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Until early 1900s, the coffee machines such as Espresso or Percolator type machines were only available. Unfortunately, with both these types of machines it took time to produce the coffee and neither were particularly clean and tidy to use. It was not until 1908, that Filter Coffee Makers, as we know them today, emerged on to the market. But it was not a break through in coffee machine design that lead the way to the myriad of Filter Coffee Makers now available, but the invention of the filter paper, by German housewife Melitta Bentz.
Melitta Bentz was looking to find a way to brew the perfect cup of coffee, without the bitterness of over brewing which often happened with percolated coffee or having coffee grounds floating around in her drink which frequently happened with the old Espresso type machines. She realized she need some sort of filter to run the coffee through and tried a number of different materials until one day she tried some blotting paper from one of her son’s school books. In 1908, Melitta Bentz patented the first Filter Coffee Paper and the following year, at the Leipziger Fair in Germany, 1200 filter papers were sold.
This invention lead to the basic principle of all Filter Coffee Makers, ie, hot water is poured over ground coffee, which is held in a filter paper or bag. The water then filters through the coffee and is collected in a container below. With this basic principle coffee could now be brought to the masses.
Depending on your capacity, purpose or target market, there are any numbers of different Filter Coffee Makers on the market today. For the domestic market, who need only a few cups of coffee at any one time, there are small Filter Coffee Makers that produce anywhere from two to twelve cups of coffee at any one time and keep it warm on a hot plate.
For the office market, there are bigger versions of the above. The Bravilor Mondo or Novo series are ideal for smaller office areas. There are a variety of Filter Coffee Makers that can produce as little as 3 pints of coffee or up to 72 cups per hour.
For the catering sectors or larger office areas, Marco have a range of Filter Coffee Makers to suit from the Qwikbrew that can produce 120 cups of coffee per hour up to the Maxibrew Freshcup which can produce a whopping 529 cups of coffee per hour.
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