On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:08:20 -0700 (PDT), John Kuthe
> wrote:

>On Oct 29, 12:55*pm, "Steve Freides" > wrote:
>> dsi1 wrote:
>> > On 10/29/2011 2:01 AM, wrote:
>> >> On Saturday, October 29, 2011 3:46:15 AM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:

>> >>> I don't understand the burr grinders myself. It seems like a messy
>> >>> way to grind coffee and the grinding surfaces will collect old
>> >>> coffee grounds. I probably wouldn't be able to taste the old
>> >>> grounds and oils but the idea is icky. The worst would be those
>> >>> machines in supermarkets. I like the high speed sound of the blade
>> >>> grinders myself.
>>
>> >> The coffee purists will tell you all about heat and suchlike, but
>> >> the fact is that nobody but possibly a few experts can tell the
>> >> difference using the drip process with paper filters and many people
>> >> prefer the taste of blade-ground drip coffee to burr ground anyway.
>> >> If you're doing French Press you can _see_ a difference--the
>> >> whirligigs don't give an even grind--you get a lot of fines that
>> >> make it through the press and end up as sediment in your cup. *If
>> >> you're doing Espresso then it's the difference between having
>> >> coffee and not having coffee--the fines from the whirligig clog the
>> >> portafilter and nothing comes out.
>>
>> > Come to think of it, if one uses a French press, a burr grinder would
>> > probably be preferable. I used paper filters so it didn't matter much
>> > about coffee particle size. My grind came up consistently fine anyway.
>>
>> Why do people use paper filters in their drip machines? *We've always
>> used a gold filter without a paper insert and always thought the coffee
>> tasted better that way.
>
>Paper filters are cheap and disposable. (Like most people! ;-) )
>
>John Kuthe...
Paper filters IMHO leave a paper taste with the coffee. "Gold"
filters do not. Do not even ask me about brown paper filters because
they taste like paper bags + the coffee flavor.

Gold filters are the best if you want unadulterated coffee flavor. We
sell flavor/aromatics so it is important to me.

aloha,
Cea