After yesterday’s post about laundry, I thought I should write up something more typical of this blog. So here’s an article about making coffee.
I finally bought an AeroPress. I think I first heard about the AeroPress around 2011, from something Cory Doctorow wrote, probably this. It seemed to be very popular with a certain crowd of tech folks at that time. For instance, here’s a blog post from Macro Arment about it from 2012.
Here’s an article on the history of the AeroPress. It’s interesting, if you haven’t already learned about it.
Anyway, I never got around to buying one, even though it’s not expensive, and seemed like the kind of thing I’d get some use out of. It’s a simple gadget. Of course, like any simple gadget that becomes popular, there are now several variations of it, in several colors, but they’re all basically the same thing. I noticed last week that Woot had a sale on the original version for just $30, and decided to order one, on a whim. Now, $30 is what the original one was priced at when it first came out, so that’s not much of a deal. But the original is now $40 new, and the slightly fancier newer version is $50, so I guess it’s a good deal.
I’ve used it to make my morning coffee yesterday and today. It works well, and makes coffee that tastes quite good. And it’s easier to clean up afterwards than my Moka pot, so that’s nice.
I’m not sure what I’m going to do with it, long term. I’ve fallen into the habit over the last few years of making my weekday morning coffee with my Krups drip coffee maker, and my weekend morning coffee with my Moka pot, and that’s been working well for me. I could see myself alternating between the AeroPress and the Moka pot on the weekends, depending on my mood.
I’m also thinking about bringing it into work and using it to make my afternoon cup of coffee. But I’m not sure I want to become “that guy who uses a weird gadget to make his coffee” though. I’m probably already known as a weirdo, because, well, I am who I am. So I’m not sure if I should double-down on that, or try not to push it too far. Anyway, the whole office coffee situation is a problem, and this blog post will get too long if I get too deeply into that.