The 7 essential features of good drip coffee makers
How to find the best drip coffee makers!
I think it’s safe to say that the best way to start your day, is with a nice warm cup of coffee! The problem is, that a lot of people choose to enjoy their morning coffee a “to go” cup, bought from a local coffee shop!
This is because although they know that there are a lot of drip coffee makers out there that can provide you with great tasting coffee, like that served in coffee shops, they don’t know which models are good and which they should buy!
It’s true that looking for a drip coffee maker can be a bit confusing with all those models available on the market right now, but we are here to help you with that! In the following article, you will find a list of 7 essential features to help you tell apart the good drip coffee makers, from the bad ones!
The more of these features a model is equipped with, the better its is!
Automatic Shut off function: This feature may sound very common to you and me, but a lot of the cheaper drip coffee makers, or those made by lesser known brands and manufacturers , are not equipped with it! This function automatically shuts down the coffee maker if it’s been left one for too long making it an essential not just because will it save you a lot of money, but also because it makes sure that your coffee maker won’t become a fire hazard if left unattended!
Programming: There is no better way to start your day than having a cup of freshly brewed coffee waiting for you when you wake up! The best drip coffee makers come with easily programmable timers that you can use to set the time you’d like it to prepare your coffee for you automatically! That way it will be ready and waiting for you when you get out of your bed! This feature is absolutely essential as far as I am concerned!
Special settings for small batches: Most of the newest drip coffee makers come with a really neat and very useful feature: they can be programmed to brew an entire pot of coffee, or just one to four cups! This is a great feature because it ensures that your coffee will always be as fresh and tasty as possible, by making sure that the brewing cycle gets adjusted accordingly!
Thermal carafe: When buying a drip coffee maker, you should make sure that it is equipped with a specially designed, plastic thermal carafe instead of a regular one made of glass! The thermal carafe will make sure that your coffee stays as fresh and warm as ti was right after the brewing process ended, for up to 5 hours! It also enables you to take your coffee with you anywhere you go!
Pause and serve feature: This is a really useful future for people who are really impatient when it comes to their morning coffee fix! It allows you to pour a cup of coffee, before the machine is done brewing the entire pot or the batch it has been programmed to brew!
Cleaning cycle: If you want your coffee to always taste as good as possible, then you will have to clean your coffee maker every once in a while! Most modern coffee makers come with an automatic cleaning cycle feature, which will take of cleaning the coffee maker for you at certain time periods or every time a certain amount pf pots or batched gets brewed! If you don’t want to spent extra cash on this feature, then you should make sure that the coffee maker yo intend to buy comes some sort of notification, like a light, for when it needs to be cleaned!
Reusable filter basket: This is perhaps the most important feature that’s thankfully, found on many drip coffee makers out there! By using the plastic reusable filters that most coffee makers are equipped with, you will not only save a lot of money, you will also be “helping” the environment, since you won’t be using and then throwing a paper filter every time you drink a cup of coffee!