Sometimes you want a real coffee without unpacking half the kitchen. These drip coffee filter bags are about as simple as it gets: a flat paper-like bag that hangs on the rim of your mug, which you fill with your own ground coffee and throw away afterwards. We paid $16 for a pack of 100.
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What You’re Getting
100 empty, disposable filter bags. Each one is a flat sachet with a thin card frame. There’s no coffee in them: you add your own.
The good
- Nothing to carry but a few flat bags
- Hangs on the rim of your own mug
- Use the ground coffee you like
- No washing up: just bin the bag
- About 16 cents a cup
The not-so-good
- Single use: more rubbish to carry
- Can take a while to drip through
- Coffee is OK, depends on the grind
Quick Specs
| Spec | Details |
|---|---|
| Type | Disposable drip coffee filter bags |
| In the pack | 100 bags |
| Coffee | Your own ground coffee |
| Fits | Hangs on the rim of a mug |
| Material | PP and PETCard ears |
| Price per cup | About 16 cents |
Size and packing
There’s nothing here to pack, really. The bags are flat and weigh next to nothing, so a week’s worth fits in a zip-lock bag or slips down the side of the kitchen box. For hiking or travelling, where a dripper or an espresso maker is one thing too many, that’s the whole appeal.
Making a coffee
Tear the bag open along the line marked OPEN. Fold the two card ears out and hang them over the rim of your mug, so the bag sits open inside it. Spoon in the ground coffee, then pour hot water through slowly and let it drip into the mug.
One thing to know: the bag hangs inside the mug, not above it. As the mug fills, the bottom of the bag ends up sitting in the coffee, so it steeps a little as well as drips. In a short mug, lift the bag out once the water has gone through.
It can take a while for the water to drip through, so pour a little at a time and give it a minute.
How the coffee tastes
The coffee tastes OK: not too bad, but nothing special. It very much depends on the quality of the grind you’re using, because the bag is only a filter. Good, freshly ground coffee gives you a decent cup; a poor grind gives you a poor one. The grind also affects how fast the water runs through.
Cleaning up and rubbish
There’s no washing up at all. The wet grounds stay inside the bag, so you lift it off the mug and put the whole thing in the bin. No rinsing means no fresh water used, which is handy when the supply is limited.
The other side of that is the rubbish. Every coffee leaves a used bag, and at a campsite without bins you carry those out with you.
Conclusion: Portable Drip Coffee Filter Bags
These drip coffee filter bags are the lightest, simplest way to make real coffee that we’ve tried. They pack flat, hang on your own mug, take the ground coffee you like and leave no washing up. The coffee tastes OK and depends a lot on the grind you use. It can take a while to drip through, and the bags are single use, so there’s rubbish to carry out. I paid $16 for 100. For hiking, travelling or as a backup in the kitchen box, they’re a good buy.
Disposable drip coffee bags that hang on your mug: fill with your own ground coffee, pour, then bin the bag.
$16 for 100, with nothing to carry or wash. The coffee tastes OK, it can take a while to drip through, and the bags are single use.
- Hikers
- Travellers
- Coffee lovers
Yes. At about 16 cents a cup, a handful of these in the kitchen box is cheap insurance against a morning of instant coffee. If you’d rather not create rubbish, a reusable dripper is the better buy.
