Filters
Melitta 1x4 (wedge) vs Cafec Abaca+ Trapezoid
Melitta 1x4 (wedge)
- Fits
- Melitta wedge
- Flow
- Unknown · Unknown
- Material
- Paper · Cellulose
- Reuse
- Single-use
- Availability
- In production
- How it brews
- The original wedge filter — Melitta invented the format in 1908 — in the familiar 1x2 (1-4 cup) and 1x4 (4-8 cup) sizes for Melitta and other trapezoid pour-over cones and drip machines. Cheap, ubiquitous, and interchangeable with the Kalita wedge seat. Melitta doesn't publish a comparative flow rating and there's no dependable within-seat ranking, so we leave flow unrated. Fold the crimped seams over in opposite directions before seating so the paper opens flat against the wedge wall.
Cafec Abaca+ Trapezoid
- Fits
- Melitta wedge
- Flow
- Unknown · Unknown
- Material
- Paper · Abaca
- Reuse
- Single-use
- Availability
- In production
- How it brews
- The trapezoid (wedge) cut of Cafec's higher-abaca paper, in 101/102 sizes for Melitta-style wedge brewers rather than a cone. The wedge seat and the flat-ish bed it makes are the point: it fits Melitta-wedge drippers and interchanges with other wedge papers there, not with V60 cones. Cafec publishes no flow class for it, so flow is left unrated. As with the rest of the ABACA line, a quick rinse before brewing is common.