mooshJul 7, 2023

What’s your favorite AeroPress recipe?

https://lemmy.world/post/1134780

What’s your favorite AeroPress recipe? - Lemmy.world

I usually do the Hoffmann method if I’m making it for myself and the default recipe if making for my wife and I but the last couple days I’ve mixed it up and tried out the inverted method: Time: 1min 30sec - Use a medium-fine grind. - Put the plunger to the “bottom” (top while inverted) of the 3 so I’ll get a half cup’s worth of infusion - add my grounds, 2 AeroPress scoops (22-26oz depending on roast and moisture content) - get water to boiling (if a light roast) - add enough water to make a paste, do a 30 second bloom - add more water until it’s 2/3 full. Stir for 10 sec - add water until it’s almost to the top and wait until the timer gets up to 1:15. While waiting, wet the filter and get the top ready - give it another few stirs at 1:15 then top off until the water is at the top - at 1:30, cap and press. I like to do it into a Pyrex measuring cup. - this should yield 1/2 cup of brew (4oz). I then add water up to the 1 cup mark (8oz line) and put 1/2 into the first mug. I fill it up again until the 1 cup and pour that into the second. Add another 1/2 cup of hot water to the first mug and presto, you have two delicious 8oz mugs of coffee!

Show threadandkitJul 8, 2023

Beside the convenience of machine-brewed coffee I found the aeropress to be an extremly forgiving brewer. I can’t remember ever making bad coffee with it (though I’m a taste barbarian, I enjoy strong flavors, but fine nuances are lost to me, so YMMV). As such my “recipe” is dirt-simple an can be done before having coffee (that circular dependency is always a problem with other methods).

  • I have that Fellow Prismo thingie, so need to mess around with brewing inverted
  • I usually add a paper filter to the metal filter, but more for cleanup reasons than taste
  • 15g beans, finely ground but not quite espresso-fine
  • Quickly add 100ish grams of boiling water
  • stirr
  • fill up to 250g water total
  • put on the plunger
  • wait about 2-3 minutes, plunge & enjoy

For my friend, or if I’m feeling the occasionly sweet tooth myself, I do basically the same just with 125g total water (can be added in one go, I only stirr after 100 above as it is easier and less prone to make a mess if you are too vigorous) The “missing” 125g of water are then replaced with 125g of milk (or a milk-replacement of your choice) + 5g (or 10 for the espially sweet toothed) sugar that receive the nanofoamer treatment

But as I said the Aeropress is extremly forgiving, you can diverge from the recipe quite a bit and still get good coffee. Sometimes I’m distracted and only come back to plunge after 8 minutes and the coffee is still good. Spoon was too full and now its 16g? No need to pick beans out of the grinder, that’ll work too. If you have a feeling for measurements (I don’t) you can just eyball that stuff and not sweat the details

Show threadmoosh
Sounds like a great recipe, will have to give it a shot!
Jul 9, 2023 at 1:13pmWeb