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https://www.amazon.com/Bredemeijer-3-4-Copper-French-Press/dp/B00SN7YYB8/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1520240523&sr=8-4&keywords=Bredemeijer+Copper+French+Press&dpID=41mO04bUM4L&preST=_SX300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch
https://www.amazon.com/Bredemeijer-1-5-Copper-French-Press/dp/B00SN7Z1MY/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1520240523&sr=8-5&keywords=Bredemeijer+Copper+French+Press&dpID=31BZWUOUDcL&preST=_SX300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch
My question is the thickness of the glass. Please keep in mind that I really know NOTHING about French Presses, except that I want to get one. I have looked at a LOT of different brands and prices. I am NOT worrying about the price, and honestly am ignoring the price (well, if it gets over $150, I might start looking at the price) because I think I will probably use a French Press for the rest of my life, or at least as long as I can stand up and make coffee, which is hopefully, a lot of years yet.
I am looking at Amazon, looking at French Presses that have a lot of stars, and comparing those to the ones that do NOT have many stars. (Good vs. Bad) The ones that people like seem to have thicker glass, because beaker breakage is an important thing, if you have a glass beaker. The thin beakers break easier, and probably more often, than the beakers that have thicker glass.
One question for this beaker that is on this sale, is HOW THICK IS THE GLASS?
Another thing that I have noticed when people rate their French Press, is how the bottom of the handle is attached. Is there a screw there, or something that holds the bottom together, or does the bottom seem to come apart easily? How sturdy is the wrap around, and the handle, to the rest of the beaker?
It seems that some French Presses don't hold the beaker very sturdy, thus if you aren't careful, as you are pouring hot coffee out of the beaker, into your cup, you can easily have the beaker fall out of the wrap and the handle, giving you HOT COFFEE all over, potentially going into your lap.
HOW IS THE HANDLE ATTACHED AT THE BOTTOM? Does the wrap AND THE HANDLE hold the beaker TIGHT, or is there the potential that the beaker could come sliding out, at some point, giving hot coffee a chance to pour into someone's lap?
Those are my concerns. I watched one YouTube video that supposedly showed the difference between a French Press vs Brazilian Coffee. The whole video went completely over my head, because I still don't know what Brazilian Coffee is, nor the difference between it and coffee that came out of a French Press, but I did see that the French Press was SOLID STAINLESS STEEL. That SS French Press cost the owner roughly $60, while the glass French Press cost him about $14 (per the YouTube video) but the SS French Press made me stop and think about stainless steel vs a glass beaker. No worry about the beaker breaking, and no worry about having hot coffee splashed into your lap.
EDIT: Here is a link to a SS French Press on Amazon (granted it isn't as sexy as the MD French Press): https://www.amazon.com/Secura-Stainless-French-Coffee-Screen/dp/B00JE36GLQ?psc=1&SubscriptionId=AKIAJ7T5BOVUVRD2EFYQ&tag=camelsearches-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00JE36GLQ
One other potential issue that I saw when reading about everyone's trials and tribulations with their various brands of glass French Presses is that some brands seem to be hard to find a replacement glass beaker, once the original glass beaker breaks. I intend to be careful with my glass beaker, but life happens, and I suspect at some point in time, my breaker WILL break.
How easy will it be to find the glass beaker that will FIT into the beautiful copper holder? Apparently there are a lot of glass beakers that are sold under the original brand name, but they are off a smidgen on the size, thus they do NOT fit into the holder. That issue was also mentioned quite a few times in the Amazon reviews that I read. I did look at the replacement beakers that people said they bought, that were not the right size to fit into their holder, and they are correct. The glass beaker replacements DO appear to be manufactured and sold by the known brand name, yet they apparently are NOT. If you can get the REAL brand name, those replacement beakers DO fit into the holders.
Those are my thoughts in looking at French Presses, no matter what the brand, and no matter what the cost. Since this is probably a once in a lifetime purchase for me, or perhaps one of a FEW purchases for me, I'm really not looking at the cost, and I really am not looking at the color (is it real copper vs a copper coating). I am looking at what issues I might have coming at me, down the road.
Brenda