Would it be practical to use this to fill a french press coffee pot?
1272900
I never used a french press pot, but if you need boiling water for that then the answer is yes. I keep mine set at 208. It takes just a short time to bring it up to 212.
1272901
Yes, it would definitely work for a french press. I use it for making coffee using a single cup brewer. It has 3 different temp settings (208, 195, 175) so you can brew it at your temp preference.
1272902
I never used a french press pot, but if you need boiling water for that then the answer is yes. I keep mine set at 208°. It takes just a short time to bring it up to 212°.
443342
I bought mine particularly for use with a french press and it works great for me. I think it's consistency is reliant on the user's. ;)
1059097
Yes, that's what I use it for at times, or you can just use a paper coffee filter with it,run hot water through it and let the french press have a day off now and then
2026768
I've not thought about it so I'm not sure. It would make it simple to brew a cup or pot and not have to measure but, I'm not sure whey you'd want to just use ground coffee when the fresh grinding is available. You can bypass the bean hopper if you want.
235175
i have never tried it. as long as you fill to the fill line i think it would work. i would suggest an e-mail to cuisinart.
386722
This would not work with coffee beans or as a coffee grinder, it is to small to fill with coffee beans, stick with a regular coffee grinder .
1927745
Not really. There's no measuring line on the carafe for smaller amounts, but you could draw a line on the frame or even eyeball it if you're good at that. Quality would be no different, as long as you use the same proportion of grounds to water. The difference in surface area would just result in the coffee cooling down faster than in a 1 or 2 cup French Press.
886197
No problem at all. I do that every morning and the 4 cup line on the coffee pot allows me to fill a 20 oz travel mug. It brews in under 2 minutes too, which is really nice.
999414
Should be no problem. It holds the coffee pot just fine and it is a little heavy.
1445464
I don't think you would want to use this for coffee. In this tea kettle, the water circulates through the infuser. The tea is then infused. When you make coffee, the technique is more a drip. You want the water to drip through the coffee, not continue to circulate through it. Also, after examining the holes in the infuser part of the tea kettle, I think the coffee grinds are too fine and would fall out of the holes.
1366938
I tried it for coffee and it does not work very well. Coffee was much weaker than a french press. Same company has a French press that I have my eye on!
2084972
Yes. This was a gift to my nephew who is sort of a coffee snob. He did a grind to use in a french press and he was pleased with it. He was then changing the setting to grind finer when I left so don't know about other grinds. He was impressed with the burr grinder.
630471
Sure you could! It would be an easy, tidy way to make coffee by the cup, without a coffee maker or a French press. Just put some coffee grounds in the strainer and steep like tea :) Then, lift out the strainer and voila: coffee with no grounds in it. Great idea.
146373
NO! French presses use a metal strainer. You completely defeat the purpose and design and Great Coffee by doing anything other than brewing the way you sould. If you want to heat the water in the microwave and then put into the French Press outside of the microwave - that's okay. always use clean fresh cold water to start, water should be just below boiling and stir the coffee and water.
670563
I'm sorry, I don't know. I did research a "better' way to brew my coffee but besides a french press, which I also purchased from Bed and Bath I never found any info on the product you mentioned. The French press was pretty good also.
179140
It would depend on the trap mesh your French press uses. This espresso is grounds fine into a powder so if the mesh doesn't have very tiny holes some of the bean will mix with the water portion in the end product. Great idea though. I am a fan of the French press myself. Hope this helped.
328901
I don't think this would be what you are looking for. Have you tried a coffee grinder? I'm thinking one of those mortar and pestle might be the solution, but a real pain in the butt.