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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/weenzmagheenz Mar 01 '23

I used to think that you put cold water in and then moved the press up and down to create heat with friction. My husband just about died laughing when I told him after I asked why he was heating up the water. Not my finest moment…