How to Measure and Grind French Press Coffee Beans

• The measuring and grinding of the french press coffee is one of the most difficult part in making the french press coffee. The quantity of coffee beans depends on the size of the french press. If you want to have a stronger coffee, you can use more coffee beans. Similarly, if you want to have a plainer coffee, you can use lesser coffee beans. You should experiment it with different amunts of beans and water until you are satisfied with the taste. To obtain the best flavor, you will need fresh and whole coffee beans. Filtered water can help to enhance the taste of the cheapest coffee beans. However, if you want to best flavor, you must use organic coffee bean. Organic coffee beans are grown naturally without the use of chemicals such as pesticides which can cause a bitter taste for the coffee drinks. There are several varieties of roasts and coffee beans, therefore, you can experiment with each of them to find out which suit your taste. Dark French coffee roasts tend to produce a stronger flavor than lighter roasts. When buying coffee roasts, look for the roast date of the beans. If the beans is roasts more than ten days ago, you should not buy them.

  After that, you can use the measuring cup to measure one level scoop of the coffee beans. To grind the coffee beans, you will have to transfer to measured coffee beans into the coffee grinder. The coffee grinder should be set to coarse grind so that the fine grounds will not pass through the filtering screens of the French press coffee maker. In this way, you can have finely ground coffee at the bottom of your French press coffee.

• After grinding the coffee beans, you will have to boil it. The quantity of water you boil depends on the amount of coffee you want to make. As a guideline, you can boil 12 ounces of water. If you want to make more coffee, you can increase the recommended amount. If you want to obtain the best flavor, you must use clean and filtered water. You can cook the water with a kettle, microwave or saucepan. If you are boiling the water in a saucepan, you must keep watch of it to prevent boiling away too much of the water. If you are using a microwave oven, you will have to wait for 2 -3 minutes to boil the water.

  Once the water is boiled, you must allow some time for it to cool down to prevent burning the coffee beans. After that, you must transfer the ground beans into the French press coffee maker. When the water is cool down, you can pour it into the coffee maker. As you pour in the water, you will notice the foam starts to form on the surface. The tiny particles of the ground beans can also be seen floating on top of the water. To make the ground beans submerge, you can use a stirrer to mix it for 5 minutes. The stirrer can be a chopstick, spoon or anything that can be used to stir the coffee in the beaker. Next, the lid should be placed on top of the container. The lid should not be pressed down but just remain on top of the container until 1 minute later. After the lid is press down, you should wait for about 5 minutes to allow some time for the coffee to brew.

  After five minutes had passed, you can pour the coffee from the French press coffee maker into the cup to serve. To preserve the temperature and flavor, you should drink the coffee within 2 minutes. If you carefully take into account every steps above, you will be able to learn how to make French press coffee.