Faith Said:
Just in case it gets too close to call... I also found these letters from the period. Included are instructions on how to make "instant coffee" in a modern encampment.
www.fugawee.com/coffee.htmI'm sticking by my original answer. (Civil War)
I did find, however. that the British government granted a patent for a soluble "coffee compound" in 1771. I just can't obtain those records on such a short notice. I found mention of that patent at
www.quick.com.au/coffee/history_of_instant_coffee.php Who knows?
Quote:Here is your record copy! Do not erase it!
Was going to PM this to you, but can't get this 'puter to copy/paste the stuff so I can send it.
Well, I?m gonna have to say that instant coffee was invented during the Civil War. Don't know what regiment or anything else though. Probably not as ?instant? as we have today, but instant by the standards of time. I?ve also read somewhere that the instant coffee used by the regiments was a bottled coffee extract of near syrup form, but I don?t remember where I saw that information.
Source:
www.coffeebeatcafe.com - While preparations of pulverized coffee have existed since at least the eighteenth century and have been commercially available since their use as rations in the Civil War, modern soluble "instant" coffee was created in the 1930s by Nestlé ´echnicians in Brazil.
Source:
www.heritagedepot.com - Instant coffee was first widely used in the Civil War. Coffee mixed with cream and sugar was distributed in a paste form to Union soldiers who tried to dissolve it in hot water to make a cup of coffee.
Bro Freddie Said:
Instant coffee was invented in 1901 by Andrew Eick, an American scientist working in Chicago. However, it was not marketed commercially until Nescafé launched in 1938. Its popularity soared in post-WWII America and today it can be found all over the world.
Courtesy of Wikipedia...I copyed and pasted....LOL
Instant coffee, or soluble coffee, as it was originally called dates back as early as 1771 when the British government granted a patent for a ‘coffee compound’. There have been many attempts since then to make instant coffee more palatable but capturing the essence of freshly roasted, freshly brewed coffee has proven a difficult task.
Instant coffee is made by brewing a concentrated liquid solution of real coffee, then removing the water through various means of dehydration. What is left, the residue, is instant coffee. Early methods of dehydration involved spraying the concentrated solution into heated stainless steel drums and after the water had evaporated the drums were scraped and the powdery residue was packaged. The taste was scorched, pungent and bitter to say the least. If you have ever left a pot on the burner too long and have ended up with a charred disgusting mess in the bottom of the carafe, then you have made instant coffee.
Am I right this time?
Toby Said:
A wild-assed guess would tell me that it was probably invented for military expediency, so I'd guess the
U. S. Army had something to do with it. Maybe during the Mexican American War?I know that's how M&M's came to be much later on.
Major Reynolds Said:
The earliest documented version was in in Britian in 1771, in America the first developed was in 1853 and was an experimental version {in cake form} and was Field tested during the Civil War, but what I have found is that George Constant Washington in 1906 developed the first commercially successful process for making instant coffee
Rainguage said:
Lets see how I do:
If my information is correct, instant coffee has been around as early as 1771 when the British Gov't approved a patent for "coffee compound"......"spraying concentrated coffee in heated drums......when dry the residue was scraped off and packaged"
That a little closer?
In the 60's the process was refined
Steve Korot said:
Now you got me nuts.......
: A Selective HistoryLearn about some key events in the history of coffee.
View a simple text version of timeline.
900 B.C.
Homer makes a reference to a mysterious black and bitter beverage with the power to ward off sleep.
800
C.E. Kaldi, an Abyssinian goatherd, wakes from a nap to discover his goats munching on bushes bearing a bright red berry-like fruit. The goats are dancing energetically on the cliffs and rocks near-by. Kaldi brings some of the cherries back to his village. His Imam (Muslim religious leader) soaks the cherries in water and drinks the brew. The Imam finds himself more alert than ever during that evening’s prayers.
1100-1600
Islamic travelers introduce coffee to North Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean and India. The Arabians, however, protect their monopoly on the valuable import by boiling all exported beans in water, sterilizing them and making it impossible for them to be germinated and domesticated elsewhere. Coffee grows only in Arabia until the 1600’s.
