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Coffee brewing made a comeback a hundred years ago

Published: 2026-04-04 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2026/04/04, At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, Bentz Melitta, a German housewife, thought it was too troublesome to make coffee now. One day, she made a hole in the bottom of the copper bowl, took out an 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. That's how she invented the ability to filter dregs and retain mellow coffee.

At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, Bentz Melitta, a German housewife, thought it was too troublesome to make coffee now. One day, she made 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 hot water, and immediately the mellow coffee dripped into the pot through the blotting paper. In this way, she invented the method of filtering dregs and retaining the aroma of coffee by hand.

However, due to the acceleration of industrialization and the rise of large coffee manufacturers, coffee beans have entered the industrial era of assembly line, the quality and taste are becoming more and more simple, people are not easy to come into contact with different coffee beans, and there is no time to brew coffee by hand. Use a coffee maker or Starbucks to become mainstream. Until recent years, hand-brewed coffee has returned to people's horizons.

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