pure kona > wrote:
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>Gold filters are the best if you want unadulterated coffee flavor.

Gold filters are a gimmick. They're an ordinary carbon steel mesh
with so thin a gold flash that it begins to wear off with the first
cleaning, and they must be cleaned after each brewing unless you're
the type who doesn't bathe... and there is no way to clean off the
coffee residuals without removing some of the gold and leaving a soap
film.... if you get ten cleanings from those filters before much of
the gold is gone it's a lot. Re-using any filter is stupid. Best
filters are paper one throws away after each brewing.