ESPRO Bloom Permanent Coffee Filter Stainless Steel Filter for Pour Over Coffee - Ready Coffee in 2 Minutes - Brushed Stainless Steel

Edit: This is discontinued and ostensibly they'll stop selling the proprietary filters.I was initially underwhelmed with this but I tweaked grinds a bit and it does perform. Grind finer than you think you need and it works best. Not sure about without the filter but I'm still working on a good grind for that. Overall when compared to my CCD and AP and the overhyped Pulsar this thing makes great coffee. Good body, great flavor, good richness despite short contact time. This works. And the filters are fine to separate. Pull them off from the outside!Bonus: Melitta number 2 filters work great in this with a few folds.

Been committed to the pour over since my barista days. Gone through so many glass and ceramic cone drippers. Refused to go plastic. No more broken glass and chipped ceramic. Perfect. Had it for a year now and it’s starting to get a little colour where the coffee goes through but I could be better about giving it a quarterly deep clean, I just soap and water it daily.

Truly a nice experience of brewing and easy to clean. But the filters are a headache to seperate. I brew without for most of the times with coffees that have less oils.

Pretty expensive gear but on the other hand at least it is available as an option to purchase locally.What made me choose this over other pourovers was the apparent option to brew without the filter paper. I tried the recipes both with and without the filter paper using a really burnt awful coffee as a "benchmark". Surprisingly both methods got a lot of the bitterness out and made the bad coffee "drinkable". Granted this might not be helpful to many but just thought I'd throw this out there.Here is some information which might be useful though:1. It is as much a pain to separate out the paper filters as you've probably heard in various reviews. Remove filters from the outer filter end and not the inner end.2. The wave patterns tend to collapse pretty easily and need to be shaped back into theur original form or the paper filter will become deformed when it gets wet.3. Obviously this will differ with coffee beans and with grinders but I settled on 13 clicks (loosening from the tightest setting) for with the paper filter snd 18 clicks without on my timemore c2 grinder4. There is definitely more clogging of the metal mesh without the paper but it tasted as I expected from a non paper filtered pourover (more body, less draw time, some channelling, yet still a "filtered" taste)5. I'm not sure if the kalita wave paper filters will be "fully compatible" with this but seems like it should work (espro filter availability seems limited)6. Did not come with much documentation and the one card with instructions printed that did come with it were pretty vague for a beginner.7. The base sits pretty well on top of a variety of cup sizes.

we go with this filter a couple times a week; hard to pour a bad cup with these!