The birth story of manual dripping coffee in coffee culture

In 1908, a housewife in Germany, from her reliable idea, gave birth to a popular way of dripping coffee all over the world. At that time, it was in Turkish style, which was to boil the water with the coffee and wait for the coffee to precipitate before drinking. Feeling quite inconvenient because of the coffee grounds, she pierced a hole in the bottom of the copper bowl and tore a page of paper into the notebook, which was spread like blotting paper, removing the bitterness of the coffee grounds and making a palatable coffee.

Immediately applying for a patent, she founded a company named "Melitta" after herself. Her first invention was the Filter Top Device lined with Filter Paper, which is slightly different from today's filter cups by piercing the bottom of the copper bowl and laying filter paper in between. It was not until 1937 that the product was transformed into the same cone as it is now, and the filter cup was developed into a cone that could be fixed in the cup.

Melitta's conical filter cup is the basic model, narrower and narrower down the funnel, with a hole in the bottom. Since there is only one hole, the water can be soaked in coffee for quite a long time and can be extracted slowly. (the term for the weight of coffee means concentration. Expressed as light or strong) very strong.

Dripping coffee is based on filter cups and filter paper. Therefore, we often talk about raw bean coffee, also known as freshly brewed coffee (brewed coffee), also known as drip coffee (drip coffee) or filtered coffee (filtered coffee). The way to use filter cups and filter paper to extract coffee manually is to drip coffee manually. Although coffee experts have introduced us to know that it is not long ago, it is actually one of the traditional methods that have been used since 70 years ago. Not only that, the coffee machines we often use at home are dripping automatically, and after a thorough understanding, we find that the principle is so simple.