Interesting Coffee facts

Thursday, December 29th, 2011 4:31:37 by

France was the first to come up with coffee machines for as Espresso Machines in 1822. Dr. Ernest Illy invented the first automatic espresso machine in 1933. Modern day espresso machine was invented by Achilled Gaggia an Italian, in 1946.

Gaggia build up a coffee machine with high pressure by using a spring power lever system. Further in 1960 the first hand driven espresso machine was produced by the Faema, an Italian Company.

The first Coffee Filter was invented by a German housewife Melitta Bentz while she was in a hunt of the perfectly brewed coffee with none of its bitterness. She invented a smart way to brew the coffee by pouring boiling water over ground coffee and filtering
the liquid, removing the grinds behind.

Melitta tested with many materials and concluded that blotter paper that her son uses for school work works the best. Coffee filter and filter paper were patented on June 20th, 1908 and soon she formed a company with her husband Hugo, The Melitta
Blentz Company and sold about 1200 coffee filters during a fair in Leipziger, Germany.

On December 26, 1865 James Mason changed the taste of the coffee with his invention of coffee percolator, which gained its real fame in 1906.

In 1901, instant coffee was invented by Satori Kato of Chicago, a Japanese American chemist which was lead to the first mass produced instant coffee in 1906 by an Enlish chemist George Constant, George was living in Guatemala and after experimenting he invented
“Red E Coffee” which was marketed by this name in 1909. Nescafe was later invented in 1938.

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1 Comment for “Interesting Coffee facts”

  1. Abrar

    Very interesting

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