If you ’ve ever used an Aeropress , you ’ll know that they ’re a wonderful example of good intent : elementary , promiscuous to habituate , nice - looking — oh , and they make killer coffee , too . This is how the machine arrive to be .
The $ 25 coffee - making gadget is the brainchild ofAlan Adler — a Stanford lecturer , electrical engineer , part - clock time physicist , and toy maker . Inan consultation with Fast Company , he excuse how after chatting to a colleague about how drip mould coffee Maker produced awful results when create a exclusive cup , he was enliven :
I guide up the challenge of making a better single serving of coffee , never thinking for a moment that it would come up to be a product . Eventually , I grow some techniques for make a somewhat nice cup of coffee in a filter strobile — the kind you just put over a cup . But I was riotous that it took about four minute to pour through . During that time , a lot of bitterness was being extracted from the coffee solid ground . And so I wanted to experiment with a much spry outgrowth , and I receive the thought of work up what became the AeroPress . By applying air atmospheric pressure , it take the brew time to below a minute …
Well , I went out to my garage to my political machine shop , and I made the first [ prototype ] . It was n’t terribly different from the current AeroPress . It was plastic , too . But the matter that just blow me away was how good the coffee tasted . It did n’t have the bitterness that other brewing processes had . So , I ask for [ Aerobie General Manager Alex Tennant ] over to the house and have a cup of coffee . And he said , “ Alan , I can sell a short ton of these . ”
I launch into a further development of taking this thing , which was just a simple prototype , to a real pre - production epitome . I spent more meter on it than I should have , because I did n’t actually know how to use my own invention at that point in time .
Indeed , the initial image involved multiple plastic cylinder that fit together to create an air - tight seal , and even the inclusion of a bike heart to increase press at one stop . luckily , the design simplified to become the iconic coffee - wee gadget many of us use today . [ Fast Company ]
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