What Happened to Coffee in America?
What Happened to Coffee in America?
In the 1970s, coffee grinders become novelty items and are now cookie jars that look like vintage coffee grinders and other items. With all the “new” conveniences of freeze-dried and decaffeinated coffee, along with coffee available in vacuum cans or sealed jars, grinders become a thing of the past for many homes.
Italian Luigi Goglio now invents a one-way valve to let coffee de-gas without contact with oxygen in the latest espresso machine. Two years later, the “Mini” slim style Gaggia manual lever espresso machine, designed by André Ricard, was introduced. A short time later Ernesto Illy further simplified the Gaggia coffee machine of 1945 and introduced the coffee espresso system. This system added two layers of filter paper, made it simpler, cheaper and some say idiot proof.
At the same time Mr. Coffee introduces the first automatic drip coffee maker. The Bunn Company followed with its coffee maker innovation and introduced the first commercial quality automatic drip coffee maker, which was also intended as a household coffee maker. Next, those involved with coffee get together.