Fazekas Éva: A fekete leves, a kávéfőzés története, időszaki kiállítás, 2010. április 23 - 2010. október 25, a Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum, a Magyar Műszaki és Közlekedési Múzeum és a Fazekas & Kimmel Gyűjtemény közös időszaki kiállítása (Budapest, Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum, 2010)
Éva Fazekas-József Kimmel: POTS, FLASKS AND PERCOLATORS
These coffee pots were used in the first place, for many years, in the Netherlands, France and Victorian England. Masters and researchers of experimenting disposition were rivalling with each other about who could create more exciting shapes, and - from time to time - they succeeded in improving the technical solving. The biggins could not be patented as the procedure was too simple but the London coffee-roasting master William Dankin initiated patenting of a roasting machine as soon as in 1847. His invention also extended to a biggin. This consists of an Archimedean screw and a vessel with a plug through which the boiling water gets into the inner of the filter bag. The patent is linked with the name of his wife Elisabeth Dankin who had the device patented in 1848. The de Belloy pot The current use of filter pots is linked to the name of lean Baptiste de Belloy ( 1709-1808), who was a high-standing dignitary of the Church, archbishop of Paris in 1801. The old archbishop was of the opinion that coffee should not be boiled at any rate as this would spoil the flavour of the drink, therefore he invented a special coffee pot. The so-called de Belloy pot (its French name used till today is dubelloire ) consists of two parts. The bottom of the upper part is a filter, while the lower part ends in a tube that can be closed with a plug. The ground coffee was strewn into the upper part and compressed with a kind of meat-beater. The aim was to make the water pass slowly through the coffee, thus flavour extraction could be enhanced. The process was further slowed down by closing the air column in the lower part with the plug on the outlet. When the milling product had been wetted enough, the plug was removed, and the coffee could, by dripping down through the milling product, get into the Vörösréz spirituszfőzős szűrőkanna sárgaréz csappal, 1900-as évek eleje, F&K gyűjtemény Copper Filter pot with brass tap and alcohol burner, early 1900s, F&K collection lower part of the pot. The method was so widespread that in Hungary it was still applied to the majority of coffee machines sold in the first half of the 20 t h century. A cheaper enamelled popular version of these pots was widespread as well, in variegated colours, sometimes with flower patterns or gilded decoration. There was almost no catalogue of household appliances from which this kind of coffee machine was lacking. 85
