True espresso requires around 9 bars of pressure. I doubt you can get anywhere near that with an Aeropress. I've heard great things about them but have never felt the desire to try it. I'm happy with my french press. I once got into an argument with my mother in law when she saw that I had a Moka Pot. She kept referring to it as espresso. So I politely told her that it's not really espresso. It's just very strong coffee. She responds indignantly that "she and her friends used to sit around all the time drinking "espresso" from the Moka Pot. So I said, that's great, but that doesn't make it espresso. I tried to explain that at most you might get 4 bars of pressure from the Moka Pot. Espresso is around 9 bars. She looked at me like I'm crazy. That's when my wife (her daughter) and my son both stuck up for me and said that I know my coffee. Such is my relationship with my mother in law. I mean, how many people can actually say they threw their mother in law out of the house? I can. It doesn't matter that I had to eat crow and apologize a week later because I was wrong about what I threw her out over. But I still did it. No details though.