Permanent Coffee Filter for Hario Siphon - 1889A Brown for Home & Cafe Use

Awesome siphon filter. It makes using a siphon so much easier than a cloth filter and there is ZERO sediment in the cup. With cloth filters, you need to soak them in a cleaning solution and the rinse them out like forever to get all the detergent out and then hang them to dry and then seal them in a plastic bag so they don’t absorb odors. With the metal screen filter, you can use whatever detergent you want and since it’s stainless steel, it won’t absorb the soap or fragrance as long as you rinse it well. The actual metal screen is just an off the shelf espresso machine filter screen so replacements are easy to come by at any e-store that sells espresso machine parts.I reviewed a lot of the negative comments on this item and I can attribute the issues to a few factors:1. They have not cleaned their filter screen properly after each use. To do this, get a sponge or scrub brush and slather the screen with detergent and scrub both sides and try to pass the soapy foam through the filter screen and scrub both sides. Rinse with hot water. Also, and this is important, try to rotate the fine mesh screen in a circle around the stainless steel base. This will dislodge any coffee oils and fines that have collected between the mesh screen and the steel base. Keep doing this and rinsing until the screen rotates fairly easily. This entire operation should take less than two minutes to accomplish. Do NOT try to separate the mesh screen from the steel base. It is not meant to be removed.2. They have re-assembled the unit incorrectly after cleaning. When you take your filter out of the box, take a photo of how it’s assembled. The ceramic disk needs to be in the correct orientation for this thing to work properly. Also make note of how the silicone gasket is oriented. If either of these are in the wrong position, the filter will not work properly.3. They have either tightened the screen screw way too tight or they have it too loose. After cleaning and assembly, tighten the screw all the way just hand tight. Then loosen the screw about a half rotation or so to ensure that there is a minor amount of slop between the screen, gasket and ceramic disk while maintaining a seal with the channel in the gasket. This will permit the flow of coffee and micro fines through the screen without clogging. Too tight and that will limit the flow of coffee making draw down extremely long. Too loose will result in lots of fines and even grounds in the lower pot.4. They are not stopping the brewing cycle by using a cold wet cloth wrapped around the lower pot. After you pre-determined brew time (usually one to two minutes), rinse a facecloth or handi-wipe with cold water (squeeze out excess) and wrap it around the lower pot making sure that the part of the pot that is empty is covered (you are chilling the air inside the pot). This will quickly draw down the coffee to the lower pot by increasing the vacuum pressure in the lower pot and will speed up the draw down. Usually, when the coffee is about all drained into the lower pot, it has a tendency to want to travel to the upper pot again. At that point, re-rinse the cloth with cold water again and wrap around the lower pot and you will see the tube clear and you will hear the air going into the lower pot. For me, along with the 90 second brew time, the entire cycle from brewing to completely draining ranges between five to eight minutes with darker roasted or softer beans making the cycle last on the longer side.5. Grinding too fine. You want the grind size to be #20 mesh which is slightly more coarse than what you use for filter drip. Search on Amazon for test sieves and buy yourself a #10, #20 and #30 sieve along with a catch pan and lid. Or buy swatches of those mesh screens. Assemble them in descending order and whatever is caught by the #10 screen is #20 mesh. This will help you determine what grinder setting to use. You want the majority of the coffee to be in that #20 mesh range. Doesn’t have to be exact or perfect, just in the ballpark.Anyway, using this filter along with a BLUEFIRE Butane burner and electric kettle has made making siphon coffee comparatively quick and easy to the point where it’s fast and easy enough to use a siphon for my morning coffee. I use this with a Hario TCA-5 siphon and I’ve been loving life ever since.Thanks for listening.Bought this after using up a few cloth filters, I wanted to find something more long-term. This is as much as 25 cloth filters, so it's gonna take a while for that cost to even out. With that said, I think it dose taste better over all. The cloth you can never get truly clean, and it will continually be getting more and more dirty as you use it. If this is cleaned properly, you get no residual flavor. But it is honestly not the easiest thing to clean. And brew time has gone up a bit, but if anything I have been getting better coffee from it.it’s very goodI'm new to syphon coffee brewing. This filter works well. I am currently switching back and forth between the cloth filter and this SS filter and this what I've observed so far. I use a very fine grind, similar to expresso grind.My first use of this filter resulted in a thicker brew - but I found that the screw was not tighten completely. After tightening the screw just snug tight, the thickness of the brew went away and was much more pleasant.The SS filter results in a slightly stronger brew which I think is due to the hold time. It both fills and drains slower than the standard cloth filter on my syphon brewer, which creates a couple minute longer brewing time.I find it easy to open up and clean.The spring setup