French press is one of those classic ways to prepare your favorite brew. People like it for its simplicity and rich aroma of the end product. Some coffee connoisseurs like to apply an alternative way, which is still considered to be French press method, except that it does not involve any pressing. After four minutes, which is the standard steeping time, you can break coffee crust, which will allow the grounds to slowly float to the bottom. Then you continue steeping for another eleven minutes or so, and you serve the beverage in a warm cup.
Key Takeaways:
- Outside of espresso, brew methods loosely fall into two categories: Full immersion and filter. French press and cupping fall into the first camp.
- Cupping is no way to brew at home—it’s an industry method used by coffee professionals to strictly evaluate coffee. But it shares fascinating parallels with French press.
- In the cup, the coffee is also just gorgeous to look at. Speckled with the oily colloids natural to coffee, the surface all but shimmers.
“By extending the brew time to 15 minutes, and gently encouraging the grounds to sink to the bottom instead of plunging them, he yielded a cup of unprecedented clarity of taste, of assertiveness.”
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