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title: AeroPress · Coffee Addict
url: https://coffeeaddict.nz/guides/aeropress/
source: Coffee Addict
checked: Prices checked 23 Aug 2026, 15:40 UTC.
generated: 2026-08-23 23:25 UTC
description: The brewer that forgives you.
---

# AeroPress

The brewer that forgives you.

Two minutes, one paper filter, and a cup that survives being got slightly wrong.

## The recipe

Makes: One strong mug, about 180 ml

| | |
|---|---|
| Coffee | 14 g |
| Water | 200 g |
| Ratio | 1:14 |
| Temperature | 88 °C |
| Grind | Medium-fine, like table salt |
| Time | 1:45 start to finish |

## Method

- **0:00** — Rinse the paper in the cap under the hot tap, screw it on, stand the press on your mug. Rinsing takes the papery taste out and warms the mug at the same time.
- **0:05** — 14 g of coffee in. Shake the chamber so the bed sits flat.
- **0:15** — Pour all 200 g of water in one steady go. A minute off the boil is about 88 °C in most kitchens; two minutes if it is winter and your bench is cold.
- **0:30** — Three stirs — one way, back, one way. Then seat the plunger a centimetre into the chamber. That seal is what stops it dripping through while it steeps.
- **1:15** — Press. Lean over it and use your body weight rather than your arm, and take about thirty seconds over it.
- **1:45** — Stop at the hiss. Squeezing the last of it out is where the bitterness lives.

You have around 180 ml of quite strong coffee. Drink it as it is, or lengthen it with 60 g of hot water — that is an Americano and there is nothing wrong with it.

## Why it forgives you

Nothing steeps long enough to go properly bitter, and the paper takes out the oils and the fines that make a mistake taste like a mistake. Grind a little off, water a little hot, thirty seconds late to the plunge — it is still a decent cup.

That is the whole reason it is the brewer people take camping, and the reason it is the one to learn on.

## The inverted argument

Half the internet brews it upside down so nothing drips through while the coffee steeps. It works. It also balances 200 g of near-boiling water on a plunger over your hand.

Seating the plunger a centimetre in, as above, gets you nearly all of the same benefit with none of the burn. Brew inverted if you enjoy it. Don't brew inverted because somebody said it was correct.

## When it goes wrong

Sour and thin: grind finer, or your water had cooled too far. Harsh and drying: you pressed past the hiss, or the grind is too fine. Muddy: the cap was not screwed on straight and the filter shifted.

## One liberating fact

The AeroPress has a world championship. The recipes that have won it disagree with each other by a factor of two on dose, on time and on temperature. Take that as permission.

## What to put in it

The AeroPress does not discriminate, so neither does this list: it is the best value in stock right now, one bag per roaster, at shelf prices. Bags of 500 g and under only — a 2 kg sack is cheaper per gram and stale by the time one person reaches the bottom of it.

| Coffee | Roaster | Bag | Price | Per 100g | In stock |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown Lightning | Raglan Roast | 500 g | $26.00 | $5.20 | yes |
| BRAZIL | L'affare | 200 g | $10.50 | $5.25 | yes |
| Krank Blend | C4 Coffee Co. | 250 g | $15.00 | $6.00 | yes |
| eighthirty standard blend | Eighthirty Coffee Roasters | 250 g | $16.00 | $6.40 | yes |
| Crave Fair Trade Organic | Hummingbird Coffee | 200 g | $12.99 | $6.50 | yes |

## Gear

| What | Item | Price | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| The press | AeroPress Classic | $79.00 | Raglan Roast |
| The press, elsewhere | AeroPress | $79.95 | Ozone Coffee Roasters |
| Filters | AeroPress filters, 350 pack | $13.50 | Red Rabbit Coffee Co. |

AeroPress Classic — The plain original. The clear and XL versions cost more and brew the same.
AeroPress filters, 350 pack — 350 filters is about a year of a cup a day.

Gear picked by hand, and every shop listed is one this site already tracks. Nothing here is sponsored and no link pays us. Prices re-checked against each shop's own catalogue nightly; last check 23 Aug 2026.

## About this data

Prices, weights and stock are the roasters' own, read from their public shop pages and re-checked every night. We do not set them, mark them up, or estimate them: a figure we could not read is null. Free to quote with attribution and a link.

One scrape a night at 15:40 UTC (about 03:40 in New Zealand), then the whole site and every endpoint is rebuilt.

Links to shops go through /go/ so we can count how many readers we send each roaster. We earn nothing from them — no affiliate deals, no commission, no paid placement — and if that ever changes this line changes with it.

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