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The good cheap brewer, but expensive. I don’t get it. Help?
The inventor and original owner of the company didn't get it either, AFAIK. He resisted a lot of things that makes aeropress more expensive just for the sake of it. Well he had to cash out sooner or later and this became of it.
Now I might be talking out of my ass, based on half unremembered internet tales.
But here's my own opinion on this: premium aeropress is just for people to showboat they have money.
I would instead pay for big aeropress though. Makes it easier to share coffee.
Oh, I get the business side of it. I don’t get people wanting this, but I guess I’m just not into showboating, like you said.
I know he also didn’t want a bigger one, you’re “supposed to” use the bypass method. Which works really well, in my experience.
...and heavier, and less durable, and again much, much more expensive.
And a grating metal-on-glass sound when putting the cap on.
It’s weird how big of a deal he made about the noise and I barely heard it.
I couldn't hear it in the video, but imagine if you're working with this every day, and hearing the scraping sound and feeling it through your fingers.
I think a big part of the Aeropress's appeal is how satisfying it is in both tactile and audio senses.
When you twist tight the cap on a AP classic, it feels satisfyingly tight, and you instinctively know that it's sealed.
Which reminds me that James briefly commented on how hot the metal cap was after brewing.
Another un-satisfying thing about the AP Premium.
That's James for you though. He places a lot of value on the "feel" of materials and tools.