jpender Senior Member Joined: 11 Jul 2011 Posts: 401 Location: California Expertise: I like coffee
Grinder: Kyocera CM-50 Vac Pot: S/S Moka Pot Drip: Aeropress
Posted Tue Mar 19, 2013, 8:57am Subject: Re: Aerobie Aeropress
slickfast Said:
I've been Googling around for good ways to transport these brilliant little gadgets with their multiple pieces. Am I the only one that finds this a pain in the neck? What do you do about it?
Did you find anything? I see that Able makes a cap that fits on the plunger, turning it into a small storage container.
The Aeropress is three main pieces -- cylinder, plunger and cap. Pretty small even fully disassembled. Throw the whole thing in a little bag? Pushing the plunger all the way through the cylinder (so that the rubber is not compressed) reduces the count to two pieces.
I carry AP, filters, pre-weighed doses of beans, a grinder, a porcelain cup, and a small towel in an foam-insulated one liter water bottle carrier for when I take my coffee equipment backpacking. The whole thing weighs around 2 lbs so it's kind of a luxury item. But it's compact enough.
slickfast Junior Member Joined: 18 Mar 2013 Posts: 11 Location: Guilford Expertise: I love coffee
Posted Sat Mar 30, 2013, 4:20pm Subject: Re: Aerobie Aeropress
jpender Said:
Did you find anything? I see that Able makes a cap that fits on the plunger, turning it into a small storage container.
The Aeropress is three main pieces -- cylinder, plunger and cap. Pretty small even fully disassembled. Throw the whole thing in a little bag? Pushing the plunger all the way through the cylinder (so that the rubber is not compressed) reduces the count to two pieces.
I carry AP, filters, pre-weighed doses of beans, a grinder, a porcelain cup, and a small towel in an foam-insulated one liter water bottle carrier for when I take my coffee equipment backpacking. The whole thing weighs around 2 lbs so it's kind of a luxury item. But it's compact enough.
Good to know, thanks for the feedback! I usually have the paddle and scooper in the plunger so if I cap it I would have to carry the paddle/scooper separately. Not digging that.
And how about the funnel, does you actually use that? I usually just leave it behind and scoop it directly into the AP.
I'm actually designing a little gadget to solve this problem. It will replace one of the components of the AP to make transporting it infinitely easier. Would anyone here be interested in such a product?
jamierayo Junior Member Joined: 24 Mar 2013 Posts: 24 Location: Alaska Expertise: I love coffee
Espresso: Breville DB, Rancilio Silvia Grinder: Mazzer Mini E, Rocky, Hario... Drip: Aeropress Roaster: iRoast2
Posted Sun Mar 31, 2013, 10:14am Subject: Re: Aerobie Aeropress
I too like the idea of a carrier for the Aeropress. The Able cap is a great idea, but doesnt work for me either. I don't use the scoop, but I do carry the paddle & the handle for my Hario slim mill inside the plunger. (-just in case my cordless drill is not nearby at break time :-) Presently, I carry everything in a small military-style cotton mechanic's tool bag.
jpender Senior Member Joined: 11 Jul 2011 Posts: 401 Location: California Expertise: I like coffee
Grinder: Kyocera CM-50 Vac Pot: S/S Moka Pot Drip: Aeropress
Posted Sun Mar 31, 2013, 2:43pm Subject: Re: Aerobie Aeropress
slickfast Said:
Good to know, thanks for the feedback! I usually have the paddle and scooper in the plunger so if I cap it I would have to carry the paddle/scooper separately. Not digging that.
And how about the funnel, does you actually use that? I usually just leave it behind and scoop it directly into the AP.
I'm actually designing a little gadget to solve this problem. It will replace one of the components of the AP to make transporting it infinitely easier. Would anyone here be interested in such a product?
I don't use any of the Aeropress accessories so I'm not a potential customer of your gadget.
