Filtering Techniques

03.22.09 Paper coffee filters

Paper coffee filters. Double filtering required for gingercello. A serious pain and went through a lot of filters.

04.18.09 Mesh & Paper coffee filters

Double filtered cocoacello with gold mesh coffee filter to remove cocoa nibs, and then again with paper coffee filters. Still a pain.

07.05.09 Colander

Colander filtered Strawberry & Raspberry vodkas. Super easy, but leaves particulates in both of the vodkas, especially the raspberry.

07.18.09 Mesh coffee filter

Gold mesh coffee filter, for Raspberry2 and Strawberry2. Was a pain and required multiple rinses for Raspberry2, but was super-easy one shot filtering for Strawberry2. Also refiltered Strawberry1 and Raspberry1 to remove the particulates left over from the colander filtering.

E: Mesh coffee filter removes most of the partculate matter. Doesn't take as long as it did with the paper filters. Wiser to filter out large pieces first for crushed things like raspberries w/ a colander and then use the mesh coffee filter. For large things like strawberries, it doesn't matter as much, the mesh filter is fine.

08.10.09 Cheesecloth

Since raspberry was such a pain to filter the previous time, L decided to use cheesecloth to see if that would be any better. She folded the cheesecloth over once, and found that it clogged up just as quickly as the mesh coffee filter did. She had to use a spoon to scrape out the raspberry particulates to get anything through. In the end, it was tidier to just use the coffee filter since that can be rinsed out quickly and doesn't soak up the vodka like the cheesecloth does.