Comments on: Automatic french press coffee brewer

By: shiyam

shiyam — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 07:20:17 +0000

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By: Frogz

Frogz — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:42:07 +0000

somone stab megadoodie 8 or 9 times with a old, slightly rusted spoon and then give him a PROPER glass of coffee
4 shots of espresso, consistant filtered(through some windowscreen, its cheap, its dirty, it works) grounds with a tablespoon of sucrose and 2 ounces of milk of cow added
coffee making is an art and everyone has their own style but a good cup of coffee is a good cup of coffee, no matter how its made
me personally, i like a slightly acidic, insanely strong cup
heres somthing that you all might wanna try if you have a cheap espresso maker(wouldnt wanna risk a $1000 unit), double(or triple) brewed :D(run a full load of water with no grounds to clean the machine)
the other day i ended up with a glass that was the same consistancy as cough syrup, triple brewed, 50% half and half(if you all cant tell, im highly caffinated as im typing this) now off to go play a high energy game before bed...

By: drew

drew — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:23:17 +0000

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By: megadoodie

megadoodie — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:25:04 +0000

One word for perfect coffee
“Sanka”
Why waste your time with all this stuff? When all you need to do is open a jar and scoop out some freeze dried goodness into a hot cup of water. :-)

By: carlton

carlton — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:06:30 +0000

julian,

I have to disagree with you, partly. yes, the heat extraction will take out some acid, but that's not particularly a bad thing. coffee *is* acidic, no? the real problem is burning coffee or letting it sit in heat for too long of a time, or be immersed in the grounds for too long. properly using a french press removes all these issues which are inherent in drip pots.

in my years of making coffee with a french press, I have found one of the many things it is not, is bitter. I can get a very dark sumatran roast, drink it black and taste hardly any bitterness at all. in fact, I always saw that as an advantage of the press pot over a drip pot.

that being said, I've never tried a cold brew, so I can't comment on whether or not that would actually taste *better* :)

By: SubFire

SubFire — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:33:39 +0000

You should add and timer or an alarm clock.

If your are too much geek, meabe you could put an network card whit 'wake on lan' function. So you could start your machine anywhere :)

p.s
you are really good in welding

By: Will OBrien

Will OBrien — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:33:39 +0000

Perhaps I should have said that the grind needed for a french press has loads of wiggle room. (As opposed to espresso, where the grind can be quite finicky)

By: Julian

Julian — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:20:59 +0000

I disagree with the French Press method. It's the best way to get good coffee if you're going to insist on using heat directly against the bean. The downside to heat extraction is that the more heat you use the more crap (acid, bitterness...) comes out.

If you haven't tried it, try cold brewing which makes coffee like the good folks of Latin America drink it. It's called "essence of coffee". By steeping a pound of coarse ground coffee in nine cups of water you end up with a concentrate that you refrigerate and you just mix with hot water to a one to four ratio (adjust for your taste).

It has WAY less acid and a much better taste.

By: JP

JP — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:10:19 +0000

That's impressive. The only commercial version of this sort of thing I know of is the Clover http://cloverequipment.com/home/default.aspx
which costs $10,000.

By: carlton

carlton — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:02:25 +0000

goddammit! i was totally doing this! oh well, guess I can try to improve or something.

very cool.

I disagree with the poster. the grind *is* important -- maybe not as important as when making espresso -- and a coarse, *consistent* grind does affect the result. of course, as the poster pointed out (and I agree), brewing temperature/time is much more important.

By: shawn

shawn — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:02:03 +0000

This seems a little impractical… ;), but it got me thinking about great coffee, which led to thinking about buying/making an espresso machine.
yummy

By: AustinMiniMan

AustinMiniMan — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:49:43 +0000

Wow… must be a bitch to clean every morning…

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:19:25 +0000

Coffee and hacking stuff.

Man that's good.

By: Wolf

Wolf — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:16:22 +0000

Has a rube goldberg feel to it.

Also, I hope he wasn’t soldering with leaded solder…

By: Rob A

Rob A — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:43:59 +0000

Wow, that finger background is really freaking me out. And what’s with the picture of a pile of shit halfway through the hack? Weird germans…