What I'd really like to see is a larger Aeropress, both taller and wider, preferably well insulated, and with a valve at the bottom to control flow. If it were also aerodynamic enough to be thrown as a frisbee I'd buy one for sure.
slickfast Junior Member Joined: 18 Mar 2013 Posts: 11 Location: Guilford Expertise: I love coffee
Posted Sun Mar 31, 2013, 5:53pm Subject: Re: Aerobie Aeropress
jpender Said:
I don't use any of the Aeropress accessories so I'm not a potential customer of your gadget.
What I'd really like to see is a larger Aeropress, both taller and wider, preferably well insulated, and with a valve at the bottom to control flow. If it were also aerodynamic enough to be thrown as a frisbee I'd buy one for sure.
Gotcha. Do you think people would buy something like this? Again, I'm honestly just solving my own frustration here, but if other people would be interested I'm happy to figure out a way to produce it.
I also would like to see a larger Aeropress, but I don't think I can do that without violating Mr. Adler's patent until it expires. However I'm a little curious about that since there appears to be another patent application that is very VERY similar to his and more recent (Filed in 2011), the only major difference being that it's already integrated into a cup of some sort:
jamierayo Junior Member Joined: 24 Mar 2013 Posts: 24 Location: Alaska Expertise: I love coffee
Espresso: Breville DB, Rancilio Silvia Grinder: Mazzer Mini E, Rocky, Hario... Drip: Aeropress Roaster: iRoast2
Posted Sun Mar 31, 2013, 6:42pm Subject: Re: Aerobie Aeropress
The Cafejo My French Press looks similar to an Aeropress, but it can use K-Cups, pods, or ground coffee (I presume in a K-Cup like container). I expect the press produces a very different cup, since it appears to simply press the hot water through the K-Cup with no immersion.
I would think a larger Aeropress would rather difficult to use. The current size is just right for me anyhow.
I don't use any of the Aeropress accessories so I'm not a potential customer of your gadget.
What I'd really like to see is a larger Aeropress, both taller and wider, preferably well insulated, and with a valve at the bottom to control flow. If it were also aerodynamic enough to be thrown as a frisbee I'd buy one for sure.
I've been eyeing the Cafejo as it looks larger than the AeroPress but essentially a rip-off that uses a K-cup.
jamierayo Said:
The Cafejo My French Press looks similar to an Aeropress, but it can use K-Cups, pods, or ground coffee (I presume in a K-Cup like container). I expect the press produces a very different cup, since it appears to simply press the hot water through the K-Cup with no immersion.
I would think a larger Aeropress would rather difficult to use. The current size is just right for me anyhow.
The K-cups only hold about 18g of coffee if heaped - and the one thing that the AeroPress has is you can use whatever you want for coffee.
I've successfully used the AeroPress as a column brewer, which it seems the Cafejo is essentially acting like. Plug in a k-cup, add your hot water, and you're doing a manual forced percolation (a pressurized column brewer).
It says "10 oz" capacity, and the ID looks like a typical copolyester tube with one of the standard ID = 2 1/2 or 2 3/4 (the AeroPress is ~57mm or 2 1/4 ID).
The K-cups are ~2" top diameter IIRC, you can look at the relative tubing sizes on amazon.
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The Cafejo My French Press looks similar to an Aeropress, but it can use K-Cups, pods, or ground coffee (I presume in a K-Cup like container). I expect the press produces a very different cup, since it appears to simply press the hot water through the K-Cup with no immersion.
The Cafejo looks exactly like that patent application (see attached photo of Cafejo next to patent application image), or is that what you were saying? The patent seems to revolve around the use of k-cups or the like, but it looks like the Cafejo also allows the use of coffee grounds.
It's interesting as this was an idea I have thought about for some time: an Aeropress for percolation as opposed to infusion. In my mind it's a way to disentangle the temperature/pressure that are linked together thermodynamically in a moka pot. So it appears somebody has already done this, more or less -- but what keeps the water from cooling during the pressing time?
I don't mean twice as big, just somewhat larger. The current AP is a little too small for inverted brewing, which I need to do when using a metal filter because of the flow through, which is due to the lack of a valve at the bottom.
How come nobody is addressing my desire for a frisbee version of the AP?
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