So I bought a French Press...

[vakkotaur]

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Egad, are we turning into coffee snobs?There is a Caribou Coffee kiosk at a local store, and I stop there often enough that I have their "perks" card (nothing to do with percolators) and a week or two ago it offered a 25% discount on Caribou merchandise. One item I had been considering, but was put off by the price, was a French Press. I'd

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[pndc]

Does "French press" mean something different in American English? To me, it's a synonym for cafetière, a glass jug into which one adds grounds and hot water, plus a plunger with a mesh filter to filter out the grounds from the coffee. My last one was something like twenty euros, and I only paid that much because it was a distress purchase.

[vakkotaur]

You have the definition exactly right. This one listed for $29.99 and makes about three cups (allegedly five, but it depends on how one defines a cup as such. For me, that's about a mug and a half, which is about right, if made a bit on the strong side.

Heavy metal java jive

[tippydevil]

Wife had one and loved it, not just for the flavor reasons you mentioned, but because she only needs a cup of coffee and she's good, and making entire drip coffee pot just too much.
For someone like the roommate, who drinks coffee by the quart, it is a frustratingly slow process that he attempted to hurry because the drip machine was down ...and broke the plunger, more specifically stripped the metal threaded rod out of the plastic plunger frame. So, it's back on the Christmas list.

Re: Heavy metal java jive

[vakkotaur]

Plastic frame? Ouch. Metal all the way (aside from the borosilicate glass pot itself) on this one.

Re: Heavy metal java jive

[tippydevil]

Yes, well, we kinda went cheap (it can hardly be called "snob" by the time they have them at Wal-mart) because it was an experiment. The next one definitely worth the investment in solid construction. :)