Stove top Bialetti is my sweet spot for coffee (price, taste, effort), honestly. But, I've tried Aero Press when friends have offered and they're a little better, for sure.
I've been using an aeropress for years now. Makes a good coffee.
I went on a bit of a thing collecting manual brewers. I've got stove top vacuum pots, a french press, a delter press and a couple of coffee siphons (which are awesome because they make you feel like a mad scientist) but for ease of use and cleanup when making a single coffee, the aeropress beats them all.
Me too! Hard to justify using my regular brewing machine anymore. Aeropress just makes a higher quality cup. Quantity be damned, I’ll make multiple cups on the aeropress all day.
It makes a great cup of a coffee with a bit of effort. I've had one for 10 years and it gets used often and brought on camping trips, but as another posted suggested, if you are making more than 1 cup it is best to use something like a Chemex. Making multiple cups of coffee with the Aeropress can be a little time consuming. Here is a how to video showing it being used for camping:
I heat one cup of water at a time in a small stove pan. It's quicker for one cup than drip. It tastes a bit like espresso, but not quite as strong. Similar to cold brew in that it doesn't taste "acid-y" (like from when you heat the coffee pot to long), and is pretty smooth.
I think what makes it so magical is that it's airtight and so the pressure inside goes up when you brew it, also most French presses I have used have just a steel mesh instead of a coffee filter so you get silt in it.
