What are the hand filter cups? What's the difference? What are the characteristics of the filter cup?

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With the popularity of boutique coffee, drip coffee, that is, hand-brewed coffee, is becoming more and more popular, and the threshold to enter the field of hand-brewed coffee is low. With a handle to make a pot, filter paper, filter cup and ground coffee powder, you can make a cup of hand coffee.

However, filter cup as an important factor affecting hand extraction, in the face of different shapes of filter cup in the market, how to choose the most suitable for you? Let's talk about all kinds of questions about filter cups today.

The world's first filter cup was invented by a wife named Mellita in Germany. Mellita loves to drink coffee. One day in 1906, Mrs. Mellita suddenly felt that the coffee was not pure enough, so she drilled a hole under the cup and put her son's painting paper on it to see if she could drink purer coffee. This is the emergence of the world's first coffee filter cup.

Later, the filter cup was gradually improved and officially put into production in Germany in 1912, and the patent was declared and obtained in 1937. Since then, hand-dripping coffee has become popular in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and other parts of the world.

Up to now, the main function of filter cup is to support it. The second is the groove on the filter cup, which acts to form a gap between the filter paper and the filter cup after water injection, thus affecting the flow of water and the extraction of coffee. Therefore, there will be some differences in the taste and flavor of coffee extracted with different shapes of filter cups.

Let's take an inventory of the characteristics of different shapes of filter cups.

Fan-shaped filter cup (trapezoidal filter cup, table-shaped filter cup)

The bottom of the fan is usually one hole, two holes, three holes, the flow rate is slow, so the coffee extraction time will be longer, we should pay attention to the use of filter paper and filter cup fit degree, if the filter paper will fit the lower hole, that may cause the flow rate is too slow to cause excessive extraction, coffee bitterness, so should choose to match rather than fully fit.

The design of this shape was designed together when Melitta made coffee filter paper in 1908. At first, it was a single-hole design, but later improvements led to the emergence of more holes. Several holes determine the flow rate, depending on the number of holes that each person needs for coffee.

Conical filter cup

In addition to the fan shape, nothing is most common in the market than the tapered filter cup. Most of the difference lies in the groove design of the cup body. The groove is the channel that allows the coffee extract to flow into the cup, so the design of the groove also affects the flow rate.

For example, the KONO grooves recommended by many people are only half of the cup body or less, and the filter paper without grooves is fitted to the cup body, resulting in a slower flow rate, which is suitable for coffee with a thicker taste; while the HARIO60 recommended by most people extends to the whole cup body with a faster flow rate, and the coffee flavor flushed out is bright and clean, which is a highly recommended filter cup suitable for beginners.

Most of the contestants in all kinds of hand races also use 60. I would like to add that 60 is so named because it is a filter cup with an angle of 60 degrees.

Wave filter cup (cake filter cup)

The wave filter cup is a patent of KALITA, and the filter paper used together is like the crease of the cupcake paper, also known as the cake filter cup, but Wae is used in English, but more people call him the wave filter cup, using the crease of the filter paper to replace the reverse groove, because the area of touching the cup body is small, so that the coffee powder can be extracted evenly.

In recent years, wave filter cups are often seen in hand-brewing coffee competitions, and the reason why the market share is not so high is that wave filter paper is more expensive, and each piece of filter paper is about twice that of ordinary filter paper, which is also a small disadvantage.

Metal filter cup

Metal material can retain coffee grease, layer, Body than paper filter paper.

The advantage of metal material is that it can continue to be used as long as it is cleaned, while the obvious disadvantage is that the fine powder of coffee is easy to be washed into the coffee, causing coffee powder to precipitate at the bottom of the cup, and if the degree is serious, it will affect the taste of the whole cup of coffee. To solve this problem, you need a fine powder filter to make the coffee purer.

About the material of the filter cup

Ceramic, plastic, glass, metal and resin are mainly on the market, the material affects the temperature, and the temperature of the extracted coffee is also a factor affecting the taste. It is generally believed that ceramics are the best way to keep the temperature, and the recommended way is to warm the cup before brewing the coffee and let the temperature rise first.

Effect of filter cup on flow rate

It has something to do with the control of the flow rate, as well as the coffee beans used or the fineness of grinding. The fan shape is slower with the waves and the cone shape is faster.

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