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How long to cook french press coffee

Two things decide it, and none of them is on the clock. Answer them and the time below is yours.

Your time 4:00

How is it ground?

A press wants coarse. Medium grind over-extracts and silts up the cup.

How strong?

How to tell without a timer

Plunge slowly and pour it all out now — coffee left on the grounds keeps extracting.

How it goes

  1. Water just off the boil. Stir the crust at the start, then leave it.
Every combination, as a table
How is it ground?How strong?Time
Coarse (proper press grind) Light 3:10
Coarse (proper press grind) Standard 4:00
Coarse (proper press grind) Strong 5:00
Medium (all-purpose) Light 2:35
Medium (all-purpose) Standard 3:10
Medium (all-purpose) Strong 4:00

The app does this, then learns

The timer above is the same arithmetic Kitchen Sense runs. The part a web page cannot do is the next bit: you say whether it came out right, and the next one is closer. Free, 68 dishes, no account.

Cooked the same way

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