We Tried It: The Oxo Rapid Brewer

So you do have to plan ahead, and when there are a million other things to do the night before a weekday morning, prepping cold brew may not get priority billing.

So I was intrigued when my colleague shared an email she’d received about the new Oxo Rapid Brewer, which promises to make cold coffee concentrate in 5 minutes.

Cold brew in 5 minutes would make any warm-weather morning a breeze. (I prefer iced coffee only when the mercury rises, though I may be in the minority: Starbucks reported in 2023 that cold drinks made up 75 percent of all sales.) It seemed too good to be true, so I tried it out at home.