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I still only have a french press because coffee stuff is expensive (specially in a third world country), and I still don't get tired of it. My suggestion for anyone brewing french press is to cloth filter it (as you're pouring into the cup), it retains the rich body but without the silt and fines and it makes the flavor clearer and cleaner, it also doesn't choke like a paper filter. I brew almost exclusively light to medium fruity coffees and it works like a charm every time.
@@Bones97000 there are cloth filters for coffee specifically, they're easy to find and inexpensive! Though do watch James Hoffman's vid on how to maintain them because they do require some (minor) care.
I have all the coffee toys I want and still use my French press for over 80% of all my coffee. Definitely using a French press because I don't want paper taking the oil out though
I used to always make cold brew in a french press and then started to use a Hario cold brew jug. I much prefer the french press because it kept the oils and made the cold brew have a stronger taste that I prefer. The cold brew jug gets no use now that I've gone back to just using a french press.
The coffee geek in me always wanted to transition from instant coffee to proper methods of brewing coffee from grounds. Started it from your channel, watched one of your earliest French Press videos and have been using my French Press for the last 2 years. Love this method and will be getting a moka pot and V60 soon. Don't usually comment but I should appreciate the person who made me go down this beautiful rabbit hole of coffee. Your videos are great. Thanks and keep up the good work!
As someone with many brewers I'd definitely recommend the aeropress, it's like a half way point between french press and moka pot but with very little hassle especially when it comes to cleaning, it also produces the best tasting brews of any the methods I have available to me.
My entire life, I only ever did pourover. Maybe because of budgeting in the family (not to say we are poor), but a plastic coffee funnel is as affordable as you can go. Paper filters and cheap ground "coffee" can be found ANYWHERE here, so it is all I ever needed. Easier than you think! The technique is not at all refined compared to any barista, but it gets coffee done. That said, having a low budget also mean I can only afford the cheaper stuff, so the already acidic coffee in my country is made even more so with all the "leaves and sticks".
Frothing milk with the French press!!! ❤ 10/10 recommend!! I tried after watching this video and I will never use my 10€ hand frother again. I'm flabbergasted how happy I am with the milk froth from the French press. Crazy🤯
We usually make 2-3 mason jars to steep cold brew in the fridge and then decant into the French press before plunging. This lets us quickly strain more than one batch at a time and not keep the French press itself stuck in the fridge.
@daniellel6031 Mason jars instead of keeping the French press itself stuck in the fridge is a great idea. Have you ever heard of @GlucoseRevolution? @RepDanCrenshaw @unitednations
When I first started drinking coffee, I got a French press second-hand because I didn't want to shell out for a big electric coffee maker. Years later and I'm still using a French press! Love the taste of the coffee, but I also love how simple a machine the French press is. The fewer the parts, the fewer things for me to bust. 😂 Then too, I love being able to travel with it, or even just bring it to my parents' when their Folger's won't do it for me. As long as you have a way to heat water, you can make French press, which makes it ideal for camping. And it doesn't take up any room on my counter! ❤
Huh. As a tea lover who is finally looking to explore coffee, I guess starting with a French press would be a great beginning to my adventure! Worst case scenario, I suppose if I just don't like coffee after all, I now have an excellent little gadget for tea; never thought of that before.
I went from a "campfire" pot to the press about 5 years ago. I never once thought about giving the grounds a stir. I'll do that tomorrow morning. Great video.
I've been using a french-press for a good 13 years now, and it always makes what seems to be a better coffee than anything else, my guests often commented on it cause they don't get the experience anywhere else. We have a basic Mr. C. machine for my poor husband stumbling out the door at 5am, but weekends he gets to enjoy the press coffee I make, and it's amazing how different the same coffee tastes between the different methods.
I was always taught to give it a 4 minute brew, then a slight stir to get the grounds to fall, then scoop the scum off of the top, wait 3 more minutes for all the grains to fall then press to just above the grounds but never touch them...then pour very slightly to reduce any fines that slipped thru.
I use my French Press for my coffee for every workday. I clean it out using a flexible rubber spatula that you can buy at the dollar store. I get the majority of the grounds out with that and then rinse out. Simple
Or just run some hot water into the glass container and pour the grinds into a sieve and the liquid goes in the sink and dump the grinds from the sieve into your potted plants or a separate bucket used for compost
My French press was my first coffee maker when I moved out and it was so perfect for cold brew in the Nevada summer 💜 I would make some overnight, pour into a separate pitcher, and make another batch while I was at work and add that to the pitcher. That way I had a bulk batch of cold brew for the week
I love my French presses. I have one that's specifically meant for cold brew from Bodum, and another one with double walls for keeping a fresh pot hotter for longer. They both see a lot of use, because my spouse and I are both caffeine addicts.
I just got a french press and this video has been very helpful! I usually use a phin but it takes sooooooooo long to percolate that I have been missing my morning coffee lately. Thanks for the tips!
I use a regular cheap drip brewer for my everyday cups, but for weekends, I gravitate to primarily either French Press or Vacuum Siphon. Both give me a full bodied cup, though the siphon generally gives me less in the way of sediment. I do have multiple other ways of making coffee, from pourover, percolator, phin, and even a flip pot. But French and Siphon are my go-to for weekends.
