Here are some of the highest-rated and best-selling personal coffee makers. You can choose from the simplest version to a quite spectacular automated machine. Look for differences in cup size, and also for differences in wattage. The higher wattage machines will brew the coffee quicker. Black & Decker DCM18S Brew’n Go Personal Coffee Maker with …
French Press coffee makers are extremely popular all over the coffee world because they are simple, easy to use and make great coffee. Comprising a pot (usually glass), set in a frame of some kind, and a metal plunger with a fine mesh filter, they are easy to keep clean. There really is not much …
Coffee percolators – you either love them or hate them! Those who love them would never have coffee made any other way! The great thing about percolators is that they make good, hot coffee, in about the same time as a drip coffee machine, and the coffee has plenty of strength. People who don’t like …
The Breville Barista Express BES860XL espresso machine is one of the most popular kitchen appliances purchased. This is not a fully automated machine, but with its integrated grinder and dosing control, you can produce a good brew in a couple of minutes. Apart from the stylish design, it has a 15-bar pressure pump, an integrated …
If you really are a coffee guru, then you will know that the holy grail of good coffee is to use the freshest roasted beans that you can get. The essential oils and flavors in coffee evaporate fairly easily, and so to get the maximum taste, you should use your beans shortly after roasting. Even …
There are so many different kinds of coffee roasts that it is easy to get confused, and it is often hard to decide which roast is the best to use for your daily brew. Obviously, it depends on your personal taste, but this is a guideline on how to pick the best coffee roast that …
Tim Hayward, a food critic for the Financial Times, conducted some research on espresso makers, mainly because of his personal disappointment in many of the home espresso makers available on the market. His aim was to find machines that produced a brew with the ‘consistent brilliance of a barista’ without having to buy a ‘half-tonne, …