I put ground beans in, pour hot water on them and start pressing pretty much immediately. How freakin strong do you need your coffee to wait for 4 whole minutes?
Coffee is a matter of taste. So no one should tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Maybe it’s just a preference.
But “immediatly” is… pretty fast. I wonder if your grind is very fine or if you have very dark beans. I don’t like coffee, so I brew mine pretty cool and for 2 minutes max so I get a very cocoy drink.
If you feel like it, you may want to try different grinds and recipes. Personally I feel like it’s worth it.
Coffee is highly personal, I agree. The comment above reminded me of a friend though, a very woke social worker, highly anti exploitation and pro environment. You get the point. She did hand filter, but like… Putting 5 spoons in and then just splashing boiling water over it so that the water hardly even touched the coffee because it just whooshed to the sides. Her coffee was… Brownish water. It was so light, if it were driving in the US, it wouldn’t have been racially profiled. She liked it that way and while it was not drinkable for me, it’s fine, she likes it, but it was just such a waste. It took a lot of careful phrasing to point it out to her that, you do you, but you are wasting coffee (which is, after all, ethically, socially and environmentally quite complicated to say the least) and you could get the same strength/result with like 1/5th of the coffee you use. She is still rather grateful for your coffee needs… more love and has now diverted to more conscious coffee making.
I think it’s more about taste than strength? I was a skeptic until I started trying things. still prefer a quick and dirty pour over but this is my go-to french press method
So I have an Aeropress (highly recommend because of cleaning ease) but I couldn’t even wait more than a couple minutes because it will start draining through the filter almost immediately. If I waited four minutes there would be nothing to even press… Have I been doing this wrong somehow the whole time?
Don’t be, the way you do it is the official way, I think? The upside down one is the way people have discovered to give the brewing process more flexibility.
You’re supposed to add the coffee and water, then place the plunger into the top of the cylinder to hold everything in, giving the coffee time to steep. Here’s a good example of how to use an Aeropress.
So that’s sort of where the confusion comes in. The aeropress comes with a stirring rod and recommends stirring before pressing. But if you stir it, more than half the liquid has drained out the filter before you can even get the plunger on.
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I put ground beans in, pour hot water on them and start pressing pretty much immediately. How freakin strong do you need your coffee to wait for 4 whole minutes?
Coffee is a matter of taste. So no one should tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Maybe it’s just a preference.
But “immediatly” is… pretty fast. I wonder if your grind is very fine or if you have very dark beans. I don’t like coffee, so I brew mine pretty cool and for 2 minutes max so I get a very cocoy drink.
If you feel like it, you may want to try different grinds and recipes. Personally I feel like it’s worth it.
Coffee is highly personal, I agree. The comment above reminded me of a friend though, a very woke social worker, highly anti exploitation and pro environment. You get the point. She did hand filter, but like… Putting 5 spoons in and then just splashing boiling water over it so that the water hardly even touched the coffee because it just whooshed to the sides. Her coffee was… Brownish water. It was so light, if it were driving in the US, it wouldn’t have been racially profiled. She liked it that way and while it was not drinkable for me, it’s fine, she likes it, but it was just such a waste. It took a lot of careful phrasing to point it out to her that, you do you, but you are wasting coffee (which is, after all, ethically, socially and environmentally quite complicated to say the least) and you could get the same strength/result with like 1/5th of the coffee you use. She is still rather grateful for your coffee needs… more love and has now diverted to more conscious coffee making.
I won’t go into details, but let’s put it this way: I think what I’m doing will offend french press owners more than a paper filter.
Sounds like you are skipping the “cast judgement” step
I think it’s more about taste than strength? I was a skeptic until I started trying things. still prefer a quick and dirty pour over but this is my go-to french press method
So I have an Aeropress (highly recommend because of cleaning ease) but I couldn’t even wait more than a couple minutes because it will start draining through the filter almost immediately. If I waited four minutes there would be nothing to even press… Have I been doing this wrong somehow the whole time?
Pro tip - put the aeropress upside down and fill it up from the bottom, then screw on the filter, flip and into the cup it goes.
Oh man, I feel stupid now…
Don’t be, the way you do it is the official way, I think? The upside down one is the way people have discovered to give the brewing process more flexibility.
You’re supposed to add the coffee and water, then place the plunger into the top of the cylinder to hold everything in, giving the coffee time to steep. Here’s a good example of how to use an Aeropress.
So that’s sort of where the confusion comes in. The aeropress comes with a stirring rod and recommends stirring before pressing. But if you stir it, more than half the liquid has drained out the filter before you can even get the plunger on.
I will try this next time.
What are you smoking