Cleaning a French coffee press

May 02, 2005 4 Replies
L

I had coffee at a friend's house recently, which was prepared with a French Press. I really enjoyed the flavour of the coffee, so I'm thinking about getting one. However, it looked like a pain to clean compared to my coffee maker that uses a filter, which I can just pull out and trash. I saw her digging "mud" out of the bottom of the press to throw in the trash because she didn't want her grinds going down the sink drain. So, I am wondering: 1. How do others clean their press?



  1. Do you think it's a pain to clean? Thanks for any tips!

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D

Dump the grounds in the trash and wash in warm, soapy water.

No more than anything else.

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J

yea I was gonna say just that, Take your grounds and put them in the flower bed and they will also love you for it.

French presses are actually easier to clean than drip coffee makers, as was posting... Bump against the trash can, in go 80% of the grounds the rest get rinsed out in the sink. For that matter you can just rinse the whole thing out in the sink and flush all the grounds down the drain (so long as you run plenty of water along with them as they go so they don't gather and clog up a elbow in the plumbing).

Not to mention the taste of the coffee is so much better as well.

John Coffee-n-Caffeine

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S

You obviously don't have a septic tank.

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