ESPRO P7 French Press Coffee Maker - Double-Walled Stainless Steel Insulated with Micro-Filter, 32 Ounces, Aegean Blue

The look of this French press is great! I wanted something sleek that fit with my new kettle, creating just a little morning vibe. So first impressions were solid - a nice feel in the texture and color, clean and simple design, and a nice match to other appliances and kitchen decor. Moving from those first visuals, the interior makes making coffee or tea super easy, with minimum water and demarcations for max coffee or max tea. I frankly thought the filter part was a bit of a gimmick, but after brewing my first coffee I was really surprised at how little, remarkably little, grounds were at the bottom of my cup, and how perfectly rounded the coffee taste. Usually I also feel a bit of subtext pressure to drink coffee quickly when using a French press, since it can go cold fairly quickly - that is where this design especially shined! I could pour out an amount I wanted and just let the rest sit until I was ready for more. The last cup was as smooth as the first - and was still hot to enjoy!In a hurry up world it’s nice sometimes to take a moment and just enjoy…

Update: After three weeks of use, here's what I can tell you. This press has totally replaced my classic Bodum French press, which has been relegated to basement storage. My initial impression that it was harder to clean than the Bodum one was wrong. Actually, it's easier to clean and I never have to worry about breaking it. My annoyance that it didn't keep the coffee as hot as other reviewers promised (whoever said it keeps coffee hot four hours is lying) has totally faded because the coffee is delicious. While it does not keep the coffee hot like a thermos would, it does keep it nice and fresh and hot if you want to make a press and have it on the table throughout a leisurely breakfast while reading the newspaper or whatever. So, overall, I do stand by my bottom line. Great coffee, might not be worth the extra for the double-wall vacuum-sealed, but I can't see going back to my old press again.Original review below:I bought this after reading a NYTimes Wirecutter review of French Presses. I’ve used a classic Bodum press for two decades, but after reading about the potential cholesterol raising effects of unfiltered coffee, was looking for an alternative. I use a Clever for single-cup filtered coffee, but most days I want to brew more than one cup at a time. Enter the Espro. And as long as I was upgrading, why not go all in with the double-wall vacuum insulated model? This could be my leisurely weekend coffee maker.Well, the coffee is great, but the added expense of the double-wall, vacuum insulation is not at all worth it. Kept the coffee moderately hot for one hour. After two hours, it was unpleasantly cold. I thought this would spare me the need to decant into a thermos, thereby saving me some clean up. But since there are so more parts to the filtration system than a typical press, it’s more of a pain to clean up, and doesn’t keep the coffee very hot.Bottom line: Great filtration, but the glass or non vacuum sealer metal versions would suffice. The top of the line version doesn’t deliver on keeping coffee hot long enough to justify the high price tag.

I bought this along with a super high-quality grinder, and discovered that I kinda only needed one or the other.The mesh filters are fine enough on this that you can get away with a relatively crappy grinder. You can even use regular pre-ground coffee, and it'll come out okay. With a normal glass/single layer mesh press, using regular grounds will result in actual sludge in the bottom of your cup. With this unit, the Costco bulk ground coffee will leave some fines in your cup, but will work fine otherwise; the second layer of screening is good enough to keep the sludge at bay.If, on the other hand, you have a high quality, consistent grinder, you can buy a less expensive press and do fine. That said, pairing this with a good grinder makes absolutely *splendid* coffee. You don't necessarily need both, but I doubt you'll regret the purchase. The double filters can also help you calibrate your grinder; if the inner filter is getting many grounds on it, you probably want a slightly coarser grind.This unit is tall and skinny, and does better with a tall sink for cleaning. If you're trying to rinse it out upstairs in a standard bathroom sink, you should be able to do it, but it'll take a little maneuvering. The actual cleaning process is very easy, although you do have to clean two little baskets instead of one. It takes a wee bit longer than cleaning a standard press.The build quality seems good.Oh, one other note: because of the filter design, you end up with some coffee left in the bottom that you can't drink. You're using a more water than normal, so it takes more grounds than you're probably expecting. Further, French presses need more grounds for the same amount of coffee, because they're ground coarse and use a shorter brewing time. (normally 4 minutes.) I use six tablespoons of coffee per batch, and I get two 16-ounce cups out of it. With my older drip brewer, it took only four tablespoons.In exchange, the quality is *vastly* better, you can use almost any grounds, and after you've plunged it, the coffee stays excellent for at least an hour. Seems well worth it to me, but if your coffee budget is small, the higher consumption might be something to consider.

Plus side: The Espro makes great tasting coffee if you start with good beans. If preheated, it will hold a good drink temperature for an hour or more and decanting is not needed. Downside: Even with the fine mesh screen there is still a bit of fines in the brew. It is also hard to pour out the last cup as the grounds can block the basket. Putting a paper filter over the basket would probably solve these minor issues. Overall I'm glad I purchased this unit.

I have noticed a more flavourful cup of coffee probably due to the micro filtering system. My only concern is the outside wall gets almost hot, but the coffee does stay hotter longer than my oldFrench press.

I tried percolator, italian coffee maker, regular french press, very good automatic drip coffee machine (Oxo 8 cups) and this is the one who make the best coffee by far. It keeps the coffee warm enough if you like to put milk in it, and for a good period of time. The taste of coffee is rich without the residues of a ordinary french press. I recommend this product all the way !

The Espro french press is visually pleasing, however, we found the coating to be rather fragile, the white color marks up easily during cleaning, and you will mark it up because for a 32oz press this thing is enormous. Unless you have a large sink, you're likely to find yourself making a conscious effort to keep from bouncing the press off the sink walls.In terms of function, we found that the press did not perform well as a double walled insulated product, I can leave steaming hot tea in a double walled insulated Yeti mug for 3 hours and at no point does the exterior of the mug feel any warmer than ambient temperature. With the Espro french press, seconds after pouring hot water into the press you can stat to feel the exterior temperature of the press increase, after a minute the press is very warm, almost too hot to hold. If you were planning on making two cups of coffee so that you could drink one after the other, this will most likely leave you with a close to luke-warm second cup.Considering the price, the coating which does not appear to be very robust, and the poor performance of the double walled insulation, the 3-star rating is the best I can offer for this product.Our trusted Bodum, at a fraction of the price, makes great coffee, is easy to clean, and looks the same as the day we first took it our of the box many hundreds of brews ago. The Bodum is single wall glass in construction and does not keep the coffee very warm for long, however, nor does the Espro, unfortunately.

The quality of the materials and the design are outstanding! The coffee that this stat-of-the -art French Press produces is impressive and there is absolutely no coffee bean residue that will end up in your cup - due to the double filtration system. There is only one little complaint, which is the fact that it is not the most efficient French Press. You will not be able to squeeze out all the coffee out of the coffee grounds. When you press down the filter fully, there will still be a bit of coffee left that will end up wasted. I assume that you could reduce the amount of coffee wasted by making big coffee batches ( at least 70g) and avoiding making small batches. The smaller the volume of coffee grounds, the more coffee will be wasted because you will not be able to apply the needed pressure for the filter to squeeze out as much liquid as possible out of the coffee grounds.

Sadly, I found this cafetière wastes coffee because the fine filter stops the last of the brew from pouring out.I say sadly because, in all other respects, this is an excellent product. Very fine filter, excellent tight fitting lid, excellent insulation.But, alas, this wasn’t quite the right size for me.