Quick Filter

The most popular and common form of preparing coffee is with a quick filter. They use a paper filter. The hot water percolates through the ground coffee into the filter and by doing that it slowly fills the can that is standing underneath it. Preparing coffee with a quick filter works best with coffee beans that are ground with a medium coarseness.

There are both manual filter devices, as one cup electrical filters and filter machines. The great advantage of preparing coffee with a quick filter is that (the name says it all) it takes little time. There is little equipment needed and it does not produce a mess all over your kitchen sink.

Both paper filters can be used as a permanent filter. Where a paper filter has a preference when it comes to taste, because in a permanent filter the coffee grinds may silt up which gives the coffee a nasty taste. Rule of thumb is that you at least use 50% of the filter capacity. Otherwise, the coffee layer is too thin and the water will flow through too quickly, which is not likely to benefit the taste of the coffee.

Actually, the well known Philips Senseo coffee machine uses a filter method. The disadvantage of a Senseo is that much material (filter) is being wasted and that the used coffee pads are quite expensive. Moreover you can not prepare large quantities. On the other hand, this might be sometimes an advantage: for a quick cup of coffee, the Senseo is ideal.

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