I took a large plastic container and bored small holes into the bottom.

I put the container in the sink and pour the grounds and rinse water into the container.

The water eventually drains and you have the grounds left over for whatever you would like to do with them.

Reverse Threefer

One word for the perfect one cup maker - AeroPress! There is an infinite amount of info online. I won't bore with the details. Check it out.

1 ounce freshly ground fine. Use inverted method with175F water yields the BEST pseudo double espresso shot you can make at home without breaking the bank.

This completely changed my coffee habit - err addiction!

I picked one up for the office when they put in a coffee vending machine ($.99 a cup) and would not let us bring in our own coffee makers ("for insurance reasons"). It has saved me a ton of money and makes great coffee.

Thank you Eudaimonia! Truth! Every day it is something new, but more of the same. If I couldn't laugh I don't know how I could cope.

No Unfortunately. The liberal education system has really done a job on her. She's smart so I am hoping she will unlearn a lot. By the time she was ready to plan for her own education I was out of that loop. Just pay and be quiet.
Liberty is seriously under attack by the educational institutions.

Having avoided cold climates for many years, I hadn't even considered the trials and stress that you elaborate in such an entertaining way;^)
Is your daughter managing to avoid the commie brainwashing and retain more than coffee common sense?

well the instants are not the instants of our childhood.

Who knew they would spend this amount of time contemplating the woes of the French Press. Just when I thought I finally had it worked out. But, the roots of my sins run deep.
Where I live there are long winters meaning my grounds sit around a really long time using up counter space. Because of that I keep them in a jar like an old pickle jar set off in the corner. (never truly out of sight.) It's tough to get grounds out of the press without water and having determined rinsing down the drain is bad for the plumbing, I end up between digging by hand and slush rinsing and dig/pouring dregs into said jar. With that combination of grounds and water it takes a lot of jars. That in turn means a lot of trips into my back yard, which I put off when it's cold. Thus the jars pile up in the corner of my kitchen counter getting riper and riper all the while I avoid looking more and more. Eventually I work up the courage to deal with it and trek it out to the back yard. But it won't all come out of the jars. I slush it around and slush/pour but the jars still have grounds in the bottom. That requires bringing extra water for rinsing and cleaning. In the meantime this whole is process being closely scrutinized by my neighbor. Who sees me dumping what he likely perceives to be a toxic sludge in my back yard. I know he is just standing there with his finger right on the quick dial for EPA.
But... my sins run very deep. I have a daughter away in college. She came along late in my life and is my darling. But when she asked me for a coffee pot. Now when I visit her at school in her little 8x10 dorm room and do a dads discreet visual, tucked away in a corner or window ledge I find a French Press invariably with old grounds in the bottom.

Y'know, if one is merely scanning down the sidebar to see what's going on, this post is tnough to stop ANYONE in her tracks!
I had to look, just to see how nasty it really was, and then it wasn't. whew! nastiness averted!

Yes that also.

That is what I do unless it's subzero outside. I have kept them in a jar for far too long and that's nasty.

As a few of us here in Cheyenne know, Eudaimonia actually pried a few George Washingtons out of his wallet a few days ago and bought a French Press from Dazbog's - and had it ready to fire up for dinner Friday night.

*I* sure liked the product! Or maybe it was just the ground up flowers that was in the blend. LOL

Brad

Rather pair my coffee with financier, or croissant with jam, or dessert.

And a lot of dirt under it.

Lol

Compost. Good complement to egg shells and grass clippings. Add earthworms and its much faster to ready for the garden.

I had not considered a French Press, until i was reading reviews of the retail marketed McD's coffee. People were saying it did not taste like the retail version. Then, one blog explained the method used to commercially make coffee, and that if you wanted the most from retail coffee, use a French Press. It is easy to use and works nicely.

That is recipe for disaster. They accumulate where the drainage water is slowest. Then build up until water flow is no longer able to move them. This was learned the hard way.

That's a fact. PU!

I've used Chemex maker for 40+ years -- touted to be almost as goog as French Press. Also critical is choice of beans. I've obtained mine from Panniken in Encinitas, CA, where they roast beans on site (they will deliver via UPS). I'm now on 1 st name basis as is Blue my Basset. However you do your brew ---.savor it!

The White House uses a constant stream of horse shit.