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The French filter kettle, or French kettle, also known as French Press, is the easiest and most convenient way to brew coffee. In fact, this kind of pot appeared a long time ago, but people used to use it to make tea. Generally speaking, the filter net for making tea is thicker, and that for making coffee is smaller. If you like coffee but don't have the time, or if you don't have an expensive coffee maker at home, a French press is a good way.

The French filter kettle is suitable for coarse grinding and medium roasting coffee beans. The metal filter is used to fully extract the oil to make the flavor of the coffee beans very obvious. The size of the filter hole of the commercial French filter kettle is not exactly the same, so it must be confirmed before use.

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When it comes to the origin of the invention of the French filter pot, it was originally used as an extraction tool in France, because the use of metal filter screen, can fully extract oil, you can taste the characteristics of coffee beans. The quality of coffee beans will directly affect the taste, in other words, the disadvantages will be obvious. Please be sure to try it with your favorite delicious coffee beans.

Standard for rough grinding

Because the filter mesh of the French filter pressure pot is larger, if you use the coffee powder ground in the middle, the extracted coffee will be mixed with a lot of powder, and the taste will become rustling. However, the mesh sizes of the filter pots produced by different manufacturers are also different, please be sure to confirm the filter.

The principle of using a French kettle is very simple, just follow the steps in the above section:

First boil the water, rinse the French kettle and cup with hot water, and preheat the pot and cup.

Grind beans.

Put the ground coffee powder into the pot and fill it with hot water at the right temperature. Put the powder first and then add water.

After standing for 4-5 minutes, press the strainer to separate the coffee liquid from the coffee residue.

Pour into a cup, add sugar and milk.

ENJOY!

The steps are super simple, but the thickness of coffee powder, the temperature of hot water and the duration of soaking will affect the taste of coffee.

Tips:

Coffee powder should not be ground too young, with moderate grinding, about 5-6 degrees. If the powder is too small, the coffee powder will run out of the hole in the filter and the coffee will become cloudy.

The water temperature should not be too high, about 90 degrees Celsius.

Soak for about four minutes. The longer the soaking time, the stronger the taste and the stronger the sour taste. The taste and personal preference of each coffee bean are different, so try it one by one.

Suitable for coffee beans from a single origin, or coffee beans with strong sour taste.

Suitable for filtering medium to deep-roasted coffee beans (such as Nanyang coffee).

Do not press the strainer when standing still, so that the coffee and water have more time and space contact.

Advantages of French kettles:

Simple and quick

No need to plug in

No need for alcohol lamp heating

No filter paper, more environmentally friendly

Small, lightweight and unobstructed.

Easy to clean

Expired coffee beans can also be soaked into coffee oil (crema)

Coffee beans that are not perfectly roasted can also be brewed in a French kettle, but basically cannot be drunk.

The weakness of the French kettle:

Compared with Japanese siphon (Syphon), the coffee brewed is muddy.

Compared with espresso, the flavor is not strong enough to boil out the essence of coffee beans.

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