I literally tried this "basic/barebones method" for the french press today, because of this video, and I have to say, it was the best cup of french press I have ever had! I mean.... Don't get me wrong, I already LOVED my french press, *but I have never seen something make typical cans of cheap ground coffee you get, like at the store, taste GOOD* Like There is of course still bitterness, it's still coffee, but it doesn't taste *gross* bitter doing it this way!! I could ACTUALLY just drink it with milk, instead of having to drown it in creamer! And I can *absolutely* see where the "chocolate feel" comes from: Its bitter like how proper dark chocolate is bitter, not bad! Thank you. Oh my goodness, THANK you! I had no idea something so simple could change it so drastically. I would just dump what amount of grounds "seemed right" into the press, and, yknow, i THOUGHT I was making okay coffee. Lol Which, sure, maybe. But having BETTER "correct" proportions has made SUCH a difference I didn't even know was a thing! This has absolutely sparked a new investment in my french press again!! Thank you so much, for the rest of the information too! Im genuinely eager to try the cold brew next too. And making tea! I never stopped to think that you could make tea in it!! I've gotten stuck before in what something is "supposed" to be used for, I dunno if I EVER would have thought of it myself! It's just wonderful!!! Please have an awesome weekend! And onward! 🌞
My Only alteration is that I use a wooden dowel to stir in my glass or stainless FPs. I bought a hardwood wooden spoon and took off the spoon bit and sanded it round, then soaked it in canola oil for a day or so (in a plastic bag - uses less oil) It irks me to hear steel spoon on glass. When camping I have a stainless steel double walled FP and a hand grinder, for a tiny bit of luxury out in the middle of nowhere.
I don’t know if you do any instructing, but Morgan you make a great teacher! At the coffee shop I work at we use a French press to make our tea concentrates.
I stopped buying coffee from coffee shops ever since I started using a french press for my cold brew. It saves me more money and adds a nice personal touch as well ✌️
Nice to see someone repping the classic method, complications can be added later (if at all). Also, I enjoy watching the time on the clock jump in the background ;-)
We had a drip coffee maker, an espresso machine, an aero press, a Kureg machine, and a French press. After several years we started getting rid of them all one by one because we never used them. We now just have a French press and we use it all the time for both hot and cold coffee, and for both hot and cold tea. It's just so simple and consistent and versatile.
My favourite kitchen item is my stainless steel french press. I'm a clumsy person and I have broken my fair share of glass french press. At first I bought it and was disappointed that it was a bit ugly and you can't see through it, but this thing is so tough it won me over. It will probably outlive me.
I love my tiny little french press, it's just enough for one cup of coffee and I love it. Thank you for more ideas to use it =D It never occurred to me to brew tea with it but so it was quite confusing at first but in the end, it's just a cup with a filter so why not.
Another advantage of the press is that you can multitask. I'll put the kettle on the stove, measure out the coffee into the pot then go about feeding the dog, making my own breakfast, checking the morning news and weather. Kettle boils, wait a bit, then pour the hot water. Stir (I recommend using a wooden or plastic spoon to spare the glass pot), then wait the 4-5 minutes while eating or whatever. Then coffee is ready - pour, drink, be happy. While I like espresso and moka pot brews, they require some babysitting. Harder to multitask!
A french press was one of the first coffee brewers i got when i started to get into coffee. I've tried many other methods since then and have come back to it. The simplicity of the process and so few variables, and the virtual non existence of techniques mattering compared to other methods makes it easier than anything else to get a good cup consistently
Just wanted to say thank you for the tip with the frothing milk! I even had one of these devices around and I did read the instructions yet - not as good as it should have been. Only after watching your video I was able to make it work.
Even when making cold brew, I bloom my grounds with extra-hot tap water. Once bloomed, I top off with cold water. I leave it on my counter for 20 hours or so, then plunge, and pour over a filter to make it extra-smooth. Delicious!
I don't know where u are from, and how things works in your country . But as far as I know, if u have a water tank in your roof, that's were u store your water. That water is not use for consumption (like the cold tap water) , but rather is the water that getd heated on by the heat system in your home, u might use it in the hot tap water (mostly dish washing and stuff, but not safe for consumption), your hot shower, etc. that water is not food safe, since it's on a tank in the roof it's dangerous to drink , since the tank can get contaminated and stangnated. It's not rare to even have salmonella in those tanks... So... If u have a tank of water in your roof , u better start using your microwave (or something else) to heat your water 😅
I absolutely love how thorough/descriptive and to the point you are with everything :D it made me feel like I didn't /have/ to watch to get all the information you need which is so rare in a vid! [I have a concussion and still need to feed the brain haha] and the tiniest thought on that I have is when I did close my eyes sometimes you say what you're doing after it happens rather than before, and so there's just a confusing noise a first lol. but even those weren't too loud either
Interesting method, I always just added all the water then used the the press to “pump” the coffee a bit to mix it up and pushed the coffee just below the surface, then let it steep.
@@msdixie1972 Honestly teas area lways "to your preference" whether you steep long or short or dilute etc. i generally always have my tea steeping I guess. as I drink more I just end up filling it up with more hot water.
I recently discovered coffee press and I want one much more now, thanks to your video. This video was so helpful!💃🏾You answered questions I didn’t know I had 😁.
If only some people could put as much effort into raising their kids, lol..... for me, the morning brew was always in the French press. #1 boil water in the Dash kettle, add ground beans to press. #2 While water boils, morning tiny chores. #3 drop in water after it's "settled down." #4 Stir with ice tea teaspoon (love the ones from William Sonoma), let the coffee relax, there's none of that for me yet, it's 5am! #5 more chores #6 time to pour 1st cup and wake up with the Sunrise, grateful for the coffee and another day. #7 take the morning dog walk with 2nd cup. Now, home the day begins. I am off auto pilot!😊
Nice job Morgan! I've had my french press For a while and I prefer it Over my ten cup percolator. I also bought a smaller one to use On fishing trips with my sister. I will watch your channel some more. I've never seen you before but I will check it out To see what else you talk about.
