On Oct 31, 3:01*am, James Silverton >
wrote:
> On 10/30/2011 3:21 PM, Steve Freides wrote:
>
> > John Kuthe wrote:
> >> On Oct 30, 6:51 am, Brooklyn1<Gravesend1> *wrote:
> >>> pure > *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.
>
> The paper filters are pretty cheap. Surely, you can't want to reuse them?
>
> --
>
> James Silverton, Potomac
>
> I'm *not*

I was parroting Sheldon's blathering.

John Kuthe...