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When I recently had a mommy coffee playdate at my house, I made the coffee in a french press for the best flavor to go great with the tasty chocolate cakes I made. It might seem intimdating if you're used to drip coffee, but preparing a french press is really easy and great way to get a full-bodied delicious cup of coffee.
Here's how you do it:
Supplies
- Whole coffee beans
- Measuring spoon
- Bean grinder
- French press
Directions
Step 1: Start with great coffee
It seems like a no-brainer but the truth is that poor quality coffee beans make poor quality coffee. For great coffee, use high quality beans. I used Gevalia Traditional Roast that I picked up at my local Safeway.
Step 2: Measure
Measure out 2 Tablespoons of beans for every 6 ounces of water that your french press holds and add them to your grinder.
Step 3: Grind
Set your burr grinder to its coarsest setting and grind. If you have a blade grinder like we do, grind for about 4 seconds to have a coarse, chunky grind. Remove lid and plunger and add ground coffee to the bottom of the french press carafe.
Step 4: Brew
Heat water on the stove until just shy of boiling. Pour over the grounds in the french press and set a timer for five minutes. When the timer goes off, put the lid on the press and press the plunger down to stop the brewing process.
Step 5: Serve
Pour your coffee and add your favorite condiments. I love organic sugar and whole milk in mine.
Of course coffee is always more enjoyable with friends.
Coffee is great any time but especially great with friends. I was lucky to have two of my favorite mommy friends come over with their kids for a mommy playdate. The kids played in the living room and we sipped coffee and at delicious organic chocolate cake with homemade frosting (yum!) - the ingredients were, of course, from Safeway - and so were the cute little ramekins they're in.
I was selected for this opportunity as a member of Clever Girls Collective and the content and opinions expressed here are all my own.
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Thanks for this! I never knew how to work a french press (shhh). Lovely everything on this post. Pinned!
ReplyDeleteI just bought one this last weekend, I read somewhere too use it for an overnight cold brew to me make yummy iced coffee. Can wait to try it!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE french press coffee. This looks aesome!
ReplyDeleteMmm those cakes look so good. And I love my french press!
ReplyDeleteGevalia coffee is so fantastic ... of course, we normally drink Gevalia, but this is the first time for me using a French press and it was amazing! It definitely brought out the richer taste! Oh, and thanks for letting me be the hand model in this one, LOL! ;)
ReplyDeleteHi there! I LOVE French press coffee. Great job on the tutorial. Have you found any lead/cadmium/mercury free coffee grinders? :o)
ReplyDeleteI haven't tested any with Tamara and I didn't see the results for any on her website. I suspect that because many home coffee grinders are too small to fit the XRF inside, they would be hard to test without dismantling.
DeleteThis is the coffee grinder I have. While it is possible some component inside could have lead, all parts that touch the coffee appear to be steel or plastic: http://amzn.to/2nKafcd