today we're going to review this it is
the Delta press this is one of the most
requested reviews I've had in some time
and lots of you want to know is this
better than the error press and I think
that's asking entirely the wrong
question I'll explain why in a second
now this is a Brisbane based company I
think it's designed that Australia it's
manufactured in China it is in the UK
available for about 35 pounds which
makes it a bit more expensive than a
narrow press but the reason it's the
wrong question is that it is a
fundamentally different brewer and I do
mean fundamentally now I need an arrow
press to make this all work so you know
the arrow press the air press is an
infusion brewer all of the coffee and
all of the water hang out for a while in
the brew chamber and then you plunge
them to sort of press them against a
piece of paper clean them up separate
them and get you a cup of coffee out
that way but the key here is that it's
an infusion brewer Delta press is not an
infusion brewer and I think that's a
really important point so it
fundamentally brews in an entirely
different way to the arrow press here
you have your water goes in the top and
a slightly convoluted way but we'll come
to that see your filter paper goes here
and you can see here your brewer
essentially has kind of a shower screen
almost like an espresso machine there
kind of spray head I guess is probably
more accurate so this this column of
water is gonna pass through this puck of
coffee and that makes it a totally
totally different Brewer to the
Aeropress
so we've got two questions to answer
about the Delta press firstly does it
make good coffee and secondly well
what's the experience of it like how is
it to use now it is going to end up
being compared to the arrow press and I
think the arrow press is a very high bar
in a couple of regards one is such a
flexible Brewer you can do so much with
it there's so many different ways to
brew and to it's cheap and it's easy to
use and it's kind of reliable it's
unbreakable it's simple there's a couple
of parts it comes with extra bits but
even if you don't use these it doesn't
really matter so let's start off with
how you brew coffee use
the delta press so here's how it works
we're gonna put our coffee in here you
turn the whole thing upside down and you
then have a rinsed out your filter paper
put it in your cap and that cap screws
on top also simple also familiar I guess
so far well a bit this is where things
get a little bit odd turn upside down
put out a new brewing vessel and you
leave the plunger all the way in right
it's not the i/o press where you take
the plunger out put the water in put the
plunger in again we start with our
plunger fully depressed now one nice
thing about this in theory is this lines
on here to give you an idea of how much
water to fill now I filled this up to
the 200 line and yeah will pretty much
395 tiny bit now we haven't started
brewing yet that's really important we
can get rid of the scale now as well
what you absolutely must do now is put
on this little rubber thing it's used as
a scoop I think it stops you getting
scolded by having your hand on top of
some freshly boiled water here's what
they want you to do we haven't started
brewing yet when we lift this we can
pull some water from inside the plunger
up to the 50 level here at the bottom
and that water is now above the coffee
and we can start to gently pre infuse
very gently our preview jhin's are kind
of funny word here we're just kind of
brewing essentially if we press this
through and they were brewing it a low
pressure but it's not like blooming the
same way if you're doing a percolation
brew
know that you're going to suffer all of
the same problems potentially as any
other percolation brew most notably
channeling is a concern so now I can
pull up the rest of my brew water which
interesting me is a little bit less than
150 so some extra has clearly gone
through and I can press that gently
through so I'm using 12 grams to 200
pretty normal recipe especially for a
percolation brew and not an infusion
brew grind wise
but reasonably fine for filter coffee
not very fines that mean nowhere near
espresso on the finer end of medium
which is not that helpful to anyone I
know I will finish this and we need to
talk about a couple of things firstly
when you get to this point if you've
used an arrow press a lot you're going
to want to do some things don't do it
you're going to want to take the bra off
the cup I just I'll just do that with it
to sort of be finished for a second this
is a terrible idea this is not sealed
and there is still some hot water inside
I've done this a couple of times and
scalded myself so don't don't do that
I think they encourage you to kind of
press through again the last little bits
in Aeropress brewing that never tastes
particularly good to do so I'm kind of
intrigued by that even so when you're
done I'd probably pull back a little bit
but I would not turn this upside down
it's not saying this little thing here
just as a citement has kind of driven me
crazy if you lose this it becomes very
hard to use this broke because you
literally can't put your hand on top and
press it it doesn't fit particularly
well it falls out quite a lot in transit
it would be easier to lose I don't think
it's a particularly good scoop I think I
mean it's not a great piece of design
and here we have some coffee and that's
actually too hot for me to assess right
now it smells quite nice and I don't
doubt it will be a pretty good brew it's
