About Frieling
Frieling was founded in New York in 1988 by Monika and Bernard Schnacke, who set out to bring European-style gourmet kitchenware and serveware to North American hotels, restaurants, and home cooks. The company built its reputation on stainless steel cookware and beverage servers, and its double-walled French presses are the product line it is best known for among coffee drinkers today.
Frieling's French presses use an all 18/10 stainless steel double-walled construction with a dual fine-mesh screen filter, a design meant to solve two problems glass presses have: broken carafes and coffee that goes cold in minutes. The company backs its cookware with a limited lifetime warranty against factory defects, and Frieling operates its own warranty claims process (RMA-based) directly from its Rock Hill, South Carolina office rather than routing service through a third party.
Brand website: frieling.com
What Frieling makes
Frieling's range runs wider than the products we review. The lines we know best from our own testing are marked with a star:
Double-Walled Stainless French Press
vacuum-insulated 18/10 stainless body, sold in 17oz to 44oz sizes, polished or brushed finish -- our featured pick is from this line — featured on Brew Gazette
Black Cube Cookware
nonstick stainless cookware line, Frieling's other flagship product family
Stainless Cookware
pots, pans, and stock pots in 18/10 stainless steel
Beverage Servers
insulated carafes and champagne buckets, the category the company originally launched with in 1988
Why we recognized Frieling
The Brew Gazette Top Brand recognition isn't paid for and can't be applied for. We award it to the brands whose products consistently stand out in our hands-on category reviews. Frieling earned it on the strength of the products below, evaluated the same way every product on this site is: bought, brewed with daily, and judged on what lands in the cup.
Frieling products we rated highly
Frieling Double-Walled Stainless Steel French Press, 36oz
The double-walled 18/10 stainless body is a vacuum-insulated flask, so in our testing it held brewed coffee genuinely hot for one to two hours instead of the 20 minutes a glass press manages. Its dual fine-mesh screen filters more thoroughly than a single mesh, producing a cleaner cup while still passing the oils that give French press coffee its body. It's effectively unbreakable and dishwasher safe, with no glass to shatter and no plastic touching the brew, which owners describe as a lifetime purchase.
Read the 8 Best French Presses of 2026 guide →What earned Frieling the recognition
- A top pick in our French press testing for anyone who wants a press built to last decades rather than survive one drop.
- The vacuum-insulated double-wall body keeps coffee hot for one to two hours in our testing, far longer than the single-wall glass presses it competes against.
- All-steel construction with no glass or plastic touching the brew, backed by Frieling's limited lifetime warranty against factory defects.
- A dual fine-mesh screen filter produces a cleaner, less sediment-heavy cup than the single-mesh filters common on cheaper steel presses.
- Nearly four decades of dedicated stainless steel kitchenware manufacturing, with warranty service run directly from the company rather than outsourced.