Summery of the history

The oldest lemon squeezer was invented in turkey in Kutahya city and found from the first quarter of the 18th century, these ceramic presses in the typical style of Turkish pottery having a superficial resemblance to today's conventional appliances with cone, but are constructed differently. The cone is hollow and perforated at the base.Inside it contains a column, which terminates in a hole at the bottom of the press, thanks to this contruction the juice flow to the container base when the juice level has reached a certain level and can flow over the edge of the cone located inside the cylinder.

In the 18th century were pushed for use of lemons in Europe. presumably this worked on the smasher potatoes model, being used as a lemon squeezer, an element with small holes where the juice could come out.

The writer Jean Paul mentioned in 1798 "such lemon presser" I say if you do not at the minute every hour grape berry auskeltertet least with some lemon pushers - because at the end what would be?

The lemon squeezer creation put a quote from The daiary in the Vehfreude of Jeremias Gotthelf close to 1850 on the doubful customer traveling: This has been made poor devils often in such the lemon markets in example: there are in fact compressed into three different times to punch: the first time with the thumb, the second time with his fis, for the third time with a potato oppressors ". This quote clearly desccribes that the mechanical pressing is the ultimate expression of superior hand. 

In England, the lemon squeezer was known in the second half of 19th century, a wide circulation in France was probably even later, that was the fact that they weren't mentioned in any dictionary.

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