French Press Instructions
Many coffee drinkers enjoy their daily grind from a french press. Unfortunately, some drinkers don’t understand french press instructions.
The french press coffee maker is basically a cylindrical brewing carafe that contains a plunger fitted with a screen or mesh. The groud coffee and water are together throughout the brewing process. After the french press has finished brewing, the plunger is pushed down separating the coffee grounds from the finished brew which is then poured off into a mug.
French press instructions are often quite simple to understand. Basically, as explained above, the coffee is brewed and the press in pused. French press instructions will accompany any new appliance and should be followed for best results.
Below is an excerpt from Wikipedia briefly covering french press instructions.
A French press requires coffee of a more coarse grind than that used for a drip brew coffee filter, such as produced by a burr mill grinder rather than the whirling blade variety, as a finer grind will seep through the press filter and into the coffee.
Because the coffee grounds remain in direct contact with the brewing water and the grinds are filtered from the water via a mesh instead of a paper filter, coffee brewed with the French press captures more of the coffee’s flavour and essential oils, which would become trapped in a traditional drip brew machine’s paper filters. French pressed coffee is usually stronger and thicker and has more sediment than drip-brewed coffee. Because the used grinds remain in the drink after brewing, French pressed coffee is served immediately so as to not become bitter from over-extraction. A typical 8-cup French press is considered expired after 20 minutes.
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