Finally, AeroPress made of glass and metal, came out. Its double-walled design should reduce heat loss.
Price: $149,95.
I am happy with my cheap knockoff aeropress that I throw in my luggage bag when I travel . If I loose it, I buy a new inexpensive aeropress.
Why the hell would I want a glass aeropress?
Itβs for those who use AeroPress at home and are concerned about microplastics.
To use at home, instead of a much cheaper French press, or a similarly priced cheap espresso machine that makes coffee 100x better. Obviously /s
I see your sarcasm, but all three of these things make very different types of coffee. Even if you canβt tell the difference between Aeropress and French press coffee (which probably not a large percent of people can), you can certainly tell the difference between espresso and immersion, right?
As for this thing: plastics do degrade over time, and an insulated glass body is a nice upgrade. The metal press wonβt contribute anything to the coffee quality, but it looks better, and probably feels nicer.
The rubber seal part is the first part to go and itβs unchanged on this new glass version.
Plastics may degrade, but (as others have mentioned) if a plastic one lasts 10+ years, so far, whereβs the value in a glass one?
Plus you could buy 4 plastic ones for the cost of 1 glass that could far more easily break.
Iβm all for glass in a LOT of stuff. I even kind of like it here (for the reasons youβve stated), I just canβt get behind the cost.
I tend to go for better/best quality in most things, I hate buying stuff twice. But thereβs value in being able to replace a less robust device for 1/4 the cost of the βhigher qualityβ version.
Unless youβre buying used (or you really know what youβre doing), youβll get way better coffee out of the Aeropress than the espresso machine for that price
Of course, the point is moot when you could make coffee just as well in a cheap plastic Aeropress.
The DeβLonghi Dedica is around β¬140 new and, while itβs not something to write home about, will do much better coffee than an aeropress.
$70 isnβt going to get you much of an espresso machine, unless youβre talking about a moka pot, and Iβd challenge you on that one. You can make very fine espresso with a moka pot.
And Aeropress arenβt known for making espresso; thereβs not enough pressure from proper espresso extraction, and Iβd expect espresso from an Aeropress to be under extracted and pretty horrible, Aeropress advertising notwithstanding. Most people use their Aeropress to make coffee; itβs apples to oranges.
