Replacement Filters for Aeropress (350 pk)

by AeroPress

• This package of 350 AeroPress microfilters should last for months
• The Micro-filter removes grit, unlike other press-type coffee makers
• The filters are designed for use with the AeroPress, an entirely new way to make coffee
• The AeroPress's ideal water temperature and faster brewing yields rich flavor with lower acidity and without bitterness
• Water and grounds are mixed together for 10 seconds, then gentle air pressure pushes the mix through a micro-filter in just 20 seconds

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3 x 3 x 6 inches ; 1.6 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000LTOCSG
• Item model number: 81R24
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (162 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #93 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

With enough filters to last for two years, this package of 350 AeroPress microfilters keeps kitchens well stocked. The Micro-filter removes grit, unlike other press-type coffee makers. The filters are designed for use with the AeroPress, an entirely new way to make coffee. Its ideal water temperature and faster brewing yields rich flavor with lower acidity and without bitterness. Other brewing processes use near boiling water and long exposure to coffee grounds. The AeroPress lets one quickly brew a variety of coffee drinks including an Americano or an espresso-style shot for use in lattes or cappuccinos. Its total-immersion system permits extraction at a moderate temperature and a short brew time. Water and grounds are mixed together for 10 seconds, then gentle air pressure pushes the mix through a micro-filter in just 20 seconds, which avoids the bitterness of long processes such as drip brewing. The air pressure also gently squeezes the last goodness from the grounds, further enriching the flavor. The total brewing time of only 30 seconds results in an exceptionally smooth brew.

Product Description

The AeroPress is an entirely new way to make coffee. The Micro-filter removes grit, unlike other press-type coffee makers. This package of 350 AeroPress microfilters should last for months.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

89 of 98 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Your search has ended with the Aerobie Aeropress April 24, 2009

By Jon Streeter

Amazon Verified Purchase

The disclaimer: I do not work for Aerobie. I have no commercial connection with Aerobie. I do confess, however, to owning two (2) Aerobie Aeropresses.

Okay, now for the part you've been waiting for, the review:

I'll make this really simple: throw away all your other coffee makers and use the Aeropress. Well, you can keep your $350 espresso maker and your electric drip coffee maker, your French press, and your ibrik. You won't USE them anymore, but you can sure keep 'em if you want to.

How serious am I about a good cup of coffee? I roast my own beans. In 1968 when America was brewing coffee in percolators, I saw Michael Caine grind coffee beans in the opening scene of "The Ipcress File" and went right out and searched for coffee beans and a grinder. People thought I was very strange because, after all, "I don't see the difference between vacuum packed and coffee beans." But I could tell the difference. I used a plastic cone and paper filters back then, a system which has basic flaws overcome by the Aeropress. Whatever kind of coffee you've been drinking, it'll be better if you make it with the Aeropress.
A word about the filters. I can taste the paper in coffee made in those drip makers of various kinds. I cannot taste the paper in coffee made in the Aeropress.

If you grind your own coffee, you don't have to get an expensive grinder because the Aeropress is not very particular about the fineness or coarseness of the grind. Fine is better. Coarse will work. You could probably pound the beans with a meat tenderizer and come up with a grind that would work okay in the Aeropress. Whatever grind you use, none of the grit will wind up on your teeth because the economical paper filters keep them out of your cup.... There are people who do like the tactile sensation of coffee grounds on their teeth such as coffee brewed in a French press or made in an ibrik. I'm not all that fond of it myself.

