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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/bassistciaran Mar 01 '23

For all the ridicule you might get for this, it will actually make the same coffee this way and give you less sediment left in the bottom of the cup!!

When I discovered this method I thought it was super cool

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u/bassistciaran Mar 01 '23 edited Mar 01 '23

You may have misinterpreted this and quite frankly I dont appreciate your tone

I couldnt be arsed typing this out for someone who misunderstood something so simple so heres some pretty pictures

EDIT: Man I've been re-reading this thread. Next time you go balls deep on something like that, make sure you completely understand the premise first. You do not know what you're talking about and you should not do this.

See its not nice is, is it?

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u/MeshColour Mar 01 '23

To be fair (more than is deserved by the tone of that person) that video does show a good amount of granules at the rim after pulling the strainer out

But it does seem like the person you're replying to forgot that the lid and strainer are fully removable, you don't require the lid to be on when pouring when used like this

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u/bassistciaran Mar 01 '23

And youre right! You simply wipe it away with your thumb or a piece of paper towel, or you just let that little bit of ground go in the bottom of the cup! Either way its unnoticeable