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: 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: 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.
Customer Review: Filter paper... uh, it fits the AeroPress, and erm, it works
Summary: 5 Stars
I was prompted by Amazon to "review recent purchases" so here goes. This is just (JUST??!!!) the filter component to the Aeropress, which kicks major butt as a coffee maker. I can't recommend it enough... and if you use the Aeropress, you'll NEED these filters that allow it to work in the first place.
DUH!
So, yes, I LOVE THESE FILTERS which allow me to make coffee, which I cannot seem to live without. I grind espresso beans in a Solis Maestro, run that through the AP and wham-bam-thank-ya-ma'am... a wondrous liquid is born of mere water and plant matter.
"How long can this dude go on blathering over these simple paper filters?" one might ask.
No longer than THIS.
Customer Review: Inexpensive, and work well
Summary: 5 Stars
These are the correct replacement filters for the AeroPress coffee maker, which I use at least once a day. They work exactly as advertised.
The manufacturer claims I can wash and reuse the filters, but I don't. They go away with the coffee grounds.
Thanks to the AeroPress people for not overcharging for the filters (and even at $0.01 each, I'm sure they make a little profit). They profit, they sell more coffee makers, I get a good product at a fair price... exactly how capitalism is supposed to work. :)