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Coffee: Unbelached vs Bleached? (pawb.social)

submitted 1 year ago by mayoaddict@pawb.social to c/food

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I just became interested in pour-over coffee, after a lifetime of only drinking mokas. While shopping for my first coffee machine, i noticed that there are two kinds of coffee filters: bleached and unbleached, apparently the only difference between them is just the color, but i'm sure there's something i'm missing.

What should i grab, and why?

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[–] Cipher 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The best thing you can do is test this for yourself.

Steep a plain coffee filter in water, taste it, and determine your findings from there. Repeat with each filter candidate

[–] 0range_julius 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would imagine the filter itself doesn't have much of a taste, the differences would be in how they absorb the oil, right? Seems like experimenting with coffee would be pretty essential

[–] Cipher 1 points 1 year ago

You might be surprised. I use aeropress now, which uses a small enough paper that it doesn't matter, but when I did pour over frequently I absolutely did this experiment with a variety of papers. There are, in fact, significant differences in the flavor different papers release in the water