On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:01:49 -0400, 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?

And a spritz of plain water won't clean the metal filter, it's full of
coffee oils, it needs to be cleaned with soap/detergent and/or
vinegar, or sent through the dishwasher... it costs more to buy and
maintain those gold filters than to use paper filters and paper
filters filter far better. And the gold flash on gold filters wears
off rapidly, they are purely a gimmick to hook the morons who are into
shiney. There is good reason why laboratories choose paper filters
over metal mesh whenever possible. Years ago when coffee was made in
large urns cloth filter bags were used, they worked until paper came
along.