French Press
Onyx Coffee Lab's French Press
Recipe by Onyx Coffee LabSource
@coffeemaster
25g
Coffee
400g
Water
1:16
Ratio
96°C
Temperature
Coarse
Grind Size
4:00
Total Time
Preparation
1
Warm the press
Rinse the beaker with hot water before you start.
Step-by-step recipe
0:00 → 0:15Step 1
Pour
Add the grounds first, then pour all 400 g of water in a spiral.
0:30 → 0:35Step 2
First stir
Stir once at thirty seconds.
1:30 → 1:35Step 3
Second stir
Stir again at a minute and a half.
2:30 → 3:00Step 4
Plunge
Plunge steadily at two and a half minutes.
3:00 → 4:00Step 5
Decant
Pour it out rather than leaving it on the grounds, or it keeps extracting.
Notes
The short, unfussy counterpart to the two above. All the water at once, two stirs at fixed times, plunge at two and a half minutes. Nothing is skimmed and nothing settles. Worth having next to the Hoffmann method to see what the extra six minutes of waiting actually buys.