The coffee that comes out of the south end of the Aeropress is, certainly from a tactile and visual point of view, free from grounds. So? Well, for one thing, there are no grounds still brewing in the coffee you've got waiting for you in your stylish thermal carafe or in the cup you're savoring right at the moment, and that means that the coffee doesn't get bitter. Think about that for a moment. You get distracted, the coffee in your cup cools off. You nuke it for a few seconds. It's now hot enough to drink, but it just doesn't taste right. Or after a few hours in the carafe, the coffee, while it may still be hot enough, has become bitter. This just does not happen with coffee brewed in an Aeropress. Nuke that neglected cold cup of coffee sitting in front of you, and it's all but indistinguishable from a freshly brewed cup. Pour a hot cup from the carafe a couple of hours after you brewed it, and it's just like a freshly brewed cup. And when you drain the last drop of coffee from your cup, there are no grounds forming a reverse alluvial fan left behind. This can be a disadvantage to people who tell fortunes by reading coffee grounds. Anybody do that? Even more remarkable is that coffee stored for a day or more in the refrigerator can be reheated without an objectionable loss in quality. It's perhaps enough to notice, but if that coffee was made in an Aeropress, don't bet a large amount of money on a taste test, unless you're a professional taster, that you could tell reheated refrigerated coffee a few days old from a brand-new cup.

The measure that comes with the Aeropress holds three tablespoons which the Aeropress website recommends for a five-ounce cup of coffee. Say what?! Okay, the coffee does not, as in a French press, brew for four minutes; it brews for less than a minute, counting stirring and plunging time. That short time makes for a cup of coffee that's low in caffeine but with a robust coffee flavor. You can even make coffee with half the amount of water into an espresso cup, and, trust me on this, it is delicious. All the intensity of espresso's fullness of flavor, but without the bitterness. Now, I have a very good espresso machine, and one day, after having used the Aeropress for several months, I wanted to experience another cup of espresso.

I'm tempted to heave a huge sigh right along in here. Espresso is finicky. My machine (did I mention it's a good one?) is a semiautomatic. That means that it makes coffee with the same amount of pressure and at the correct temperature every time, but I have to put in the right amount of grounds and those grounds better be ground exactly right. Too fine, and the pump can't force the water through in 23 seconds, and the coffee will be extremely strong and without crema, that thick foam that's the hallmark of a correctly brewed espresso. Too coarse, and the pump forces the water through too fast, and you get a weak cup of coffee. And you don't get crema that time either. So I had to experiment with the grind and the amount to the tune of three tossed shots of espresso before I got one right. Did I mention espresso is finicky? It was quite good, but I discovered that not only is espresso finicky, so am I. I had grown to prefer the simplicity of the forgiving Aeropress. Once you get past getting water to the right temperature, I can't think of a way you can make a bad cup of coffee with the Aeropress.
And, by the way, I discovered that the correct amount of coffee grounds to use for a cup of espresso in my machine turned out to be the same as one Aeropress coffee measuring scoop.

Making a pot of coffee? Since brewing coffee in the Aeropress takes less than a minute, once you've got your water at the right temperature, you can brew up a whole lot of coffee really fast. A note on making coffee with really fresh coffee grounds such as those from beans you've just roasted: It foams up like a freshly poured beer. So you'll not be able to fill the receptacle up to the "4" mark. The solution? Do I have to think of everything?! Fill it to the "3" mark. Do this twice and you've made a quart of coffee in perhaps three minutes.

One really endearing feature of the Aeropress is that it's a snap to clean. You remove the little black filter basket at the bottom of the press, push the grounds into the kitchen wastebasket, rinse off the rubber plunger (look at the photos to see what I mean by "plunger"), rinse the basket. You're done. Sometimes I swipe the remaining grounds off the plunger with the stirring paddle before I rinse it. The whole operation takes maybe 15 seconds. I have another Aeropress in my office where I work (as a highly paid professional, of course), and my little windowless cubicle -- I mean my spacious corner office with panoramic view has no running water. I found that I'm able to clean it almost as well using a damp paper towel. I save the rinse for later.

Now, the word "plastic" has the connotation of "cheap" or "flimsy" for some people. Bear in mind that telephones and bowling balls are plastic, and nobody thinks of those two items as flimsy. The Aeropress is made of what appears to me to be very high quality plastic. There are no rough edges. It's thick and strong. And it's made in the United States, something that's apparently a value for the company. So for all of you who want to buy American, here's your chance: invented in America by an American and made in America.

