Melitta 63217C Premium Filters Natural Reviews Summary

Filter Quality

Pros:

• "These number 4 natural brown paper cone coffee filters by Melitta make the Melitta coffee taste better than any brand of filter."
• "Filters work very well. They are strong enough to keep the grounds in yet they allow the flavor to come through."
• "These coffee filters are extremely well made."
• "I've been buying a six-pack of these filters a little more than once a year for about eight or nine years now."
• "These filters have a double-corrugated, large, and strong seam that has never burst open, releasing grounds into my coffee, the way some of the recycled or cheaper varieties sometimes do."
• "Unbleached filter paper. Have made many hundreds of pots of coffee with these and they consistently work well."
• "These filters fit my regular 12 cup coffee pot just fine. I really like that they are not bleached. They are strong and I have not had any of them tear or fall apart when pulling out of the coffee maker and putting in the compost."

Cons:

• "I'm not sure if these are fake or what. But I've had these before I would use 2 #4 filters have never had an issue of the filters breaking. These ones every single time they break."
• "When I use just one filter it will break 100% of the time."
• "I bought a 6-pack (600 filters), used about 275 so far. At least 10% of the filters allow grounds into coffee."
• "4 of the boxes I ordered failed when I put water into them. The bottom of the filter ripped open putting grounds as well as coffee into my cups."
• "These filters fall apart as soon as hot water touches them."
• "Many of the filters split at the bottom leaving a mess of grounds unfiltered into my cup."
• "These coffee filters will break 90% of the time if pouring after kettle finishes its boiling cycle."

Value for Money

Pros:

• "Buying in bulk is a great way to save money on something I will use anyway."
• "Buy it by the case, this way you never run out."
• "The deal on Amazon was six 100-count boxes for $17.88 and shipping was free!"
• "Found these Melitta filters on Amazon for less than $3.00 per box."
• "Can't beat this deal - comes to 3 cents per filter!"
• "With a total of 600 filters in this 6pack, I will have filters for years... The price for the 6pack is a huge value."
• "These coffee filters are a great buy. All the local sites that sell them charge so much."

Cons:

• "I thought this was new stock, but the boxes are scuffed and dented like they had been thrown in a large box with a bunch of other products."
• "I found the 6 pack on sale which was a great price, when i received the package there were only 5 in it instead of 6."
• "The Melitta sealed box, that was labeled as 6 boxes of 100 filters only actually includes 5 boxes."
• "The Price and description is for (6) 100 Pack of filters. Only a single 100 pack shows up."
• "It is still a savings compared to the store, but because of that not a great savings."
• "That means I am paying twice as much for less product."
• "Not sure if Bartells is breaking down the six packs when they shouldn’t be but I only received a one-pack."

Environmental and Health Considerations

Pros:

• "I like the natural brown version because I'm a little paranoid about industrial bleaching agents and because I like to throw them, along with the used coffee grounds, into my compost."
• "I respect Melitta’s commitment to sustainability. The brown ones have micro perforations for optimal robust taste & are compostable."
• "I prefer these natural unbleached brown ones. The bleach used to make paper white contains dioxin, the most poisonous substance on earth."
• "They are brown--unbleached which helps the environment and that's great!"
• "Coffee tastes so much better when using a good filter. I like the unbleached variety and these are the best quality I have found."
• "No caustic chemicals in the paper. Pure coffee taste!"
• "I love the use of bamboo and the flavor of the coffee is great."

Cons:

• "I'm giving this only two stars because the product said 'natural brown' paper filter, any of my previous 'subscribe and save' filters have been 'natural brown' and what arrived is bleached white."
• "However, I've heard that Melitta uses hydrogen peroxide instead, so now I wonder if I should've gone with the white."
• "I finally noticed in very small, faint, print that 'natural brown' is a registered trademark."
• "These were not good and most coffee had sediment in the bottom of the cup. They do not work well for our single made coffees."
• "The cheaper white filters I’ve saved for an emergency have saved the day."
• "However these are defective filters. Using a single filter will get coffee grinds in your cup."
• "I Like the natural filters better as they are less processed than bleached filters."