From: "Geo." 

"RobertB"  wrote in message
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>> I gotta ask, why a coffee press? What does it do different from just a
>> drip
>> coffee maker?

> First, a conventional drip (unless you mean the Melitta filter thing)
> pot overheats the coffee. You have to boil it and then it keeps flowing
> down and up until the desired strength. Not good. You should never boil
> coffee. The Melitta filters are OK (I've used 'em) but it's very
> difficult to get coffee to the strength I prefer no matter how much
> coffee you use (and you have to use a lot). I prefer coffee that's
> darker and richer, slightly more viscous even, than what you can get
> with a drip. A press allows me to do that. I can very the amount of
> coffee at will and you can get a strong, but unburnt, cup without too
> much trouble. You have to let the coffee stand on the lees for a few
> minutes before you plunge it though.

Drip coffee maker is the thing with the paper filter, boiling water drips
onto the grinds in the filter one time. Most have a setting to make
stronger coffee, usually done by making the filter hold water for a while
before it being allowed to drip into the pot. I think the one you described
where it boils is called a percolator here. I haven't seen one of those in
years.

With the drip coffee maker you regulate the strength and oil content of the
coffee with the fineness of the grind, more fine means stronger with a
higher oil content, less fine and you get less oil but strength can be
regulated by drip rate.

Press sounds like you could get more out of less coffee, I may have to try that.

Geo.

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