Hi Matteo. We got ourselves our own Final Press. Have to agree with the weak extraction. But somehow it's really good with tea. We had ourselves an overextraction with tea, so I guess that's a positive. This product is well-intentioned, but just needs improvement as you said. Thanks for posting your video. Really informative! Ciao!
I have a french press and an aeropress... and am always looking for new more compact GOOD coffee solutions while camping. My aeropress is almost 10years old and has worked well (lots of fines) and I STILL prefer my french press... someday someone will come up with something smaller and better I am sure. Love your channel and your review, thanks for saving me a few bucks!
First time looking at this product. I see that the color of the water didn't change during the 4 minutes brewing. My guess is that not much is happening there. Maybe letting it steep for a minute, then pressing the plunger a few times, swirling and then letting it steep and repeat that a few times would help with the extraction process?
Yes, you'd need to move the hot water through the grounds to properly extract since the surface area for extraction is limited by the chamber. But this also causes a lot of fines to move outside the chamber, so it seems like it needs at least three things to improve: 1. larger chamber, 2. more percolation, and 3. finer filtration. At that point, you may as well just get an aeropress 😂
Oh boy am I glad I came here before I purchased ... 68 Aus dollars from the company or $30 from resellers. I'd have been very disappointed wasting that coin. Thanks heaps for this review.
I supported both v1 & v2 on Kickstarter. I hoped that v2 would be an improvement. Alas, I had the same concerns as you had. Both are now in a drawer somewhere.
There is a suggestion about blooming the coffee at the bottom of the instructions. You might try that and see if it makes a difference. I'm curious, since I don't have the tools to repeat your whole test. It does make a weak cup of coffee, but I appreciate the fact that it doesn't require anything (I've been traveling and noticed when I got there that I forgot my Aeropress filters).
@@rynovoski The reality is that blooming for immersion method is not as important as for pour over. The problem of this device is that coffee are confined in a small space and they no chance to agitate to increase the extraction
I bought one from Amazon, says finalPress on the item and packaging. It makes a weak, dirty cup of coffee. I’m not sure what letting my grounds “bloom” is supposed to mean, maybe some more plain instructions would be more useful. I see the guy in the video has had a similar experience to mine, I have tried many different ways but still end up with weak dirty brew. I’m pretty sure I’m gonna give it to my Mother-in-law to use for making tea. I really had high hopes for this little gizmo, believe me. I didn’t want it to fail.
Thanks for your comment. Bloom it means let the coffee saturate with water to replace the CO2 gas that is inside the coffee. That is a technique to increase the extraction. But in this case is useless because of the kind of brewing method we are talking about.
Dang Matteo, sort of wished I found your vid before the $50 purchase but oh well, I followed you so hopefully I can make that back with your suggestions.
I have it, it's in the box and I am definitely looking to return it after the review. I appreciate that you attempted to make it proper, it was the strength and the remaining grounds in the filter that has me second guessing it. @@matteofromtheswamps
I'm glad I watched your video. Thanks! We are coffee fanatics - we roast our own at home and travel with our own 'coffee kit' - so I was interested in this - but - no thanks. It's basically a tea strainer.
With that large amount of water can not work! Be honest: with that quantity of coffee you obtain only a small italian coffe cup with a traditional coffee machine. Re-do the review with right amount of water
It works very well if you deviate from the poorly written instructions. I just got mine and it made a great cup of coffee the first time: Ground my coffee at a setting of 4. Filled the chamber with coffee with only about 1/4 inch of microfilter openings still visible. Poured 8 oz of hot water into my cup. Closed and inserted the press. Stirred a few times and dunked up/down a few times. Let it sit for a minute or two. Repeated swirling/dunking/sitting. Waited another minute or two. Repeated, then plunged the device around 10 times, holding slightly at an angle so liquid would drip out (as the bottom doesn't have microfilter openings). That's already more grounded coffee, more swirling and dunking, more plunging, more minutes than instructed. In truth, if you don't do that, the coffee sucks. If you do it as I did, you eventually won't see the chamber very well when inserted into the coffee, as the coffee is no longer just hot water with a bit of brown. The result is a fine cup of coffee. ... If you want faster but inferior coffee, use a Keurig. This isn't suppose to be a Keurig, but only takes a couple minutes more.
I bought one a while back and watched this video after I received my Final Press. I finally used it this morning, and while I was not as thorough in my testing as Matteo, I definitely came to the conclusion that it just didn't make a good cup of coffee. I did find, like many others here, that it did very well with tea! I'll take the silver lining. I do think it's a cool idea, and I'd love to see a version of it work someday.
This device is very pretty built good quality but it doesn't work I try many different way it doesn't work that should stop advertising and stop cheating the people
These products are just rebranding product in china. I have seen tons of these selling without name or different name. Cost 50$ is outrageous as they only sell for 10$ or less
You didn't brew it right! I LOVE my Finalpress and always take it with me.. You were supposed to pre-wet the grounds in the filter first for a clean cup of coffee... You mentioned about the box but you didn't show the actual inner box with their logo... And that piece is not broken, you were supposed to screw it tight. That area is where you access to the springs... Not an honest review...
@@ARNJeremy I have a Finalpress and there is a suggestion about pre-wetting. Maybe you have the older version. I use my Finalpress everyday and I simply LOVE it!
Finalpress works great for me, but the provided instructions and help videos are definitely inferior. I suspect many who hate it either: 1) have a cheap knockoff (Amazon sells both branded Finalpress devices and cheap copycat garbage); 2) have the v1 Kickstarter version; 3) haven't or are unwilling to tweak amounts coffee or brewing time: 4) post to boost a competitor they work for (like AeroPress). I don't pre-wet the grounds (and don't see that info in the instructions), but I do deviate from the instructions for my v2 device: I grind to 4/medium, add more coffee (about 1/4 below the top of the microfilter), swirl/dunk/plunge for about 4 minutes or more until the coffee mostly obscures the Finalpress chamber sitting in it, The result is a fine cup of coffee.
@@ARNJeremy It's at the bottom. I missed it myself. It says "Tips for a very strong cup of coffee: After the first step, let the grounds bloom in the filter before proceeding to the next steps. Also consider choosing a dark roast with finer grounds." That said, it doesn't make a ton of difference.
I have a Finalpress and I usually brew in a 250ml mug which make a really great coffee. After using finalpress, I never need to use any other coffee brewers. This YT guy is just trying to get views..
Creo que no la estás usando de la forma correcta, quizás donde más se han equivocado los fabricantes es en el papel de instrucciones. Debes presionar unas 5 veces al sumergir en agua, luego revolver un poco, esperar 4 min y volver a presionar unas 5 veces, si no ves muchas burbujas al presionarla las primeras veces, entonces lo estás haciendo mal porque no se alcanza a mojar todo el café. Me parece un poco fake esa falla donde se te "rompe" el aparato. Un análisis superficial en conclusión.
