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The popularity and acceptance of espresso is higher in the current market. However, the rise of the boutique coffee market has undoubtedly led to a shift in public attention to a more diversified way of brewing coffee. Among them, the most important thing that can not be ignored is trickling coffee, which appeared at the beginning of coffee culture.

A History from Housewives-Melita filter Cup

In the 19th century, people used to make coffee in three ways:

➀'s most traditional immersion brewing is that the coffee powder is mixed with water, and the coffee liquid is poured out or drunk directly after sitting. The coffee made by this method contains more fine coffee powder, which will not only form an astringent feeling in the mouth, but also plug in the teeth and is not easy to clean.

➁ from 1810 to 1814, the American British businessman Sir Thompson Benjamin (Ben-jamin Thompson) worked with Count Rumford and an American scientist to develop an electric coffee maker (Percolator), which recycled hot water to brew coffee pressed powder. Because the water in the pot was constantly heated, extracted, and cooled, the coffee produced was extremely bitter after being over-extracted. Although the disadvantages of the three methods are obvious, under the conditions of science and technology at that time, people can only use this method all the time.

➂ uses cloth bags to filter coffee grounds, although this method avoids the main shortcomings of soaking, but it is tedious to clean, and after many times of use, the stump left in the gap in the cloth bag will also affect the flavor of coffee.

It was not until 1908 that a German housewife, melitta Bentz, had a whim to drill a hole under the copper pot, put on the children's blotting paper, poured in the coffee powder to filter, and invented the prototype of today's trickling filter cup. In the same year, she applied for a patent and founded Melita, whose signed single-hole filter cup was also very popular and was affectionately known as the "Melita filter cup". Today, the century-old Grey Road Company is run by its grandchildren and has expanded to sell filter paper, coffee and coffee utensils.

Due to the single-hole design of the "Merita filter cup", the flow rate of coffee powder is slow when filtering. Therefore, this device is very suitable for medium-deep roasting and coarse coffee grinding. Therefore, this pure manual bubble method quickly took root in the oriental land, such as Japan, Taiwan and other places. In the history of coffee highlighted by male chauvinism, Benz Melita's invention undoubtedly adds color to this chapter.