Bleeding when pushing the front brake's pistons

If this is your first time doing brakes, I'd strongly suggest having a EXPERIENCED friend; who knows what they're doing help you out for your first time. Brakes are a pretty important component of your car and needs to function properly!!! If you don't have a friend like that, take the car to a professional. You don't know, what your don't know!
NO you DO NOT crack the bleed valve on your calibers! That's a surefire way of getting air into your braking system. There shouldn't be any junk behind your caliber piston, if you properly maintain your braking system. Brake systems flush-out every 3-5 years; Toyota doesn't recommend it but other OEM's like VW & Honda do.

I can watch plenty of videos on how to defuse a bomb; but that doesn't mean I would want to - the stakes are too high.....

Just my 2-cents.......

 

I disagree... Brake systems are very simple and straight forward and the fear related to them causes so called "Professionals" to charge hundreds of dollars for something that's a super easy 20 min job once you've done it enough times. It's not much different then changing batteries in an expensive machine.