a question of getting my grind fine
enough to use I'm going to clean this up
now and unfortunately for the Delta this
is one area where it will come in direct
comparison with the Aeropress if you've
used an air press I'm sure you remember
the first time that you kind of popped
out that spent puck and just give it a
rinse and it was done and it was clean
and you're like that's so easy not quite
the same experience here and and I know
that's kind of unfair it's one of the
best bits of the Aeropress is that kind
of cleanup process being so so quick and
easy it just isn't that with the Delta
I'll press it through if we take this
thing off it doesn't work the same way
because the coffee is still inside the
brew chamber right like I can't just
knock it out so I have to be
a bit more aggressive and then the
inside of it is still pretty messy it
needs a really good rinse and a good
clean it's just not as fun it's just not
as easy to clean up as the air press
it's okay but compared to other paper
filter Brewers like it you take a v60
you pick the paper up you throw it in
the bin clever you do the same thing
even though that's an infusion Brewer
it's absurd the point so while we wait
for the coffee to cool a little bit more
still I'll talk to you about a few other
things that sort of bother me or that I
think about with the Delta aside from
this thing that just keeps falling out
now the papers that go in it are very
similar but not quite identical in size
to the Aeropress
the texture feels very different there
most definitely two-sided in that regard
and then on this the air Press filter
it's just a bit more uniform on both
sides the Delta paper has maybe a two
mil smaller diameter but it does mean if
you put Aeropress papers in your Delta
it won't quite fit beautifully I'm not
sure if you have any issues I haven't
really played much with that but it it's
an interesting decision to go so close
but not just be the the same size you
may interpret that as you will the
plunger mechanism on the Aeropress is
that big chunk of rubber here the seal
is much much much thinner there's a
small little gasket here that a few
times I've ended up getting kind of
twisted or mashed up and it just doesn't
feel as kind of sturdy and long-lasting
as the plunger from a narrow press I
feel this would just be much easier to
damage or potentially just wear out then
a thicker larger piece of rubber in the
Aeropress so that's kind of a funny one
for me
the last little nitpick I guess or thing
I think about is the shower screen the
way that this distributes water is kind
of interesting it does have an a sort of
an outward spray pattern so you're
looking to hit I guess probably most of
the coffee reasonably well but the flow
doesn't look super consistent across the
whole shower head right like I do worry
about things like channels forming in my
brew from pushing a little bit too hard
if I'm pushing with some pressure if I'm
pushing very softly then it it's not
really a concern but if you start to
press harder these do generate a little
bit of force that I would imagine will
be pretty disruptive potentially to the
coffee cake and so you might ask
do I do I like anything about this well
yeah it makes a nice cup of coffee
there's no denying that you can use it
and you can have some pretty tasty brews
it's it's a it's a nice little
percolation brewer it's an interesting
approach
I like aspects of it but in all these
things I have to ask what problem is it
solving better than something else yes
yes it is a new place to play it is a
new way of brewing in a way this sort of
very hand controlled percolation and yes
you could do a whole bunch with like is
it good to do 150 and then one 150 or is
it good to do 150 and then another 50
and then another 50 and another 50ml
brew but is that better there's a bunch
of variables but I'm not sure those are
variables that are designed or offered
up in a way to solve a particular
problem
I'm sure if you have one and brew with
one you'll have some fun I've no doubt
you'll get some tasty coffee out of it
but it's not the Aeropress killer the
decision to anchor this brewer so
clearly in another existing brewer right
to echo the Aeropress in a bunch of ways
is a big gamble the upside is that this
is sort of familiarity to the idea of
coffee and water go in and you press it
down by hand and you brew it on top of
the cup and it goes in your backpack and
it's easy all of that gets communicated
really well the downside is that if
you've got an arrow pressing you're
familiar with the arrow press this is
not as good an experience plainly and
simply it's a little bit fuzzier to use
it'll trip you up if you use it just
like you use an arrow press it'll catch
you out in funny little ways it'll
frustrate you if you came to this news
you came to this brand new you might
find it a slightly weird-looking Brewer
that made most coffee the same way that
you might think the same thing about the
arrow press but the arrow press has been
so successful that this very fuel is out
there that don't already have some level
of awareness and knowledge about it so
that's it that's how I feel about the
Delta but I'd be interested to hear your
thoughts do you have one have you had a
very different experience to me the same
little things tripped you up
as with me I'd be really interested to
know about the best results that you've
had from this what are you doing how are
you brewing leave me
comment down below I'll be super
interested to read those as always I'll
say thank you so much for watching we
