French Press

French Press is a technique of coffee brewing originated in France. It uses a narrow cylindrical glass/jug with plunge equipped lid that fit tightly in the glass/jug and have fine wire/nylon mesh working as the filter.

Actually, i just discover this technic from Discovery Channel (or is it History Channel??? I forgot...) about modern marvel of coffees... actually, to prepare coffee using french press is pretty easy and quick compared to drip brewing...

put some coarse grinded coffee beans in the jug, pour in nearly boiled water, let it steam for a while (this also will make the coffee actually "cooked" and believed to make the coffee has richer flavour) and plunge the coffee grinds to the bottom of the jug... this method of brewing make the coffee have better and richer flavour compared to drip brewing since the coffee grinds is remain in contact with brewing water and filtered with a mesh instead of paper filter which trapped essential oils and some flavour...

and it happen to be that it is so easy and quick, i was thinking i would give it a try... french press jug is available at Giant around RM17 (it's low quality but good if u just wanna try some varieties of coffee brewing) and also available around RM35-50 at Jusco and Tesco... As for the coffee grinds, you can use kopi cap kapal api or some other "kopi kampung" sold at mane2 kedai runcit berhampiran anda... or u can get varieties of coffee beans grinded at Giant...

I tried Columbia bean with french press, damn... it's better than Nescafe or even coffee in McD... haha...really great... i dont even imagine i'm buying nescafe after this again...