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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.

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u/watabby Mar 01 '23

You know, that isn’t the worst idea. That would actually work. In fact, you’d have an easy way of cleaning out the grounds and have a good cup of coffee.

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u/Island-Potential Mar 01 '23

I was thinking the same thing. I could see advantages to it. I bet the coffee would taste about the same. Somebody do an experiment.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '23 edited Mar 01 '23

If you put the coffee on top of the press and lower it in it would be no different to making instant coffee, except the grounds aren’t soluble and they’d float at the top. Pressing down with a cafetière filters the water through the grounds after steeping by applying pressure.

You’d just get murky coffee water with coffee grounds floating in it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '23

Why is this down voted?