John Kuthe wrote:
> On Oct 30, 6:51 am, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
>> pure kona > wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>
> Paper filters are a gimmick. They're an ordinary sheet of common
> porous paper
> shaped like a coffee filter basket and they must be thrown away after
> each brewing unless you're
> the type who doesn't bathe... and there is no way to reuse them
> without a hole forming and grounds getting everywhere. Not re-using
> any filter is stupid. Best filters are metal mesh ones washed before
> each brewing.
>
> John Kuthe...

That's how we do it - we wash out the grinder, we wash the gold filter,
rinse out the carafe, etc. - how can anyone not clean the thing between
uses? We have one of those "spritzer" gadgets on our kitchen faucet,
don't know what they're actually called but they work like a hand-held
shower head - they work fine for cleaning the gold filter.

-S-