French Press Coffee Pot

I believe the best coffee is made with a French press, and I love my little single serve Bodum Brand Coffee Press. It brews a perfect 12 ounce mug, despite it being described as a 3 cup model - yeah, three baby cups maybe!

A French Press is simple and fast. You place the coffee into the glass beaker, pour in boiling water (Bodum's directions specify hot, not boiling, but I use boiling water). After 4 or 5 minutes, you insert the plunger which has a built in metal filter, and push the coffee grounds to the bottom. Pour the coffee into a mug, and viola, perfect coffee!

I find this to be a slight bit better than the best pod style coffee makers, but let's be serious, it's not as convenient.

You need to grind, measure, and place the coffee into the French press. You need to boil and add water. Then a few minutes later you press down on the plunger and pour your coffee, and you need to wash the French Press later too.

Compare this to putting in a pod and pressing a button.

The coffee is better as I said, and I also love being able to easily use any kind of coffee I like. But for many people, the almost absurd level of convenience of a pod machine wins, and yes, they make truly fine coffee as well.

Bodum makes a wide variety of sizes styles of French Presses - Click Here to see all their options. I own several myself in different sizes.

I grind my coffee to a medium grind bordering on course. My mother in law, far pickier about coffee than I, goes for a very fine grind. Both work extremely well. A French Press is pretty flexible, and the coffee consistently good.

French Presses are inexpensive. If you are a coffee nut and don't have one, consider getting one for maybe the price of a couple pounds of good coffee.