I hope you're happy, Burntwits and everyone else who demanded it.
Anyways that cup was made following Burntwits French press guide; measured 33 g of ground, about 528 g of water. Though, I did make a slight modification to the original instructions, which was to boil the water first. The guide didn't say to do that, just add the water in, figured it might be better boiled though.
Then I added hella milk and sugar. Oh, yeah, switched to milk and sugar instead of creamer, mostly because the good creamer with ingredient list size like 5 are hells expensive. It... came out really good actually. I feel like better than my evil machine, though I don't know if that's because of the ratios of sugar and milk or not. I feel like I poured about the same amount of milk and sugar though. Hm.
Either way this saves way more counter space in exchange for slightly longer and more care needed, but if the coffee is consistently better, and less space needed... hm. I think yall might've been on to something. Also I can't tell if the press machine is made of glass or a really clear really thick plastic.
Nice! We use inverted aeropress, mostly because cleaning a french press sounded really annoying without running water, but now that we have easier access to water maybe we should get a press.
Also yeah, boiling the water is 100% the way to go (electric kettles rock for that, by the way, but you absolutely don't need one it's just super convenient). I bet they forgot to mention to boil the water in the guide, heh. Steeping it in room temp water would take ages and then you get cold brew at the end, which is also good but it's its own thing!
-- Frost