AeroPress Stainless Steel Reusable Filter vs AeroPress Paper Micro-Filter

Fits

AeroPress

Flow

Unknown · Unknown

Material

Metal

Reuse

Washable, reusable

Availability

In production

How it brews

The reusable stainless disc that replaces the paper micro-filter in an AeroPress cap — the same part is sold as the Gold-Tone, and an XL version covers the larger brewer. Because it's a metal mesh rather than paper, it lets more oils and some fines through, so brewers tend to get a fuller, more textured body and more sediment in the cup than the clean paper finish. It's a one-buy, washable option with no ongoing paper cost. AeroPress publishes no flow rating and there's no reliable within-seat ranking against the paper disc, so we leave flow unrated rather than guess.

Fits

AeroPress

Flow

Unknown · Unknown

Material

Paper · Cellulose

Reuse

Single-use

Availability

In production

How it brews

The small round paper disc that drops into the cap of a standard AeroPress — the same filter covers the Original, the Clear and the Go, which all share the one cap seat. Its job is simple: it sits under a pressed column of water rather than a gravity drip, so the paper mostly catches fines and oils and keeps sediment out of the cup, giving the clean finish people tend to associate with a paper AeroPress. AeroPress publishes no flow rating for it and there's no reliable within-seat ranking against, say, the metal reusable disc, so we leave flow unrated rather than guess. A quick rinse is common practice to knock back any paper note, and the XL brewer takes its own larger disc that does not fit this cap.