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Drip Coffee Over a Hundred Years of Wonderful Taste
Drip brewing of coffee is and has been the most popular process of making coffee in the U.S. and most of North America for over a hundred years now.
This popularity for so long went a long way for the manufacturers of coffee makers to use that method as their proprietary method for making coffee in their machines.
Drip brewing is very simple and direct, which also is another reason companies preferred that method for their machines, less fuss means less engineering and as importantly, less cost.
The coffee beans are put in a paper filter and then into the container of the coffeemaker. After the water is heated, it is then poured onto the beans. The heated water, then drains through the oils and nutrients of the beans, with a few oils and nutrients being held back in its paper filter.
Eventually, the hot coffee water makes it through into the reservoir, at the bottom of the machine and there it sits to steep, until it is ready to pour. The longer it is left to steep, the darker and stronger taste, it gets and there-in lies the “art” of brewing.
Other coffeemakers have been brought to the market recently and they all have their own unique appeals for their own public. They are in no particular order, the French Press, the percolater, just plain boiled coffee (just putting the beans and water in a pan and boiling away for a flavorful treat, LOL!), etc. But still most manufacturers and people prefer drip coffee.
More modern machines offer a paperless filter. This offers the drinker a more full bodied taste without the paper there to collect those extra sediments and oils from the coffee’s beans, etc.
Some people prefer this “new” method, rather than using paper for their filters, however, just as many like it the “old way”. It is much easier some suspect to be able to throw away the residual trash and spent beans in the used paper filter, but this is a choice you’ll need to make for yourself.
Also, in the past few years, single serving coffee makers have been created to a very appreciative, responsive audience. This “new” technique allows the owner the flexibility of brewing individual cups of coffee. Its convenience and speed are what seems to have ingratiated this process to its public. But as new as this process is, it still is the “old school” drip coffee maker method, but with a new face.
Multi-cup or single serving, this is another debate for another time, but keep in mind they both take advantage of and use the most popular method to brew your favorite beverage!