/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I use a single serving french press (AKA cafetiere), it only makes one cup at a time so I don't know how this will translate to a larger press. I dunno about all your US measurements either, but I use a heaped tablespoon of ground coffee in the cafetiere, add about 120% of a mug of hot water (well off the boil). This means after stirring and covering, brewing (3-4 minutes), plunging and (carefully) pouring there's still a fifth of a mug of coffee in the cafetiere. I pour that leftover liquid down the sink because it's too full of grounds, and then the remaining grounds go in the food recycling bin.

I think my knackered old press has a shitty filter though, there's always tons of grounds in the mug, so I'm asking for help here:

1. Should I use less coffee grounds? After typing that up it occurred to me that I might be using too much.

2. Could I add a coffee filter like pic related to my french press to make the filtering more effective and get less grounds in my coffee?

3. I heard using pic related makes the best coffee if you just use that and a cup, pouring water over the filter full of grounds and letting them brew before removing the filter and grounds or something. Any info on that? Google is no help.

Black, 1 sugar btw.