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Too much tech for me, I alway French Press my coffee on the go in a more ecologic way.
I do cowboy coffee now. Mix finely ground with hot water, stir ot, it settles in a couple minutes, pour off liquid. Way easier.
French Press is faster, mix ground with hot water, push down the plunger, coffee ready. In the morning I'm not capable to do something more complicated or waiting minutes for my coffee.
You are supposed to wait a few minutes before plunging and decanting French press though. If you are just pressing it and serving your French press coffee must be absolutely terrible.
A decent drip maker with a timer will make better coffee than you are making and also be less work on top of it. Wake up to fresh hot coffee, done
It's a myth, no need to wait in a French Press. I also thought it at the beginning as newbe with it, but there are no differences, except that the coffee isn't hot anymore waiting several minutes. the pressure of your hand is enough to extract the aroma of the coffee, similar to the pressure do it the water pressure in an italian expresso can, the difference that there the water pression is against the coffee, not the coffee against the water in the french press.
That’s absolutely false. I have personally tested a range of different steep times and the difference in taste is obvious. If you can’t taste the difference your taste buds must be fried or something.
Pressing down on the piston does not provide a meaningful amount of pressure; this has been proven by people instrumenting aeropresses which provide more back pressure than an espresso. Extraction is objectively time dependent, it has been extensively discussed and really isn’t up for debate at all.
It's less work than a french press. I am seriously the laziest person in the world when I first wake up and I find it easier. It takes me a couple minutes to get situated to read with my coffee anyway.
I would do that, but called it Turkish coffee. Get it ground that way.