I do follow Hoffman's french press method for the most part, but it really does depend on the press. If it's just a classic kinda one like you've shown here to start, then yes it's absolutely a great method that gives you a nice, clean cup. However, with a lot of the fancier ones like your Fellow there, or the kinda Starbucks ones they got where the mesh has a gasket that seals the coffee pretty well, your basic method is very excellent as a baseline! I also didn't consider using the ones I have for tea, this will be a great way to make my usual cups of Jamaica during the summer! Thank you so much for the video!
I have been collecting different types of coffee brewers lately so today a did a search for French Press and found this gem of information with ways to use a press, I wouldn't have thought of. I see more tea and cold brew, in my future. I can't do this, I like math too much "I want you to think in terms of ratios, rather than, like exact numbers". How to use cross multiply and divide any ratio to find exact numbers. This is useful to increase or decrease any recipe by a ratio. Morgan's recipe reduced to 300g of water (single cup). 300 * 50 = 15000 / 750 = 20. 50 coffee X 20 ---- ---- = ----- 750 water 300 300 I only have 14g of coffee but I want it to taste the same, as a full cup. 14 * 750 = 10500 / 50 = 210 50 coffee 14 14 ---- ---- = ----- 750 water X 210 If you plug in "1" for coffee and "15" for water, the end result will be the same. Yay, math. If you have a relative with a killer recipe from say, a school cafeteria or the like, this math can reduce it to any size. Edit: This is why I have a calculator next to the scales in my kitchen.
I have a love hate relationship with the French press, one tip I found was to use a couple of kitchen towels to wrap it so it doesn’t get too cold by the time the brew is done
All the blooming and stirring can be skipped. Put the coffee in, dump the water in, put the plunger on and press it down partway to submerge the floating grounds, then lift it all the way up. The grounds will float and stir themselves. 4 minutes is pretty optimal between extracting the most good flavors and the least bad ones. If you're brewing more than one serving at once, transfer all the coffee out then. Letting it sit on the grounds defeats the timing. If it gets hard to plunge, waggle the whole thing to break up the coffee a bit If you need clarity enhanced for certain delicate beans, pourover is a better choice.
I only have a french press to make coffee with so this is definitely useful for me as a beginner! I do love making cold brew with it during the summer :)
For fridge cold brew I tend to use quite fine ground coffee, not espresso, but almost. Time around 8-9 hours. Put in fridge before you sleep and drink for breakfast
I use a moka pot to brew the coffee and a small French press to froth the milk. Late, cappuccino, cortado, macchiato all can be done by a little bit of practice
I found that the grind is not consistent no matter what grinder you use because the beans under pressure of the grinder will shatter into all different sizes, so what I do is grind the beans on medium grind, then pour them into a metal sieve with holes that will let all the grounds that are too small fall through and what's left are the grounds that I use to make the coffee. Of course I have to do that more than once to retain the volume of beans I need. This allows for a better coffee that does not allow silt and sludge to accumulate at the bottom of the pot or get into the cup as you pour the coffee. As far as I know, I'm the only person who does this, but it works like a charm. No silt left in the bottom of the cup!!
10 years ago I bought a stainless steel French press because I got tired of the glass ones breaking--is there any glass thinner and flimsier than FP glass? Another great thing about the SSFP is that you can pack it on your travels and have good coffee as long as you have hot water.
I recently started using the James Hoffman method to produce french press coffee without ANY fines and silt at the bottom of the cup. It works! It takes longer but the results are worth it. The only thing James failed at was keeping the brew covered during the process which allows heat and steam to escape and you end up with very warm but NOT HOT coffee. Simple solution is to cover the top of the press during the brew process. I use a small stainless teabag plate as a cover. You can also just put the french press plunger on but dont press the plunger down. I have an electric milk frother that warms the milk too. Fat free milk froths best imo. Counterintuitive eh?
Ms. Eckroth: imo the most unusual caffeine product is Yerba Mate, might make a nice vid. The mate is usually made from part of a gourd. It is sipped with a bombilla. Many millions of people, mostly in Argentina use it instead of coffee. Might make an awesome, unique vid to find an Argentine to show folks how it is done. About 15 years ago, I was on a small dock not far out of Albany, OR and was sucking my bombilla sticking out of an odd looking thing. Cop shows up asking me "what do you have there?" with that suspicious tone. I explained it to him pretty well, he relaxed and took his hand off his pistol grip.
When I moved out I had to learn to use a French press because it didn't make much sense to brew a full pot of drip coffee every day for one person, and I dislike all the plastic waste from the single-serve kind of quick brew coffees. Anyways, in the couple months since, I've collected quite a bit of coffee paraphernalia from my local thrift stores; moka pot (Probably one of my favorite brewing methods) percolator, a better French press, and recently an espresso machine unopened in its box.
Hi there, first of all i feel like i never took the time to just say thank you for your work on running one of the most wholesome coffee channels that i know of on youtube. I've watched a lot of your videos and enjoyed them very much and also took a lot of inspiration from them. On the more nerdy side of things: what do you think about the point of some other TH-camrs like James and most recently The Coffee Chronicler where they say it is actually beneficial to grind much finer somewhere in the range one would use for a moka pot? For myself (and this is just pure personal taste) i really loved this with the Coffee Chroniclers method where you put a paper filter below the plunger to get a clear cup even at finer grind settings and i feel it worked particulary well with lighter roasts of natural and fermented coffees. I'd love to hear your opinion on these. Maybe this might even be an idea for a comparison video?
