Hand coffee filter: what's the difference between filter paper, metal filter and filter cloth?

Paper coffee filter paper

Coffee filter paper is one of the most traditional disposable filter products, most of which are used to filter coffee using follicular coffee, using extremely dense fibers to retain ground coffee beans and coffee powder, and filtering the extracted coffee into the cup. get a clean coffee solution, filter paper can also filter coffee terpene esters, mostly plant organic products, and good filter paper can filter impurities Coffee also tastes mellow and has a more obvious aroma.

Advantages: high convenience, throw away after use, can also change the brand; flush out taste is cleaner; less impurity smell.

Disadvantages: less environmentally friendly use of paper; unbleached paper will have a paper flavor; oil will be filtered out, making coffee taste non-greasy.

Metal coffee strainer

Recently, with the rise of environmental awareness, many coffee utensils manufacturers have developed metal filters to save the less environmentally friendly filter paper as long as it is cleaned and reused after use, and it is also durable and strong made of stainless steel.

Suggestion: use a clean toothbrush to remove oil from baking soda powder after use, so that the next brewing taste will not be affected. The metal coffee filter can also extract the oil, which will be thicker and closer to the original taste of the coffee beans, and can be different from the filter paper in the blind test.

Advantages: it is more environmentally friendly and can be reused through rinsing; it can drink the original taste of coffee and has a thick taste.

Disadvantages: the fine powder is easy to cause excessive extraction and lead to excessive bitterness; the fine powder will pass through the strainer into the coffee and may have a dregs taste.

Coffee filter cloth

Usually used in flannel filter cloth, Chemex hand flushing pot, Siphon siphon type, the more troublesome is cleaning and preservation, if you do not really clean the grease on the filter cloth, over time will affect the taste, after washing, you also need to soak water to store in the refrigerator, can not be used many times a day, is a more troublesome point. The coffee taste is between metal and filter paper, balancing the advantages of both.

Suggestion: filter cloth cleaning and preservation need to be done, otherwise there may be rag smell, it is recommended to use baking soda powder to clean when available, while flannel filter cloth has better permeability and insulation, brewing coffee aroma and taste are called saturated and rich.