I brew coffee with a coffee press, aka French press or coffee plunger. It is really nice since I’m only brewing coffee for myself, and I don’t have to deal with paper filters. However, it does leave a certain amount of silt from coffee grounds at the bottom of my mug, since the wire mesh doesn’t filter it as well as paper. One solution is to use a coffee grinder with a coarser setting, but I’ve found that the ones that you can use for free at the grocery store still leave a fair amount of silt, and I haven’t decided to make the plunge on a good burr grinder yet. Using a coarse grind also has the side effect of requiring twice as much coffee grounds to brew the same strength coffee.

The cheaper and easier solution is to use a nylon fine sediment filterscreen which fits on the coffee press plunger. I could only find these at Sweet Maria’s online store, and they have an annoying $15 minimum, which wouldn’t be so bad, but they don’t sell anything else I’m interested in. They have coffee roasters (did I mention I was looking for the easy solution), green coffee (roaster not included), and roasted whole bean coffee (but I don’t have a grinder). This worked quite well. It didn’t filter all of the sediment, but it did reduce the effect on the entire cup of coffee except for the bottom 2mm. I also think that cleaning the coffee grounds out of the coffee press is much easier than cleaning a re-usable filter in a drip coffee maker.

You can also read someone else’s opinion of the filterscreen.