Apr 25 2024
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 20 2024
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 …
Apr 13 2024
The Hamilton Beach FlexBrew has always been built around one appealing idea: your coffee maker shouldn’t force you to choose between pods, ground coffee, and a full pot. That concept has expanded considerably. Today’s FlexBrew lineup includes compact single-serve machines, hot-and-iced brewers, FlexBrew Trio models that combine single servings with a 12-cup carafe, and newer …
Apr 11 2024
The Mr. Coffee 12-Cup Programmable Coffee Maker is designed for people who want a traditional pot of drip coffee without paying for features they may never use. There is no smartphone app, built-in grinder, milk frother, pod system, or complicated touchscreen. Instead, the emphasis is on familiar everyday conveniences: programmable brewing, a 12-cup glass carafe, …
Apr 09 2024
The AeroPress has become one of the most recognizable manual coffee makers around, and its appeal is surprisingly simple: it can make a flavorful cup of coffee quickly without requiring an expensive machine or much counter space. Part immersion brewer, part filtered coffee maker, and part pressure-assisted brewer, the AeroPress occupies an unusual space between …
Mar 17 2024
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 03 2024
Cold, creamy, frothy, and strongly coffee-forward, this shaken oatmilk espresso is one of the easiest café-style drinks you can make at home. The recipe starts with two fresh shots of espresso sweetened with a little brown sugar and cinnamon. The espresso is shaken vigorously with ice until cold and foamy, then poured into a tall …
Jan 04 2024
Coffee jelly is one of those desserts that looks elegant enough for a dinner party but is surprisingly easy to make. Dark, glossy cubes of coffee-flavored jelly are chilled until firm, cut into bite-size pieces, and spooned into glasses with a lightly sweetened creamy milk mixture. The contrast is wonderful: bold, slightly bittersweet coffee against …
Jan 03 2024
You fill the reservoir with cold water, add ground coffee, press a button, and a few minutes later a steaming pot of coffee appears. It feels simple. Inside an automatic drip coffee maker, however, several processes are happening at once. Water must move from the reservoir to the heating system. It must become hot enough …
Jan 01 2024
Coffee and tea can seem almost ordinary. One might be poured into a travel mug before work. The other might steep quietly beside a laptop in the afternoon. Both are available in supermarkets, cafés, restaurants, gas stations, offices, hotels, and kitchens around the world. Yet few everyday foods or drinks have histories as complicated—or as …
