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Mar 23 2024
Best Cuisinart Coffee Makers with Grinders: Models, Features & Buying Guide
Grinding coffee immediately before brewing is one of the easiest ways to bring more aroma and freshness into your morning cup. The downside is that using a separate grinder adds another appliance, another step, and another thing to clean. Cuisinart’s Grind & Brew coffee makers are designed to solve that problem by putting the grinder …
Mar 22 2024
Cuisinart 4-in-1 Coffee Maker Review: Features, Pros, Cons & Performance
The Cuisinart Coffee Center Barista Bar 4-in-1 Coffee Maker is designed for a household where “coffee” can mean something completely different from one person—or one hour—to the next. Want a traditional pot of drip coffee in the morning? It can do that. Need one quick K-Cup-style coffee on the way out the door? That’s covered …
Mar 21 2024
Cuisinart Coffee Maker Filters
If you’re shopping for a replacement filter for a Cuisinart coffee maker, the first thing to know is that “coffee maker filter” can mean several completely different things. Your machine may use: These filters do different jobs, and they aren’t interchangeable. A charcoal water filter helps improve the water before brewing. A paper or permanent …
Mar 18 2024
JURA Espresso Machines: Models, Features, Pros, Cons & Buying Guide
JURA occupies a distinctive corner of the home espresso market. While many espresso machines ask you to grind beans, measure coffee, tamp a portafilter, time an extraction, and steam milk manually, JURA takes almost the opposite approach. Its automatic coffee machines are designed to turn whole beans into espresso, coffee, cappuccino, flat white, latte macchiato, …
Mar 17 2024
La Marzocco Espresso Machines: Models, Features, Pros, Cons & Buying Guide
La Marzocco occupies an unusual place in the home espresso world. This isn’t a company that started with inexpensive countertop appliances and eventually moved into premium espresso. La Marzocco built its reputation making professional café equipment, and its home machines bring much of that commercial engineering into the kitchen. That means features such as: It …
Mar 16 2024
Best Stovetop Espresso Makers: Moka Pots Compared & Buying Guide
A stovetop espresso maker is one of the simplest ways to make strong, concentrated coffee at home without buying an electric espresso machine. Usually called a moka pot, this compact brewer uses heat and pressure to push hot water through ground coffee and into an upper chamber. The result is richer and more concentrated than …
Mar 15 2024
Gaggia Espresso Machines: Models, Features, Pros, Cons & Buying Guide
Gaggia is one of the most recognizable names in home espresso, but choosing a Gaggia machine can be surprisingly complicated. That’s because the company doesn’t make just one type of espresso machine. On one side are manual and semi-automatic machines such as the Gaggia Classic E24, Classic UP, and Classic GT. These machines are designed …
Mar 14 2024
Caffeinated Tea Guide: Types, Caffeine, Flavors & Brewing Tips
Tea can be delicate and floral, dark and malty, grassy and refreshing, earthy and aged, or rich enough to stand up to milk and spices. Yet many of these dramatically different drinks begin with the same plant. Traditional black, green, white, oolong, yellow, and pu-erh teas all come from Camellia sinensis. What changes is the …
Mar 13 2024
Philips Espresso Machines: Models, Features, Pros, Cons & Buying Guide
Philips espresso machines are built around a very different idea from traditional home espresso. Instead of asking you to grind beans, dose a portafilter, tamp the coffee, time the extraction, and steam milk manually, Philips’ fully automatic machines handle most of the process for you. Fill the bean hopper. Fill the water tank. Choose your …
Mar 12 2024
Lavazza Espresso Machines: Models, Features, Pros, Cons & Buying Guide
Lavazza is one of Italy’s best-known coffee companies, but its approach to home espresso machines is very different from brands such as Gaggia, Philips, JURA, or La Marzocco. Most Lavazza home machines aren’t traditional espresso machines with portafilters. They aren’t bean-to-cup machines with built-in grinders either. Instead, Lavazza specializes in single-serve espresso systems designed around …
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