....
So... the Aerobie works, but I don't really need it. It uses three times as much coffee as a stovetop espresso maker, and it uses a filter. So I mostly use the stovetop espresso maker or the Melitta Filter.
Customer Review: AeroPress Coffee Filters
Summary: 5 Stars
Such a simple concept, but such wonderful coffee! I am on fairly friendly terms with a local StarBucks store manager, so I challenged him to a coffee taste test -- his versus mine. Guess what? He took me up on it. And he had to admit "his was only a tiny bit better" (speaking as a loyal employee, of course). Two weeks later, he asked me (in a whisper) what coffee I had used. I told him "Eight O'Clock from Wal-Mart -- freshly gound, of course). He said, "Thanks for the tip." Anyhow, I love my AreoPress! Be sure to buy several packages of filters because you are going to need them -- the coffee is that good made this way. I am not a coffee snob, but I have very sensitive taste. I can instantly spot local water versus properly filtered water versus Ozarka (for example, which has a "bottom of a wood bucket" taste to me). I can spot Columbian coffee (by taste), blended coffees, stale [old] grounds, and so forth. But they are all better made with an AeroPress.... Enjoy!!!! (42club)Customer Review: You can make your own... Why pay big bucks for filters?
Summary: 2 Stars
Why spend your money and pay UP TO 50% of the price of the aeropress on coffee filters? YOUR BUYING PAPER, so why pay A HIGH PRICE for packaging & shipping thinking they are better than other filters you buy for a dollar or so.
When you start cutting your own with a Circle-Cutter Compass Circle-Cutter Compass, Premium-Grade Patented on a cutting mat CUTTING MAT W/KNIFE 6x8.5 you never need to ever buy these kind of filters again for the life of the aeropress machine. Melitta #2 a premium white filter paper work just as good and are easy to obtain anywhere.
Use the original filters as long as they last by "washing them out and flipping them over" and re-using them as many times as you can.
Customer Review: easy to make great coffee, and clean afterwards
Summary: 5 Stars
My wife doubted me on this one but I trusted the reviews on Amazon and we bought this Aeropress. It's not rocket science to use. We don't have a thermometer to measure water temp, so we boil it and wait 5 minutes. It would work better to have a water heater device that keeps water ready at a certain temp. The coffee is very clean and tasty (no leftover grounds floating at the bottom of the cup). Now she loves the coffee I make, and her French Press rarely (never) comes out of the cabinet, and this Aeropress practically cleans itself, because when you remove the plunger from the tube, it cleans itself like a squeegee.
It's good for us, a married couple, because it only makes about 2 cups at a time, but it wouldn't be hard to just add more grounds and repeat the process. It takes about 30 seconds... pour in the hot water, stir, squeeze it through the filter.