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Coffee brewing made a comeback a hundred years ago

Published: 2026-04-05 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2026/04/05, 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, felt that brewing coffee was too troublesome. One day, on a whim, she punched a hole in the bottom of a copper bowl, took out a piece of blotting paper from her son's schoolbag and placed it on it. After pouring hot water into it, the mellow coffee dripped into the pot through the blotting paper. In this way, she invented a follicular method that can filter the residue and retain the aroma of alcohol coffee-hand brewing method.

However, due to the acceleration of the industrialization process, the rise of large coffee manufacturers, coffee beans into the assembly line industry era, quality and taste more and more single, people are not easy to access different coffee beans, there is no time to manually brew coffee. Use coffee machines or go mainstream with Starbucks. Until recently, hand-brewed coffee has returned to people's vision.

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