Use a French press to make a cup of delicious coffee

How difficult is it to make coffee? In terms of hand brewing water control skills, stable water flow has a relatively large impact on the flavor of coffee. Unstable water flow often causes negative effects such as uneven extraction and channeling effects, and the coffee tastes less than ideal.

There are two ways to solve this problem. The first is to practice water control; the second is to weaken the impact of water injection on coffee extraction.

If you want to drink a cup of delicious coffee simply and easily, the second method is the best choice. In terms of product stability, immersion extraction is more stable and less troublesome than filter extraction.

Filter extraction means that the water injection process and the coffee liquid dripping process are synchronized, with hand-brewed coffee as the typical representative. Immersion extraction involves soaking water and coffee powder for a period of time before filtering, represented by French presses and smart cups. Some people think that the coffee made by a French press is not as delicious as brewing by hand. This is probably because the extraction parameters are not used correctly. Just like if the wrong parameters are used for hand-brewed coffee, the coffee brewed will not taste good. The difference in the flavor characteristics of coffee brewed by soaking and filtering is that the fullness and sweetness of the coffee extracted by soaking will be better than that of filtered extraction; the layering and cleanliness will be inferior to that of filtered extraction.

When using a French press coffee maker to brew coffee, you only need to master the parameters of grinding size, water temperature, ratio, and time, and you can brew coffee with a stable flavor and completely avoid unstable factors such as water control. The process steps are also less troublesome than brewing by hand. It only requires four steps: pouring powder, pouring water, waiting time, and filtering.

As long as you use the right parameters, the brewed coffee will taste just as good as hand-brewed coffee. Conventionally, coffee shops use soaking (cupping) to test the flavor characteristics of roasted coffee. Therefore, if you also want to drink the coffee taste that the roaster drank, then soaking is the best choice.

The advantage of extracting coffee by soaking is that it can minimize the unstable flavor caused by artificial uncertainties, and novices can brew stable and delicious coffee. It is also easier to identify the quality of beans. The higher the quality, the better the flavor will be reflected, and the relatively defective beans will also faithfully reflect the flavor.

Some people also think that the coffee made by the French press is very turbid, and the fine powder graininess affects the taste when drinking. This is because the French press uses a metal filter to filter coffee grounds, and the filtering effect is worse than that of paper filters. It is very simple to solve this problem. You can use the round filter paper specially designed for French press pots and put a set on the filter. It can also filter out the coffee liquid with the same clear and clean taste as hand-brewed coffee. If you don’t want to buy additional filter paper, you can also pour it into a filter cup with filter paper for filtering, and the effect will be the same.