The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-17
THE QUEST FOR GOOD COFFEE
ODD MANIFESTATIONS OF 4 LONG.
FELT POPULAR WANT.
Many Inventors SIN Trying to Produce
the Perfect Coffee Maker-New Ma.
chlnes Brought out All the Time
Scores Of Them on Saie-EnthTriasts
Who Roast and Grind Their Coffee.

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chimes Brought out All the Time
Scores Of Them Oh Saie-Ent hrriasts
Who Roast and Grind Their Coffee.
Fully twenty sorts OF patented coffee
/ making machines are now in current
use besides the coffee higgins and boilers
of familiar pattern and coffee filters of
various sorts to be fitted to simple pots.
New ideas in coffee pots are shown at
every big exposition, and enough novelties
in this line are invented each year to show
that the inventors consider the subject
well worth their talents and to prove that a
large proportion Of the worlds people do
not believe that the acme of coffee making
has been reached.
One dealer has fifty varieties of coffee
pots on his list, and another says
that there are so many in stock it would
be task to count them. But, doubtless.
these statements apply to the varying
grades of material and the different sizes
rath her than to the original models
The literature OF coffee making as in
stanced in the printed Jules for the Use
and care Of the various machines lined up
in the dealers show case would fill good
sized volume Many of these printed
The person Of liberal cosmopolitan lean
ings might breakfas, on Turkish coffee one
morning. Russian the next, Austrian Or
German the next, in fact have the concoc-
ton made after the fashion Of a different
nation for many consecutive days without
eXha,,sting the lis. All the prominent
foreign nations have &C fee machines repre-
senting them except the British.
<f 30 l,lS fTrS<, na<,k,,
home Use are complete in themselves,
each mounted on It's own spirit lamp. and
some are 40 nicely adjust ed that the calcu-
lations are for 81 many cups rather than
pints or quarts of the beverage.
Nearly all are designed for the amateur
coffee maker, having SO many gauges and
conditions that no possible mistake can be
made in the apportionment OF either water
or ground coffee These machines work
almost automatically, admitting of neither
more nor less than the proper quantity for
the stipulated outfit.
Many of the new machines have IA ac-
compartment a wire brush Of particular
shape for cleaning out the crevices and
Vanishing the dried coffee scum that is
apt TO adhere to most coffee pots regularly
used
The new coffee mills are of character
to make the old familiar side coffee mill
appear very ordinary and cheap. Tho old
style mill ia still liked for its convenience,
hut the modern mills are Of SNOWY exterior
Some Of the finest wood or Of china with
nicklc-plated Trainings, and works so well
adjusted that the grain il turned out of one
grade of fineness
The small two and three cup machines
are meant for students, invalds and travel
lers and for the people to whom coffee is
a pc, beverage to he brewed with individual
care and attention. These believe that
only the coffee that Is carefully selected.
freshly roasted and ground Immediately
bsfore making y fit TO drink. They roast