The surprising and yet inspiring origin of coffee filter
31 May 2009
There a lot methods before but in some point no one came up with a really satisfactory method until 1908 -coffee filter. That’s when a German housewife named Melitta Bentz, frustrated with the bitter taste of coffee grounds boiled in water, came up with the idea of pouring boiling water over ground coffee instead of adding the coffee to boiling water. She poked holes in the bottom of a brass pot, then grabbed a sheet of blotter paper from her son’s copy book, cut it to size and fit it into the bottom of the pot. The boiling water dripped soaked through the porous paper, carrying the flavor with it – but the bitter grounds stayed behind, filtered out by the very first coffee filter.