Unveil the history of the hand filter cup. Starting with knowing Melitta.

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Hand-brewed coffee has become more and more popular in recent years, and hand-brewed coffee shops are opened one by one!

But actually,

The use of filter cup filter paper to make coffee has been invented and popular for a while more than a hundred years ago.

At that time, people used to use cloth bags to filter coffee grounds. But on the one hand, it is troublesome to clean, and second, it is unsanitary after repeated use, and the residual coffee grounds are also easy to destroy the taste and flavor.

One day, a wife named Melitta Bentz in Germany had a whim. She punched a hole in the bottom of the copper bowl, took out a piece of blotting paper from her son's schoolbag and put it into the hot water. Immediately, the mellow coffee dripped into the pot through the blotting paper. In this way, she invented a method of filtering dregs and retaining the aroma of mellow coffee. Then Mrs. Melitta registered a patent and opened a filter cup filter paper company.

Melitta is not only a representative of a single-hole filter cup, but each of his filter cups can be said to be a classic at that time, influencing the handmade coffee industry for more than a hundred years.

Melitta has produced a variety of trapezoidal filter cups, including single-hole, three-hole, and even 8-hole!

(the picture is taken from mobile101)

SFT1x1 and 1x2 series can be said to be filter cups produced by Melitta in cooperation with Japanese kilns with a collection of hundred years of technology.

The classic single-hole design is adopted, with an actuarial filter cup angle, so that the flow rate is concentrated and extruded without disturbing each other.

The bottom is designed with a zigzag rib to prevent the coffee powder from being pressed down to block the outlet after absorbing water. The internal rib design is surrounded by dense ribs to ensure that the heat flow can be discharged from the bottom, the air convection is smooth, and the cooking is not stuck.

It may be based on the design that Asians are more sensitive to acid value, so the rib depth of Mellita is thinner, so that the contact between filter paper and filter cup is closer, and the convection speed of hot air is slightly slower, which can slow down the flow rate.

Mellita SFT compares with Melita 100. in the same way, the brewing speed is slower, so it is more suitable for brewing rich, saturated coffee, and the price is much lower.

This filter cup is also very anti-stuffy on cooking, if you like the taste full-bodied, or afraid of acid, it is highly recommended to use Melitta SPT filter cup!