How to Brew Coffee Using a Bodum French Press, Instructions

And let's brew some French press coffee .

All right .

So first of all , we're gonna grind coffee .

We're gonna grind it to the French press setting .

Once we've got our coffee and you want to make sure your coffee is properly ground , which ours is , we're gonna add in this case , three tablespoons of coffee .

And if you're wondering , you're looking at 7 g of coffee for every four ounces of water that you're going to be putting in your French press .

So that makes it pretty easy to calculate again , how much coffee you're going to need in order to get the proper cup of coffee .

So a little bit of coffee math for you there after you've done your coffee math or at least just measured properly , you're going to go ahead and take your , I'm using a goose neck kettle right now and we've talked about this one before here on French coffee dot com .

Either way you want to get your water to the proper temperature .

I've got mine at 200 °F and we'll go ahead and pour , we're going to bloom first .

We're not going to fill this up all the way .

We're just going to let our grounds bloom a little bit .

And of course , we've got the exclusive French coffee dot com stirring paddle that you can make use of .

And this comes with every single order at French coffee dot com .

Again , we're blooming our grounds .

So I'm just gonna give them a little bit of a stir .

And again , that bloom just lets us get a nice initial uh kind of beginning to our coffee .

So after 30 seconds , we're gonna go ahead and just finish pouring our water .

You don't need to go too slow , but you can take your time here to get this right .

And remember you got to give yourself a little bit of room because you're gonna be pushing your plunger down .

So make sure you give yourself a little bit of room .

We'll give this a little stir and then don't forget the magic number you want four minutes total brew time .

So we had 30 seconds of bloom .

So we're looking at about 3.5 minutes , maybe a little less because I was pouring there .

It doesn't have to be , you know , super accurate , but make sure that you get that time in there so you can get the right cup of coffee .

And as you're brewing after you've given that kind of final initial stir , I like to take my lid and my plunger and just kind of set it resting right , ever so slightly on top of the ground .

So I'm not going to press it down yet .

I'm going to let it sit there and I'm going to brew for a total time of about four minutes .

And after we've allowed our brew to happen , we're just going to go ahead and press our plunger down .

So this will finish the brew process .

And now I would have my hopefully perfect cup of coffee .

Now , it sometimes takes a little bit of practice to perfect this .

Even if you're using all the math that I've talked about here , you've still got different factors that come into play and the type of coffee grounds and the type of coffee that you're using and again , the temperature of your water et cetera , but spend a little time playing with it because that's how you're gonna get your perfect cup of coffee .

But once you're done , that's your cup of French press coffee .

This is the classic French press .

Again , if you say the words French press , someone's gonna see this in their heads probably nine times out of hand .

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