Volumetric AeroPress® for 2 (great for travel or camping)
It can be brewed with any type of kettle, perhaps a pot, or even a hot water spout at a gas station or convenience store.
What makes the AeroPress so unique and great apart from its ingenious design and compact size, is it creates a cup that is part percolation, part immersion, and part pressurized filter brew with no bypass or gimmicks resulting in a good, clean cup offering outstanding clarity and texture with ease. This technique is designed to be simple and efficient.
I like to use the included AeroPress coffee scoop. Yes I know, GASP volumetric measurement may be absurd to some but this technique is about ease and utilizing the tools provided not technical precision (though they both have their merits). I have found the AeroPress coffee scoop to yield ~17 g of speciality, light to medium roast coffee. Maybe less for darker roasts. If using a darker roast try grinding a bit coarser say medium fine or dropping the water temp.
Recipe details:
Coffee:
Water:
Equipment:
- Grind one AeroPress rounded coffee scoop of coffee (~17g) — fine.
- Place AeroPress paper filter on bottom of AeroPress and add ground coffee.
- Fill AeroPress to ① with water right off the boil. Stir or swirl turbulently to fully saturate grounds.
- Start stopwatch and bloom :45.
- After bloom phase quickly fill AeroPress to brim.
- Brew until level drops to ④ and top back up to brim.
- At 3:00 gently agitate and allow grounds to settle for 30 seconds.
- At 3:30 place plunger atop and press s l o w l y using forearm for style points.
- Finish press by 4:30 pressing plunger through hissing sound compacting puck.
- Enjoy.