Fellow Prismo Aeropress Attachment | Crew Review
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I have a Prismo and i find it works waaaaay better when you stir it for a longer time. I do like, 40 seconds and it always turns out great!
Hey Gale,
I’ve been using the Prismo for quite awhile now. It actually does make a pretty good faux espresso, but the method you showed in the video isn’t how it’s instructed to be used. It’s a real fast process, 1 minute total. Espresso grind, don’t invert the AeroPress, your ratio was correct, as hot as water as you can get, and as soon as you add the 50 grams of water stir it very virgously for 10 seconds then cover and wait for the minute to elapse. When it’s done press it as firmly as you can and you get a pretty good shot for a home brew method. Thanks for making these videos. I love you guys!!
Since it has a valve that only opens when pressure is applied that means that she probably didn't need to do inverted method.
I am so happy to see anyone other than a handlebar mustache hipster talk about coffee. I love this lady! She’s calm, clear and natural. However, she has no idea how to use prismo.
How so?
Just wanted to comment and say that I love this review since it is unburdened by hype. Many other reviews claim it to be "just like espresso with great crema!". But I do want to say that when you flipped it over, some spilled out, and that shows how little pressure it takes to activate the valve. For anyone looking to avoid that spillage/leak-through, the Prismo is intended to be used in the conventional/upright method for AeroPress, and the valve acts to prevent leak-through, basically so that you don't have to invert. Also, if you are looking for maximum crema, a darker roast will be better for that.
I love the way how she speaks to the audiences here . I can hear she is authentic American lady .
Why are you doing the inverted method when it was designed to do it the upright method?
Yeah, as other comments have pointed out, there was definitely something wrong with the "shot" brewed here. There should not be any liquid escaping before the valve before pressing on the plunger. And, of course, no need to brew inverted since no liquid should escape until pressure is applied.
Pressing down of the glass cup had me super nervous.
thick glass with the walls almost 90 degrees = a lot of structural integrity
I once made the mistake of trying an aeropress with a glass espresso cup. Was an extremely poor decision lol
@@bardockssjtwo Not when you're not spreading the downforce evenly - the prismo attachment is whats pushing on the inside of the cup, probably the weakest point of the whole thing. I
stratostear 3..2..1.. fire the cup across the room
Totally. And did u see that wobble?
I've recently started using the Fellow Prismo with my Aeropress and it produces the best coffee ever. One thing you are missing in your demo, you do not need to invert the Aeropress when using the Prismo.
Do you need an additional filter, such as the paper one, or does it replace it?
I finally got my hands on one and it's pretty good. While the hole isn't small enough to totally emulate a pressurized portafilter, the fact that it still takes pressure to open it up means better steep time without having to invert the aeropress or, in my case, using a different container. The metal filter is nothing special though. It's just the same ol' thing that'll always leave a bit of grit at the bottom of the cup. I usually just place a paper filter on top of the metal filter.
I don't know why but I haven't been able to get any faux cremo whatsoever with mine, I have tried varying the filter, how much pressure I use, the grind, no dice. I still find that a useful device and it's my go-to filter because it comes with the middle filter and doesn't leak into the cup before I'm ready to press, but it doesn't live up to its advertising either
Gotta question. Obvjously the greatar the pressure the bettar when using the Primo, in ordar to simulate an espresso machine as much as possoble. So would it work bettar to use it along wit one o the lever arms designed to be use with an Aeropress. That will allow puling a shot with much greatar pressure, maybe producing more faux crema. Worth testing in anothar vijeo?
my prismo filter is not locking into where it should on aeropress go... its thicker than the space for locking
I am getting a lots of coffee grinds in my cup after pulling a shot with fellow prismo, can you please tell me the remedy to have a smooth syrupy espresso?
