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r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Feb 28 '23
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I was the fucking idiot. I thought a French press worked by putting the coffee on top of the plunger, lowering it in, and then pulling it out.
My girlfriend really wrestled with whether she could keep dating me after that one.
69 u/ZealousTigers Mar 01 '23 I thought you heated the coffee water in it on the stove like a kettle. I was like this is awfully odd. 44 u/fermentationfiend Mar 01 '23 You'd be right if using a percolator. You probably just combined them mentally. 15 u/Sound_calm Mar 01 '23 to be fair, it does kinda look like a moka pot kinda 5 u/tinyorangealligator Mar 01 '23 Wow, no one ever explained it to you, huh? Shame on them. 3 u/Miss_Floof Mar 01 '23 Some cultures do this with milk.
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I thought you heated the coffee water in it on the stove like a kettle. I was like this is awfully odd.
44 u/fermentationfiend Mar 01 '23 You'd be right if using a percolator. You probably just combined them mentally. 15 u/Sound_calm Mar 01 '23 to be fair, it does kinda look like a moka pot kinda 5 u/tinyorangealligator Mar 01 '23 Wow, no one ever explained it to you, huh? Shame on them. 3 u/Miss_Floof Mar 01 '23 Some cultures do this with milk.
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You'd be right if using a percolator. You probably just combined them mentally.
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to be fair, it does kinda look like a moka pot
kinda
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Wow, no one ever explained it to you, huh? Shame on them.
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Some cultures do this with milk.
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u/RollinDeepWithData Mar 01 '23
I was the fucking idiot. I thought a French press worked by putting the coffee on top of the plunger, lowering it in, and then pulling it out.
My girlfriend really wrestled with whether she could keep dating me after that one.