I hope you’re happy, Burntwits and everyone else who demanded it.

Anyways that cup was made following Burntwits French press guide; measured 33 g of ground, about 528 g of water. Though, I did make a slight modification to the original instructions, which was to boil the water first. The guide didn’t say to do that, just add the water in, figured it might be better boiled though.

Then I added hella milk and sugar. Oh, yeah, switched to milk and sugar instead of creamer, mostly because the good creamer with ingredient list size like 5 are hells expensive. It… came out really good actually. I feel like better than my evil machine, though I don’t know if that’s because of the ratios of sugar and milk or not. I feel like I poured about the same amount of milk and sugar though. Hm.

Either way this saves way more counter space in exchange for slightly longer and more care needed, but if the coffee is consistently better, and less space needed… hm. I think yall might’ve been on to something. Also I can’t tell if the press machine is made of glass or a really clear really thick plastic.

  • IanTwenty@piefed.socialEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    I tried Hoffmanns’s technique for a french press recently and it was a much cleaner result, recommend trying it if you’ve not before:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st571DYYTR8

    Leave it for four mins, stir the crust, remove anything left on the surface, let sit for another five. Don’t plunge but do use the filter to sift as you pour. Pretty simple. I do think a filter paper is worth using due to the cholesterol also.

    • Skanky@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 hours ago

      Didn’t watch video.

      Isn’t this basically Turkish coffee with one easy extra step?

            • IanTwenty@piefed.socialEnglish
              2·
              1 day ago

              Thanks for that.

              Seems like we get headlines that contradict each other all the time and no wonder:

              existing research remains controversial. Although some studies have suggested that coffee consumption may raise triglyceride (TG) levels, others have reported the opposite. A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials reported a significant increase in TG with coffee consumption, whereas observational data from the UK Biobank showed an inverse association

              The results are also not what one might expect:

              In females, HDL-C increased with intake up to 2.6 cups/day and declined thereafter, forming an inverted U-shaped pattern. In males, TG followed a similar trend, peaking at 3.0 cups/day.

              So either drink as little coffee as you can OR drink over 3 cups a day!

              • zergtoshi@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                23 hours ago

                I’m the lucky person that drinks around 1 litre coffee per day, which is in terms of the study >3 cups.

                Funny enough the study calculates

                1 cup = 283.5 g

                I’d call that mug instead of cup to make clear it’s not really a cup.
                Although it’s quite close to a US cup (236,588 ml) and even closer to the cup sizes leaning on the metric system (250 ml). That is assuming coffee is close to 1 g per ml, which should be a valid assumption.

                Still an odd number for a cup…
                …studies!

      • IanTwenty@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        I’d heard that filter paper really makes a difference and that seems to be the case:

        https://nutritionfacts.org/blog/paper-filtered-coffee-and-cholesterol/

        Not to say filtered removes all cholesterol:

        perhaps paper coffee filters only achieve partial cafestol removal

        So I guess it pays to know what you’re drinking:

        after a month of drinking two cups a day, their LDL cholesterol increased significantly, even though the coffee was paper-filtered. So, if you have high cholesterol despite eating a healthy diet, you may want to try cutting out coffee and then getting retested. Or, you can try switching to a lower cafestol coffee