My default coffee making is to heat milk, add coffee and steep it for a couple of minutes before I sieve it and voila.

This does not seem to work for this coffee. I have tried water, boiling it with the water or milk and it simply will not mix. What am I missing?

Edit: I know about grinding, I have a burr grinder, a French press and I know the various ways to make coffee. None of the methods I know, work.

Burr grinder = bar grinder. I made that mistake.

  • apprehensively_human@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    You keep saying that it doesn’t mix, like you’re expecting it to dissolve as instant coffee does.

    Ground coffee can either be immersed in a French press like it sounds you’ve been trying, or percolated by using a pour over or drip brewer. Any method will leave all the ground coffee behind as the water does the extraction. It will not mix or dissolve.

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      5 days ago

      No. I mean that even ground coffee in a press blends/mixes in with hot water or whatever medium you are using. This, regardless of how hot the water is, in a French Press, boiled in a saucer cowboy style, or however else simply does not mix or blend. It just floats. I don’t know how else to explain it.