[post_page_title]The coffee filter[/post_page_title]
What would we have done without coffee? Most people in the Western world are so used to opening their day with a cup of coffee, it’s almost become more of a cultural habit than anything else. One of the more revolutionary people in the coffee industry was Melitta Bentz, a German housewife who believed that percolators were subject to over-brewing as well as machines that were espresso-based had a tendency to leave grounds in the coffee. Annoyed with all the other alternatives, Bentz created a simple filteration system using a paper from her son’s school book where the paper was laying over the bottom of a brass pot.
