OXO Outdoor Rapid Brewer with Travel Bag

Great product. Value for money is excellent! It’s my go to coffee at work, use it everyday and it works flawlessly. It makes better concentrated extraction than the office “fancy” machine even when I’m using the same beans. Pair it with a nice hand grinder (K4) and you are good to go!

We went camping but I couldn't find a kettle that looked safe to put over a campfire. And the enamel coffee makers are really expensive for some reason. So I came across this one. We actually prefer cold brew in the summer so this thing looked amazing. So I bought it just for that aspect. We used it when we camped. And I've been using it at home when I forget to make cold brew in our big container. This thing is reasonably priced. Quality parts. Works great. Who could ask for more. Just make sure to read the directions. The coffee concentrate is really concentrated so dilute like it tells you too. And you absolutely have to use very fine coffee. It won't work with a course grind. I just bought a can of bustelo and it worked perfectly.

Why did you pick this product vs others?: Fits in a backpack, brews coffee perfectly when combined with a fine ground coffee, easy to use and clean, and is inexpensive. I use this at the office every single day to get a wonderful semi-espresso to make my morning americano, latte, or occasionall shakerato. Paired with a decent hand grinder you can get some really good coffee out of this. Cold brew is pretty decent as well. I add an aeropress paper filter under the grounds to get a smoother brew. A few tips that work for me: 1. After adding the water, give the pump a half-press to better pre-infuse the grounds 2. Only pre-infuse for 1-1.5 minutes for fine ground med/dark roast 3. Wet the filter with hot water after putting into the basket, then pump the excess water out before adding the grounds. 4. Use near espresso fine grind so the water doesn't drain through before you start pumping. 5. Tamp the grounds well with a decent amount of pressure. That's it. Enjoy a great cup of coffee.

Another great way to make coffee while outdoors and on the move. The design is very well thought out. Unlike popular coffee makers like AeroPress, which rely on manual pressure and can be inconsistent or even prone to accidents, this design’s top-mounted pump mechanism works very effectively and makes pressure application much more controlled and stable. I would like to congratulate the designers. If the brewing chamber that comes into contact with hot water were made of metal, I would give it a five-star rating. However, this type of device should not be bought with the expectation of an espresso-like result. It does not claim to deliver that either. Still, it produces very good results for both cold and hot brewing, and I use it for camping. In addition, this device does not require paper filters. The fine-mesh metal filter can simply be rinsed in water and reused, which reduces dependency on additional consumables and further improves the practicality of the design.

I bought this really for the sole purpose of making Vietnamese coffee. The phins that I had never worked particularly well so when I saw that this is for making coffee concentrate, and Vietnamese coffee is really just coffee concentrate, I figured it would work pretty well and then also give me the benefit of being able to make regular coffee concentrate for when I go hunting or when I'm traveling. This works FLAWLESSLY for Vietnamese coffee. It was delivered, I ran out to get it, I washed all of the pieces and quick dried them, and then I got to heating up water and filling this thing up with my Saigon phin daklak and brewing it. It was delicious and far less messy than the traditional phins that I had.