Choosing a Coffee Machine

You can stay with the older style mix and drip coffee makers or the mechanical pump action one or you may be using a freeze dried coffee powder and adding hot water. Or you can move to the era of the home coffee machine maker and be able to make a coffee equal to the local restaurant. The home coffee machine is so ideal for both personal use and entertaining guests in the home. It’s a saving too on what you spend the daily coffee on the way to office or workplace. The cost of these machines is soon recovered when you add up daily use over several months. It’s also a classy piece of kitchenware displayed on your bench and gives the whole kitchen a lift.

Once you have decided to the move up the scale to a coffee machine you do need to do some research and sort the sheep from the goats so to speak. Not all machines are the same in quality and the prices differ considerably within brands and from brand to brand.

• What do Users Say -The best of  Coffee Machines will have good reports from users. These would be reports about  the quality of the coffee produced, about its reliability and ease cleaning.

• Coffee Varieties -Choose a machine that can create various coffee styles.                 Just about all quality coffees, ranging from a latté, cappuccino, straight shot and caffé mocha, begin with an espresso where the finely ground bean has high temperature water forced through the grindings at very high pressure.

• Controls the Brewing process -  The best machines have a delicate control over the brewing process. By extracting out the flavor and oils and leaving behind the bitter aspect of the bean.The best a coffee makers do this  which creates a quality coffee.

• Meets Your Budget -Your budget will also be a determiner in what you select and the price can range from over $1000 to just $50. With such huge price differences the old adage “you get what you pay for” is still true. The more expensive machines will have options and quality in coffee making that the cheaper models cannot compare with. However even so the cheaper models are ok and do a satisfactory job of coffee making.

The best coffee machines are those which have a balance of all the above features however it will come down to preference and that may include some features but not necessarily all. See the comparisons/reviews of the best options available today.

Our Top Pick – The DeLonghi Magnifica Automatic DIGITAL

Expensive ! but oh – the coffee it makes is so good.