I honestly had no idea what I was getting into when I bought this French Press coffee maker. I thought, I am a person that had owned every coffee type machine ever made surely I can figure this out, I mean come on how hard could this be right?

The sleek almost aristocratic look lured me in. The SterlingPro name in itself was alluring, stainless steel sure didn't hurt and when I received it I was instantly in love. He (yes I do gender my coffee pots) has a little weight to it, but just enough and balances well. Then I took it apart and thought "oh my goodness and all that is Holy what have I gotten myself into." I read the instruction booklet, I am older the print is small so it took a while. Yeah, first time what I did was not exactly what I would call coffee, it was a mess. Then almost like they knew I was going to need help the company emailed me with instructions. If I had waited a couple hours after receiving it and checked my mail I would have been fine.

I looked it up on youtube as the company suggested, I had to clean the pot with non abrasive cloth and start all over. So, I decided in my review I would put this out there for you. You will see many pots that are all see through, doesn't even look like yours. Not to worry the process is the same and you can look down into your pot. First decide how much you are going to make, I decided on the full 34 oz, That would be 8 cups or 4 mugs of coffee. Your pot comes with a scoop for coffee , I used 4 scoops of coffee, if you like it stronger, or weaker you need to adjust. I poured the water, suggested is water at 98 degrees, mine was 104 of filtered water. How do I know what I poured, my tap water is filtered and my tank is set at 104 degrees. I saturated the coffee in a circular motion, allowed it to sit for thirty seconds then added the rest of water in circular motion. I took a wooden spoon to the bottom to make sure there were no clumps. I put the machine back together using up the three minutes of brewing time. Once the three minutes or so is up slowly press down the center until it stops flush with the top, pour the coffee and drink. If you let it set in the pot for any extended length of time it becomes bitter. I don't mind bitter because I love espresso, so, I guess I figured out the difference in French press compared to brewed, espresso or percolated. I received this product at a highly reduced rate in exchange for my honest unbiased opinion and testing purposes.

Yes, it has a different taste and it is really good. It was a nice change from my regular coffee. You use a coarser grind than you normally would. Just like you use a finer grind for espresso. This is the end of my coffee lesson. I hope you enjoy your beautiful pot as much as I have. I know that I have learned a great deal in the past few days.

Fraser Kitchen and Food Scale for Precision Digital Measuring of Culinary / Baking Ingredients or Dieting - Displays Grams, Ounces and Pounds a with an 11 lb capacity.

The Fraser scale was packaged extremely well inside the box, the box that contains the scale was also packed rather solid to prevent any damage to the machine/scale.  It was accompanied by detailed instructions on how to use the scale, if you find yourself in a quandary please refer back to the instructions for example if you can't figure out how to turn it off and on.  It is like using any new product such as a cell phone; you will not get it right the first time if you don't read the instructions. I am posting a picture of the instructions just in case you lost yours.

This sleek black scale size is 5.5 in x 7 in by .5 in high. Since all of my kitchen appliances are black and chrome it fits in very well with the rest of my kitchen appliances. The tempered reflective black glass surface makes it a bit difficult taking pictures of it, but that is not its purpose. I used this scale to measure my entire meal prep weighing pretty much everything I was using, the wonderful thing about Fraser scale is that you can hit the TARO button and it will give you the measurement of the (for example sake) the bottle of cracked pepper removing the weight of the container and leaving the closest any scale for me has come to the contents of the bottle. That is something if you stop to think about it.  Turning it off and on is easy, next to the TARO button which also takes away the packaging weight is the on- off key, hold your finger on it firmly for five seconds and it will turn off, or on but you need to give it that five seconds.


Make sure that you remove the packaging material around the battery area on the back and install the  lithium battery which is included. The power off in one minute is a life saver for most in the kitchen as we get busy cooking and sometimes it is unavoidable. I was also testing the auto off button and yes inadvertently I was not paying attention and it turned itself off since I was not using it. On the right side bottom is the key to change form of weight gram, ounces, and pounds.

I can't say enough about the sleek look of the machine, personally I expect there to be smudges on the machine from my finger prints since I am a hands on cook, my fingers are either slightly damp or covered in something I am using if I am in a hurry, salt, sugar, flour, water, and I think that is normal and not a complaint. I attempted to get a perfect cut of six ounces of meat but as you can see eyeballing it and actually weighing it tells you that I am slightly off but near enough for my diet. As you notice I use wax paper to weight anything wet as I do not want to get it in the machine LED display.

In conclusion I find that the Fraser scale is an excellent buy, for any kitchen. It measures in oz, grams, and lbs up to 11 pounds. Trying to find a scale that would measure at that volume is near impossible.  I hope you enjoy your purchase as much as I have. I have no cons to add to this review.
*I received this product at a reduced rate or free for my honest unbiased review. This should not take away from this review, because when I do this I also put it through the ringer and tougher on these purchases than any other since these product testings are for the benefit of future buyers the company expects their product to work as described. Buy Fraser Scale