How to Brew Coffee with the French Press

Today , we're doing French press coffee and as usual with our coffee , all the details of what make this a much better process .

So with French press , it's really defined by the metal filter itself and the fact that we're actually immersing the coffee in water itself .

So this would be referred to as an immersion method .

So starting with great water filtered to the right temperature , then we have coffee that's pre measured and ground freshly .

So right now we do 2 g per ounce .

So this is a 30 ounce uh pot and then I'm doing 60 g of coffee .

So my first step is to just put the fresh ground coffee in there .

And I would like to saturate the coffee first .

So I'm just going to pour enough water in there to saturate all the grounds .

And with fresh coffee , I'm going to allow that to off gas .

So there's a certain amount of about 30 seconds that I'm going to time this to off gas .

But you actually see the whole process happening in the glass at the point that everything is saturated .

I'm just going to continue to fill it up and I don't want to over mix the coffee or create a lot of turbulence .

I only just want to saturate it all the way to the full level of the pot at this point .

If there's any clumps related left in there , I'm just gonna mix those in so that all the coffee is brewing at the same time .

And I'm going to let this sit for about three minutes and into about 3.5 minutes .

So the whole extraction will take about four minutes and I'm just inserting the filter not pressing until the appropriate amount of time .

So at this point , we're just brewing all the coffee is immersed in there and we're waiting for the right amount of time .

This is a coarse grind .

So basically , uh the brewing method is directly related to the grind .

So with an immersion method in a longer period of time , we have a coarser grind with a faster extraction .

We would have a finer grind .

This point .

What we have is three minutes , 3.5 minutes have passed and we're on , the coffee is brewed and we're only going to filter it .

So by filtering it , I just mean push the metal filter down to the bottom .

So we pressed it and now we have fresh brewed filtered coffee .

Here we go , press cut up .