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French press also extracts and preserves all the oils present in coffee beans, whereas drip/chemex filters them out.

As a sidenote, french press is also great for brewing tea, but keep your coffee and tea presses separated.

You frame the difference in oils as a bad thing, but it's simply personal preference (I much prefer paper filtered coffee).

Only because parent mentioned preferring that, in other posts in this thread people mentioned preferring the opposite.

If you use a metal filter with the drip/chemex devices, you can get the volatile oils in your coffee as well. Same for the Aeropress (which does have a metal filter option as well).

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