AeroPress Inventor Alan Adler: History of AeroPress at the 2014 CoffeeCon 

It's nice how he included his family in it. He has so much pride when he talks about them.

Well said! I just got one recently and I've fallen into a similar sort of rabbit hole

I do that all the time with my AP!

Hi, if you go and watch some of European Coffee trips, you can watch 2 videos, the one with 9 different recipes for aeropresses and the tips we got from the creator of aeropress videos. There you will get 2 recipes for larger batches, one for a larger cup of coffee and one method to make a whole liter, will also get a lot of other cool stuff in those videos, hope you enjoy

Yeah, me too.

I know many people that have begun putting aeropress filter papers into their espresso brew basket

I wouldn't be worried about the Cholesterol in coffee, recent research suggests that it's not as significant as once thought

You can brew delicious coffee in the aeropress, not an espresso though.

They do actually have a smaller AeroPress called the AeroPress Go. In my experience, the extra space in the chamber helps the plunging (harder to press the liquid than the air), and helps make multiple servings where you might go up to 3, 4 scoops and have to dilute after.

From what I've read, non paper filters don't filter out the cafestol, a substance in coffee that causes the body’s “bad” cholesterol levels (LDL) to rise. I haven't looked into peer reviewed research on this subject yet, as I'm just now learning about it myself.

pterafirma he mentioned that if you put in one scoop of coffee fill with water to the one mark. Four scoops of coffee fill to the four for multiple cups

@@techguy9023 - Read my question again (and look closely at your aeropress if you have one). Numbers _on_ _the_ _plunger._ Not the numbers on the cylinder. I knew somebody would half-read my question and state the obvious, but I've yet to meet anyone who can give a logical explanation of the markings on the plunger.

pterafirma sorry mine is old. I just looked at the plunger- no numbers. I think mine is about 8 years old. Production run number ?

@@techguy9023 - Don't know production run, but I bought mine ca. 2008. Apparently, according to something I just now found, the intent was that you could also pour water into the back end of the plunger itself, using it to measure. I'm not sure how it could ever make sense to do so, since you subsequently must pour it into the cylinder anyway. And when I tested this theory, the volumes marked on the plunger didn't quite match the amount of water needed to supplement the equivalent scoops of coffee, and fill to the cylinder markings, so... it's still a minor mystery. And finally, according to what I just read, Aeropress later discontinued the plunger marks because people were reportedly using it as a heating vessel in the microwave oven.

Hard to tell from this distance, my best guess is a Timex weekender chronograph in blue

This was from a conference in 2014. Almost every winner of the Aeropress championship since then has won via inverted method.

@@MTSpeedRacerVT wich for me, only further proves how awesome this thing is. incredibly versatile, and both ways are valid

"Dispelling" lol. It works, mate. Different strokes.

15 pounds of pressure! I think he’s got a little bit of salesman in him toO!

He meant for an americano. If it's espresso, he would fill to just 1 (for 1 scoop). So the easiest way to remember is fill up to the number of scoops. If it's americano, then double it.

Yes, Lacker Saw is right. If you’re making espresso-style coffee (to drink as is or to construct other drinks), the amount of scoops is equal to the number you fill up to. For example, if I added one rounded scoop of espresso ground coffee to the coffee maker, I would pour up to the number one listed on the outside of the cylinder. If you’re making drip coffee, or American coffee as Mr. Adler says, pour up to the number 1 above the number of scoops. For example, if I added one rounded scoop of espresso ground coffee to the coffee maker, I would pour up to the 2. If you have fine drip coffee, it is trickier. To brew coffee, you need 1.5 level scoops of grounds instead of 1. For example, if I wanted to brew 2 servings of espresso with fine drip coffee, I would add 3 level scoops but only pour up to 2. But if you were brewing drip coffee, you need to pour to one more than the amount of scoops. If I wanted to brew my 7th cup of coffee, I would add in 1.5 level fine drip grounds but pour water up to 2.5 or even 3. Hope this helps; the AeroPress team is quite vague on the nit picky specifications of scoops:water number ratio.

Wondering the same! Anyone to confirm if using more water Americano tastes better? I mean, Americano is espresso+ water but Mr Adler suggests using double water to brew the concentrated then dilute further to Americano strength