In kitchens and homes around the world, people love to brew coffee for themselves or for guests. Mornings wouldn’t be the same without a fresh cup of java to get the old body going. Here are a few of the most common kitchen gadgets for making coffee in the home.

The most commonly used coffee makers are the automatic drip variety, using pre ground coffee beans place in a paper filter. While these machines don’t produce gourmet quality coffee, they are an excellent way to easily brew consistent pots of coffee, and are very economical to purchase and operate.

If you are making only one or two cups of coffee at a time and speed is important, you may be interested in a single serving coffee maker. Most of these utilize a small packet of grounds, similar to a tea bag, and available in different flavours. It would be difficult to quickly make coffee for a large number of people with one of these.

The coffee plunger, or French Press, allows the hot water and coffee to be placed together to brew. Then, the plunger is depressed and this pushes all the grounds to the bottom, allowing the coffee to be poured out. This is another excellent way to make one or two cups of coffee.

Many coffee lovers would argue that the best coffee is produced by an espresso machine. Hot water is forced through very fine coffee grounds under high pressure. The resulting coffee shot is a little thicker and stronger than plain drip coffee. A cappuccino uses espresso coffee as a base, as do several other coffee drinks.

A coffee bean grinder might be more trouble than you want to go through at home, but it does give you the freshest coffee. For more course grounds, a steel bladed grinder is sufficient. For a finely ground bean a burr mill is the answer, but a bit more costly.

I purchased a wonderful coffee machine with a built in coffee grinder. It also has a timer, so I put all the ingredients in the night before. About 10 minutes before I get up, the grinder kicks in. By the time I get out of bed, my coffee is ready for me. Doesn’t that beat making it in the morning?

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