1475
Kiva Han, the world’s first coffee shop, opens in Constantinople.
1600
Pope Clemente VIII, when asked to place a ban on coffee, finds it so delicious that he “baptizes†it instead. Shortly thereafter, coffee travels to the New World with Captain James Smith, founder of Virginia at Jamestown.
1615-1721
Coffee is introduced to Europe by missionaries. Doctors prescribe it as a cure for various ailments, such as indigestion and drunkenness. Its popularity quickly spreads and coffee houses sprout up on every corner in Britain, Italy, Paris, Berlin, Boston and New York. Europeans and colonists from all walks of life gather in coffee houses to discuss politics, science and art. Believed to increase the drinker’s reasoning skills and creativity, coffee embodies the spirit of the Renaissance.
1668
Coffee replaces beer as New York City’s favorite breakfast drink.
1685
A coffee plant is smuggled out of the Arab port of Mocha and transported to Ceylon and the Dutch colony in East India at Java for cultivation. The Dutch begin commercial cultivation.
1723-1727
Coffee plants are introduced to the Americas. The flavor of coffee worldwide becomes more diverse, since the soil and unique environment of each geographic region imparts distinct characteristics to the beans grown in that region.
1800
With huge crops being produced in Brazil, coffee becomes more affordable and moves out of the realm of luxury and into the realm of daily necessity.
1822
The espresso machine is invented in France.
1825
Coffee cultivation begins in Hawaii.
1900
Hills Brothers begins packing roasted coffee in vacuum tins. This event begins the downfall of many local roasting shops and coffee mills.
1901
The first soluble “instant†coffee (YIKES!) is invented by American chemist Satori Kato of Chicago. 1905
The first commercial espresso machine is manufactured in Italy.
1908
The drip coffee maker is invented. Melitta Bentz makes a filter from blotting paper.
1920
Prohibition goes into effect in the United States. Coffee sales boom.
1934
A new gas station is built in Kalamazoo, Michigan. This gas station will operate as a gas station until 1985, and will be reborn in 1993 as the first Water Street Coffee Joint.
1938
Nescafe instant coffee (freeze dried) is invented by the Nestle Company to assist the Brazilian government in solving its coffee surplus problem.
1942
Coffee has become such an essential part of American life that during World War II, U.S. soldiers are issued instant Maxwell House coffee in their ration kits. In the U.S., widespread hoarding leads to coffee rationing.
1946
In Italy, Achilles Gaggia perfects the modern espresso machine. Cappuccino is named for the resemblance of its color to the robes of the monks of the Capuchin order.
1961
Frank Sinatra releases Ring-a-Ding-Ding. This album features the soon-to-be-classic recording of “They’ve Got an Awful Lot of Coffee in Brazil†(a.k.a. “The Coffee Songâ€).
1962
American per-capita coffee consumption reaches an all-time high of more than three cups a day.
1975
Specialty coffee shops begin an ascent in popularity that continues today. Many believe specialty coffees are the future of the coffee industry.
1993
In February 1993, Water Street Coffee Joint opens for business at 315 East Water Street in a building that formerly housed a gas station.
1993-2001
Water Street Coffee Joint is proud to be part of the many revitalization efforts in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan. An amazing community of coffee-lovers, vendors, artists, baristas and friends surrounds Water Street Coffee Joint. Business grows steadily.
2000
In search of the perfect brew, Water Street Coffee Joint becomes a wholesale micro-roaster, hand crafting beans in small batches to create the most delicious and unique coffees around.
2003
In July 2003, Water Street Coffee Joint opens its second location at 3037 Oakland Drive.
2004
Water Street Coffee Joint steps forth into the modern world @ waterstreetcoffeejoint.com.
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dont know where you got your info, but this all I can find under that topic.....Everything I've read over the past hour points to my answer
Heres another piece of research to brouse
Coffee Timeline:
Excerpt from UTNE READER, Nov/Dec 94, by Mark Schapiro, "Muddy Waters"
Prior to 1000 A.D.: Members of the Galla tribe in Ethiopia notice that they get an energy boost when they eat a certain berry, ground up and mixed with animal fat.
