COFFEE ESSENTIALS Filter Gourmet 500 (13 3/4" X 5 1/4") 500/Pack

COFFEE ESSENTIALS Gourmet 500 Commercial Coffee Filters (13 3/4" x 5 1/4", 500/Pack) are premium, large-format basket filters engineered specifically for Gourmet-style 12-cup commercial drip brewers and wide-bottom satellite funnels.

The "Gourmet" designation addresses a specific challenge in premium commercial brewing. Standard commercial 12-cup filters have a narrower base, which forces ground coffee to pile into a thick, deep bed. When hot water flows through a deep bed too fast, it causes pooling, uneven saturation, and a bitter, over-extracted taste.

By contrast, these Gourmet 500 filters utilize an expanded 5.25-inch bottom disk footprint. This wider configuration spreads the same volume of coffee grounds into a much shallower, more even layer, ensuring rapid, uniform water exposure and a perfectly balanced, smooth flavor extraction.

Key Features & Operational Benefits

1. Expanded Base Geometry & Optimized Extraction

The wide-base geometry drastically minimizes brewing defects. The 4.25-inch fluted side walls are pressed with heavy structural ribbing, keeping the filter standing completely upright when subjected to heavy water rushes. This eliminates side-wall collapse, a common issue that allows bypass water to sneak past the coffee bed unextracted, causing weak, watery batches.

2. Oxygen-Whitened, Non-Chemical Paper Web

Pure Taste Protection: The highly porous crepe paper is whitened using an eco-friendly oxygen-purified process that is 100% Elemental Chlorine-Free (ECF). This prevents chemical paper odors or bleach residuals from clouding the delicate notes of light-roast or single-origin estate coffees.

High Wet-Tensile Strength: This industrial-weight paper maintains excellent structural integrity when fully saturated, preventing structural tearing or blowouts during rapid high-volume extraction cycles.

3. Double-Barrier Sanitary Protection

Contamination Shield: High-permeability coffee paper is naturally highly absorbent. To keep the filters from soaking up ambient kitchen steam, moisture, or airborne grease, each stack of 500 is sealed in a heavy-gauge poly sleeve.

Sanitary Storage: Housed inside a clean white inner box, this double-barrier configuration ensures your back-of-house backup stocks stay perfectly sanitary and ready for immediate service.