When I cracked the carafe on the very nice Bodun French Press that Estimable Son-in-Law gave me, “French Rite Holy Brew” went by the wayside for a while. I’ve since replaced the device with a cheap, Mr. Coffee version that nevertheless works just about as well (just has an even more fragile carafe and insubstantial holder for the carafe. *shrugs* At least it does work).
But still. . . getting the water to juuuust the right temp. . . Ah! Finally, the light breaks! Heating water to correct brewing temp? Silly puppy. Our (rather nice) Cuisinart drip coffee machine does that quite well.
Coffee’s on!
Now that’s an idea that wouldn’t have occurred to me on the first round. Using your drip coffee machine to do nothing more than heat water for your French Press.
Genius.