The coffee fanatics thread...

The Dude

I think the idea is that you can almost replicate the results from an Espresso machine using a fine grind and no waiting around. You need a finer grind to achieve this or you'll have a watery coffee.

His Aeropress grind is definitely leaning more towards espresso than filter, I've started grinding mine one setting down from finest on my krupp grinder and definitely getting better coffee now.

- plus it's quicker, easier, cleaner and makes for a better aeropress demo to guests

KyleS1

So you add coffee, water, then just press?

KyleS1

I generally use espresso coffee in mine as that is what I have for my machine, so don't want two bags on the go all the time.

The Dude

Add coffee, add water, stir, rinse spoon, press is my method.

He's also got me onto using bottled water (Volvic) which makes a huge difference to your brew, or certainly does here in East Yorks where our water is so hard it has little rocks in it.

KyleS1

Stir for how long? I use this method with a 10 second stir using inverted.

The Dude

A second or two.. just enough to get things swirling around, nothing more than that.

KyleS1

Might give it a try.

Flashy

I started off using it normally, then changed to inverted and now do that. It's mainly out of habit, but also because when done normally I found the coffee started to drop through the filer as soon as the water was added. Does that matter, in the grand scheme of things, as long as you press promptly?

Presumably champions of the non-inverted method would argue the pressure is sufficient for extracting flavour? I'm happy to admit it all seems a bit baffling, despite reading plenty about it between 4am and 6am, when baby Flashy was reluctant to let anyone else sleep.

The Dude

I found this                                  and just adjusted the method slightly... fine grind, non inverted and a super quick stir.

- I use a very slow single handed press, probably well over 30 secs.

KyleS1

So he does it pretty much as I do it, but I use the stirrer that came with it rather than wiggling it. Guess I could be the 2016 world champ then!