Coffee Makers

Coffeemakers. yourbestdigs.com / flickr / 2013

Coffee makers are tools used to make coffee as a hot beverage. They can be manual or electric, counter top or stove top.

They come in all sizes: from single-serving sizes to catering sizes.

All are designed to manage the flow of hot water through ground coffee in a filter, allowing the water to pass through the coffee, picking up the flavour, and flow into another area of the coffee maker leaving the ground coffee behind.

Different makers are designed to produce different styles of coffee in different strengths. Some boil the coffee in water first, others steep hot water through the coffee, others flow the hot water through. Some have reusable filters; some use disposable filters. All are designed to, ideally, deliver the beverage hot.

One of the most important attributes that most people look for in a coffee maker is can they operate it easily first thing in the morning?

Types of coffeemakers

Coffee Percolator

A coffee percolator is a coffee-making device which has you place ground coffee in a filtered basket which stands on a hollow tube above cold water in a pot. As the water boils, steam pressure forces the hot water up the tube, where it dribbles down onto...

Cuppetiello

In Naples, a cuppetiello / cuppitiello is a small cone made from newspaper or tin foil put on the spout of a coffee pot called a "Neapolitan Flip Coffee Maker" to keep the aroma in while the coffee is brewing.

Espresso Machines

Espresso machines are machines designed to brew coffee very quickly by driving water under pressure through the ground coffee.

Infusion Coffee Makers

An infusion coffee maker has two main parts to it, a carafe and a plunger. The coffee gets "filtered", but in a way that allows for more oils and suspended flavour particles in the coffee.

Neapolitan Flip Coffee Maker

A Neapolitan flip coffee maker consists of two pots resting on each other. Water is put in the bottom pot, with coffee in a filter above it. When the water is boiled, you flip the unit so that the hot water will be on top and drip down through the coffee...

Potsdam Boiler Coffee Maker

A Potsdam boiler is a flip drip coffee maker. Water is heated in the bottom and when heated, the unit is flipped so that the heated water drips down through ground coffee into an empty chamber below.

Vietnamese Coffee Press

A Vietnamese coffee press is a "coffee filter" designed to be set on top of a glass, into which the coffee drips. It has a plunger which controls how strong-tasting the coffee brewed will be.