How to prepare a coffee with the Aeropress

The Aeropress is a fairly recent coffee extraction tool, but he has already won a large group of coffee lovers.

E’ born in 2005 from an idea of ​​Adam Adler, an American entrepreneur owns a firm lover toys coffee. His purpose was to create a simple extraction tool, economic to within the reach of all.

There are several reasons why this tool has been very successful:

• Unlike other methods of extraction such as the V60 it is much simpler and does not require any particular technical.
• The preparation time is very fast, circa 60 seconds.
• Being made of plastic material is lightweight and sturdy, ideal for traveling.
• E’ very easy to disassemble and clean.
• The cost is quite low (circa 30 euro).

Prepare a coffee with l’Aeropress It is very simple and fun. This tool is very versatile and allows the bartender to take action on many variables such as particle size of the ground coffee, the water temperature, the weight, time pre-infusion, the infusion time and the pressure. Because of these properties it is increasingly popular with coffee geeks. In fact they were born real competitions where bartenders will compete in dell'Aeropress preparation.

Equipment needed to prepare a coffee with the Aeropress:

• Kettle
• Aeropress
• Grinder
• Timer
• Cup or carafe

There are two schools of thought on how to use Aeropress: traditional and inverted method.

Traditional method

1. Grind around 15 g. of coffee.
2. Heat the water to about 75 ° / 80 °.
3. Insert the paper filter and wet nell'Aeropress.
4. Pour 15 g. of coffee and 220 g. nell'Aeropress of water.
5. Stir and then wait about 1 minutes and 15 seconds
6. Insert the piston and press, the whole process should last no more than 2 minutes.

Inverted method

1. Insert the piston nell'Aeropress and capovolgiamolo.
2. Grind around 15 g. of coffee.
3. Heat the water to about 75 ° / 80 °.
4. Pour 15 g. of coffee and 220 g. nell'Aeropress of water.
5. Stir and then wait about 1 minutes and 15 seconds.
6. Install the filter with the cap and proceed with the extraction.