i've never had coffee this good before
As part of my ongoing coffee snobbery, I recently purchased a swissgold® KF 300 One-Cup Coffee Filter, a gold-plated manual drip filter. I've been on a quest to use my own beans via the Keurig and just haven't been getting the best results with the reusable My K-Cup filter. Since discovering that you could get simple hot water from a Keurig, I wanted to try using a simple manual drip filter with some quality beans and see what would happen.
The end result was pure heaven. Place over your cup, add the grounds on top of the filter, place the water filter on top and pour your hot water over, covering with the lid to keep things warm. Incredibly simple, and very easy to clean: just tap the grounds into your compost and rinse/wash with soapy hot water. I didn't realize how much oils and flavor I've been losing to paper filters, or how much I could control the brew compared to our old french press. I'm brewing Intelligentsia's House Blend and the taste was leaps and bounds better than the same grind put through the Keurig directly. I'm already on my second cup within the hour; this filter is going to be dangerous to my health at this rate. :-)
