I just became interested in pour-over coffee, after a lifetime of only drinking mokas. While shopping for my first coffee machine, i noticed that there are two kinds of coffee filters: bleached and unbleached, apparently the only difference between them is just the color, but i’m sure there’s something i’m missing.

What should i grab, and why?

  • Cipher@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    The best thing you can do is test this for yourself.

    Steep a plain coffee filter in water, taste it, and determine your findings from there. Repeat with each filter candidate

    • 0range_julius@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I would imagine the filter itself doesn’t have much of a taste, the differences would be in how they absorb the oil, right? Seems like experimenting with coffee would be pretty essential

      • Cipher@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        2 years ago

        You might be surprised. I use aeropress now, which uses a small enough paper that it doesn’t matter, but when I did pour over frequently I absolutely did this experiment with a variety of papers. There are, in fact, significant differences in the flavor different papers release in the water