Calphalon Kitchen Electrics Permanent Gold Tone Coffee Filter

good filter bad handle

wish there was a matching brush for cleaning the screen. The handle is a bit frail. handle and connection should not be so fragile.

Sturdier than most.

First off, I bought this “gold filter” to go inside a filter holder for hand drip coffee, not as a replacement for the Calphalon machine.

I have been using gold plated filters for around twenty years. I love them because I don’t have to buy paper filters, so the gold filter is more economical. I also feel the coffee tastes better than when it goes through the paper. Sometimes with bleached filters I can taste the chlorine, and even unbleached filters soak up the coffee oils and impart a taste to the coffee IMO.

Remember not to use a scrubber on the gold screen because it can rub the very thin gold elctro-plating off, and a gold filter can easily last five years.

I bought this filter over the others because the extra “ribs” made it look possibly sturdier than the other “Gold Tone Coffee Filters” available, and I have had problems with filters blowing out on the seams when tapping the used coffee grounds out.

On arrival this filter is much…

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