Customer Reviews

Hemp Reusable Coffee Filter #2

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Get the Cusp hemp filters instead. They are significantly cheaper ($4.99) and they pass much less black sludge, while still preserving the low tones in the flavor (which paper filters do not).

I bought two different hemp filters because I wanted to stop using paper filters. The other hemp filter made the coffee taste just a little like fabric, like I was sucking my coffee through a tee-shirt.

This filter just made my coffee taste like coffee. Which, of course, is what you want.

Another reviewer had problems with coffee grounds falling through the fabric. I have not had this problem. I grind my coffee fairly fine, but perhaps not as fine as the other reviewer. So buyers with really finely ground coffee might still have a problem. I couldn't say.

I use this filter in a manual coffee pot (where you pour the water through by hand--not an automatic coffee maker), and it behaves just like my old disposable paper filters.

All in all, I'm very happy with the purchase and I plan to buy a second one for when the first one is in the washing machine.

This worked well for a year or two in a coffee maker that had odd sized ground holders (dripped directly into two travel mugs). At first, it tasted like the soap we washed it with, at end tasted a bit burnt. Didn't try cleaning with vinegar - may help. The swiss gold filters work better, but this was better than the other brands of metal filters which I find to be leaky and make grainy coffee

Before I ordered this item I wrote the Greenfeet asking for advice. I grind my coffee very fine and wanted to know if this would work for me. "Valerie
Ambassador of Customer Happiness" wrote back to me "This should work fine - it's made for use with automatic coffee pots." Since I don't use an automatic coffee pot and she said it should work fine I believed her. I put some of my coffee in the filter and it sifted through before I even added any water.
I also noted in a review that someone had written that Greenfeet was great about refunding all their money for something that didn't work out. While I was refunded the money for the merchandise I was not refunded the shipping. So I was sucked in admittedly through my own failure to read the fine print but I thought I was getting good advice from the seller. I was wrong twice.