Fellow Clara French Press Coffee Maker - Portable Stainless Steel Coffee Press, Insulated Manual Brewer, Matte Black, 24 oz Carafe

I was a bit apprehensive to purchase this because of the price. I am so glad I decide to buy it after all. The coffee stays HOT, not warm for at least two hours or more. I live in a European condo with limited kitchen space and do not have a microwave. Therefore, the traditional french press will not work since it gets cold so quickly. If you decide to purchase I hope you will be as happy as I am drinking my coffee.PS The fit and feel is of quality. The lid seals and fits snug and it looks pretty cool too!

I'm studying how to make a better cup of coffee, and French Press has been on my list to get into for some time. This press was on sale for Prime Early Access, so I picked it up, as I don't want to get a glass carafe unit, given some horror stories I've gotten from my sister on them breaking.This is a stylish device I have no issue leaving on my counter with the rest of my coffee accoutrements. Not that how it looks was on the top of my list, but it did surprise me a little bit with just how nice it looks.The carafe keeps coffee warm for an exceptionally long period of time. I've now poured second cups or top-offs as much as 4 hours later and the coffee was still warm enough to warm my mug. I was quite surprised with that element of performance.The instructions are simple, and basically the same as any other French Press -- put coffee in, heat water, pour it in, stir, wait, press. So far, this has produced really flavorful cups using the 100% Kona I brought back from a recent HI trip.I've had only one instance (out of several carafes made now) where grounds got into my cup, and I think that was user error, not a fault of the device, but I'm definitely on the lookout for more failures to determine if there is some flaw in the system. Basically, I had accidentally unscrewed the bottom part of the filter and didn't notice when I put the plunger back into the carafe. My next cups after discovering that have had no grounds, so I'm pretty sure it was me, not the press, but we'll see.Where the unit fails me is in the element where Fellow stresses their superiority so significantly -- coffee to water ratio and ease of use with this press. From the product page for this brewer:"EASY TO USE - Take the guesswork out of making the perfect French press with the coffee and hot water lines marked within the coffee carafe; Bada bing, bada brew!"I'm not sure in what different and alternate universes the Engineers and the marketing team had to be living in between the reality of this solution and its promotion. There are, absolutely, markings on the interior of the carafe for coffee and for water. In no universe subjected to the same laws of light physics as the one in which I live, will you be able to actually USE those markings. The markings are simple raised elements in the stainless steel. The water line is visible when looking into the carafe at the right angle, but the coffee line is so deep (as it would naturally need to be) that unless you explicitly shine a flashlight or you have under cabinet lighting you can direct, will you be able to see and use it.The product rating lost a whole star for me because of the aggressive marketing of this simply not living up to the hype. I still need to measure my coffee out to achieve the best possible cup, which they explicitly say I'll no longer need to do!This could be fixed with a slight redesign, I think. The challenge with the marking is it basically being invisible when looking into the carafe without the perfect angle and lighting, because it is just a raised embossment on one small point on the steel. Well, what if you made that line go all the way around the entire circumference and raised the embossment higher, or better yet, made that steel an entirely different color? Then you'd be able to clearly see a distinct top level for your coffee, and if you put bands in at different ratios, you could more easily see options for a coffee to water ratio. It would be a more difficult build, but this is already being charged a premium for, what would be a little more?I'm not going to stop using this for sure, because it definitely does produce a nice cup of coffee, but I will stay on the lookout for other options that make adopting this mode of preparation easier.

It does the job you hope it would do. Works well as a coffee press, keeps coffee warm for longer than you'd expect (like a couple of hours), and looks nice.

Love Fellow products and this one is no disappointment. Keeps coffee hot for a long time and easy to push down plunger. Beautiful design.

Stylish. Works well. Easy to clean. Keeps the temp.