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...

Why French Press Makes Better Coffee

We came across the blog, weeklyroast.com, which is written by the CEO of a start-up coffee roasting company.  Naturally, his post, "Why French Press Makes Better Coffee" caught our attention.

In the post he echoes several of the reasons we love the French Press.  Here are some highlights from the many good points he details:

"The french press gives you more control over the brewing process. You get to choose how hot you want the water to be when you pour it in....With french press, you’re in total control over water temperature and its contact with your ground coffee beans.

"Using a french press...essential oils [from the coffee beans]...make it into your cup. After the coarse ground coffee is steeped in hot water, the plunger that is slowly pushed down has a metal mesh small enough to catch most of the coarse coffee grounds, yet big enough to allow the coffee oils to pass through and ultimately make it into your cup.

"Most experts would agree that the french press is one of, if not the best way to taste the subtle differences in roast profiles in coffees from around the world."

 In addition, Ken, the coffee CEO goes on to pinpoint the drawbacks of using a French Press:

"A few drawbacks to the french press method are the cleanup involved and the sediment that’s left in the bottom of your cup."

(Both of these problems are solved with the Coffee Catcher...)

We firmly agree with Ken when he says,

"French press coffee may be a bit more work than other brewing styles, but the resulting cup is worth it."

Fact is, the flavor yielded by a properly-managed French Press experience is nonpareil.  We love the ritual of the Press and are so excited to be part of an evolution of the French Press experience.

other uses for the Coffee Catcher hook

We are having way too much fun testing the Coffee Catcher since the final product sample arrived.  In fact, we've discovered a few additional, handy uses for the Catcher's hook:

1. It's pretty decent at fishing stray coffee beans out of a catch under the rim of our hand crank coffee grinder.
   
   
2. If the button on your Le Chef food processor breaks off, the Catcher hook is perfectly sized to push the catch ad makes the machine run.  As Charity, Nate's wife says, "I consider this a fully working appliance with the addition of the Coffee Catcher hook."

a little addiction addition

 

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