have a great day
the Delta press this is one of the most
requested reviews I've had in some time
and lots of you want to know is this
better than the error press and I think
that's asking entirely the wrong
question I'll explain why in a second
now this is a Brisbane based company I
think it's designed that Australia it's
manufactured in China it is in the UK
available for about 35 pounds which
makes it a bit more expensive than a
narrow press but the reason it's the
wrong question is that it is a
fundamentally different brewer and I do
mean fundamentally now I need an arrow
press to make this all work so you know
the arrow press the air press is an
infusion brewer all of the coffee and
all of the water hang out for a while in
the brew chamber and then you plunge
them to sort of press them against a
piece of paper clean them up separate
them and get you a cup of coffee out
that way but the key here is that it's
an infusion brewer Delta press is not an
infusion brewer and I think that's a
really important point so it
fundamentally brews in an entirely
different way to the arrow press here
you have your water goes in the top and
a slightly convoluted way but we'll come
to that see your filter paper goes here
and you can see here your brewer
essentially has kind of a shower screen
almost like an espresso machine there
kind of spray head I guess is probably
more accurate so this this column of
water is gonna pass through this puck of
coffee and that makes it a totally
totally different Brewer to the
Aeropress
so we've got two questions to answer
about the Delta press firstly does it
make good coffee and secondly well
what's the experience of it like how is
it to use now it is going to end up
being compared to the arrow press and I
think the arrow press is a very high bar
in a couple of regards one is such a
flexible Brewer you can do so much with
it there's so many different ways to
brew and to it's cheap and it's easy to
use and it's kind of reliable it's
unbreakable it's simple there's a couple
of parts it comes with extra bits but
even if you don't use these it doesn't
really matter so let's start off with
how you brew coffee use
the delta press so here's how it works
we're gonna put our coffee in here you
turn the whole thing upside down and you
then have a rinsed out your filter paper
put it in your cap and that cap screws
on top also simple also familiar I guess
so far well a bit this is where things
get a little bit odd turn upside down
put out a new brewing vessel and you
leave the plunger all the way in right
it's not the i/o press where you take
the plunger out put the water in put the
plunger in again we start with our
plunger fully depressed now one nice
thing about this in theory is this lines
on here to give you an idea of how much
water to fill now I filled this up to
the 200 line and yeah will pretty much
395 tiny bit now we haven't started
brewing yet that's really important we
can get rid of the scale now as well
what you absolutely must do now is put
on this little rubber thing it's used as
a scoop I think it stops you getting
scolded by having your hand on top of
some freshly boiled water here's what
they want you to do we haven't started
brewing yet when we lift this we can
pull some water from inside the plunger
up to the 50 level here at the bottom
and that water is now above the coffee
and we can start to gently pre infuse
very gently our preview jhin's are kind
of funny word here we're just kind of
brewing essentially if we press this
through and they were brewing it a low
pressure but it's not like blooming the
same way if you're doing a percolation
brew
know that you're going to suffer all of
the same problems potentially as any
other percolation brew most notably
channeling is a concern so now I can
pull up the rest of my brew water which
interesting me is a little bit less than
150 so some extra has clearly gone
through and I can press that gently
through so I'm using 12 grams to 200
pretty normal recipe especially for a
percolation brew and not an infusion
brew grind wise
but reasonably fine for filter coffee
not very fines that mean nowhere near
espresso on the finer end of medium
which is not that helpful to anyone I
know I will finish this and we need to
talk about a couple of things firstly
when you get to this point if you've
used an arrow press a lot you're going
to want to do some things don't do it
you're going to want to take the bra off
the cup I just I'll just do that with it
to sort of be finished for a second this
is a terrible idea this is not sealed
and there is still some hot water inside
I've done this a couple of times and
scalded myself so don't don't do that
I think they encourage you to kind of
press through again the last little bits
in Aeropress brewing that never tastes
particularly good to do so I'm kind of
intrigued by that even so when you're
done I'd probably pull back a little bit
but I would not turn this upside down
it's not saying this little thing here
just as a citement has kind of driven me
crazy if you lose this it becomes very
hard to use this broke because you
literally can't put your hand on top and
press it it doesn't fit particularly
well it falls out quite a lot in transit
it would be easier to lose I don't think
it's a particularly good scoop I think I
mean it's not a great piece of design
and here we have some coffee and that's
actually too hot for me to assess right
now it smells quite nice and I don't
doubt it will be a pretty good brew it's
a question of getting my grind fine
