Mar 26 2024
Ninja has become one of the most versatile coffee-maker brands on the market. Instead of offering only traditional drip machines, the company now makes everything from simple programmable brewers to pod-and-ground systems, iced coffee makers, espresso machines, and premium bean-to-cup coffee stations. That variety is great if you like choices. It can also make deciding …
Mar 25 2024
If your household goes through a lot of coffee, a standard 8- or 10-cup brewer can start to feel surprisingly small. The Ninja XL 14 Cup Coffee Maker was designed for exactly that problem, combining a large-capacity glass carafe with straightforward programmable brewing and a few useful upgrades over a basic drip coffee machine. Often …
Mar 24 2024
A Cuisinart coffee maker can quietly become one of the most-used appliances in your kitchen. When you’re brewing coffee every morning, however, coffee oils, stray grounds, water residue, and mineral deposits gradually accumulate inside and around the machine. That buildup can affect more than appearances. A coffee maker that needs cleaning may brew more slowly, …
Mar 23 2024
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
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
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 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 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
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 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 …