1000 A.D.: Arab traders bring coffee back to their homeland and cultivate the plant for the first time on plantations. They also began to boil the beans, creating a drink they call "qahwa" (literally, that which prevents sleep).
1453: Coffee is introduced to Constantinople by Ottoman Turks. The world's first coffee shop, Kiva Han, open there in 1475. Turkish law makes it legal for a woman to divorce her husband if he fail to provide her with her daily quota of coffee.
1511: Khair Beg, the corrupt governor of Mecca, tries to ban coffee for feat that its influence might foster opposition to his rule. The sultan sends word that coffee is sacred and has the governor executed.
1600: Coffee, introduced to the West by Italian traders, grabs attention in high places. In Italy, Pope Clement VIII is urged by his advisers to consider that favorite drink of the Ottoman Empire part of the infidel threat. However, he decides to "baptize" it instead, making it an acceptable Christian beverage.
1607: Captain John Smith helps to found the colony of Virginia at Jamestown. It's believed that he introduced coffee to North America.
1645: First coffeehouse opens in Italy.
1652: First coffeehouse opens in England. Coffee houses multiply and become such popular forums for learned and not so learned - discussion that they are dubbed "penny universities" (a penny being the price of a cup of coffee).
1668: Coffee replaces beer as New York's City's favorite breakfast drink.
1668: Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse opens in England and is frequented by merchants and maritime insurance agents. Eventually it becomes Lloyd's of London, the best-known insurance company in the world.
1672: First coffeehouse opens in Paris.
1675: The Turkish Army surrounds Vienna. Franz Georg Kolschitzky, a Viennese who had lived in Turkey, slips through the enemy lines to lead relief forces to the city. The fleeing Turks leave behind sacks of "dry black fodder" that Kolschitzky recognizes as coffee. He claims it as his reward and opens central Europe's first coffee house. He also establishes the habit of refining the brew by filtering out the grounds, sweetening it, and adding a dash of milk.
1690: With a coffee plant smuggled out of the Arab port of Mocha, the Dutch become the first to transport and cultivate coffee commercially, in Ceylon and in their East Indian colony - Java, source of the brew's nickname.
1713: The Dutch unwittingly provide Louis XIV of France with a coffee bush whose descendants will produce entire Western coffee industry when in 1723 French naval officer Gabriel Mathieu do Clieu steals a seedling and transports it to Martinique. Within 50 years and official survey records 19 million coffee trees on Martinique. Eventually, 90 percent of the world's coffee spreads from this plant.
1721: First coffee house opens in Berlin.
1727: The Brazilian coffee industry gets its start when Lieutenant colonel Francisco de Melo Palheta is sent by government to arbitrate a border dispute between the French and the Dutch colonies in Guiana. Not only does he settle the dispute, but also strikes up a secret liaison with the wife of French Guiana's governor. Although France guarded its New World coffee plantations to prevent cultivation from spreading, the lady said good-bye to Palheta with a bouquet in which she hid cuttings and fertile seeds of coffee.
1732: Johann Sevastian Bach composes his Kaffee-Kantate. Partly an ode to coffee and partly a stab at the movement in Germany to prevent women from drinking coffee (it was thought to make them sterile), the cantata includes the aria, "Ah! How sweet coffee taste! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine! I must have my coffee."
1773: The Boston Tea Party makes drinking coffee a patriotic duty in America.
1775: Prussia's Frederick the Great tries to block inports of green coffee, as Prussia's wealth is drained. Public outcry changes his mind.
1886: Former wholesale grocer Joel Cheek names his popular coffee blend "Maxwell House," after the hotel in Nashville, TN where it's served.
Early 1900's: In Germany, afternoon coffee becomes a standard occasion. The derogatory term "KaffeeKlatsch" is coined to describe women's gossip at these affairs. Since broadened to mean relaxed conversation in general.
