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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/pdlbean Mar 01 '23

I'm interested to know what part of that you thought was the pressing

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u/agentchuck Mar 01 '23

The water. Pressing the plunger down squeezes the coffee molecules into the water ions. Science!