Popo Senior Member Joined: 4 Sep 2012 Posts: 5 Location: East Bay Expertise: I love coffee
Posted Fri Dec 28, 2012, 10:37pm Subject: The aeropress: re-envisioned and repurposed as an espresso machine
A friend and I created a contraption to use an aeropress as a true espresso machine: 9 bars pressure, a puck, and a metal filter. Check it out! I'll answer any questions that anyone has. As far as I know, this hasn't been done before.
qualin Senior Member Joined: 30 Jun 2012 Posts: 496 Location: Calgary, AB Expertise: I love coffee
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Posted Mon Dec 31, 2012, 5:26am Subject: Re: The aeropress: re-envisioned and repurposed as an espresso machine
This is awesome. :) Your video looks professionally produced and sounds like it too. Manual lever machines pretty much work on the same principal.
Do you plan on getting your machine remade into metal?
A few things which will help you...
I noticed you had a scale in the video.. if it measures down to 0.1 gram resolution, run with that. If not, you may want to consider a scale which has that resolution.
Measure your input dose. What are you aiming for now? I have no idea what an Aeropress needs, but start out with 16 grams. That's a typical double shot. Measure your extraction time. Aim for approximately 25 seconds, plus/minus 5 seconds. Measure your output. You appear to be aiming for a cup full. See if you can aim for roughly 32 grams. Plus/Minus 4 grams.
Tare the scale first on your dose and tare the cup second.
That may help you make your drinks a bit more consistent. Compare those results to your espresso machine using parameters as close as possible. (I noticed you had one in your video.)
Posted Mon Dec 31, 2012, 7:34am Subject: Re: The aeropress: re-envisioned and repurposed as an espresso machine
That's awesome! After watching the video, I was thinking, "Man, those shots must be black and white back to back," but then I read the rest, and obviously that's the case. Still an awesome contraption. Probably the most inexpensive espresso machine to date.
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Posted Wed Jan 2, 2013, 7:46am Subject: Re: The aeropress: re-envisioned and repurposed as an espresso machine
One major fault is that you loose the temp in the water way too quickly, the Areopress was never built to be a manual espresso machine, the plastic body, I would think, will not take that kind of abuse for long.
I guess if you were dying for shots, it is better than nothing but you have an espresso machine anyway so what really was the point?
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Posted Wed Jan 2, 2013, 7:55pm Subject: Re: The aeropress: re-envisioned and repurposed as an espresso machine
Great ingenuity. Where there is a will there is a way. Maybe your friend can make a ceramic cloth slipover cylinder (to retain heat) to slip over the aeropress body after tamping the grounds. After that he can pour in the water and press.
Len
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