EVerytime I watch one of Morgan's adorable videos. I always say to myself. "Damn, I never even knew that there was literally so much behind such a common drink"
Changing the grind size will affect your coffee flavor. For a more corse grind use water 200-205F for a brew time 5mins. Using a medium grind size brew 200F for 4mins
i would love to see you describe the flavor profile for a bunch of different coffee ice creams on the market! or maybe how to make a fun version of your own favorite drinks as ice cream
Watching this while enjoying my french press coffee! 😅 I am doing pretty much the James Hoffmann version without froth scooping. Running usually 30-35 grams of beens for 500 ml of water.
One difference in my brew: because I use a filter over the plunger (smoother taste), I don’t set the lid on until I’m ready to plunge it down. Any earlier and the paper filter will tear.
There's been a lot of disrespect toward the French press by specialty baristas of late, caling it too wasteful, and less capable of tasty coffee, but I personally still love it after years of getting my start on it. I refer to it as old faithful. :)
Wasteful? It uses less bean for more drink. And it's capable of amazing coffee, just different from espresso or pourover. Those baristas should be embracing variety.
Pouring towards one side and then jiggling a bit wets all the grounds with no stirring required. Takes soem practice, is worth it. Less spoons to wash.
i really appreciate your videos thank you for all. But one precision, in France we don't use those coffee makers and we don't even call it " cafetière à la française ", we call it "cafetière a piston" which we could maybe translate as " press coffeemaker " ?
Thank you for all this info, so handy! I'd love to get one, but I can only drink decaf because of health reasons, and the only way that's sold in my country is filter grind size. So yay for coffee loving Norway...
Can you get whole decaf beans and grind your own? I've been able to find coffee grinders pretty cheaply at garage sales or on Facebook marketplace. They probably weren't the greatest but they fit my budget 😅
@@firiel2366 If such a thing as whole decaf coffee beans exists here, they are not easily accessible, unfortunately. I've looked in all my local shops, but while they have regular coffee beans, they only have this one or maybe 2 options for decaf, both filter grind size. But thanks for your tip anyway. I might have to have a look online, though it's likely more pricy
I love the french press, one thing you did not touch on, is the only downside of it, is cleaning it after coffee is done, also did I miss something in the first brew segment, did you weigh in the water, you said 750 ml of water, but yet I seen you had it on a scale, can scales do that?
Skip 05:01 if you don’t want to hear me unceremoniously sniff as my spring allergies kick in
I feel ya, My allergies are starting to kick in pretty hard this time of year.
Epic "Hello There" slide!
i have an unrelated question for you! is everything alright with your facebook account? i've seen some odd videos posted by your account, and i'm wondering if you've maybe been hacked
Very very informative video! Thanks so much!!
Morgan, what’s the machine peeking around the corner behind you? That doesn’t look like your pink one…. 🧐
I still only have a french press because coffee stuff is expensive (specially in a third world country), and I still don't get tired of it. My suggestion for anyone brewing french press is to cloth filter it (as you're pouring into the cup), it retains the rich body but without the silt and fines and it makes the flavor clearer and cleaner, it also doesn't choke like a paper filter. I brew almost exclusively light to medium fruity coffees and it works like a charm every time.
When you say cloth filter what do you mean? Like cheesecloth? A yea towel? Or are there actual cloth coffee filters on the market? O-o
@@Bones97000 there are cloth filters for coffee specifically, they're easy to find and inexpensive! Though do watch James Hoffman's vid on how to maintain them because they do require some (minor) care.
I have all the coffee toys I want and still use my French press for over 80% of all my coffee. Definitely using a French press because I don't want paper taking the oil out though
@@veganpotterthevegan I do love the clean cup a Chemex can brew but I still keep a metal filter around for when I'm craving that rich, oily coffee.
I use a coffee sock. Can rinse and reuse many times.
I used to always make cold brew in a french press and then started to use a Hario cold brew jug. I much prefer the french press because it kept the oils and made the cold brew have a stronger taste that I prefer. The cold brew jug gets no use now that I've gone back to just using a french press.
Thanks for convincing me that i dont need another fancy equipment to make my favourite coffee 😆
Same. I prefer to cold brew in the French press 🎉
French press is the best for cold brew concentrate ❤
What is the ratio of coffee to water in the Espro French press for cold brew?
The coffee geek in me always wanted to transition from instant coffee to proper methods of brewing coffee from grounds. Started it from your channel, watched one of your earliest French Press videos and have been using my French Press for the last 2 years. Love this method and will be getting a moka pot and V60 soon. Don't usually comment but I should appreciate the person who made me go down this beautiful rabbit hole of coffee. Your videos are great. Thanks and keep up the good work!
As someone with many brewers I'd definitely recommend the aeropress, it's like a half way point between french press and moka pot but with very little hassle especially when it comes to cleaning, it also produces the best tasting brews of any the methods I have available to me.
My entire life, I only ever did pourover. Maybe because of budgeting in the family (not to say we are poor), but a plastic coffee funnel is as affordable as you can go. Paper filters and cheap ground "coffee" can be found ANYWHERE here, so it is all I ever needed. Easier than you think! The technique is not at all refined compared to any barista, but it gets coffee done.
That said, having a low budget also mean I can only afford the cheaper stuff, so the already acidic coffee in my country is made even more so with all the "leaves and sticks".
