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I love this press
This press makes the best tasting coffee you will ever drink. I'm sure there are other coffee presses that make coffee just as well, but I doubt they make anything better. This is a very well built press. The screen is held tight to the walls of the glass beaker by a coil spring keeping any grinds from getting by. The only grinds that escape to the coffee above are those that are smaller than the spaces in the screen. Many people are probably confused by the 12 cup rating. These are 4 oz cups. I get about 4 mug sized cups from this press. One thing I would have liked to have seen on this press is graduations on the glass holder. It would be nice to know where 3, 6, & 9 cups would be when making less. Guessing has worked fairly well for me and I suppose I could mark it myself, but this is my only "complaint".
[Saturday, November 29, 2008]
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great coffee in a small pot
Press pots make great tasting coffee. I love this little press pot that makes up to 3 cups because I'm a 2-cupper person. There's space for pressing that I didn't have in a previous 2-cup pot. It's important to allow enough space at the top so that coffee doesn't spill out. The only flaw is that the stainless steel holder rusts on the carafe unless the carafe is removed and all pieces wiped dry before using again.
[Tuesday, November 25, 2008]
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Our first French press -- we've retired the drip coffee maker
The 8 cup (remember-that's 8 four ounce cups) Bodum Chambord is our first ever French press. My wife and I have long enjoyed fine coffees. Experience showed us that grinding the whole beans right before brewing made a better tasting cup. We kept hearing and reading that a French press was another step in getting a great cup of coffee. To see if we would be able to taste the diffference my wife and I visited our local Starbucks at one of their quieter times and asked to have our favorite blend made for us with their French press. WOW! We came home, did some research and bought the Bodum Chambord. Having used it now for about six weeks we have stored away the drip coffee maker for those times when we may have company and need to make 12 cups (American 8 oz. cups) at a time. We find that since the coffee from the French press is much stronger, richer we are satisfied with the quantity produced by one pot full. Since there is no warming plate beneath this pot I thought at first that perhaps I should have purchased the more expensive double wall pot for its thermal properties. Then I rembered that my Scottish grandmother always kept her teapot hot on the table by covering it with a "tea cozie." That did the trick for us. You may need to experiment with the grind of your coffee. We've learned that if the grind isn't coarse enough the plunger is hard to press down. A higher quality grinder will be under our Christmas tree. Cleaning the pot and its internal workings is a breeze. Parts of it are dishwasher safe but it's so easy I prefer to wash it by hand. We have read complaints about the carafe being cheap and easy to break. We don't agree. Just use a little care when you remove it from the stand (that facilitates washing). If you do happen to break the carafe replacements are readily available. As you have probably guessed we highly recommend this product.
[Tuesday, November 25, 2008]
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