Friday Favorite: My Insulated French-Press Coffee Pot
April 25, 2008 By: almostgotit Category: Uncategorized, blogging, humor, feminism, marketing
While this particular model that I own, by BonJour, seems no longer to be available, there are dozens of other insulated French press pots now on the market. And no wonder! They are easy to use, easy to clean, and make to-die-for-coffee. As a comes-from-Seattle-girl, I know.
Many coffee connoisseurs recommend press pots for the best coffee flavor, but the glass ones don’t keep coffee hot for more than a few minutes. Problem solved with this insulated version, which I can set right next to my computer, where it provides me with hours of refills!
I’d buy this pot over and over again, too, except that the one we have will never wear out. We’ve used it daily for years now.
I would like to add that not a single company or person is paying me to write about insulated French-Press Coffee Pots, though I certainly think it is an excellent idea to send nice things to bloggers and ask them for endorsements (money is always a nice thing to send to bloggers, too.)
After all. If the Johnson & Johnson marketing people learned anything from their recent Camp Baby experience, they may now realize they’d have been much better off showering their target mom bloggers with products (to keep and to use as blog give-aways) instead of paying their way to a conference where all the neuroscientists, nurses and marketing professionals who dominate the momosphere were treated to scintillating sessions about hair-braiding.
I’m just saying. And for the record, my contact information is right up there, at the top of this screen.
April 25th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Okay. I want lessons. As my son would say, I went Ninja a couple of days ago because my Kitchen Aid coffee maker had a seizure and left chunks-o-coffee in the brew. That’s okay, says husband, It’ll just be nice and thick. I tell him, Thick, chunky coffee has not caught on in France or Italy, as far as I know (as he is spewing the first mouthful). This family is cursed. The last few coffee makers have failed in some horrid way, once causing bodily harm. And we only have the old-fashioned glass press. I am intrigued by this invention (and evidently live in a shoe box). Many thanks for this post.
April 26th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Howdy Deb, and so nice to “see” you again!
Okay, here’s the drill:
Put 8 heaping table spoons of coursely-ground coffee into the pot (freshly ground, if possible!), fill with boiling water, and put lid on with plunger up. No stirring or filters or etc. necessary. Wait a couple minutes then push plunger down. Done! And it really will stay hot for hours. (you can probably use less coffee than we do, but really — don’t. It is SO GOOD made this way!)
Though ours is nominally an “8 cup” (48 oz) pot, we use big mugs and get 4 servings per pot.
Cleaning is no problem… the lid-with-plunger part pulls out and we rinse out the pot and rinse the plunger under running water, too (you can pull the mesh back to get at the grounds underneath just fine.) Both parts can be swished in soapy water every now and then as well, and that’s quite sufficiently sanitary. The newer models come apart into more pieces, I think, which make cleaning even easier.