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How to find the best coffee makers, and how to decide among the variety of choices
Here is how to decide which coffee maker to buy, when you are trying to decide how much to spend and which features are important. Keep in mind this: the best coffee makers are not always the most sophisticated or expensive.
Keurig B30 K-Cup Brewer
This mini brewer from Keurig is the ultimate in no mess, no fuss, single serve gourmet coffee makers. It is the least expensive K-Cup brewer, that you can plug in anywhere to brew a full cup of great coffee. Small enough for your home office, RV, boat, vacation home, or dorm room, this brewer is a great gift idea or treat for yourself.
In fact, the simplest coffee makers can make wonderful coffee – like a French press or a $10 manual drip coffee cone.
Let's look at some of the best coffee makers available, and some to avoid.
The French Press
A French press is basically a glass jar that contains a plunger with a mesh filter on it, and it has a lid. You add coffee grounds to the empty jar, pour in hot water, place the lid on and after three or four minutes press down the plunger. The plunger pushes all of the grounds to the bottom and you can pour out a wonderful, tasty cup of coffee.
If you have never tried a French Press, you should. It is one of the best ways to make coffee
Coffee Percolators
Maybe your parents or grandparents made coffee with a percolator but you shouldn't. Percolators heat coffee to boiling and keep it there, running through the beans. The best coffee is made when the water temperature is just below boiling. The percolator will boil the flavor out of your thoughtfully selected and carefully stored.
On the other hand, if a percolator fits your lifestyle, and you are buying off the shelf ground coffee that tastes just fine you to, go ahead and continue using your tried and tested percolator. Just don't waste your money using it with your expensive coffee beans. There is actually something to be said about seeing the coffee "percolate" up into the top while you are having a conversation with your friend. But usually, use a different kind of coffee maker if you want better coffee taste.
Coffee Drip Brewers
Drip coffee makers can be very good. They are the most common and best coffee makers. There is probably one at work, and maybe at your house, too.They are simple to use, and can make a consistently good cup of coffee based on your own preference. To use a coffee drip brewer, you put ground coffee in the paper filter, pour in water, turn the coffee maker on and almost immediately you will see the coffee fill with the carafe.
Not all drip brewers are equal. You need to have a good model that heats the water to the right temperature, and at the right flow, so that the water hits the grounds at the right temperature and then brews for the right period of time before it filters through to the carafe.
One disadvantage to most drip brewers is that the coffee stays in a carafe that is continuously heated. If you have ever poured a cup of coffee for yourself even thirty minutes or an hour after it was made, it will taste old. That's because leaving the glass carafe on the hotplate keeps the coffee hot, which you like, but it starts to "cook" the coffee, which you won't like.
Coffee Daydreams Tip: If you are going to use a Drip Brewer, make just enough coffee for the amount you want to drink over the next thirty minutes or so. If you want more coffee an hour or two later, brew a fresh pot.
Single Cup Coffee Brewers
If you like the idea of fresh coffee, made easily and quickly on demand, you need to enter the new world of K-Cup Coffee, Pod Coffee and Disc Coffee.
These are different versions of "one-cup" coffee makers and they all use slightly different coffee containers to brew the coffee. So, you have to buy the containers of ground coffee that fit your particular brand of single-serve coffee maker. If you buy a machine designed for use with K Cups, you can’t use Pods, and vice versa.
We like the single cup coffee brewer. Advantages include that you get a fresh cup of coffee, brewed one at a time, and it is consistently good. There is no mess, no coffee grounds to spill...no bother.
There are a few disadvantages. You can only brew ground coffee that comes in the pre-sealed containers ("pods"). You don't get to buy your favorite coffees from the store to try a new new blend of beans. So, when looking at the machines also look at the machine manufacturer's available coffees. Their selection is what you get. You can also look around for some new products available to grind your own coffee and place into compatible containers that will work with the coffee makers.
A very popular combination seems to be using K-Cups with Keurig brewers The machines and the ground coffees are available at Green Mountain Coffee.
You should consider carefully before you buy a particular single cup coffee brewer. To give you more information, we have written a full article talking only about single cup coffee brewers.
About the “best coffee makers”...
When everything is said, the best coffee brewer is the one that makes coffee you enjoy drinking yourself and serving to your family and friends. Everyone's taste and preferences are different, so your decision should be based on what you like, not what the experts say.
