Coffee was, until the late 1950s,
brewed by hand or made in a
percolator. In both cases the temperature was considered to be too high. Therefore, at the launch of the Wigomat it was advertised to have the best brewing temperature. In the 1970s many machines followed the principle of drip coffee, but the Wigomat remained a competitor: ''"The people at
Zabar's tell us that their Wigomat Coffee Maker is one of the best of the currently popular instant-drip coffee makers"'' wrote a New York-based magazine in 1975. ==References==