How to use a french press coffee maker

How to use a french press coffee maker- I'm going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills I'm going to show you how to make a French press first is a few things you're going to need you're going to need some fresh coffee preferably whole bean in which case you also need a grinder you'll need a timer and then you also need the French press so the first thing you're going to do is weigh out the beams I like to use 25

grams of coffee for this size French press now if you don't have a scale you can also just do three rounded scoops you're gonna go ahead and grind this coffee so this is ground medium course you can play around with the grind setting after making it a couple of times if it's tasting too bitter and too strong you might be using a little bit too fine a grind and if it's a little bit watery and we keep that it might be too coarse you take the French press you're going to want to preheat it you neither take water off of oil have a nice water tower here then you let that sit for a while so it gets up to heat all

right so after the French press is preheated you want to dry it out then add the grounds now again I definitely recommend getting a scale it just makes brewing coffee easier if you don't have one you just want to use about twelve and a half ounces of water for this size so I'm going to go ahead and add the water to the French press the first amount I'm going to add is just enough to soak the grounds at the bottom of the press so adding that in so just that much water there and then just stir it around to incorporate all the grounds with the water start the timer you actually just let that sit there for thirty

 seconds I would also recommend covering it when you're not doing anything to keep the heat intact after 30 seconds you're going to add the rest of the water this is either 12 and a half ounces or 400 grams of water once you've added all of that just give it another gentle stir you put the plunger out and then you're going to let that sit until three and a half minutes so after three and a half minutes you're going to press the plunger down and this is another way you can tell if you've ground two

course or two fine if it goes without any resistance it's going to be too coarse and then if you have a really difficult time pressing down it's going to be too fine then I recommend decanting the French press before serving because if you leave it sitting there I'll actually keep extracting and end up tasting better so once you've done that you can just let it cool down and it's ready to serve