The Aeropress requires that the user have the ability and the patience to bring water to the right temperature, 175 degrees Fahrenheit. If you don't have a thermometer, you'll have to buy one. I have the kind you can stick into a slab of meat or dunk into an Aeropress. It works just fine, and it's not very expensive. Under five dollars as I recall at my local hardware store.

How bothersome is it to bring water to the correct temperature? It's not. I experimented for a few minutes and discovered that in my microwave, water poured to the "3" level on the plunger thingy was brought to the right temperature in one minute on high. How hard is that? Or if you're not up to measuring the water, just stick your thermometer into the whistle on your teakettle and soon after you hear the water making that noise like it's about to boil (somewhere around 165 to 170 degrees Fahrenheit), it'll be at 180 degrees. I like this temperature because when you pour it into the Aeropress plunger, it cools off to just the right temperature of 175. Your mileage may vary.
There might be easier ways to make coffee, but I know of none better.

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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars re-usable July 21, 2007

By J. Reed

Amazon Verified Purchase

This makes a great cup of coffee. One of my favorite discoveries was when I read the instructions and they mentioned rinsing off these filters and reusing them. I had never thought of that, but considering how coffee filters DON'T decompose well in the compost, I love this idea and the amount that comes with the Aeropress will last a long time this way without ordering the extra pack. Just rinse and re-use.

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Cheap and apparently reusable November 16, 2009

By Sleepy

Amazon Verified Purchase

It's good to have extras.... How else can I review coffee filters?

The color, angelic white.
The thickness, a few million atoms.
The shape, surprisingly circular.
The price, recession-friendly.

The outcome: not bad at all.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great filters December 4, 2012

By Elizabeth C. Foster

Amazon Verified Purchase

I use these with my Hamilton single cup coffee brewer. They make the coffee less bitter word word word word

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Works great, but not needed. May 8, 2008

By Reader

Amazon Verified Purchase

These filters are a part of a system for making coffee/espresso that I love. But when I bought the contraption that makes the coffee, I didn't realize it came with so many filters.

Save your money and just use those that come with the thing. They will probably last me a year or more--and I drink a lot of coffee--plus, they say you can rinse the filters and use them more than once if you want to be more green and conservative in your filter use.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars This is better than a french press April 14, 2008

By E. Berry

I went through many drip coffee makers,then several French Press styles (all which eventually leaked coffee grounds into my coffee) and decided to try the aero system . I love it. I grind my two scoops of coffee beans each morning then add boiling water stir and press. Its easy to clean and use and it makes a rich fresh flavorful cup one at time. I'm hooked.Aeropress Espresso Maker

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Best coffee brewing gadget ever! December 18, 2007

By Marte

Amazon Verified Purchase

I love my Aeropress. I love the fact that one package of filters lasts a year. And I was astonished at how fast my refill pack of filters arrived after I ordered them. All in all, I think I'm going to be an Aeropress fan for life.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Filter paper... uh, it fits the AeroPress, and erm, it works November 20, 2009

By Zino Davidoff

Amazon Verified Purchase

I was prompted by Amazon to "review recent purchases" so here goes. This is just (JUST??!!!) the filter component to the Aeropress, which kicks major butt as a coffee maker. I can't recommend it enough... and if you use the Aeropress, you'll NEED these filters that allow it to work in the first place.

DUH!

So, yes, I LOVE THESE FILTERS which allow me to make coffee, which I cannot seem to live without. I grind espresso beans in a Solis Maestro, run that through the AP and wham-bam-thank-ya-ma'am... a wondrous liquid is born of mere water and plant matter.

"How long can this dude go on blathering over these simple paper filters?" one might ask.

No longer than THIS.