Steel Disk Replaces Paper Aeropress Coffee Filters

Anyone serious about their coffee has likely tried — or at least heard of — the Aeropress. It’s like a giant espresso-making syringe. You load it with coffee and hot water, plunge the plunger and mainline the coffee, not into a vein but into a waiting cup.

In short, it’s a great way to make cheap, quick espresso-ish coffee, with one possible problem — paper filters. The Aeropress needs a disposable paper disk every time you make a cup. And the Coava Disk coffee filter replaces this with a stainless steel reusable filter. If you make a lot of coffee, this may save you some money, but it also changes the coffee itself.

The holes in the Coava Disk are sized to let through a little “mud”, sludging your coffee up slightly, thickening the body and possibly — depending on who you ask — strengthening the flavor. I use a stove-top mocha espresso jug, which has its own built-in aluminum filter basket, but if I was an Aeropress kind of guy, I’d try the Disk. Not for taste reasons, but because I get European liberal guilt every time I toss disposable stuff in the trash.

The Disk is cheap enough just to try, and begins at $15.

From: wired.com