NO MORE PAPER Coffee Filters! COFFEE THE RIGHT WAY!

Ok, I have to admit it.  I have an addiction.  I am addicted to coffee.  Living in the coffee capital of the United States---Seattle, Washington where we are lucky to hit 70 degrees on a mid-July afternoon, coffee is a necessity right up there with food, water, and shelter.  I have it listed as its own separate budget line item!  LOL.

Coffee in the morning, coffee in the afternoon, and even coffee before bed.........coffee coffee coffee!



Photo from How to make a Reusable Coffee Filter on Wikihow.com



So, needless to say after my coffeemaker broke (the one with the cool reusable coffee filter) I started brewing single servings with a Melitta brewer and paper filters.  Just a couple days ago I decided to take the plunge and create my own reusable filter.  Wikihow  has some great directions on how to make your own coffee filter!  I did exactly what they suggested, but cut out my coffee filter from a muslin dishtowel.  I made sure I cut it a little big so that it curls nicely around the brewer and that the finished ends of the towel matched the top of the filter so that it has a finished look.  I also did it all by hand and it worked out great!

Rinsing out cloth coffee filters is extra easy!  Coffee doesn't stay on/in the fabric.  I dump as much as I can into a container for the garden and the rest just washes away!  Muslin is so light that I clip it to the pen holder on my fridge and it is dry in a few minutes!! 

And the COFFEE TASTES AMAZING!  I hadn't realized that it tasted like paper (doh!) and chemicals, until I tried it filtered through organic cotton!