I don’t have experience with the coffeesock, but I have use the Hario Woodneck filters daily. My method is this: boil water, run hot water through filter, add grinds, then do normal pourover method (may want to adjust grind since it may drain faster). After brewing, dump grinds in compost, rinse filter, put filter in small jar. Pour leftover boiling water from kettle into jar. Store in the fridge until tomorrow. Periodically (preferably monthly), you should clean the filter by soaking it in a combination of water and a little Cafiza. You have to really rinse well after the soak, because you really don’t want to taste that in your coffee. I have never used a Moccamaster, but I don’t see why this filter wouldn’t work for that since it takes V60 filters.
This process is basically what Hoffman recommends. I personally prefer my coffee through this filter since I like the oils of the coffee, but don’t really want the fines passing through the filter. That said, it does get very tedious sometimes; I have a metal filter that I use when I’m too lazy to go through this whole process. They aren’t really much of a cost-saving or waste-reducing measure. It takes quite a few pourovers before you save money (though I dunno, maybe you buy really fancy filters) and paper coffee filters are compostable. The most cost-effective solution really is a metal filter. However I think the fabric filters produce the best coffee IMO, but I’d imagine people who prefer lighter roasts might actually prefer the paper filters.
I live in a country where they don’t boil and bleach the duck placenta off of the egg so you can just sort of keep them on the floor outside of the refrigerator for days and it doesn’t matter it’s fine
Eggs are porous. Birds leave a coating on them that blocks the pores and prevents bacteria getting in but washing the eggs removes that protective coating.
Pretty sure you do this in the US but not every country does.
I wonder how they get them to look nice then. Do they take the egg instantly? Do they refresh the chickens’ nesting material all the time? Does the egg fall down a hole the moment it’s laid?
I’ve physically set up chicken “coops” and the steel cage they stand on all day is big enough for eggs to fall into then rolls down to a conveyor and collected.
There is no bedding and up to 10 chickens in a 1’x3’x 1.5’ cage. I felt horrendous leaving that place by the time I was done
The other commenter is talking about cage farms, but even free range hens have a similar system.
Hens will always lay their eggs in the same place. So she will cluck around living her best life outside, then go back to the coop to lay an egg in her favourite nest. It’s easy enough to make a hole in the nest and a gravity based collection system underneath.
This is not only to keep the eggs clean but also to protect them from the hens, including the one that laid it.
Modern laying breeds are absolute nutters. Their sole purpose (target attribute) is to produce an egg a day. It’s not uncommon for these deranged weirdos to lay an egg, stand up, crack it open, and consume the contents.
An industrialized system to promote waste. None of the smaller farms in my area (Eastern Ont Canada) wash their eggs but the ones that get sold to stores must.
I use something similar that I bought in Taiwan as a backup to paper filters, since I am often traveling and can’t always find v60-style filters. Some thoughts:
It can be annoying to clean
When I want more than a rinse, I wash it extra by boiling it in tea; that seems to work well.
It does have a bit of a different flavor compared to paper. As a light-roast drinker who grinds with a Timemore C3, I prefer paper for taste. In the James Hoffman vid other people linked, he describes it as “extra richness and body” for light roasts, but I kinda describe it more as “clouding some of the bite and clarity”. It’s definitely still quite good, and I still prefer the cloth over French press.
I do find it quite convenient for my use as a backup to paper filters in my “ultra-portable” setup.
I have one for my siphon—filters the grinds perfectly well, but as others have touched upon, it’s a bit of a chore to keep clean. In addition to cleaning after each use, I boil the crap out of it every now and then for extra measure with a touch of vinegar and it seems to keep it clean.
I still use paper filters for my v60 and I’ve never used the coffee sock on it. Maybe I’ll give it a try.
Depending on how often you feel the need to boil the crap out of it, it might end up having a greater environmental impact than just using paper filters.
I’m curious about this too. I also bought the coffee sock to try and reduce waste. I took the advice of the fellow at the shop to keep it in water between use and boil it once per week. My water consumption was way up and I still couldn’t keep it clean. The first few cups were fantastic but eventually the flavour of old oils comes through and I haven’t found a way to get rid of it.
Now I just use paper that gets tossed into the compost. Maybe this is more environmentally friendly?
That’s a valid point. For me, I use my siphon sparingly nowadays (maybe once a month), so it ends up being every time I use it. So, in the grand scheme of things, not much I think. When I was using the siphon more often (maybe 3 or 4 times a week) I would boil it at the end of the week—much higher impact for sure.
If I were going to plan this out a little more for my current routine/usage, I could boil it inside my kettle when I do my monthly descaling, but that might degrade the cloth much faster.
I’ve had this but larger for making batches of cold brew. Loved it, but like someone else mentioned, cleaning it and rinsing it out was slightly annoying.
I’ve used a larger version for cold brew in the past and it worked well. It was a bit annoying to clean out but cold brew batches arent every morning so it was fine.
My preference is now an aeropress with a fabric filter. I use this above a metal filter with the Prismo attachment (metal to stop the fabric clogging the valve). The fabric circle is small enough to be easy to clean, freeze and thaw. I usually only rinse it (much easier with a small flat disk) before chucking it in the freezer but I use Cafitza to clean it every few months to remove any built up oils (just gotta give it a few soaks in boiling water afterwards to ensure its not holding on to the cleaning agent!).
If it works anything like the ones some of us use in Puerto Rico it should work well! Cloth coffee filters have been a thing for a while and they’re good at making a strong brew while not requiring a disposable filter. This one tends to lead to muddier coffee but the one you have seems really good and probably filters better. www.puertoricocoffeeshop.com/cgi-bin/…/ss_mb.cgi?…
An otherwise healthy person can take care of a candida problem by eating a tbsp of coconut oil a day for a week, fyi. It’ll cause a big die off of the infection so you’ll feel like shit for a couple days while the dead yeast bits flood your waste management system though. Cut back sugar during so you’re not feeding the little fuckers while trying to kill them also.
TLOU was cordyceps, the same fungus that makes zombie ants. Thankfully not the same thing.
Okay - I’m not going to take this further because I know what candida people are like, but even the title of that paper means it’s not relevant to a living human. Orange juice will kill cancer cells in vitro, it’s meaningless to extrapolate from that. Maybe a coconut oil massage is in order next time I’m feeling a little thrushy, but that’s about it.
You’re laboring under the mistaken impression that I care what you do. The way you started your book of a reply though, I’m gonna go ahead and block you now. Have a nice day.
Edit: A couple more blocked now, +2 noise reduction.
If you eat a spoon of coconut oil the stuff in it won’t magically appear only in the places in your body that are infected, let alone somehow find the yeast cell and cover it in a nice toxic film, all while avoiding being digested in any way. You’re thinking of some pre programmed, intelligent coconut oil or, well, science fiction indeed.
“But we don’t want people who watched ‘The Last of Us’ to think we’re all going to die,” Javaid said. “This is an infection that occurs in extremely ill individuals who are usually sick with a lot of other issues.”
This one time at my old basement apartment I went away for a few days and came back to find a mushroom had grown in the bathroom. Never saw it happen again after that one time.
Ive seen them at work growing out of the walls near sink drains and behind dishwashers where its always wet. Pretty fucking nasty seeing shit like that. Thankfully we were tearing the place apart for cleaning to prep it for a remodel.
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