CuisinartGTF-B Gold Tone Coffee Filter, Basket

For the short time I had the coffee maker this worked wonderful. The coffee tasted great. It was worth it.Water flowed through great and never backed up. You dou have to have the grounds level. I went back to a machine with a cone. Now put my cone gold tone in it. That way they stand up and I get use from this.

Works great

Although the product is listed as a Cuisinart gold tone filter, nowhere on the packaging does it say that it is Cuisinart brand. Aside from that, this is a great filter. It didn't look like it would be tall enough to accommodate enough ground coffee for 12 cups with my Mr. Coffee maker. I was wrong; it handles all of the ground coffee and none of it ever spills over the side of the filter. Our morning coffee definitely tastes better using this filter. Our coffee tastes less bitter and acidic and tastes smoother, mellower and more flavorful. The filter lifts out and goes back in easily and accommodates the Mr. Coffee filter discs with no problem. The only criticism that I have is that even if you think you've shaken out all of the wet coffee grounds into the garbage, you haven't. You still have to run hot water over it to get the remaining coffee grounds out and then continue to run the water for a little bit to make sure that all the grounds go down the drain so you don't stuff up the pipes. Paper coffee filters are cheap and running the extra hot water over the filter to clean it out tells me that we're probably breaking even as far as the cost for a cup of coffee when it comes to paper filter versus a gold tone filter. But the coffee definitely taste better so it's well worth it. I'm sticking with gold tone filters from now on. I also want to add that this coffee filter is made very very well. The surgical mesh filter is extremely fine and it's open on the bottom so all of the drip coffee flows out naturally.

I have never much cared for gold tone filters for my cone machines, as they never seemed to make much difference to the flavor on those, but I love gold tone filters on basket machines. It's mystifying to me that the cone shape is more popular than the basket shape for the gold tone filters, because the result in taste is more dramatic on a basket machine. Basket machines are not terribly efficient at delivering maximum flavor due to the way that the water soaks the grounds and filters down, but they do tend to make a more economically efficient purchase when money is tight. The gold tone filter helps make up for the lack by ensuring more of the coffee oils make it through into your pot. It's also economically efficient because you'll save money on filters over the long haul. It's really the best of both worlds if you have a basket machine. There is a bit of sediment that will also make it into the pot, but it's not much and only the person taking the last cup is going to notice. If you have one of those people in your office who takes the last cup and doesn't refill you can consider it justice. For the record, this is a good fit on my Black and Decker 10 cup machine. It's a little shorter than the basket, but it's a just snug enough fit and I've never had an overflow issue using this filter.

I use this as an alternative to paper filters. It works well, but it does leave a bit of sludge/silt in the bottom of the pot. I tried adjusting the amount of grinding of the beans, as well as using pre-ground coffee, but it still remained. It is not like using a percolator, as I use when camping making cowboy coffee, as this is much finer.All you need to do is slowly pour your last cup, so the last ounce or 2 remains in the pot, and then just dump that.It cleans easily, and I haven't really noticed any taste difference between this and paper filters, although the coffee is a bit more acidic.All in all, it works well and I will continue to use it.

Great product highly recommend

Spare part

We have had our Cuisinart coffee maker for years. The original basket for the coffee grounds served us well but it finally wore out. This replacement perfectly fits into the coffee maker. It filters even finely ground beans very well. It will let us keep this machine in service for years without having to environmentally wasteful paper baskets.