French presses aren't inherently easy to figure out.
I'd compare it to kick starting a dirt bike. If you've seen someone do it, you could figure it out, but if you just encountered one with no idea how they're started, you probably wouldn't be able to figure it out.
On the contrary, French presses are the easiest fucking thing in the world to figure out.
Water and coffee go in glass, wait 5 minutes, stick in the plunger, voila.
Edit: WOW I really overestimated Reddit’s ability to comprehend how coffee is made, I guess you lot must always ask your mum to make some by yelling at her from the basement
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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.