Try a percolator, you will thank me
Frothing milk with the French press!!! ❤ 10/10 recommend!! I tried after watching this video and I will never use my 10€ hand frother again. I'm flabbergasted how happy I am with the milk froth from the French press. Crazy🤯
We usually make 2-3 mason jars to steep cold brew in the fridge and then decant into the French press before plunging. This lets us quickly strain more than one batch at a time and not keep the French press itself stuck in the fridge.
@daniellel6031 Mason jars instead of keeping the French press itself stuck in the fridge is a great idea. Have you ever heard of @GlucoseRevolution? @RepDanCrenshaw @unitednations
This is my favourite video on the french press by by far. Simple, no hassle and no extras needed just like the brewer is intended to be used.
@georgeatte788 @GlucoseRevolution It does look hassle-free, doesn't it? I'm sure there's a catch somewhere. @RepDanCrenshaw @unitednations
When I first started drinking coffee, I got a French press second-hand because I didn't want to shell out for a big electric coffee maker. Years later and I'm still using a French press! Love the taste of the coffee, but I also love how simple a machine the French press is. The fewer the parts, the fewer things for me to bust. 😂 Then too, I love being able to travel with it, or even just bring it to my parents' when their Folger's won't do it for me. As long as you have a way to heat water, you can make French press, which makes it ideal for camping. And it doesn't take up any room on my counter! ❤
You are so right!
Huh. As a tea lover who is finally looking to explore coffee, I guess starting with a French press would be a great beginning to my adventure! Worst case scenario, I suppose if I just don't like coffee after all, I now have an excellent little gadget for tea; never thought of that before.
Yes. So versatile
I did the exact same thing. Very much liked the French press.
Coffee isn't as good as tea but it's still good.
I went from a "campfire" pot to the press about 5 years ago. I never once thought about giving the grounds a stir. I'll do that tomorrow morning. Great video.
I've been using a french-press for a good 13 years now, and it always makes what seems to be a better coffee than anything else, my guests often commented on it cause they don't get the experience anywhere else. We have a basic Mr. C. machine for my poor husband stumbling out the door at 5am, but weekends he gets to enjoy the press coffee I make, and it's amazing how different the same coffee tastes between the different methods.
@TigressGraphics Stumbling out the door at 5am is awful. Your husband is lucky to have you. @RepDanCrenshaw @unitednations
I was always taught to give it a 4 minute brew, then a slight stir to get the grounds to fall, then scoop the scum off of the top, wait 3 more minutes for all the grains to fall then press to just above the grounds but never touch them...then pour very slightly to reduce any fines that slipped thru.
I use my French Press for my coffee for every workday. I clean it out using a flexible rubber spatula that you can buy at the dollar store. I get the majority of the grounds out with that and then rinse out. Simple
Or just run some hot water into the glass container and pour the grinds into a sieve and the liquid goes in the sink and dump the grinds from the sieve into your potted plants or a separate bucket used for compost
It's a lot less work and it's good for plants
My French press was my first coffee maker when I moved out and it was so perfect for cold brew in the Nevada summer 💜 I would make some overnight, pour into a separate pitcher, and make another batch while I was at work and add that to the pitcher. That way I had a bulk batch of cold brew for the week
I love my French presses. I have one that's specifically meant for cold brew from Bodum, and another one with double walls for keeping a fresh pot hotter for longer. They both see a lot of use, because my spouse and I are both caffeine addicts.
Very clear and concise, you’re a very good teacher! Have watched several other videos on this subject but enjoyed yours the most! Thank you
I just got a french press and this video has been very helpful! I usually use a phin but it takes sooooooooo long to percolate that I have been missing my morning coffee lately.
Thanks for the tips!
I love the fact that she’s using the same white mug from her old video about the French press ,taking us back in time❤❤❤
@AmanC6 Which white mug is she using? @RepDanCrenshaw @GlucoseRevolution @unitednations
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Thanks for the frothing tip! Worked better than I thought it would. Eyes open at goodwill now for a small glass French press
I use a regular cheap drip brewer for my everyday cups, but for weekends, I gravitate to primarily either French Press or Vacuum Siphon. Both give me a full bodied cup, though the siphon generally gives me less in the way of sediment. I do have multiple other ways of making coffee, from pourover, percolator, phin, and even a flip pot. But French and Siphon are my go-to for weekends.
I've been looking into espresso machines and just picked up my first french press on a whim. Your videos are so helpful!
I literally tried this "basic/barebones method" for the french press today, because of this video, and I have to say, it was the best cup of french press I have ever had!
I mean.... Don't get me wrong, I already LOVED my french press, *but I have never seen something make typical cans of cheap ground coffee you get, like at the store, taste GOOD*
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There is of course still bitterness, it's still coffee, but it doesn't taste *gross* bitter doing it this way!! I could ACTUALLY just drink it with milk, instead of having to drown it in creamer!
And I can *absolutely* see where the "chocolate feel" comes from: Its bitter like how proper dark chocolate is bitter, not bad!
Thank you. Oh my goodness, THANK you! I had no idea something so simple could change it so drastically. I would just dump what amount of grounds "seemed right" into the press, and, yknow, i THOUGHT I was making okay coffee. Lol
Which, sure, maybe.
But having BETTER "correct" proportions has made SUCH a difference I didn't even know was a thing!
This has absolutely sparked a new investment in my french press again!! Thank you so much, for the rest of the information too! Im genuinely eager to try the cold brew next too.
And making tea! I never stopped to think that you could make tea in it!! I've gotten stuck before in what something is "supposed" to be used for, I dunno if I EVER would have thought of it myself! It's just wonderful!!!
