/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2551475
>French press likes coarse grind.
>Get a kitchen scale so you can use exact amounts of coffee and water every time. Use grams and ml for the sake of your sanity.
>Don't pour in boiling hot water. Let the water sit for about 10-30 seconds to cool down, then pour it in. If the water is boiling hot, you literally burn the coffee and it tastes like shit.
>Also rule of thumb, lighter the roast, the hotter the water. And darker the roast, the cooler the water.
>Don't mix/swirl the carafe except for when you first pour in the water. As it brews, all the shit will settle on the bottom, you don't want to mix it back in with the good coffee.
>To follow that up, don't just slam down the plunger. You want to press it down as slowly as possible so you don't make too much turbulence.
>for proper coffee brewing, consistency is king. A good consistent grinder, a controlled temp grinder, a scale, and use the timer on your phone. Experiment and try to change up one aspect every time and if it's better, keep it/push the change more, if it's worse, go back to before and try something else.