2018 taught me to work with what I got. So I do.
The past couple of years (just kidding- a GREAT PORTION of my young life) I’ve involved myself in volunteerism and advocacy. As empowering as this sounds, this is not the main subject of this post. I would like to tell you that from some of those experiences I found myself with a Ziploc bag of coffee grounds, an opened pack of coffee filters, leftover powdered creamer and suggestions on how to keep your coffee grounds fresh for an extended period. Two of the best advice I’ve gotten in regards to coffee was:
1. After opening a bag of fresh grounds leave the bag sealed in the freezer
2. Or leave the grounds tightly sealed in mason jars.
These bits of advice came in handy when I took some coffee grounds home a few months back after volunteering.
Unfortunately, the grounds were made for the standard coffee pots, and I only had a French Press. I didn’t want to go out of my way to purchase the French Press version of the grounds. So the first time around my coffee-lover friend grounded some Ethiopian coffee beans for me. After I ran out of that, I just had to come up with a plan.
I was going to make my beautiful French Press into a standard coffee pot. I didn’t want to experiment to see if standard grounds would work knowing that the ground for the French Press is slightly larger. I taped a coffee filter to the top of the French Press. I poured some of the coffee into the filter and poured hot water over the grounds. Bam. Coffee!
Kou T. Nyan 