Filters
AeroPress XL Paper Micro-Filter (natural) vs Studio Barista Metal Filter for AeroPress
AeroPress XL Paper Micro-Filter (natural)
- Fits
- AeroPress
- Flow
- Unknown · Unknown
- Material
- Paper · Cellulose
- Reuse
- Single-use
- Availability
- In production
- How it brews
- The larger disc for the AeroPress XL, in the unbleached natural sheet rather than the white one — it fits the XL cap only and does not drop into a standard AeroPress. Its job is the same as any AeroPress paper: catch fines and oils under the pressed column for a clean cup, with the natural version differing only in the absence of bleach. A rinse before brewing is common practice. No flow class is published and there's no dependable within-seat ranking, so we leave flow unrated.
Studio Barista Metal Filter for AeroPress
- Fits
- AeroPress
- Flow
- Unknown · Unknown
- Material
- Metal
- Reuse
- Washable, reusable
- Availability
- In production
- How it brews
- A third-party stainless mesh disc for the standard AeroPress cap, an alternative to AeroPress's own reusable metal filter. Like any metal AeroPress filter it passes more oils and fines than paper, so the cup tends to read fuller and carry more sediment, in exchange for cutting single-use waste. Flow isn't rated by the maker and there's no dependable within-seat ranking, so we leave it unrated. It seats in the same AeroPress cap as the standard paper disc.