Number by catalogue:  Michel: 4596  

Perforation type: 13 ½x13 ½

Subject:

3 Turkish lira and additional charity 10 kurus.

A composition of the ingredients of a traditional coffee ceremony - a brass cup on a saucer, sugar, coffee beans, a glass of water and a coffee grinder* - in the background.

Additional:

* In the XII-XIII century, the simplest millstones for grinding coffee appeared. Presumably, in the middle of the 17th century, Turkish manual coffee grinders began to be used, which became the basis for the creation of desktop European manual coffee grinders.

Turkish coffee grinders are shaped like a cylinder, which is comfortable to hold in your hand. The foldable handle in classic Turkish coffee grinders retracts inside the case. In addition to its main function, the handle serves as a wrench, with which it is convenient to operate the grind adjustment screw and disassemble the grinder for cleaning.

European desktop manual coffee grinders, which appeared somewhat later than the Turkish ones and based on their design, usually have the shape of a cube with a small pull-out drawer, into which ground coffee is poured after it leaves the millstones.

The European coffee grinder is inconvenient because its fixed part - a wooden box - is inconvenient to fix with one free hand. Thus, if you set a fine grind on a European coffee grinder, then it will become extremely inconvenient to grind coffee - a poorly fixed box will crawl on the table due to great effort. Therefore, these grinders are sometimes attached to fixed surfaces such as walls or tables, and sometimes they are supplied with a clamp for temporary attachment to the table top.

Topics: Manual and Kitchen mills Various