Knowledge expansion: Inventory of common hand-poured coffee filter cups, so you will no longer be confused in the hand-poured circle

With the rise of specialty coffee, hand-brewed coffee is becoming more and more popular, and a variety of hand-brewed equipment has also flooded into the market. Many coffee lovers who are new to the market don't know where to start when faced with a wide variety of hand-brewed equipment.

Do you have this problem? Today we will first understand the knowledge of hand-poured filter cups:

Before the advent of the filter cup, people basically used flannel filter cloth to filter coffee when making drip coffee, which was not only easy to brew unevenly, but also difficult to clean. It was not until later that a woman named Melitta Bentz from Germany used her wisdom as a housewife to invent the first hand-brewed filter cup, and also applied for a patent, named it after her name, and opened her own company.

The influence of her invention on coffee continues to this day, and various types of hand-brewed filter cups came into being.

The common materials of filter cups are ceramic, resin and copper.

1. Ceramic filter cup: The advantage of ceramic filter cup is that it can maintain a high temperature for a long time and has good heat preservation performance. The premise is that it needs to be preheated before use, otherwise it will affect the temperature of the coffee. In addition, the ceramic filter cup is heavier and feels heavier.

2. Resin filter cup: Resin filter cup is more economical, resistant to falling and high temperature, and easy to carry. It is often used in training or coffee shops. For beginners, it is a relatively practical choice. The disadvantage is that the feel is worse.

3. Copper filter cup: Copper filter cup is a kind of favorite collection of many coffee lovers, because copper filter cup looks very textured. Copper filter cup also has good heat preservation effect and excellent thermal conductivity, but it has a fatal disadvantage that it is easy to rust and needs careful maintenance.

The number of holes can be divided into single hole, double hole, triple hole and multi-hole

1. Single-hole filter cup: The single-hole filter cup was first invented by Ms. Melitta Bentz. Generally, this single-hole filter cup is used for coffee beans with medium roasting degree.

Such as Hario V60

Such as KONO

Bee House

Such as Origami (meaning "origami" in Japanese, origami filter cup)

2. Double-hole filter cup: generally used for brewing lightly roasted to medium roasted coffee beans.

3. Three-hole filter cup: The three-hole filter cup is basically not picky about the roasting degree of coffee beans and is called the "universal filter cup" by industry insiders.

Such as Kalita Wave Dripper

Such as Kalita three-hole trapezoidal filter cup

4. Multi-hole filter cup: There are also many filter cups with more than three holes, ranging from four to eight holes. It should be noted that the more holes a filter cup has, the faster the flow rate when brewing coffee. For example, when comparing a single-hole filter cup with a three-hole filter cup, although the number of holes has increased, the holes in the three-hole filter cup are much smaller than those in the single-hole filter cup.

Such as Bonavita Next wave