Coffee filter
Filtro de café
- Date
- 1908 · confidence high
- Place
- Dresden, Germany
- Credited to
- Melitta Bentz
- Field
- Tools
What it is
A paper or other-material filter that lets brewed coffee pass through while trapping the grounds, devised by Melitta Bentz for home drip coffee, the origin of the Melitta brand.
What it led to
- Popularization of home filter coffee
- The drip coffee-maker industry