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If you\u2019re not French-pressing, you\u2019re shortchanging yourself.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re not French-pressing, you\u2019re shortchanging yourself.<\/p>\n
A recent convert, and not for lack of trying from others, I\u2019ve rationalized that it is more than win-win.\u00a0 Four wins.\u00a0 That\u2019s right, a quaternary level of winning.\u00a0 Insert hackneyed, two months\u2019 stale Charlie Sheen reference here if you\u2019re that person, followed by a sound life-examination.<\/p>\n
1)It\u2019s green. No filters showing up in the landfill. And after you\u2019re done with it, swish the grounds around in some water and dump them onto a potted plant or garden bed of your choice. Apparently, plants love the stuff<\/a><\/strong> and worms will turn rock hard clay into aerated loam because you discarded your morning joe bilge there.<\/p>\n 2)You use less coffee.\u00a0 I reckon up to a third less.\u00a0 There are a lot of oils and nuanced flavors that come through that you weren\u2019t getting before. So your coffee dollar goes further. Frugal readers know that is one greenback that isn\u2019t going near as far as it used to in the global marketplace<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n 3)You get more caffeine. There are scientific types that take this stuff very seriously\u2026to a lab coat level.\u00a0 They\u2019ve determined optimum extraction<\/a><\/strong> occurs somewhere between 190 and 200 degrees Fahrenheit.\u00a0 Your Mr. Coffee percolator is at best about forty degrees shy of that mark.\u00a0 If you slug it out of a wide-brimmed soup cup like I do, cool down time is not an issue.<\/p>\n 4)You get a whole bunch of counter space back. Think of all the cool stuff you could put there instead!<\/p>\n Yeah, so you\u2019ve got to learn how to boil a small amount of water and you can\u2019t set a wake-up timer on it.\u00a0 Buck up. You get to feel like a chemistry major without floating a D grade-point average.\u00a0 Also, you\u2019ll have to start looking at the microwave to see if you\u2019re running late. It\u2019s worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you\u2019re not French-pressing, you\u2019re shortchanging yourself. A recent convert, and not for lack of trying from others, I\u2019ve rationalized that it is more than win-win.\u00a0 Four wins.\u00a0 That\u2019s right, a quaternary level of winning.\u00a0 Insert hackneyed, two months\u2019 stale Charlie Sheen reference here if you\u2019re that person, followed by[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[364,17],"tags":[429,1643,370,521],"class_list":["post-11944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-news","category-technology","tag-coffee","tag-french-press","tag-frugal","tag-frugal-librarian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-36E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11944"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11954,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11944\/revisions\/11954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}