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Apr 28 2024
Keurig Commercial Coffee Makers
A Keurig can be an easy way to give employees, customers, hotel guests, or visitors access to fresh coffee without keeping a full carafe sitting on a warming plate all day. But a home Keurig and a commercial Keurig coffee maker are not necessarily the same thing. Keurig’s commercial lineup includes machines built specifically for …
Apr 27 2024
How to Use a Keurig Coffee Maker
Keurig coffee makers are designed to make single-serve coffee simple: add water, insert a K-Cup pod, choose your cup size, and brew. But if you’ve just unpacked a new Keurig—or inherited one without the instruction manual—you may still have questions. How much water should you add? Do you remove the foil from the K-Cup? What …
Apr 26 2024
How to Grind Coffee for a Percolator
The secret to better percolator coffee starts before the water ever heats up: use the right grind size. Percolators brew differently from ordinary drip coffee makers. Instead of passing water through the coffee grounds once, they repeatedly circulate hot water through the brewing basket. That longer, repeated contact can produce the bold, full-bodied coffee percolators …
Apr 26 2024
Best Coffee for Percolators: Beans, Roasts & Brands to Try
Percolator coffee has a personality all its own. It’s typically hot, robust, aromatic, and fuller-bodied than the coffee many people associate with an automatic drip machine. Because a percolator repeatedly circulates hot water through the grounds during brewing, the beans and grind you choose can have an especially noticeable effect on the final cup. The …
Apr 25 2024
A Non-Coffee Drinker’s Guide to Finding Your Perfect Cup
Coffee can be intimidating when you don’t already love it. Walk into a café and suddenly you’re choosing among lattes, cappuccinos, cold brew, macchiatos, flat whites, americanos, mochas, espresso shots, light roasts, dark roasts, flavored syrups, alternative milks, and half a dozen brewing methods. If you’ve tried coffee once or twice and thought, “Why does …
Apr 24 2024
Keurig Mini Coffee Maker
The Keurig K-Mini Coffee Maker is designed around one simple idea: give you the convenience of K-Cup coffee without giving up a large section of your kitchen counter. At less than five inches wide, the K-Mini is one of Keurig’s most compact single-serve brewers. It works particularly well in small kitchens, apartments, dorm rooms, home …
Apr 23 2024
Keurig Coffee Maker Models
Shopping for a Keurig used to be relatively simple. Choose a basic single-serve brewer, pick your favorite K-Cup pods, and start making coffee. The current lineup is much bigger. Keurig now offers compact machines for tiny kitchens, standard reservoir brewers, dedicated iced-coffee models, highly customizable K-Supreme brewers, latte-and-cappuccino machines, a high-pressure model that creates crema-topped …
Apr 22 2024
Keurig Smart Coffee Maker
A traditional Keurig is already convenient: insert a K-Cup, select a cup size, and press a button. A Keurig SMART coffee maker takes that idea further by connecting the brewer to Wi-Fi and the Keurig app. Depending on the model, you can customize strength and temperature, save favorite drinks, schedule or remotely start a brew, …
Apr 21 2024
Ninja Specialty Coffee Maker
The Ninja Specialty Coffee Maker CM401 sits somewhere between a traditional drip coffee maker and a home coffee bar. It can brew a single cup, fill a travel mug, make half a carafe, or prepare a full 10-cup pot. Four brew styles let you choose between everyday coffee, a richer brew, coffee designed to be …
Apr 20 2024
How to Make Cold Brew Coffee: Easy Recipe, Ratio & Brewing Tips
Cold brew coffee is one of the easiest ways to make smooth, refreshing coffee at home. Unlike iced coffee—which is usually brewed hot and then cooled or poured over ice—cold brew is made by steeping ground coffee in cool water for several hours. The slow extraction produces a rich coffee concentrate or ready-to-drink brew that …