Why does coffee have to sit in a French press for like 5min to be strong enough, whereas with pour over the water is only in contact with the grounds for 10-15 seconds and produces a similar strength?

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My first guess is that it has something to do with gravity pulling out the flavor as it narrows through the tunnel of Godly caffeination, my second guess is absolute fucking magic…

Edit: haha makes you pick a flair but I literally cannot think of a subject that doesn’t relate to coffee so we’ll go with “physics.”

In: Physics

Answer 1

I don’t know why the difference but the result is completely different. Say you take the same temp and quantity water, coffee and grind, you end up with two completely different flavors of coffee. To me French tends to be bolder flavor. But the biggest kicker I’ve learned. You can take drop coffee and make some great iced coffee out of it. If you try to make French press coffee into iced coffee it’s bitter as fuck. French press coffee becomes more bitter the colder it gets.