Hey everyone, I’m looking to expand my coffee gear and am planning on acquiring a moka pot and an aeropress. Which should I get first? I’m planning on getting both, but one not for a few months.
Hey everyone, I’m looking to expand my coffee gear and am planning on acquiring a moka pot and an aeropress. Which should I get first? I’m planning on getting both, but one not for a few months.
I wish I had bought an Aeropress at first and never bought anything else. It’s a fast and forgiving way of making yummy coffee ranging anywhere from moka-level strength down to drip level strength. It is trivially easy to clean, too.
Something I love about it is that you can start the kettle and while that’s happening you can grind the coffee and get the Aeropress ready, which saves time. With a moka pot you are forced to do the coffee grinding and the water boiling in strict sequence, which unnecessarily increases the time from “I want a cuppa” to “This is delicious!”.
I boil the water directly in the moka bottom while grinding, then carefully drop in and screw on the top after it comes to the boil.
I tried doing things like that and found it unnecessarily risky, particularly when an Aeropress avoids the problem entirely.
To be fair, you can make a big mess with the Aeropress while you push down on the plunger, so maybe I shouldn’t praise its safety either.