Jimb021 Senior Member Joined: 15 Jul 2012 Posts: 1 Location: Prague Expertise: I love coffee
Posted Sun Jul 15, 2012, 5:41am Subject: Aeropress - How to decrease the pressing time?
Hello everybody,
a few weeks ago, I bought an aeropress and a hario mini mill. I love them. However, I was experimenting and I am not able to decrease the pressing time.
Usually, I use the inverted method with something between espresso and drip coarseness (6 clicks on my mini mill) and temperature 94 Celsius. My pressing time is 35-40 seconds and I am not able to decrease it. It made me to decrease the contact time to 35 seconds with the pressing time 40 seconds (and I got great results with these settings). However, I would like to be able to decrease the pressing time anyway.
Any tips how to decrease this pressing time?
I tried this:
A/ Coarser grind - It definitely helped. Nevertheless, I would like to be able to try non-inverted method with a very fine grind. For this and other methods, I would need to reach pressing time around the 20 seconds.
B/ Do not use so much power during pressing and make short 0,5s breaks (leaving air from an aeropress makes it easier to push) - This just showed me that how much power I use is almost not important for pressing time.
C/ Clean my aeropress very properly and make the plunger wet before I start - I didn't see any change.
Other aeropress users which I know, don't have this problem. I found two possibilities why it could be so.
1/ I have a brown version of aeropress (and I suspect that there is a different roughness of surface..).
2/ My grinder (or maybe all hario mini mill grinders) creates a little bit untypical kind of grind which make it harder to press.
Posted Sun Jul 15, 2012, 8:07am Subject: Re: Aeropress - How to decrease the pressing time?
Jakub, why do you want to decrease the pressing time? From what I have learned, contact time of grounds in water is important for flavor and mouthfeel. The way the Aeropress is designed, the time used for extraction (pressing time) is a part of that.
I'm curious to see how the experienced folks answer this.
Posted Sun Jul 15, 2012, 8:55am Subject: Re: Aeropress - How to decrease the pressing time?
bekeld Said:
Jakub, why do you want to decrease the pressing time? From what I have learned, contact time of grounds in water is important for flavor and mouthfeel. The way the Aeropress is designed, the time used for extraction (pressing time) is a part of that.
I'm curious to see how the experienced folks answer this.
I have used my aeropress for many years (+6). I have one of the original BPA added ones. (Yes I am still alive as I write this). In any rate, I grind very fine ( and the amount is use is: I put my grinder on 4 cup). After putting the grinds in the aeropress I pour 11 oz of water in it and still briskly for 30 seconds, then I press it. I do not do the inversion method. I wouldn't use less time for the stirring. I feel that 30 seconds allows good extraction.
Len
"Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water." ~The Women's Petition Against Coffee, 1674
AAAustin Senior Member Joined: 16 Jun 2012 Posts: 8 Location: Las Vegas NV Expertise: I love coffee
Posted Sun Jul 22, 2012, 9:33pm Subject: Re: Aeropress - How to decrease the pressing time?
I'm also using a Hario Mini, set to 5 clicks, my pressing time is about 40 seconds (Disk Fine filter, paper was a little slower perhaps). Aeropress is also one of the recent brown ones.
My total contact time is almost four minutes...I'm very happy with the results, so I'm not changing anything. I was also getting good results with total contact time about a minute and a half, I changed it to calm down some very bright Guatemalan and just stayed with the longer time as I've not tasted any signs of over-extraction (temp at the end drops from 195F to around 175F so that's likely why).
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