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how to make French Press coffee the right way?
Is it possible that you read a few posts on the Internet the wrong way?
The grounds will not disappear, if anything they will appear "more", volume-wise because they swell in the hot water.
There are ...
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How can I make french press coffee taste less acidic?
Without any more specific information about the coffee you use and what recipe you use for the french press, we won't be able to give you a specific answer with a solution to your problem. However too ...
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how to make French Press coffee the right way?
How's the mastering coming?
Thought I would weigh in to provide a little extra help. I'm a barista and head of customer education at Handground. We are working on a French Press brew guide right now ...
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How can I minimize the amount of grounds at the bottom of my French press coffee?
I am South Indian and this is a coffee producing region, but the typical local coffee in my home state is sold ground extremely fine and will pass through the metal mesh filter of a French press.
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How long should I steep in French press before decanting?
TL;DR: According to this article, you can make better coffee on French Press with a coarse grind and brewing for 6 to 8 minutes.
Here are the instructions from Nick Cho:
Start with a very ...
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Why do I need to warm a french press before using it?
To keep the brewing temperature as stable as possible.
When using glassware during brewing as in French-press, V60 or Chemex, it is important to warm up the gadgets prior to brewing. Normally, the ...
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What's the recommended coffee to water ratio for cold brew?
17:1 water to coffee ratio (by weight) for regular coffee
4:1 ratio for cold brew
The extraction will also be impacted by things like grind size, water temp & dwell time so in order to get a "...
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What's the recommended coffee to water ratio for cold brew?
The standard recommended ratios for cold brew are:
| Roaster | oz Coffee | oz water | time | ratio |
|----------------------------------------------------------|
|Stumptown | 12oz ...
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How long should I steep in French press before decanting?
The time is, as mentioned, about four minutes. But as there are so many factors like grind, quality of beans, quality of roast water temperature and quality and so on. so you have to find out what ...
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What grind setting should I use for french press using a Capresso Infinity conical burr grinder?
I would recommend looking for which coarse setting seems to produce the most even grind. Really, the only potential danger you have is grinding so fine that you can't push the screen down.
The reason ...
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Why does French press not give enough 'Caffeine Effect'?
One of the reasons I like my French Press is because of the caffeine boost. One simple answer to your question is to add more coffee grounds.
But aside from the type and amount of coffee used there ...
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Milk not frothing with the French press technique
I'm not familiar with frothing milk with a French press, but if you use a mechanical frother you need to warm up the milk to about 60-65 °C so the foam bubbles will remain intact.
In my experience the ...
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Does french press plunger speed affect the taste?
Speed of the plunger does not affect the flavor.
When coffee is brewed in a french press, the main parameters are (apart from the coffee itself)
the temperature of the water
the duration of brewing
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french press technology stalled?
What do you mean by improve? French press is one of the most popular brewing methods in the world, and rightly so: it's dead easy to operate and produces a great cup of coffee. The mechanism is very ...
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How long should I stir French press before "pressing"?
Assuming that your grind size is french press coarse, stirring may speed extraction.
Stirring is a bit like higher temperature, it moves around the molecules such that you are dissolving soluble ...
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How long should I stir French press before "pressing"?
It's mostly a personal preference
Stirring increases the turbulence, which is supposed to help for a more even extraction and change some flavor qualities of your coffee (such as the acidity and ...
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How long should I stir French press before "pressing"?
Based on my experience, I can say that stirring does not affect the brewing process in a French press a lot. The initial stirring is just for homogenously distributing the grounds in the water. Then, ...
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Advantages and disadvantages of French press
Advantages:
Inexpensive — a Bodum press will cost you around $35
Easy to use — just add coffee and water
Quantity — easy to make enough to share if you buy one of the larger varieties
Thicker ...
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French Press: Fine Grind!
A fine grind, especially an espresso grind, are usually avoided when doing immersion brewing methods. Reason being that their extraction times are so low that is usually not practical to press a fine ...
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French-press v.s. manual pour over brewing quality
First things first, let's put the difference between French press and manual pour-over:
French-press: Coffee and water stay in the same container during brewing. The water is not very close to ...
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What causes the stains around the cup when coffee is prepared with cafetiere (French press)?
I could think of two possibilities. First one is more common, I assume.
In time, the cup calcifies. So, some irregularities causes an unpolished surface. This surface catches color easier than ...
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What causes the stains around the cup when coffee is prepared with cafetiere (French press)?
Your standard French press uses a metal-mesh filter. This allows more oils to pass into the cup (than a paper filter process) and some of them will form a rather small oil slick on the surface. I ...
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What causes the stains around the cup when coffee is prepared with cafetiere (French press)?
That looks like fines to me. In general, ground coffee has two sizes. The higher quality the grinder, the most consistently the coffee grounds will conform to those two sizes. One size is the ...
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Coffee too less for Frenchpress
The instructions have poor wording, instead use 7g PER 180ml of water, and make as many cups as you like / your french press can hold.
Personally I use an 8 cup french press, I use roughly 50g of ...
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How to brew coffee without "film" on top
Regarding the pre-ground coffee in a French Press, the website, packaging and company all say its suitable for a French Press / Plunger. Technically it is, the big thing is usually the finer grounds ...
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Can I just put the coffee on top of the water in a French Press?
Confession:
Many rules about making coffee are writen by perfectionists (or snobs or self-declared experts...) that are always on the hunt for the elusive perfect cup of coffee. So the general advice ...
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Why do we wait four minutes before pressing down the French press?
The process of brewing coffee is chemically speaking an extraction - flavor compounds, caffeine etc. migrate into the hot water (compare to steeping tea). The speed of that process is determined by ...
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French Press: Fine Grind!
You could try adding a paper filter between the wire filter and the frame. This should at least help keep the grounds out of the cup.
I also think you want to pay attention to extraction time as ...
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Does french press plunger speed affect the taste?
As @MT_San noted in his answer:
When coffee is brewed in a french press, the main parameters are (apart from the coffee itself)
the temperature of the water
the duration of brewing
the water ...
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Does instant coffee give a lesser buzz/high than conventional filter/french press coffee?
Caffeine content varies greatly by preparation and brew method. Instant coffee is generally designed to produce something close to a cup of drip coffee. "Cups" is unfortunately not well defined and ...
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