Stainless Steel French Press

With a stainless steel French press you will soon be able to make wonderful tasting coffee for you and your friends time and time again. However, there are certain things that you will need to do to ensure that each cup of coffee you make in yours tastes as great as the first.

Below we offer some tips and tricks that could prove useful and which will help to ensure that you make the perfect cup of coffee. It is worth taking yourtime over making each pot of coffee as this will further help to ensure that the taste is always great. But what else can one do to ensure that each cup of coffee made using a stainless steel French press is perfect?

Tip 1- To ensure that you make great tasting coffee it is important that you use good quality tasting water. If you can use water from the tap which has been filtered using a water filter attachment on your faucet or through a special water filter jug such as those made by Britta. As you will soon discover the quality of the water that you use will enhance the flavour of the coffee you brew in your French press greatly.

Tip 2 – If you can use beans that are between 3 and 10 days old as anything younger won’t have had enough time to mature and they flavour won’t be so full as you would have hoped. Also avoid using beans that are more than 10 days old as these ones will be starting to go stale and again the taste will differ much more.

Tip 3 – It is much better to grind the coffee beans yourself instead of purchasing them ready ground. Unless you have a store locally that will grind them there and then for you. The problem with purchasing with ready ground coffee is that it may be too fine for putting into your stainless steel French press and they may be much younger or older than we recommend above. By grinding the coffee beans yourself you can ensure that the grinds as extremely coarse so ensuring that far less of them will be able to pass through the plunger filter.

Tip 4 – Make sure that when you pour in the water that you leave at least an inch above for the filter and plunger to be inserted. Putting into too much water can lead to some of it squirting out over the sides if you press down on the plunger too quickly and can lead to you being scalded or burnt.

Tip 5 – To ensure that the flavour of your coffee is as rich and full as possible it is important that you give the coffee grinds plenty of time to seep into the water. Plus whilst the mixture is seeping stir it as this will further enhance the taste of the coffee and is going to ensure that less time is provided for the sediment to settle. Allowing the coffee mixture sufficient time to seep in your stainless steel French press will ensure that a large amount of the essential oils in the coffee grinds is extracted.