Please have an awesome weekend! And onward! 🌞
also try herbal tea too! Mix your own! And now you'll have several dried flower to mix and match lol
@c.d.3892 What a descriptive post. I love the sunshine at the end. @RepDanCrenshaw @unitednations @murphyslaw
Thank you Morgan!! I’m moving to a small apartment and won’t have room for all my coffee implements, but I will DEFINITELY be taking my french press!
It's nice to see a coffee professional talking about frothing milk in a French press; I did it all the time when I had a smaller press.
My Only alteration is that I use a wooden dowel to stir in my glass or stainless FPs. I bought a hardwood wooden spoon and took off the spoon bit and sanded it round, then soaked it in canola oil for a day or so (in a plastic bag - uses less oil) It irks me to hear steel spoon on glass. When camping I have a stainless steel double walled FP and a hand grinder, for a tiny bit of luxury out in the middle of nowhere.
This was like the blessing I didn’t even ask for! Thank you so much!
I don’t know if you do any instructing, but Morgan you make a great teacher! At the coffee shop I work at we use a French press to make our tea concentrates.
I stopped buying coffee from coffee shops ever since I started using a french press for my cold brew. It saves me more money and adds a nice personal touch as well ✌️
Nice to see someone repping the classic method, complications can be added later (if at all). Also, I enjoy watching the time on the clock jump in the background ;-)
We had a drip coffee maker, an espresso machine, an aero press, a Kureg machine, and a French press. After several years we started getting rid of them all one by one because we never used them.
We now just have a French press and we use it all the time for both hot and cold coffee, and for both hot and cold tea. It's just so simple and consistent and versatile.
For those with a Stag Kettle that want a quicker pour, remove the lid and pour the water sideways out of the lid instead of using the spout.
My favourite kitchen item is my stainless steel french press.
I'm a clumsy person and I have broken my fair share of glass french press. At first I bought it and was disappointed that it was a bit ugly and you can't see through it, but this thing is so tough it won me over.
It will probably outlive me.
My stainless steel French press is my favorite possession! it’s great because I can take it with me everywhere, four countries already 😂
I love how you share the knowledge, and the level of detail you put into explaining everything:)
I love my tiny little french press, it's just enough for one cup of coffee and I love it. Thank you for more ideas to use it =D It never occurred to me to brew tea with it but so it was quite confusing at first but in the end, it's just a cup with a filter so why not.
Another advantage of the press is that you can multitask. I'll put the kettle on the stove, measure out the coffee into the pot then go about feeding the dog, making my own breakfast, checking the morning news and weather. Kettle boils, wait a bit, then pour the hot water. Stir (I recommend using a wooden or plastic spoon to spare the glass pot), then wait the 4-5 minutes while eating or whatever. Then coffee is ready - pour, drink, be happy. While I like espresso and moka pot brews, they require some babysitting. Harder to multitask!
A french press was one of the first coffee brewers i got when i started to get into coffee. I've tried many other methods since then and have come back to it. The simplicity of the process and so few variables, and the virtual non existence of techniques mattering compared to other methods makes it easier than anything else to get a good cup consistently
I like cold brew heated... I also put plunger just below the surface of the water to keep a crust of grounds from forming on the surface
Just wanted to say thank you for the tip with the frothing milk! I even had one of these devices around and I did read the instructions yet - not as good as it should have been. Only after watching your video I was able to make it work.
Even when making cold brew, I bloom my grounds with extra-hot tap water. Once bloomed, I top off with cold water. I leave it on my counter for 20 hours or so, then plunge, and pour over a filter to make it extra-smooth. Delicious!
I don't know where u are from, and how things works in your country . But as far as I know, if u have a water tank in your roof, that's were u store your water. That water is not use for consumption (like the cold tap water) , but rather is the water that getd heated on by the heat system in your home, u might use it in the hot tap water (mostly dish washing and stuff, but not safe for consumption), your hot shower, etc. that water is not food safe, since it's on a tank in the roof it's dangerous to drink , since the tank can get contaminated and stangnated. It's not rare to even have salmonella in those tanks...
So... If u have a tank of water in your roof , u better start using your microwave (or something else) to heat your water 😅
Love the very in depth tutorial on how to use the French press, it’s idiot proof and I mean that in the best way❤
Great video!
This is completely off topic, but I'm really intrigued by your clock in the background!
I’ve just started reading the Silmarillion this weekend. Your videos are a great companion ❤
Ever since the first failed brew, my French press has been collecting dust on the shelf. I am inspired to try again, using your tips.
How did your brew fail
I absolutely love how thorough/descriptive and to the point you are with everything :D it made me feel like I didn't /have/ to watch to get all the information you need which is so rare in a vid! [I have a concussion and still need to feed the brain haha] and the tiniest thought on that I have is when I did close my eyes sometimes you say what you're doing after it happens rather than before, and so there's just a confusing noise a first lol. but even those weren't too loud either
OMG just recently watched your old video and sooooo happy you've now decided to upload a new video about the french press 🎉
Interesting method, I always just added all the water then used the the press to “pump” the coffee a bit to mix it up and pushed the coffee just below the surface, then let it steep.
Ohhhhhhh. I love this. I hope more come like the Mokapot etc.
Just found your channel. Very down to earth, and informative. Love it so far!
Tea tip. You can just keep adding water to tohose tea leaves. Loose leaf you can get 2-3 good brews out of
Do you steep longer for subsequent brews?
@@msdixie1972 Honestly teas area lways "to your preference"
whether you steep long or short or dilute etc.
i generally always have my tea steeping I guess. as I drink more I just end up filling it up with more hot water.
