OXO Rapid Brewer
Flat-bottom dripper with regulated autodrip. Even extraction, controlled flow with no agitation.
- Long Americano 240–450 ml
- Soup Shot (Hedrick) 60–100 ml
- Long Iced 250–400 ml
- OXO Single-serve 120–160 ml
How the Rapid Brewer works
The OXO Rapid Brewer is a flat-bottom dripper with regulated autodrip: water drains at a fixed rate set by the hardware, independent of your pour, and an optional plunger adds gentle pressure to speed up or concentrate. Even extraction with near-zero technique — and fast.
The constraint that defines the method: the chamber holds ~160 ml per cycle. Long drinks do not come from a single pass — they come from concentrate + dilution, and the house recipes are designed around that.
Grind, ratio and temperature
Medium grind for the cup recipes, fine (between espresso and filter) for the concentrates. Water from 94 to 96°C. Ratio is the style lever: 1:10 for the single-serve, 1:13 to 1:15 for the diluted long drinks, down to 1:4 for the espresso-style concentrate.
Which recipe to pick
The OXO Single-serve is the direct use: fill the chamber, drain without pressure, ~140 ml in the cup. The Soup Shot (Hedrick) is the 1:4 modern-espresso-style concentrate, with a long pre-infusion and plunger pulses. The Long Americano stretches the concentrate with hot water into a realistic long drink within the chamber limit. And the Long Iced pours the hot concentrate over ice, its 1:13 ratio already accounting for the melt.
Common mistakes
Trying to brew 300 ml in a single cycle — the chamber holds ~160 ml; beyond that the right recipe is concentrate + dilution; grinding too coarse for the concentrate, which comes out thin even with pressure; and forcing the plunger instead of gentle pulses — the autodrip already regulates flow, the plunger only complements it.