Keurig B30 K-Cup Brewer
This mini brewer from Keurig is the ultimate in no mess, no fuss, single serve gourmet coffee makers. It is the least expensive K-Cup brewer, that you can plug in anywhere to brew a full cup of great coffee. Small enough for your home office, RV, boat, vacation home, or dorm room, this brewer is a great gift idea or treat for yourself.
Do you want great coffee but are on a strict budget? You've come to the right place. I'm going to tell you how you can brew great coffee with coffee makers that cost less than $50.
You can brew great coffee on a budget and buy your more expensive brewer later. Here are some choices that you can feel good about. Just know that at this price point, you'll lose the extra convenience and assorted bells and whistles found on more expensive coffee makers.
We'll tell you about the different types of coffee brewers you can get for less than $50. We also give you links to product pages at Amazon.com. (As you know, Amazon.com has some of the best prices and their convenience can't be beat) Or you can buy them at a local store.
Manual Filter Cone
The best way to start with budget coffee making is with a filter cone. Once you get the hang of this, you may not want to use more expensive coffee makers. The filter cone is a plastic cone that sits on the top of your mug or caraffe. You put a filter in the cone, add coffee then pour hot water into the cone and the coffee grounds. The hot water seeps through the grounds, delivering a delicious cup of coffee drip by drip. You can heat the coffee on the stove or in a microwave, and you are in control of the process from start to finish.
Coffee making just doesn't get any simpler than this. And you can buy the cone and a pack of filters for under $10.
Here is a secret that makes this even better: stir the coffee as you pour hot water into the filter. Remember too that the water should be just below boiling. Stirring the grounds lets the hot water contact more of the surfaces of the coffee particles, and you get richer tasting coffee. This is another advantage over more elaborate coffee makers, where the whole process is enclosed and you can't stir the coffee as it brews.If this sounds right for you, here is a single travel cup cone filter coffee maker 
French Press
A step up from the cone filter is the French press. This is also called a push press, which describes how it works. This is a very old and respected way to make coffee and used at some of the finest restaurants (such as Ruth's Chris). The French Press is simply a glass container with vertical sides, with a mesh filter on a fitted plunger. You place ground coffee into the container, add hot water at the right temperature, and let the coffee brew for 3 to 5 minutes. Then press the plunger down to push the grounds through the water and to the bottom of the container, and get ready to enjoy a delicious cup of coffee. You can buy a French press for anything between $10 and $30, depending on the size and options you chose.
We recommend trying the French Press even if you could afford a more expensive coffee maker. You may enjoy the convenience of making a small batch of coffee. We also recommend getting a glass carafe because you get to watch the brewing process. Again this is something you don't get to do with more expensive coffee makers, so enjoy.
You can browse a selection of French Press coffee makers
Drip brewers
Drip brewers are in millions of homes and office kitchens in the United States and Canada, and around the world. You can think of a drip coffee maker as an automated version of the filter cone brewing method described above.
The drip brewer (instead of you) heats the water to the correct temperature. The water drips into the ground coffee placed inside of a filter in a basket. The brewer then sprays hot water over the ground coffee, where it seeps for a brief time and drips into the glass carafe under the filter. The carafe usually sits on a heating element (hot plate) to keep it warm for serving. Be careful though, this coffee needs to be served fairly quickly before it "cooks" on the heating element.
The more elaborate drip brewers, with grinders, thermal caraffes, programmable schedules and more can cost hundreds of dollars.
For a drip brewer that works well and stays under $50, we like the DeLonghi 12-Cup Digital Drip Coffeemaker
If you're ready to consider the added conveniences of more expensive coffee makers, check out the Best coffee makers under $100...
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April 7, 2009
Starbucks cofounder Jerry Baldwin extols the virtues of the French press, or press pots, over drip coffee machines, at this blog entry at Coffee Culture. Jerry Baldwin was a co-founder of Starbucks as the first roaster and coffee buyer. He sold his interest in the company in 1987, when Starbucks had eight stores.
The Press Pot Makes Coffee "Worth the Effort"
The class press pot or french press is simple: a glass or metal cylinder, with a metal screen filter, and a lid. To make the coffee, first you preheat the cylinder with hot water (preferably from the kettle). Measure the ground coffee as two tablespoons for each six fluid ounces of water. Then you pour in hot water, just off boil. The brewing process leaves some will allow some sediment in your coffee cup, but it gives tremendously rich taste.
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