I’ve owned every possible way to make drip coffee at home over the past decade, and Aeropress has three specific advantages to brewing excellent drip coffee tha

I’ve owned every possible way to make drip coffee at home over the past decade, and Aeropress has three specific advantages to brewing excellent drip coffee that no other method does: 1) It offers pressure extraction by hand, without complicated moving parts or fragility. There is nothing to break on an aeropress. 2) It requires less effort and less time to brew consistently than the other methods. I can pour extract, and clean an Aeropress in the 4 minutes it takes for a dripper to drip, and it tastes the same each time with less precision invested. 3) It can be safely carried anywhere (along with ground coffee) that has boiling water and a mug to press it into, without shattering in your bag. It can be rinsed, shaken dry, and put back into your bag without getting coffee grounds anywhere. Note that I haven’t used my Aeropress in years because I don’t want the flavor it produces right now (French Press, filtered, approximately). But I could boil water, pull it out of a drawer and use it to make a good cup of coffee in five minutes including cleanup. That’s a high bar to meet.