• Aquila
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    6 months ago

    So if you pour French press through paper filter it’s same thing?

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      6 months ago

      Not quite. I said that was the main difference, but if we go into details, the physics of the thing, it’s a bit more complicated. The guy who invented the aeropress, afaik, tried to make a handmade espresso replacement. He didn’t succeed, but the way the aeropress works is a hybrid of immersion, percolation and pressure brewer, whereas the french press is all about immersion and that it’s. It has the plunger, but that’s for filtering, nothing else.

      If anything, I think the aeropress is closer to a moka pot than anything. But it’s its own thing, honestly.