I.e.: unscrew French press stem in order to remove it from the cap. Reassemble. Now it can press all the way to base of the French press canister for frothing.

This ranks among the best cups I’ve had, even at very good coffee shops.

Bonus details if you like

Tools

• Bialetti Venus 2-cup
• rando hybrid travel mug / French press

Ingredients

• 80g water
• 11.5g med-dark local roasted beans, burr ground medium fine - a notch below our preferred pour over grind. ~90g whole milk

Coffee

• Preheated water in Bialetti base just below boiling.
• Filled coffee funnel to near rim, tapping against counter occasionally to settle but not tamped at all from above. Grounds came to maybe 2mm below the rim
• tower on, lid up to monitor
• brewing within a minute, off heat for about 10 secs as soon as it started producing
• Bialetti back on heat just a few seconds to get it going again then let it finish brewing off heat

With the input water carefully measured, and managing outflow using time-on-heat source, it doesn’t seem to matter much whether the Bialetti sputters at the end or not - though I try to avoid it.

I had about 50g coffee output.

Milk

• heated to steaming, ~ 60c.
• Into preheated French press canister.
• I did maybe 50 pumps. Likely more than enough for my small milk volume