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Manual labor rebranded as mindfulness so you can charge four dollars for it.
means A coffee-brewing method where hot water is poured slowly and deliberately over ground coffee in a filter, letting gravity do the extracting instead of a machine.
from Straightforwardly descriptive — you pour water over the grounds. The technique itself traces to early-1900s Germany, where a potter named Melitta Bentz punched holes in a tin cup, lined it with blotting paper, and invented the drip filter to get grounds out of her cup. The 'pour-over' name is newer, surfacing in English to distinguish the manual ritual from automatic drip machines once specialty coffee culture made the slow version a selling point rather than a chore.
- gear needed
- filter, dripper, timer, superiority complex
- flavor payoff
- clearer, brighter cup than drip machines
- time cost
- four minutes you will mention later
- origin
- popularized by Melitta Bentz, Germany, 1908