ESPRO – BLOOM Pour Over Coffee Brewing Kit – Durable Brushed Stainless Steel, Dual Filter with Patented Micro-Filter & 50 Paper Filters

Great w/ or w/o Paper Filters!
I got this pourover cone because I was intrigued by the ability to brew without filters. It could be a penny saver, and a space saver, and I would never be up a creek without a coffee filter, because I don’t need one.The pros:-You don’t need a paper filter-Comes with a few paper filters (or at least mine did)-You don’t need to worry about cracking or shattering ceramic or plastic-It looks cool-You can make tasty coffee-Coarser grind can reach paper filter speeds without a paper filter (although the flavor profiles will change with different grind settings)-You don’t have to use the ESPRO proprietary paper filters if you don’t want to *(More on this below)The cons:-Slow brew time with the same grind without paper filters (Around 7-8 minutes for 20g coffee grounds at setting 34 on 1Zpresso JX-Pro, whereas with paper filter it’s 3 minutes or less)-Cleanup without paper filter (Can’t just throw away the grounds; you’ll need to rinse and maybe knock out some grounds from the metal filter bed holes with a brush; I used my bean grinder brush, but you might not have that if you just buy grounds or if you have an electric grinder with bellows or something, and thus would need to figure out how to clean the ESPRO)-Proprietary filters are expensive**I tried out a few possible other filters which would be cheaper than the ESPRO filters. I didn’t see anything about this online, so maybe I’m sharing information that is new. I tried out Melitta #2 cone paper filters, Melitta 8-12 cup basket coffee filters, and 51mm portafilter espresso paper filters. The espresso paper filters just block up the bottom of the cone and don’t even let water through. However, both the cone and the basket filters work pretty well. The cone filters don’t reach the bottom of the ESPRO, so if you pour way too much water too fast, you might break a hole in the bottom of the paper cone filter if you don’t position it right. The basket filters aren’t quite as tall as official ESPRO bloom filters, so you have to be careful not to overfill your pourover, lest the grounds float up and around the paper filter, making your paper filter only a little bit effective, and requiring you to do more cleanup afterwards. In terms of use, the original filters will work the best, but these other options are there as well.

Easy and great coffee
I saw this on a FB video lol and had to try it. I did a full taste test lineup with this, this without the filter, my Keurig (using a filter with my own coffee), and the Aeropress both standard and Hoffman style. This with the filter won hands down. No bitterness, no sediment, just pure and delicious coffee. I also love how easy it is to use and clean. I use a regular Krups pitcher not the gooseneck one and it works just fine. Put the Keurig in the cabinet and the Aeropress in the donation pile and using this from now on!

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.

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.

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