Best Coffee Makers How to Choose the One for You!

The best coffee makers, how to choose between k cup coffee, French Press, Mr. Coffee Filter Drip - what's best?

You don’t have to break the bank or become a chemist to make great coffee. Coffee makers are not all expensive but there are a lot of choices - some of them new to us consumers.

The Simple French Press

If you’ve never tried a French Press often called a Bodum aftera brand of French Press, you are in for a treat. A French Press ekes out every nuance of flavor from the coffee beans.

Best coffee maker? Well it's my personal favorite but I've also been cheating on my Press with some of the latest hi tech machines. Some of them are pretty sexy!

My French Press is a glass pot with a plunger that has a wire mesh filter. When the coffee is done I just push down the plunger and pour the coffee.

It's easy to use and no paper filter required. You just grind the coffee - kind of a course grind, add it to the press and put in the hot water. Let it sit for about 3-4 minutes mingling directly with the ground beans, between the plunger and the bottom of the jar.

Then you push down the plunger which forces the grinds to the bottom of the press and voila - you pour out clear, strong brown coffee into your cup. It's one of the richest, strongest brews you’ll ever taste. You might just fall in love with this dark beauty all over again.

The essential coffee oils are not filtered out of your coffee like when you use a paper filter and because the ground bean has contact with the water for a longer period of time it delivers more punch. The more conventional among us use the conventional Mr. Coffee type of coffee maker. You won’t get as flavorful a brew as a French Press but not everyone likes as full as body as the Press makes.

Filter Drip Machines

Many of us know this machine as it is probably sitting right now on your kitchen counter. The best known may be the Mr. Coffee Filter Dripper.

It is one of the best coffee makers and extremely easy to use. Just put in a paper filter, fill it up with water and turn it on and minutes later you have great tasting coffee.

It pays to make sure that your dripper is a good quality machine as the less expensive models sometimes have a problem with heating the water to the correct temperature.

Drink it right away as it loses flavor sitting on the burner and after a while can taste quite vile. A variant is the coffee dripper that drips into a thermos type flask which prevents it from overheating the coffee when it’s left on the burner too long and giving it that horrible taste.

The Percolator

Not one of the best coffee makers it's the one many of us are familiar with from old western movies. The cowboys perked the coffee on an open camp fire. Patented back in 1865, they became popular in the early 20th century when they were promoted as labor saving “watch itself” coffee pots.

It does however have the drawback of making pretty bad coffee and was mostly replaced by the dripper which a housewife invented back in 1912. 1 cup coffee maker

The new frontier in coffee makers! These are the sexy looking coffee machines which have caused me to stray from my French Press with my wifes full acquiesence.

Fast, easy and no muss or fuss. No noisy startups, grinders, dirty counters and sinks...my wife loves our choice - the Keurig.

Also known a K-Cup, Disc or Pod Coffee, I first came across a Senseo Pod Coffee Maker when staying at an upscale resort for which my wife traded our time share week. It’s a kind of a cross between the high pressure steam used in an espresso machine and a dripper. The water is heated in a boiler creating a medium pressure that is then passed through the pod.

The Pod is a kind of large tea bag which has coffee in it that you put into the machine. It’s kept fresh in a foil package and made a very nice cup of coffee. Much better coffee than you get in most hotels where you take the grinds out of a package and put them into a filter.

Then at a company paid retreat at a fancy resort I came across a K-Cup machine. The K-Cup which is made in Keurig brewer is an nifty little invention as well and kind of high tech. I put the K-Cup which is a little plastic cup kind of like a small cream container into the machine and fired it up. A pretty fine cup of coffee was the result.

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