![]() There’s also a travel filter, which is a free-hanging single filter with a metal ring (and so needs no filter cone). Interestingly, they all cost $14 a pair regardless of size. The filters, which are made of 100% organic cotton and fit a variety of different brewers, come in pairs. ![]() The cloth filters I bought from GoGo Refill are manufactured by a US company, CoffeeSock, although you can also buy them direct from its online store. Instead, I’m going to share my experiences and leave it up to you to decide on their merits. Secondly, I’m not going to tell you if cloth filters are “better” at making coffee than their paper counterparts, since that’s entirely subjective. There are many claims about the environmental benefits of reusing cloth filters over disposable paper filters, but that’s not something which I’m qualified to assess. The first concerns the green credentials of cloth filters. ![]() Let’s start with what this Making Coffee at Home post is not about. You can see what I made of them after the gallery. After using them on and off for the last two months, I thought it was time to share my thoughts. To cut a long story short, I bought a pair, one for a Chemex and one for a standard two-cup ridge-bottom filter (like my collapsible travel filter). Then, on my last trip to see Amanda in November, we were in GoGo Refill, a low-waste store in South Portland, where I saw some cloth filters from CoffeeSock. However, inertia and a general sense that they were a bit of a faff compared to paper filters put me off (which is odd, since many of the other little rituals around making coffee don’t bother me). ![]() Years later, when I started experimenting with home pour-over and other methods such as the Clever Dripper, I naturally used paper filters (I’ve had the occasional metal filter but never got on with them).įor several years, I’ve toyed with getting cloth filters to use at home. When I first made coffee at home, over 25 years ago, I used a cheap filter machine, but I didn’t like the taste its metal filter imparted to the coffee, so I switched to the cafetiere and never looked back. ![]()
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