What is suitable for the French pressing pot? how to use the coffee bean pressing pot to make coffee? how to make it delicious?

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French pressure kettle

Heat-resistant server (like French media)

Boiling hot water

timer

Coffee beans (or coarse ground coffee powder)

Sharing pot

The amount of coffee powder

There are mainly 350 ml and 500 ml French presses, each with a different amount of coffee powder.

350 ml: 15 to 18 grams

500 ml: about 25 grams

As a rough guide, this is about this. In fact, it is interesting to adjust the amount according to your taste and the characteristics of the coffee beans.

Let's focus on coffee powder.

There are some conditions for the use of coffee powder in the French press. Of course, you can also extract ordinary coffee powder, but in order to be delicious, you must meet two conditions.

Fresh coffee beans are essential!

The main feature of the French kettle is that the flavor of coffee beans is extracted "as is". Therefore, although fresh coffee beans taste delicious, the use of beans with poor freshness will directly extract the deteriorated flavor.

You need to prepare as fresh coffee beans as possible, so please be careful.

Prepare for rough grinding of coffee powder

The screen is an iron net. It is rougher than a paper filter and passes through the filter with thin coffee powder. For this reason, the French kettle is usually ground with rough ground coffee grounds.

Most of the coffee powder sold in supermarkets is basically medium mill and medium mill. Therefore, you should buy coffee beans and grind them at home.

How to make coffee in a French kettle

Let's see how the French kettle works from now on.

①: add coarse ground coffee powder

First, add the coffee powder to the French press and flatten it.

②: set the timer to about 4 minutes

Please set a timer before pouring in the hot water.

The time "4 minutes 00 seconds (±30 seconds)" is the best. If more than 5 minutes, it will be over-extracted, if less than 3 minutes, will not be extracted, and will become delicious. At present, the hesitation time is "4 minutes and 00 seconds". This is the standard.

In fact, this is the most important thing about the French kettle. Since the French kettle has a great influence on taste, it is technically unreliable. Be sure to use the kitchen timer or timer of your smartphone.

③: pour in 1pm, 2pm, 1ax, 3boiling water and start the timer.

The program here

Prepare to boil the cool hot water pressure kettle timer.

There is hot water on the one hand and a timer on the other.

Pour the hot water into the capacity of "1 / 2 cup 1 bank 3".

In the meantime, I will start the timer.

Please execute this procedure as soon as possible. If the time of pressing the timer is delayed, the extraction time will be moved so much.

The point here is "do not pour hot water directly into coffee powder". Pour hot water on the side of the printing press and pour it into the coffee powder indirectly. While at the same time preventing the scattering of coffee powder, what happens when water flows in coffee powder and hot water.

④: wait until the bulge is over (4:00 → 3:30)

If you use fresh coffee beans, the coffee powder will swell like an image. Wait 30 seconds to resolve this bulge. If you are not exaggerating, please wait 30 seconds as a guide.

⑤: pour in hot water and close the lid. (time remaining 3 / 30 / 30)

When the steaming calms down, I pour hot water on it. This standard is 1.5 to 2 centimeters below the edge of the kettle.

This time it's a way to dump, but it's good to draw a circle like a drop. Then the coffee powder will be sunk once in hot water, so you can extract it evenly.

Pour into the piston (filter) when pouring out.

Install the plunger to the most standard state. In addition, it is recommended to change the back mouth of the cover at this time. By doing so, it will not escape steam and aroma, it can prevent temperature drop and odor escape.

⑥: wait until the timer rings (time remaining ~ 0:00)

There's nothing special about waiting. But there are good things to do. For example, if you use the remaining hot water to keep the server and coffee cups warm, the coffee becomes difficult to cool.

In addition, if the coffee powder is attached to the outlet, wipe off the coffee powder with a tissue, etc. By doing so, you can prevent the coffee powder from mixing when you pour the coffee.

⑦: drop the plunger carefully (0:00 remaining)

The extraction is completed when the timer rings. Let's carefully lower the rising plunger.

The important thing now is to slow down. If the speed is too fast, the powder will mix into the coffee. On the other hand, if it is too late, the extraction time will only move at that time. As a rough guide, lowering it by about 3 to 5 seconds would be a good thing.

Please apply a force vertically from the top to lower it. Otherwise, the plunger may shift diagonally and the powder may leak from there.

⑧: pour coffee

When the plunger falls, pour the coffee into the pot or cup to share.

But here's what you noticed.

For example, if you extract a portion for two and pour it into a cup, the remaining coffee will be oversampled over time. Therefore, it is necessary to pour a cup of coffee for the cup. But it's not good to pour in all the coffee.

The coffee at the bottom contains a lot of fine powder. So, if this part is mixed together, it will be done in rough coffee.

Re-check the extraction steps

Now, when you see a series of flows, let's examine the points that affect the flavor.

Use fresh coarse ground coffee powder

The time is 4 minutes and 00 seconds (±30 seconds)

The first one indirectly injects the quantity of one beat, two hundred, one and three.

Start the timer at the same time as the first throw

Pour the second grain evenly and close the lid.

Lift the filter carefully

Leave a little coffee and pour everything.

If you follow the rules, such as the points mentioned above, then the charm of the French kettle is that you can put delicious coffee. Because it does not require technology, it is easy for beginners to deal with.

This is also an indispensable project, especially for those who want to taste special coffee. Please try to use the pressure pot to make delicious coffee.