@zwordsman Thank you for the tea tip. @RepDanCrenshaw @unitednations
I recently discovered coffee press and I want one much more now, thanks to your video. This video was so helpful!💃🏾You answered questions I didn’t know I had 😁.
Best slide of any youtuber I've seen. Also great info, I really appreciate it!
If only some people could put as much effort into raising their kids, lol..... for me, the morning brew was always in the French press. #1 boil water in the Dash kettle, add ground beans to press. #2 While water boils, morning tiny chores. #3 drop in water after it's "settled down." #4 Stir with ice tea teaspoon (love the ones from William Sonoma), let the coffee relax, there's none of that for me yet, it's 5am! #5 more chores #6 time to pour 1st cup and wake up with the Sunrise, grateful for the coffee and another day. #7 take the morning dog walk with 2nd cup. Now, home the day begins. I am off auto pilot!😊
I love it when they slide in with that Almost Superman-Esque hair, it never fails to use me 😂
Hey ...Kramer .😅
Incredible. A video guidance on how to used french press 🤔
Thanks Morgan! Love your vids and attention to detail. 💕
Thank you Morgan for making this video! The French press is the only coffee brewing instrument I have and I’m looking for ways to use it
Nice job Morgan! I've had my french press For a while and I prefer it Over my ten cup percolator. I also bought a smaller one to use On fishing trips with my sister. I will watch your channel some more. I've never seen you before but I will check it out To see what else you talk about.
I do follow Hoffman's french press method for the most part, but it really does depend on the press. If it's just a classic kinda one like you've shown here to start, then yes it's absolutely a great method that gives you a nice, clean cup.
However, with a lot of the fancier ones like your Fellow there, or the kinda Starbucks ones they got where the mesh has a gasket that seals the coffee pretty well, your basic method is very excellent as a baseline! I also didn't consider using the ones I have for tea, this will be a great way to make my usual cups of Jamaica during the summer!
Thank you so much for the video!
I LOVE cold brew coffee. I find the flavor comes out rich and yummy.
I've been using it for years. I love the French Press.
I have been collecting different types of coffee brewers lately so today a did a search for French Press and found this gem of information with ways to use a press, I wouldn't have thought of. I see more tea and cold brew, in my future.
I can't do this, I like math too much "I want you to think in terms of ratios, rather than, like exact numbers".
How to use cross multiply and divide any ratio to find exact numbers. This is useful to increase or decrease any recipe by a ratio.
Morgan's recipe reduced to 300g of water (single cup). 300 * 50 = 15000 / 750 = 20.
50 coffee X 20
---- ---- = -----
750 water 300 300
I only have 14g of coffee but I want it to taste the same, as a full cup. 14 * 750 = 10500 / 50 = 210
50 coffee 14 14
---- ---- = -----
750 water X 210
If you plug in "1" for coffee and "15" for water, the end result will be the same. Yay, math.
If you have a relative with a killer recipe from say, a school cafeteria or the like, this math can reduce it to any size.
Edit: This is why I have a calculator next to the scales in my kitchen.
Wow!!! That opening slide had some torque behind it!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I have a love hate relationship with the French press, one tip I found was to use a couple of kitchen towels to wrap it so it doesn’t get too cold by the time the brew is done
I'm certain a towel works just fine, but just in case you're interested, you can find French presses with a neoprene insulating sleeve.
Stainless Steel ones keep the coffee hot. I always run hot water over and into the press to pre warm it.
I have & love my French press. I even have a travel French press that I take with me when I travel!
All the blooming and stirring can be skipped. Put the coffee in, dump the water in, put the plunger on and press it down partway to submerge the floating grounds, then lift it all the way up. The grounds will float and stir themselves.
4 minutes is pretty optimal between extracting the most good flavors and the least bad ones. If you're brewing more than one serving at once, transfer all the coffee out then. Letting it sit on the grounds defeats the timing.
If it gets hard to plunge, waggle the whole thing to break up the coffee a bit
If you need clarity enhanced for certain delicate beans, pourover is a better choice.
I am really also into the vietnamese technique. Would love to try it. Looks like a nice rituals for a coffee break
I only have a french press to make coffee with so this is definitely useful for me as a beginner! I do love making cold brew with it during the summer :)
For fridge cold brew I tend to use quite fine ground coffee, not espresso, but almost.
Time around 8-9 hours. Put in fridge before you sleep and drink for breakfast
I use a moka pot to brew the coffee and a small French press to froth the milk. Late, cappuccino, cortado, macchiato all can be done by a little bit of practice
I found that the grind is not consistent no matter what grinder you use because the beans under pressure of the grinder will shatter into all different sizes, so what I do is grind the beans on medium grind, then pour them into a metal sieve with holes that will let all the grounds that are too small fall through and what's left are the grounds that I use to make the coffee. Of course I have to do that more than once to retain the volume of beans I need. This allows for a better coffee that does not allow silt and sludge to accumulate at the bottom of the pot or get into the cup as you pour the coffee. As far as I know, I'm the only person who does this, but it works like a charm. No silt left in the bottom of the cup!!
Appreciate the low-key 'Take Me Out to the Ball Game' cover in the background 👌⚾
Hey I have the same Oxo measuring jug!
I never thought to brew tea in my French press, thanks for suggestion
Love cold brewing in mine, both coffee but also tea in summertime.
10 years ago I bought a stainless steel French press because I got tired of the glass ones breaking--is there any glass thinner and flimsier than FP glass? Another great thing about the SSFP is that you can pack it on your travels and have good coffee as long as you have hot water.
If you don't stir, the foam helps to keep fine particles under the plunger. Do not grind too coarse.
