Ouch!

Recently heard through the Tweetvine:

"Third French Press in 4 days purchased. If this one breaks, I'm not going to be held responsible for my actions.I wasn't even rough on them!"


Yikes - we recommend trying a Coffee Catcher to help the French press cleaning easier...and safer.   (The improved flavor is just an added bonus!)

Anyone else have a good "I broke my French press" story?

a shout out from Slayer Espresso

Our team is all a-twitter after the Coffee Catcher receiving a shout out from Slayer Espresso in their Twitter feed.  After making us blush with the accolade, "A LESS MESSY FRENCH PRESS",  they later expanded their compliment to include, "Ease of clean-up & improved flavor!!!"

We couldn't have said it better ourselves!

If there's anyone who knows about coffee quality, it's the Slayer team. Slayer's inventors are seasoned espresso machine designers who developed the Slayer in their quest to build the perfect espresso machine. The Slayer is notable for it's precise thermal management (so that water temperature and pressure is consistent for each shot) and for it's manually timed pre-infuse setting, which allows steam to gently saturate the espresso puck prior to the actual pull. This pre-infusion step allows Slayer baristas to pull longer shots that extract more flavor and tasty dissolved solids from the espresso puck before over-extraction occurs. There are only 40 Slayers in the world, so your local cafe probably doesn't have one yet! Still, Slayers are spread from Sydney to Seattle, so there's a good chance you can go coffee touristing and find one within a few hundred miles.

For you Seattle residents, the local Slayer locations are: Zoka (Kirkland), Equal Exchange Espresso (Ballard Market, coming soon) - let us know if you find others!

heard it on the Tweetvine

Our new favorite French Press mentions in Twitterdom:

"all this coffee talk is making me rethink my position on ownership. *hmmmm* my hubz wants a frenchpress. All I think is clean up X"

Coffee Chroniclers say: Ha!  Cleanup's not a problem anymore, let him get his French Press (+ Coffee Catcher), you'll love the flavor!

"Give me ONE GOOD REASON I shouldn't turn this into a 2-French-press morning, huh?"

 Coffee Chroniclers say:  We don't see any good reason why it shouldn't be...

"Coffee addiction taking hold.  Bought a Frenchpress Sat. I am excited to go to bed tonight so I can wake up to it."

 Coffee Chroniclers say: Welcome to the wonderfully delicious & rewarding "dark side". Enjoy your press!

"In Ecuador regular coffee is called 'pasado.'  La Sierra only drinks cinnamon tea. We packed a French Press along with the first aid kit"

 Coffee Chroniclers say: A wise traveler is a well-caffeinated traveler.

surely there's an easier way...

These posts picked up via Twitter.com:

"just burnt myself. my french press broke and sprayed molten coffee on my abdomen. 1 1/2 degree burn. my abdomen has turned a rubicund red."

"When your day begins with the words, "I think I broke the French press," it's not going to be a banner day."

Oh man, these folks need an easier way to reduce breakage!  The Coffee Catcher can help by eliminating "hit the carafe against the trash can" syndrome, helping ensure your Press can live a long (and injury-free) life.
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coffee Tweets, round two

We simply can't resist sharing these coffee mentions coming through the Tweet vine:

• I've been saving so much $ with a French press andcoffee beans. Now, I just need someone 2 exercise for me.
  
  
• just created a coffee timer app so I know when the french press is done!
  
  
• Ah, coffee, stuff of the gods.  I do so love myfrench press.
  
  
• having coffee in my lovely French press, handpainted bone china demitasse...aristocratic but poor...Starbucks cannot touch me! style my dears
  
  
• made french press coffee for the first time ever.  Wow, this is good!  This is even using 2 month old groundcoffee.  Auto drip FTL.
  
  
• Fire up the french press and begin the invocations - COFFEE!  COFFEE!

in honor of our new Twitter feed

In honor of our new Coffee Catcher Twitter Feed, we're posting some of the French Press Tweets seen today: 

• Wonderful news (at least for me) my coffee pot broke this morning.  That means I get French Press.  Mmm.  Simple tastes best.
  

• Haha! I broke my full size Frenchpress recently...this single serving press is torture!
  
  
• arghghg i broke the damn frenchpress...which means i got to go to target today
  
  
• GRRR! I broke the carafe to my coffee maker. Thank god, I still have my French press to make coffee in.  Crisis averted.  Good morning!
  
  
• argh i just broke the glass part of my frenchpress. it was my bestest friend
  

• My xbox truly seems dead, same week as I brokemy French press.  Bad week for my addictions.
  

Hmmmm, The Chroniclers wonder how many of these carafes were broken while removing the coffee grounds...

unclogging the sink

We - Nate and John - were talking about some of our frustrations with the French Press sans Coffee Catcher, and the subject of coffee-ground-clogged-drains came up.  We've both had the defunct drain experience, thanks to our daily "rinse-n-go" carafe cleaning.  We can't wait to just put the grounds in the compost bin or trashcan and save our poor drains from more trauma.

The conversation did yield some interesting Tweets though.  They went something like this:

@Nate, Cost of a Plumber: $400
@John, Cost of a #CoffeeCatcher: $18.95
@Nate, You Decide.