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# Your first coffee maker should be an Aeropress
- URL: https://pupontech.com/your-first-coffee-maker-should-be-an-aeropress/
- Published: 2025-08-26T21:43:23.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-26T21:43:23.000Z
- Author: AY
- Tags: coffee, #gallery, aeropress

People often ask me what I use to make coffee or what I recommend for a starter brewer. Nothing, and I mean nothing, matches the Aeropress.

I have had mine since April of 2016, thousands of cups have gone through it and it has traveled with me everywhere.

It is:

- Cheap
- Portable
- Practically indestructible
- Simple to use
- Makes excellent coffee
- Super easy to clean

I would recommend the Standard or the XL. The Go is too small and the Standard is more than portable enough.

A basic recipe that I like is:

- 18 grams of coffee ground to slightly finer than pour over
- Pour 40 grams of water evenly and leave for 40 seconds
- Pour 180 grams of water and stir for three stirs
- Put plunger in and pull up to create a seal
- Push down slowly at 2:30 until around 3:00
- Stop when you hear the hiss