I recently started using the James Hoffman method to produce french press coffee without ANY fines and silt at the bottom of the cup. It works! It takes longer but the results are worth it. The only thing James failed at was keeping the brew covered during the process which allows heat and steam to escape and you end up with very warm but NOT HOT coffee. Simple solution is to cover the top of the press during the brew process. I use a small stainless teabag plate as a cover. You can also just put the french press plunger on but dont press the plunger down. I have an electric milk frother that warms the milk too. Fat free milk froths best imo. Counterintuitive eh?
Ms. Eckroth: imo the most unusual caffeine product is Yerba Mate, might make a nice vid. The mate is usually made from part of a gourd. It is sipped with a bombilla. Many millions of people, mostly in Argentina use it instead of coffee. Might make an awesome, unique vid to find an Argentine to show folks how it is done. About 15 years ago, I was on a small dock not far out of Albany, OR and was sucking my bombilla sticking out of an odd looking thing. Cop shows up asking me "what do you have there?" with that suspicious tone. I explained it to him pretty well, he relaxed and took his hand off his pistol grip.
When I moved out I had to learn to use a French press because it didn't make much sense to brew a full pot of drip coffee every day for one person, and I dislike all the plastic waste from the single-serve kind of quick brew coffees.
Anyways, in the couple months since, I've collected quite a bit of coffee paraphernalia from my local thrift stores; moka pot (Probably one of my favorite brewing methods) percolator, a better French press, and recently an espresso machine unopened in its box.
Hi there, first of all i feel like i never took the time to just say thank you for your work on running one of the most wholesome coffee channels that i know of on youtube. I've watched a lot of your videos and enjoyed them very much and also took a lot of inspiration from them. On the more nerdy side of things: what do you think about the point of some other TH-camrs like James and most recently The Coffee Chronicler where they say it is actually beneficial to grind much finer somewhere in the range one would use for a moka pot? For myself (and this is just pure personal taste) i really loved this with the Coffee Chroniclers method where you put a paper filter below the plunger to get a clear cup even at finer grind settings and i feel it worked particulary well with lighter roasts of natural and fermented coffees. I'd love to hear your opinion on these. Maybe this might even be an idea for a comparison video?
French press is great, I love how versatile it is. And it's really cheap as well if you don't go extremely fancy.
I also really like Vietnamese coffee in a French press (different taste from Ohin-dripped but also really good. Grind matches this method as well!
EVerytime I watch one of Morgan's adorable videos. I always say to myself. "Damn, I never even knew that there was literally so much behind such a common drink"
Changing the grind size will affect your coffee flavor. For a more corse grind use water 200-205F for a brew time 5mins. Using a medium grind size brew 200F for 4mins
i would love to see you describe the flavor profile for a bunch of different coffee ice creams on the market! or maybe how to make a fun version of your own favorite drinks as ice cream
I’m just over here as an occasional coffee drinker that wanted a cheap and simple coffee maker. I measure with my heart.
@13:00 A top down of the milk in the jug would have been useful to see the texture before and after the swirl
Hi Morgan! Haven’t seen your post for weeks a while. French press is what we make coffee.
Watching this while enjoying my french press coffee! 😅
I am doing pretty much the James Hoffmann version without froth scooping.
Running usually 30-35 grams of beens for 500 ml of water.
A chopstick is the best French press stirring tool bar none 👌
One difference in my brew: because I use a filter over the plunger (smoother taste), I don’t set the lid on until I’m ready to plunge it down. Any earlier and the paper filter will tear.
I just found your channel. Thank you for the soft music in the background. One thing that turns me off with some videos is that awful loud music.
French press makes it easy to make cold foam too!! Since it adds so much air, i found the fiam lasted a couple days in the fridge even
There's been a lot of disrespect toward the French press by specialty baristas of late, caling it too wasteful, and less capable of tasty coffee, but I personally still love it after years of getting my start on it. I refer to it as old faithful. :)
PREACH!!!
Wasteful? It uses less bean for more drink. And it's capable of amazing coffee, just different from espresso or pourover. Those baristas should be embracing variety.
13:32 - a drink you can wear. Nice.
Just found a brand new one today at a local thrift shop -- what good timing ☕
Pouring towards one side and then jiggling a bit wets all the grounds with no stirring required. Takes soem practice, is worth it. Less spoons to wash.
i really appreciate your videos thank you for all. But one precision, in France we don't use those coffee makers and we don't even call it " cafetière à la française ", we call it "cafetière a piston" which we could maybe translate as " press coffeemaker " ?
Thank you for all this info, so handy! I'd love to get one, but I can only drink decaf because of health reasons, and the only way that's sold in my country is filter grind size. So yay for coffee loving Norway...
Can you get whole decaf beans and grind your own? I've been able to find coffee grinders pretty cheaply at garage sales or on Facebook marketplace. They probably weren't the greatest but they fit my budget 😅
@@firiel2366 If such a thing as whole decaf coffee beans exists here, they are not easily accessible, unfortunately. I've looked in all my local shops, but while they have regular coffee beans, they only have this one or maybe 2 options for decaf, both filter grind size. But thanks for your tip anyway. I might have to have a look online, though it's likely more pricy
I love the french press, one thing you did not touch on, is the only downside of it, is cleaning it after coffee is done, also did I miss something in the first brew segment, did you weigh in the water, you said 750 ml of water, but yet I seen you had it on a scale, can scales do that?
Water is the same in mls and grams so you can easily measure it with a scale!
I clean mine by folding a paper towel to make a cone in the sink strainer, then rinsing the press into that. Easy to toss then.