Making moka pot like coffee in a French press - Page 2

Coffee preparation techniques besides espresso like pourover.
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jpender wrote:I could have sworn the original question was the other way around: how to make french press in a moka pot. There's no cache and my memory is certainly fallible.

In any case, if one simply wants to make moka pot strength coffee in a French press, just like you can in an Aeropress (and call it espresso if you feel like it), that's easy. The beverage from a moka pot is typically 2-2.5% strength so your brew ratio of water to coffee is just determined by the usual formula for immersion brewing: w/c = e*(1/s - 1). For strength s=2% and extraction e=20% the ratio is 9.8 and for s=2.5% it's 7.8.

So a water/coffee ratio of 8-10 is the ballpark.
Thanks, I played around with different ratios using a fine grind and came pretty close

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