Drip Coffee Makers

What are drip coffee makers and what do we use them for? These are mostly household items with very few professional usage to date. These machines are basically boilers that heat water up and slowly drip it on top of freshly ground coffee beans. Drip coffee makers use the same principle of making coffee that you use when you make your coffee in a pot, but they speed the process up a bit and will surely provide with a much easier method.

As mentioned earlier, a drip coffee maker is mostly used at home but you can often see it in road side coffee shops too. They are simple units, with a boiler, some pipes and  a glass coffee pot. The roasted and ground coffee beans are set in a filter on top of the pot and the hot boiling water slowly drips on them and then into the pot. It doesn’t require any assistance from you after you filled the reservoir and turned the unit on. It will boil the water and you can stop it whenever you want. In fact, there are new, automatic ones, that can turn themselves off when the water runs out and it has all dropped into the pot and turned into coffee.

There is another use for these drip coffee makers, some people having started to use them as tea makers. Just replace the roasted and ground beans with dry leaves of tea bags and the same process occurs again. You get a tasty, refreshing and healthy tea in no time.

The one aspect that differs in some drip coffee makers is the filter. Some of them come with replaceable paper filters, other with plastic or steel filters that can be washed after you use them. We recommend the ones with paper filters because you are sure, every time that the filter is clean. Besides, a dozen or so paper filters cost 10 cents, so the financial issue is already covered.

As far as costs go, these machines are already very cheap and can cost as low as a couple of dollars in some pawn shops. There are, of course, so called professional drip coffee makers, but they are just fancy, larger versions (some of them being able to handle two pots at one time) of the two dollar ones. You will only want such drip coffee makers if you really need to have stunning design pieces in your kitchen, otherwise, the normal, cheap ones will do just fine.

Reliability is not an issue with drip coffee makers as there aren’t any parts susceptible to stress. Every once in a while the glass pot might crack, but you can always get a new one almost for free.

There is no mistake in purchasing the cheapest drip coffee maker you can find. They are all working on the same principle that results in great tasting coffee every time you want one. Just remember to use your favorite type of coffee and sugar.

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