I agree with some of the other commenters that the Prismo can perform much better than this. Something isn't right here as nothing should have leaked out when you turned the AeroPress over to press the shot. I usually use an espresso grind (Bodum Bistro grinder), a paper filter along with the Prismo's metal one and bloom 20 grams of coffee with 50 grams of water for 1 minute and stir fairly vigorously for 40 seconds during the bloom. I do not invert and when I press, I press the shot fairly quickly. I get a consistent "espresso like" shot time after time. I have tried both with and without the paper filter and never get coffee leaking by like it did here. Thanks for the video though but maybe try a "re-do" to give it another go!
Invert or no invert makes not a bit of difference at all. "Espresso-like" is accurate, but it just isn't. It's strong because it's a fine grind, higher ratio, high agitation... and it kinda *looks* like espresso because the jet-like stream create fine bubbles in the brew as it fills. The crema is still on top of the grounds IME, like it's always been with Aeropress.
There's no need to invert the aeropress with the Prismo. The valve keeps the coffee from leaking at all.
I dont think she even did the prismo justice.
as soon as she started talking about the little birdy I kinda lost all hope
supR she did not at all, plus she overextracted it by letting it sit that long.
4:40 looks like it started dripping as soon as she placed it on the cup
Naughtysauce inverting is completely unnecessary. It adds nothing but danger of a spill. The valve remains completely closed in the absence of pressure. There’s no need to put the plunger in until you’re ready to press it. There is absolutely no leakage until then. Source: used one every day for the past few months.
People really should read instructions before they post to youtube. Both commenters and creators.
love all your videos! does it matter which way the Fellows filter is facing? if i'm holding the prismo cap in my hand, should the fellows filter logo be facing me or the cap please? thanks!
can it be used for "aeropress go"?
I’ve had mine for a good month now. Wanted to increase the volume for a “shot” so I’m doing 20g coffee to 75g water. Water at 211. Stir for 20 then start to press immediately after. All said it’s about a minute or so total. Love the versatility that this device offers for 25 bucks!
Why would you need this for cold brew? I've made cold brew in a glass jar and just poured it through a filter the next day.
I admit that I didn't think of a little birdie chirping in the nest when she used pressure on the cap.
I've broken a nice pottery mug pushing down on my aeropress before so with the additional pressure I assume this attachment would require I'd have to stick to the enamelled steel...
I actually didn't like coffee for many years, I actually just recently started making coffee at home :D Up until that it was something I drank when I was tired or some expensive lattes for taste. I really don't like normal coffee, but I really like well-prepared coffee, especially cold brews, and lattes. As someone who cooks a lot and likes to research different methods of cooking and stuff. After doing same for tea I naturally ended up on coffee.
Now I have Aeropress, Chemex, Hario pro hand grinder and adjustable water kettle. Saves a lot of money and it's fun to play around with. Also, an adjustable kettle is just golden for tea, which I still drink a lot more. Coffee is more like a dessert, I noticed if I drink more than once a day and don't drink one day it may give me a headache or slight dependency.
Now the next step is a good electrical grinder and espresso machine, going to take while for that tough.
Heaven forbid you have fun making coffee. Coffee is so prescise a gram too much or too little will make something completely undrinkable. And the You Tube coffee police will issue snide and snotty comments.
Does this thing leak if you brew not inverted? If it doesn't leak what's the point of inverting?
"We're gonna give it a stir for about 4 seconds" 22 seconds later she pulls the stir out...LOL
I'm very interested, any idea as to why the two aeropress are so different in translucency?
I think the cold one is the original version
Why do I have the feeling the hot one should have been pressed first?
William Pichardo I was watching like NOOOOOO overextraction 😆
does the rocket Boxer 2 groups has a water tank ?
Thank you for the video. How much coffee did you use for the cold brew?
TLater, that same life time: 3 further observations 1. The steel filter does make a difference, but it's really hard to clean if you use a Starbuck's Dark Roast. 2. We also use other coffees which do come clean more easily. But when I make one of each, it's a bit tedious. NOTE: This filter dents real easily and you won't know how it happened. Be careful. 3. Finally, How do I buy an extra filter?? What's wrong with that picture?
