If you really love coffee, try a few different coffee makers.

Of course, one doesn’t really need more than one coffee maker. But over time we have found ourselves buying new machines of different kinds.

Right now the brewer we use most often is our Keurig B60 .

The Keurig is a single-serve coffee maker that uses K-Cups filled with just enough coffee for one mug.

Why do we use the Keurig most frequently? Simply because it is so convenient. And that’s a big plus first thing in the morning.

At weekends we are more likely to use our drip brewer and make a full pot of coffee. We have a grind-and-brew coffee maker that grinds the beans, brews the coffee and drips into a thermal coffee flask.

We like this coffee maker for a few reasons. First, it simplifies the process by both grinding and brewing in a single process.

Also, we like that it has a thermal flask instead of a glass carafe on a hotplate.

It’s true that the coffee starts to cool after half an hour or so. But leaving a glass carafe on a hotplate has an even worse downside – after a while the coffee gets that nasty “stewed” taste.

We also have a French press. This is one of those simple systems where you have a glass pot with vertical sides, add the coffee grinds and water, and push down the plunger after three to five minutes.

This is a beautifully simple device, makes great coffee, and we use it when we are relaxing at the weekend and want just one or two cups of coffee each.

Finally, we have an inexpensive espresso machine. This is for when we want to spoil ourselves with a cappuccino, or to really taste the qualities of a particular coffee by making a straight shot of espresso.

These are simply the different coffee makers we have accumulated over the years.

We don’t use them all in any given week. But we do enjoy the fact that we have a choice.


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