enough to use I'm going to clean this up
now and unfortunately for the Delta this
is one area where it will come in direct
comparison with the Aeropress if you've
used an air press I'm sure you remember
the first time that you kind of popped
out that spent puck and just give it a
rinse and it was done and it was clean
and you're like that's so easy not quite
the same experience here and and I know
that's kind of unfair it's one of the
best bits of the Aeropress is that kind
of cleanup process being so so quick and
easy it just isn't that with the Delta
I'll press it through if we take this
thing off it doesn't work the same way
because the coffee is still inside the
brew chamber right like I can't just
knock it out so I have to be
a bit more aggressive and then the
inside of it is still pretty messy it
needs a really good rinse and a good
clean it's just not as fun it's just not
as easy to clean up as the air press
it's okay but compared to other paper
filter Brewers like it you take a v60
you pick the paper up you throw it in
the bin clever you do the same thing
even though that's an infusion Brewer
it's absurd the point so while we wait
for the coffee to cool a little bit more
still I'll talk to you about a few other
things that sort of bother me or that I
think about with the Delta aside from
this thing that just keeps falling out
now the papers that go in it are very
similar but not quite identical in size
to the Aeropress
the texture feels very different there
most definitely two-sided in that regard
and then on this the air Press filter
it's just a bit more uniform on both
sides the Delta paper has maybe a two
mil smaller diameter but it does mean if
you put Aeropress papers in your Delta
it won't quite fit beautifully I'm not
sure if you have any issues I haven't
really played much with that but it it's
an interesting decision to go so close
but not just be the the same size you
may interpret that as you will the
plunger mechanism on the Aeropress is
that big chunk of rubber here the seal
is much much much thinner there's a
small little gasket here that a few
times I've ended up getting kind of
twisted or mashed up and it just doesn't
feel as kind of sturdy and long-lasting
as the plunger from a narrow press I
feel this would just be much easier to
damage or potentially just wear out then
a thicker larger piece of rubber in the
Aeropress so that's kind of a funny one
for me
the last little nitpick I guess or thing
I think about is the shower screen the
way that this distributes water is kind
of interesting it does have an a sort of
an outward spray pattern so you're
looking to hit I guess probably most of
the coffee reasonably well but the flow
doesn't look super consistent across the
whole shower head right like I do worry
about things like channels forming in my
brew from pushing a little bit too hard
if I'm pushing with some pressure if I'm
pushing very softly then it it's not
really a concern but if you start to
press harder these do generate a little
bit of force that I would imagine will
be pretty disruptive potentially to the
coffee cake and so you might ask
do I do I like anything about this well
yeah it makes a nice cup of coffee
there's no denying that you can use it
and you can have some pretty tasty brews
it's it's a it's a nice little
percolation brewer it's an interesting
approach
I like aspects of it but in all these
things I have to ask what problem is it
solving better than something else yes
yes it is a new place to play it is a
new way of brewing in a way this sort of
very hand controlled percolation and yes
you could do a whole bunch with like is
it good to do 150 and then one 150 or is
it good to do 150 and then another 50
and then another 50 and another 50ml
brew but is that better there's a bunch
of variables but I'm not sure those are
variables that are designed or offered
up in a way to solve a particular
problem
I'm sure if you have one and brew with
one you'll have some fun I've no doubt
you'll get some tasty coffee out of it
but it's not the Aeropress killer the
decision to anchor this brewer so
clearly in another existing brewer right
to echo the Aeropress in a bunch of ways
is a big gamble the upside is that this
is sort of familiarity to the idea of
coffee and water go in and you press it
down by hand and you brew it on top of
the cup and it goes in your backpack and
it's easy all of that gets communicated
really well the downside is that if
you've got an arrow pressing you're
familiar with the arrow press this is
not as good an experience plainly and
simply it's a little bit fuzzier to use
it'll trip you up if you use it just
like you use an arrow press it'll catch
you out in funny little ways it'll
frustrate you if you came to this news
you came to this brand new you might
find it a slightly weird-looking Brewer
that made most coffee the same way that
you might think the same thing about the
arrow press but the arrow press has been
so successful that this very fuel is out
there that don't already have some level
of awareness and knowledge about it so
that's it that's how I feel about the
Delta but I'd be interested to hear your
thoughts do you have one have you had a
very different experience to me the same
little things tripped you up
as with me I'd be really interested to
know about the best results that you've
had from this what are you doing how are
you brewing leave me
comment down below I'll be super
interested to read those as always I'll
say thank you so much for watching we
have a great day