Would you use this for everyday hot coffee or only when making like iced coffees and the like? Also can you use a paper filter? I find that I've come to hate metal filters for the grounds they leave in the cup and the paper filter is one of the things that set it apart from a french press.
xzackly7 I use it almost everyday for normal coffee preparations. You can put a normal aeropress filter over the metal screen. It’s great! I rarely use it for hot espresso things, but do use it for iced americano or iced latte.
great to see a true and honest review of the prismo. Some of the reviews which show the user rapidly expressing through the prismo are clearly not real. Fine, mid or coarse grind, doesn't matter, Arnold Schwarzenegger couldn't express as fast as some of these guys make it look. Force required actually makes it a little dangerous
I think the cap on the second one is not attached properly, it is visible and the pressure is too weak
The lid isn't on completely, that's why it leaked. I've found the most difficult thing about the prismo is actually screwing on the attachment itself.
The prismo needs to be retooled as the lips are too deep to fit properly in the aeropress. The home hack is to sand the top surface on a flat surface to make them a little narrower. Fits fine then.
Finally an improvement to the Aeropress. I never got my Aerorpress to work right without having to spend a half hour setting it up. I always had to wet my filter and coffee taking 5 minutes. llet it sit for 10 minutes. then pour the water in. Let it sit another 10 minutes. And finally spend another five minutes wiggling on the stopper and push it through and try not to tip the whole thing over. The fail point of AP was always the base. Brew water always passed right through it without extra care. And it never EVER got anywhere close to espressso. It was no more than a complicated French Press. FINALLY someone fixed this fail.
I love that she says, "fellows" and "diaphragm!" Awesome! 😂
You should do a JOEPRESSO attachment for AeroPress review!
Cool! I got mine a few weeks ago, never thought of the cold brew.
Christopher Herrick I'm worried about the damage it would do for the rubber plunger to sit half-inserted for 4 hours at a time. In 3 years I'm on my second plunger, but I take care to store it properly. I'm sure this will greatly speed up the deterioration.
Zach Groenewald I see your point, I watch another vid where a guy only did 10 minutes of steep time, it was not concentrate of course, but maybe that would lessen your chances of the deterioration.
i got mine. but i having a problem whereby my coffee has alot of coffee ground residual.. I am not sure if everyone else has this problem or only me. Also, can i know the recipe for cold brew?
Are you using the metal filter? Because you'll never avoid ground residue with that thing.
mark2500 Prismo using metal filter. I had a metal filter for regular aeropress cap but won’t get this much of ground residual. Prismo metal filter is too much to take it.
You use the same grind setting on both types of caps, I take it. That's actually pretty interesting because I'm starting to wonder if there's a good bit that gets through the sides of the prismo. Or, maybe, the recommended grind setting may actually be too fine for the Prismo's metal filter.
mark2500 dont know, probably my hand grinder is not good enough for prismo. Thats why im asking if any other user having same problem. Else that will be on me only.
I discovered that the “hard push” resistance to being squished can be improved by either: Inserting the push unit into the main cylinder at a slight angle which allows a bit more air to escape, OR ever so slightly pump it up and down when seems stubborn about allowing a smooth push. There’s a gratifying whoooosh as it lets go. This gives one an unexpected feeling of accomplishment. Gonna try this prism. Aero press doesn’t replace my busted Barista Express, but it’s great with Starbuck’s dark roast.
Do they sell that kettle anymore?
Calvin Vanhofwegen yes
Chet Leigh na they dont
Can you make a review on the NANOPRESSO with barista kit please
Hi Gail and SCG, been awhile since I've commented on anything, and this definitely tickled my "coffee bone". So here I go. First, thanks. Nice presentation on a new, and very unique product. Glad that dual wall tumbler didn't shatter under the pressure of the extraction when the new accessory clearly changed the diameter of the cap! I am curious as to how it stacks up against other reusable filters, but there are so many now. Once upon a time I considered the Able dual set, but now there are a few others like those (stamped steel) as well as mesh options, in varying levels of "fine". Anyway, a comparison might be in order, if you're bored/need content.