1900: Hills Bros. begins packing roast coffee in vacuum tins, spelling the end of the ubiquitous local roasting shops and coffee mills.
1901: The first soluble "instant" coffee is invented by Japanese-American chemist Satori Kato of Chicago.
1903: German coffee importer Ludwig Roselius turn a batch of ruined coffee beans over to researchers, who perfect the process of removing caffeine from the beans without destroying the flavor. He markets it under the brand name "Sanka." Sanka is introduced to the United States in 1923.
1906: George Constant Washington, an English chemist living in Guatemala, notices a powdery condensation forming on the spout of his silver coffee carafe. After experimentation, he creates the first mass-produced instant coffee (his brand is called Red E Coffee).
1907: In less than a century Brazil accounted for 97% of the world's harvest.
1920: Prohibition goes into effect in United States. Coffee sales boom.
1938: Having been asked by Brazil to help find a solution to their coffee surpluses, Nestle company invents freeze-dried coffee. Nestle develops Nescafe and introduces it in Switzerland.
1940: The US imports 70 percent of the world coffee crop.
1942: During W.W.II, American soldiers are issued instant Maxwell House coffee in their ration kits. Back home, widespread hoarding leads to coffee rationing.
1946: In Italy, Achilles Gaggia perfects his espresso machine. Cappuccino is named for the resemblance of its color to the robes of the monks of the Capuchin order.
1969: One week before Woodstock the Manson Family murders coffee heiress Abigail Folger as she visits with friend Sharon Tate in the home of filmmaker Roman Polanski.
1971: Starbucks opens its first store in Seattle's Pike Place public market, creating a frenzy over fresh-roasted whole bean coffee.
1979: Mr Cappuccino opens for business
Phil , heres my answer.......
Instant Coffee
In 1901, just-add-hot water "instant" coffee was invented by Japanese American chemist Satori Kato of Chicago. In 1906, English chemist George Constant Washington, invented the first mass-produced instant coffee. Washington was living in Guatemala and at the time when he observed dried coffee on his coffee carafe, after experimenting he created "Red E Coffee" - the brand name for his instant coffee first marketed in 1909. In 1938, Nescafe or freeze-dried coffee was invented.
OLKOOT!!
Two Tales said:
Ok here's what I know or at least think I know...Credit is given to that Japanese Fellow Satori Kato for inventing a dried "instant Coffee" but it wasn't really an instant coffee...the next leap into this realm was Max Mortgenthaler..a chemist that worked for Nestle in Switzerland with Nestle manufacturing and marketing the first product commercially....that's only part of the story as I have been told...around 1000 -800 BC the Arabs (country of origin unknown) made a dried coffee used as medicine..this was done by painting the inside of a hot copper vessel with liquid coffee and then allowing it to cool..at which time it was flaked off and stored for further use...it was used to cure headaches, intestinal cramps and constapation...
I can't find the research data that supports this last theroy...so I'll have to say that the first DRINKABLEinstant coffee was invented by Max Mortgenthaler
OK now, I have highlighted in
pink what I believe to be your response/reply to the question.
When was instant coffee first invented? Support your answer! Now, I have a problem here! When I first Read Two Tales response I mis-read it believing that he had responded with a loosely supported reply of 800 to 1000 as shown. As I re-read I pulled my head out and discovered that his response actually is as highlighterd in pink. Why is this a problem you ask? Because selection of
what I thought to be his answer would have made him the winner and indeed I did inform him that I believed he had won.
The next potential winner comes from the group of folk responding with
1771. As earlier determined where there is a tie the winner would be chosen by lot. And the potential winner drawn from that group is
Rain Guage.
So the question is;
who wins?? Well since I screwed up the works with
my error, both Two Tales and Rain Guage will receive their choice of $50.00 personal check, a Bunn Coffee Maker, or a Coleman Camping Dripolater! ;D
Congratulations guys; excellent work!
Actually, everyone did a fantastic job with this little contest and I certainly learned a bunch. I think we need to do some more of these things!
As soon as my wallet heals a bit.) for participating and all the hard work!