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2024 / Home (household Products) / Kitchen: Coffee and Tea Makers / Professional

OREA Z1 - low waste, better tasting filter coffee

  • Prizes
    Winner in HOME (Household Products)/Kitchen: Coffee and Tea Makers
  • Company
    OREA, United Kingdom
  • Lead Designer
    Horia Cernusca
  • Project Link
  • Other credit
    Photos By Jerney Geier
A revolutionary "zero bypass" coffee brewer that maximises extraction and flavour while reducing waste and effort. A unique, fast-flowing 70mm paper filter reduces paper waste 13x per brew. A shower screen sits atop to break down water flow into tiny droplets to reduce agitation in the coffee bed. These, combined with a compact chamber and a wide open bottom, allow for brewing without bypass (all water goes through the coffee), to increase extraction in less time (2-3 minutes). This allows for less coffee use, saving one 2kg of coffee per year. All of this, while also tasting better. Win-Win

Bio
An independent company from the heart of London, taking an iterative approach to product design in the world of coffee. Every year, we sit down and think - how can we do this better? We start from scratch and imagine an even better version of our products (if we see the need), on a path to create the best of the best. Being tiny, independent, and self-financed has forced us to take a bottom-up approach, going through the community upwards, investing in products rather than PR. We're proud of what we achieved thus far and excited for what comes next!

Other prizes
OREA (orea.uk) is an independent 2-person company based in London. We have been around for 3 years and humbled to win product design awards already (EPDA 2023), while our innovative coffee brewers have been used to win 2 of the last 3 World Brewers' Cups (the official world-wide brewing competition).

Photo Credit: Orea
Credits: Photos by Jerney Geier