Secondly, since they encourage cold brew usage, would you also consider a "David v. Goliath" type showdown between this bit of kit (Aeropress + Prismo) and say the OXO Cold Brewer, plus a reusable filter for that system, if it exists? Might be interesting to compare taste results with the brew time, volume, and pricing for all as a offset. Just curious. Thanking you in advance, but curious to hear your thoughts, if any...
Jesse Cohen the metal filter will let more oil through vs a paper one. The Prismo pressurizes it more leading to the foam. If you don’t want the foam you can just order the filters by themselves pretty cheap online for a better tasting brew imo.
I wanna try this but I already have an espresso machine, my main gripe with this is the price but I guess "espresso" doesn't come cheap
I usually used it upside down and using both paper filter and metal filter. It will not drop at all and you don't have to turn it around again. And doubel filter for clear taste. Plm make a review about that, or just reply comment here, I want to know what you think. Thanks :)
Can you use a paper filter with that?
mark2500 yes. I do it
Ryan Klein Awesome. 👍
A noob here, can anyone tell me if the Prismo has any other major effect on the coffee besides the foam? Cause i couldnt give less of a shit about foam in my coffee :)
It lets you brew without water leaking. And the metal filter allows more fines into your coffee soy you’ll have some at the bottom of your cup. You can add a paper filter to mitigate this but that seems to me to be a bandaid on an otherwise good thing.
Really interesting but I'd like to know how it works with a more common espresso ratio, for example 8 g of coffee for 50 g of water...
Just fyi, 8g coffee to 50g water isn't an espresso ratio at all. To be considered an espresso one, the ratio ground coffee to beverage yield should be somewhere in between 1.5 to 2.0 (very grand max 2.5), the lower range being more ristretto style, the upper range more lungo style.
Thank you for the information. In fact I never do espresso (in an espresso machine), and my reference was the fake espresso that I do in my Aeropress: fine ground, tamped, placed between a metal filter and paper filter. In that case, I use 8g of coffee for 50g water, as with the Aeropress a part of the water stays in the grounds, so I ended with 40g of espresso. But I see that it's still too much here, as if I understand correctly I should have 33ml of espresso (with crema) for 8g of coffee. I'm a bit surprised by these numbers: you put 20g of water and you get 33ml of coffee... Thats just because of the crema?
Here: www.home-barista.com/tips/brewing-ratios-for-espresso-beverages-t2402.html
You're welcome. This ratio of roughly 1:2 is a standard in the industry. That's what Scott Rao or James Hoffmann recommend. It's only an average recommendation, depending on how strong you want your beverage (ristretto, normale or lungo), on the roast type, on your bean and its freshness, and a few other variables. Usually, people start locking in the dose (for instance 18g) and then adjust the brew ratio, grind size, temperature, flow rate and pressure to extract as they want to. When I'm saying brew ratio, I'm speaking of the ground coffee weight to the yield weight, not to the brew water weight. So, if you locked in your dose to 18g, you would roughly aim for a beverage yield of 36g, included the crema, of course.
I wanna make and drink coffee with Gayle. She's so laid back
I wasn't sure if this video was a joke. I was waiting for the mug to shatter when the lady was struggling and sweating trying to push the plastic reamer down into the coffee. Looked like something from the old Saturday Night Live--or maybe "I Love Lucy."
All that effort and equipment for half a cup of coffee?
highnrising she was using the filter wrong lol. Plus, you get a concentrated shot of coffee that can be diluted to the strength of a typical drip brew.
Great video! Thanks
Uh...if I remember correctly the aeropress can make a decent enough cuppa cold brew in about 2 minutes without any extra gadgets...
You'll have a much better time pressing the air out of the Aeropress prior to flipping.
Just push the outside piece down gently so you don't throw liquid all over.
She makes me want to go and make coffee! What more can I say?
I use 21 grams of coffee and @ 300 grams of water. That had to be stout lol. Great info as usual.
