The best way to make coffee? Cowboy. French Press. Pour-over. Aeropress, either as shown in ads or flipped upside down. K-cup pods.
Easy choices? Wars have been fought over less.
Introducing PressKit: Pick the parts you want, build the coffee maker you want.
The heart of the system is a stainless
steel (316 or other food safe grade) cylinder approximately 4” long and a little over 2” inside diameter. Smooth bore, threaded on outside of both ends for attaching accessories.
Cowboy coffee? Screw a solid cap onto the bottom, pour in water and grounds, stir, heat over open fire or stovetop. Be sure to buy the fireproof insulated handle, you’ll need it to pick the thing up. Pour off the slurry, optionally with a filter screwed on top to catch the grounds. Unless you like the grittiness of REAL cowboy coffee.
French Press? Solid cap on bottom. Be sure to buy the hand cranked grinder attachment! Coarse grind coffee directly into brewing chamber, then remove grinder. Add water just off the boil, attach French press lid with screen, wait four minutes, press and pour.
Pour-over? Perforated cap with filter insert on bottom, add grounds, pour water slowly in through the open top. Different grades of filter insert available, choice of stainless steel mesh, paper, cloth.
Aeropress, original? Perf cap w/ filter on bottom, add water & grounds, stir, press with either original Aeropress plunger or approved PressKit equivalent.
Aeropress, inverted? Start with solid cap on bottom. Add water and grounds, stir. Attach perf cap w/ filter on top. Then flip it and place on top of cup. Remove solid cap from what is now the top, press with plunger.
Those are just five (okay, four and a half) different ways to build it and make coffee your way. But options could be endless* with new attachments. An adaptor for K-cup style pods on the bottom? Filter caps with pressure relief valves and a tamper for more espresso-like coffee? Top end lever press or screw drives for more pressure? The company would sponsor competitions for new attachment ideas and ways to make coffee.
Buy any or all parts for yourself or a friend. The perfect gift for any Rube Goldberg, Heath Robinson, or coffee loving Halfbaker.
What will you make with yours?
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* “endless” - okay, not literally, but while writing this I came up with three more methods fully visualized and a few vague ones that need more detail. I may have had enough coffee this morning.