Three-layered construction with a special folding technique for excellent filtration without sacrificing body or taste quality. This filter has a double filtration feature, which keeps more fine particles out than the Able Kone.

There’s not much difference between the two cloth filters, either—the Chemex is just slightly bigger. You could probably swap them out in a pinch, if you so needed. A cloth filter lets through many of the coffee oils but none of the fines, so you’ll get a clean and aromatic cup with a medium body and bright acidity. It is an excellent middle ground between paper and metal filters.Therefore, if you’re more than one person, Ireally only recommend purchasing the six or eight cup models. If you’re three or moreadults at home, go with the ten cup model. When I fill my Eight Cup Classic Chemex full with water from my 1.2 liter kettle (approx 40 ounce), it fills my Chemex upnicely and I get about three true cups of coffee. Disposable paper filters are for a single use, so they generate the most waste. However, Chemex filters are biodegradable and compostable.

You’ll find lots of postsonline about Chemex brewing that talk aboutmeasuring your coffee into proper gram weights (using a scale) and pouring the water slowly (with a timer) to ensure an exact volume of water over the ground coffee in 4 minutes to extract the perfect cup of coffee. There are even some apps. I recommend watching my Chemex brewing video in the recipe card below. But if you prefer step-by-step instructions, I’ve got those for you as well. Remember, it may take you one or two tries to get comfybrewing with your Chemex, but after that, you’ll be golden. Promise. Step Five: Pour just enough water to fully saturatethe grounds and let the coffee expand and bloom for 30-45 seconds. In both cases, concerns are somewhat unfounded. You’ll be relieved to hear that Chemex is not using chlorine bleach when it comes to bleached coffee filters. Instead, they use a more environmentally friendly oxidizing process involving hydrogen peroxide to whiten the paper, followed by multiple hot water baths to remove all traces of the chemical ( 8). In contrast, the natural filters are only treated with hot water baths to remove the papery flavour. This is great because now you know that it doesn’t matter which Chemex filter to buy. Let’s talk a bit more about why you might want to buy one over the other: Why should you buy one over the other?When I first got my Chemex, I’ll be honest. That stuff intimidated me. I’m a smart girl with an MBA, but I sure didn’t feel like doing math equations and pulling out timers and scales every morning just to brew a cup of coffee!