It's emulating espresso, which is like a concentrated 30-40g shot of coffee.
The whole point of the prismo is to not have to brew inverted....
It’s already hard to push, that seemed much more difficult.
bshomb, if you're having trouble pushing on the original version, try spinning it slightly while plunging. I cant speak for it with the Prismo, but the regular way it helps.
0:36 weird sense
Love Gail
Disappointing review. Other than "its robust" and "not bad" it sure would be nice to hear how this stacks up with a traditional aeropress brew using similar ratio. No info here to help me decide whether or not this is a worthwhile investment.
Tim Gnatek I agree with your observations Tim which to me says, “not a worthwhile investment”.
Tim Gnatek investment he says... it’s like $20.
Reading between the lines (given that she probably doesn't want to talk smack on a product that her company is selling) I'd say she was trying to tell you it's so-so.
Hmmmmmmm a little birdie you say....
I like this lady she's cool.
Looks just like every experiment I've made with the Prismo I purchased - it is *not* crema, as you mention. All you get are fine bubbles from stream it created... e.g. they're just bubbles. This thing is a $25 gimmick.
I don't think I would even buy if I had to press down on the two
Audio is a little out of sync
That coffee is so dark it matches the counter. lol
idk why, but I use 20g of coffee with 50g of water
SeanTheHOMIE that works, I use 17 and 55 so pretty close to yours
You should do an 800 dollar espresso set up
The company called Fellow makes very nice products. However I'm not familiar with the company fellows.
I like her but that wasn’t a helpful discussion of the two
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
This doesn't look like you did it right as the Prismo should perform way better and shouldn't leak.
You're so cute in your befuddlement. Don't ever change it. Ever!
Gail is getting a workout lmao
OK, I see that I did it right and it’s a waste of money. I want my $25 back. 😂🤣
"Fultra" I thought you were going to say Folgers. (No I didn't. Ever)
Rocchio Coffee makes more than 750 Aeropress coffees per week. We use both paper and various metal filters. I will state unequivocally that turning an Aeropress upsidedown is ridiculous. If you must turn it upsidedown to prevent leaking, the grind size isn't correct. If you must press so hard, and for more than 20-25 seconds, the grind size is incorrect. With hot coffee, water temp should be under 200 degrees; 190 degrees is best. (I've heard as low as 165) The Aeropress is NOT a hot steeping brewing method. It is a pressure method. Steeping hot coffee in an Aeropress will cause tannic acid to form. Cold steeping in such a small volume will also cause tannic acid to form. The grind and water temperature are extremely important. And finally, with a properly roasted bourbon, catuai or caturra, I can get better crema with an Aeropress paper filter.
Thanks Marco, any other tips ?
Depends on the roast and the bean. I roasted some Yemen Mocca Matari to between City and City+ and took it to my daughter's house and compared brewing it in the Aeropress and her espresso machine. I used 190° water in the Aeropress because that's what I heard *everyone* say to use. The flavor was remarkably better out of the espresso machine than from the Aeropress, there was no comparison. The coffee from the Aeropress didn't have that rich dark chocolate taste Moccas are famous for. It was OK, but nothing to write home about.
Then I watched a video where James Hoffman used boiling water with the Aeropress. So first I tried 200° water and then near boiling water in the Aeropress. I measured the internal temperature of the brew in the Aeropress and it was something like 20° cooler than the water I put in. So 210° water turns into 190° water after you mix it with the ground coffee in the Aeropress. The hotter water brought out the rich flavors of the Mocca that we had gotten from the espresso machine.
Caveat: If you like drinking charcoal water like Charbucks, then yeah, drop your temperature 20° to minimize bitterness. UGH, makes me cringe to even think about it, LOL.
@@DrHenley I totally concur with your opinion of the coffee from Charbucks.
I've found using water straight from the kettle, and stirring with a plastic spoon instead of that silly paddle produces fantastic coffee, much better than if made with cooler water.
#bringjoeback !!!