Hermosa Beach couple brew up new machine for quick, tasty coffee
Husband and wife team Scott and Jenni Morse enjoy a coffee-fueled morning on their patio. Photo The kitchen sink in Jenni Morse’s apartment had clogged. Again. The culprit was coffee; grounds from Morse’s French press, to be exact. “My landlord had to tell me twice to stop putting grounds down the sink,” she said. The incident was inspired in equal parts by Morse’s insistence on quality coffee, and the burdensome cleanup associated with a French press. A few years later the Hermosa Beach-resident has a home of her own, but no longer needs to worry about stopped drains. She developed a machine called the Simpli Press and, along with her husband Scott, hopes to bring the product to coffee drinkers everywhere. The device takes the same unplugged approach as a French press, adding water directly to ground beans. But rather than collecting against a glass bottom, the coffee grounds sit in a small pod. When finished, instead of jostling the plunger and glass container to remove grounds caked to the surface, the grounds can simply be dumped out of the pod. “The idea and the concept are awesome,” said Andrew Stanisich, owner of Manhattan Beach’s Two Guns Espresso, who offered advice…
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