is appropriately sized for my syphon and I've had no issues with leakage around the seal.Overall, I prefer this filter and will likely transition to using it exclusively once the cloth filter wears out.This is a well made, easy to clean filter. Probably the best one I've seen yet. It's very easy to dissemble for cleaning. Very well made.Other reviews have complained about it clogging over time. If you don't clean the filter, yes, it will clog. So do it.My only complaint is that there are no instruction included either on or in the box. Which may be the cause of those complaints.This is light years ahead of the cloth filter I got with my syphon. I love that it’s nice and heavy. My only gripe is that the chain could be a little heavier to keep it from getting forced up by the boiling water as it’s being pushed up into the brew chamber. This moves the filter and allows some grinds to make its way down the tube.This filter works excellent with my Hario 600ml siphon filter. I have used many times over the past few weeks and have had absolute zero sediment in my coffee (coarse grind). I recommend this over the included cloth filter because the stainless steel allows the oils in the beans to go through to your cup whereas the cloth will capture some of them and alter the taste! 10/10. I was NOT compensated for this review.Works great for filtering coffee in a vacuum coffee maker, but if you leave it in the drawer unused for a while, the silicone rubber seal starts to break down and gets sticky. Touching the seal feels off. I am hesitant to use it for making coffee for fear that an off-flavor may transfer to the beverage. To repair the silicone seal means replacing the entire filter. That's north of $20 per year because that is the drawer life of the filter.This is a decent quality replacement that will fit almost all brands of syphon coffee maker and removes the need to buy cloth or paper filters in perpetuity. I have mine fitted to the Gourmia electric syphon coffee maker machine and it fits perfectly. It is easy to wash, and easy to fit and remove, indeed much better than the cloth filter the machine came with. My lukewarm rating however is because I find occasionally about half of the coffee won't drain back down into the lower carafe. I've tried stirring during brewing and after, but sometimes nothing will work. The coffee just seems to block the drainage through the filter. I use ground coffee bought from Sainsbury's which is a standard grade I've used for many years in filter machines. It's possible this requires a coarser grade of grind, and yet 70% of the time, this works absolutely fine. I wash the filter after every use so I can't explain why this happens but it's annoying, especially when pressed for time in the morning. I've disassembled the filter to clean and check for blockages, but can't find anything that explains this problem. So in conclusion I'd have to say that when this works, it works well. It's well made, easy to fit and easy to clean. Occasionally however it will drive you bonkers. Good... but flawed. I hope this has been helpful.I really wanted to like this, but just couldn't get along with it. I normally use a Cona glass drainer rod and my coffee returns to the lower bowl within a minute. This takes nearer 5, even with the grind about 50% coarser. It also doubles the time the coffee takes to rise into the upper funnel; it must be a really fine mesh. It does, in fairness, make a much cleaner cup of coffee than a glass drainer, but the taste is similar; it's hard to assess how much the over-extracting is affecting the taste. There is also a strange onion smell that comes from the filter, although I can't taste it in the coffee. All in all, I much prefer the taste and consistency of my glass drainer and am sending this back.Whilst this is great for travelling there are a couple of things that I think may become issues longer term: The really fine powdery grinds are sucked onto the mesh. I am sure after a few months that this and any oils will start this clogging badly, it also means it is best to clean it immediately.The other thing that is a worry after a glass drainer is the spring clip that holds it in the funnel. I have seen many good coffee syphons end up with chipped funnels from these things.Others are obviously fine with this - it is a really nicely made item. I think I habe just been spoiled coming from a glass drainer rather than a cloth one.The only thing stopping me giving this five stars is that the chain is a fraction too short. Just a couple of millimetres longer would make it a bit more convenient to use.Other than that it's a great alternative to the cloth or paper filters. It's a joy to clean, and really well made.I am a great fan of coffee and have been using the hario siphon with the bamboo filter cloth. I found that if the cloth wasn't really well cleaned after use by bleaching and rinsing really well, it left a residual aftertaste in the next lot of coffee which was really noticeable.I only found out by a trial clean as my fresh ground batch tasted odd.This new mesh filter is brilliant. No aftertaste and cleans up a treat. I now have grumpy mule Guatemalan pocola that tastes like coffee and no weird aftertaste.If you like coffee buy one!!!purchased this permanent filter for my coffee syphon. i also purchased one 2 yrs ago and they are a great device for use with coffee syphon.This particular filter is not as good a quality as the last one i purchased but still does a great job and helps produce a wonderful cup of clean excellent tasting cup of coffee.These permanent filters are much better than the cloth type filters and can be easily dissassembled for cleaning.