| abstract |
The plunger-strainer, of a plunger-type, coffee maker, is divided into two parts, a plunger and a strainer. The plunger and the strainer operate together and apart. The conventional, metal-spring, wire-mesh strainer is replaced with an open-pore, elastic, plastic filter. The plastic filter secures spent coffee grounds or spent tea leaves at the bottom of a beverage during consumption of the beverage. Taught are 1) "grinding" coffee-grounds, tea-leaves and/or rice grains, 2), with an electric mixer, brewing coffee and steeping tea in water or in a milk product, and 3) filtering the waste products from the mixture. Also, taught is the combination of this invention and a related application, "Apparatus and Methods for Denaturing and Whipping into a Foam Product Protein found in Milk and Egg and the Resulting Product." The related application adds heat and pH denaturing and novel foam beverages. A new coffee making apparatus and improved commercial coffee vending apparatus is described. Rice can combine with or replace coffee or milk. |