Coffee Filter Keep Those Grounds out of your Coffee

Realistically a coffee filter is nothing more then a strainer for coffee grounds. There are filters made from steel and paper (more permanent coffee filters are made from steel). How ever coffee hasn’t always been made with a filter. In the 1700’s coffee was made mixed with ground beans and boiling water. The down side to all of this was that people got pretty tired of always having coffee grounds left at the bottom of their mug.

If you can believe it the first form of coffee filter used was a sock. Someone used their sock with coffee grounds in it, added boiling water and drank what was filtered off. It wasn’t until 1908 that Melitta Bentz of Germany finally came up with a paper filter alternative to the sock. She found the taste of coffee mixed with grounds

History Of The Coffee Filter
In the year 1908, paper coffee filters that are available nowadays came into being. A German - Melitta Bentz - found the taste of coffee too bitter and the sight of soaked coffee grounds all over inside her coffee cup too messy. She desperately wanted to filter out the grounds from the decoction. So she used her son's porous blotter paper to filter out the grounds from the liquid. And, thus, the paper coffee filter was born.

Metal Coffee Filters
The metal coffee filters that we see in use these days first came about in the 1800’s. What it did was simple, a fixed filter inside a kettle, the coffee grounds were placed in the permanent coffee filter, and then the hot water was poured over them. Even today these metal coffee filters are readily available in homes with an electric heating system, also a variety are now found in the average drip coffee machine. Being that drip coffee makers are now the most efficient we generally see them in most homes with a permanent metal filter if anywhere.

Types Of Coffee Filters
Coffee filters are made from a variety of different materials. Paper, gold, and cloth filters just to name a few of the popular forms that can be found. You might think, golf…a golf coffee filter? But yes, they last forever, and if you have the money to burn then why the heck not get one. Cloth filters are very environmentally friendly, how ever the clean up is a pain in the butt. The normal and most widely used coffee filter of all is the paper coffee filter. The same you can get at your local grocery store, and throw away or compost after use.

The question that needs to be answered for those that use coffee filters is that is it the preferred method for brewing your coffee or would you like the taste better in a non filtered method (i.e. French press). The answer is in the taste, and only you can figure that out.