Posts Tagged with "coffee maker"

‘The Pure’ Is One Fancy Induction Coffee Maker

Thursday, February 25, 2010

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I just read about this futuristic coffeemaker at TheAppliancist.com. It’s called “The Pure ” and it’s an induction coffee maker. The manufacturers says it is made of environmentally friendly materials. Its design helps speed up the brewing process it is quite easy to use. It has a ballpoint pen mechanism that helps control how much [...]

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Moccamaster Coffee Maker Is a Classic

Thursday, February 25, 2010

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If you’re looking for a classic coffee maker, you need look no further than the Moccamaster. This hand crafted coffee maker, made in the Netherlands, has looked the same for over 40 years. It has many loyal fans in European coffee strongholds like Sweden, Finland, and the Netherlands. Not only is it stylish, but it [...]

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The Perfect Temperature for Brewing Coffee

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

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One of the most important parts of making coffee, after choosing the right grind, is making sure that the water is the right temperature. The common electric coffee maker makes this a little bit tricky, so it’s important to understand what type of coffee maker will produce the best results. With a dizzying variety of [...]

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Japanese Designed Tea and Coffee Maker

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

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Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa created this compact 6 cup tea and coffee maker combo. It uses a double activated charcoal filter and brews in less than 10 minutes. It’s been on the Japanese market since 2007 and is now being released to the US and Europe for about $240. It’s good for small, compact kitchens [...]

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Stylishly Designed Battery Powered Espresso Maker

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

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This battery powered coffee maker has gotten a lot of attention online over the past few days, and for good reason. It’s made by Made In Design It’s actually an espresso maker and besides its sleek design, it’s coolest feature is that it’s battery powered, allowing you to take it anywhere you go. It’s nearly [...]

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How to Turn Your Coffee Maker Into a Fish Tank

Monday, December 28, 2009

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We used to have fish as kids. Pirahnas, Oscars, Jack Dempseys, and Betta fish (aka Siamese Fighters) and the Betta fish were some of our favorite. The rub is that you can’t have more than one in a tank at the same time because they, well, fight. What you typically do is buy two small [...]

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Funky iMac Coffee Maker

Monday, December 28, 2009

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I read about the iMac coffee maker the other day and just had to share it. It’s totally handmade and all of the modifications were down by 53 year old German designer designer, Klaus Diebel himself. It’s made from the iconic iMac and is fully functional, including a screen that can be imprinted with an [...]

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45 Weirdest Looking Coffee Makers Ever – Part 1

Saturday, December 12, 2009

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From ultra-luxurious to just plain weird, from insanely expensive to stunningly beautiful, these coffee makers are the coolest, most innovative, weirdest, and most original coffee machines we’ve ever seen. This is the first in a 3 part series of posts about the weirdest, most innovative, coolest coffee makers ever. Part one of this series has 16 [...]

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The Cowboy Guide To Making Coffee

Friday, December 4, 2009

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Ok, so your coffee maker is broken and you need a little caffeine boost. Don’t worry pilgrim, making your own cup of coffee is simple if you follow these easy instructions. American cowboys are known as rugged outdoorsmen. The iconic image of a cowboy is with his horse beside a campfire in a desert valley. [...]

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8 Foods You Can Cook With Your Coffee Maker

Friday, December 4, 2009

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I read a post online where someone asked what they can cook with a coffee maker. He moves around a lot and doesn’t want to buy a hotplate, he’d rather just use his coffee machine as a hotplate and cook something really fast. The responses were pretty funny, but essentially you can cook the following [...]

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Voice Activated Coffee Maker Will Start Your Day Off Right

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

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For those of us who sleep with a coffee maker on the night stand, this voice activated coffee maker is pretty handy. This cool coffee machine switches between manual and voice-activated at the touch of a button. It’s a standard 10 cup coffee maker and it uses a plastic filter. The filter is dishwasher safe [...]

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Awesome Coffee Maker Reads Barcodes on Coffee Pod

Friday, November 27, 2009

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This Tassimo coffee maker system is pretty innovative. Similar to coffee makers that use coffee pods, this machine uses “discs” with barcodes on them. The coffee machine will then read the barcode on each disc and adjust the amount of water, brewing time, and temperature to the specific blend. Because the brewing happens in a [...]

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Yet Another Integrated Coffee Maker

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

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I just saw this all-in-one coffee maker called The Kitchen Outpost on CNET blogs. Combining 3 appliances in roughly half the space, it makes coffee, toasts bread and has a small gridle on top of it. At 20″ wide and less than 10″ deep, it’s the perfect accessory for a tight kitchen. This integrated [...]

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How A Coffee Maker Can Save You $3,000 Per Year

Saturday, November 21, 2009

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There’s a good article explaining how to justify a $3,000 coffee maker. If you buy an average of two venti mochas per day, you’ll end up spending a little over $3,000 a year on coffee alone. The tightening economy is forcing everyone to look closely at where they can cut costs, and most people’s daily [...]

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Lavazza A Modo Mio Coffee Maker Review

Thursday, November 19, 2009

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Pocket-Lint.com came up with a good review of the Lavazza A Modo Mio coffee machine. About its style Pocket-Lint.com says: As for styling the Mio is undoubtedly retro, but the cute curves, high-gloss two-tone finish in silver with red, black or white mean it will sit happily in the sleekest of modern kitchens. The plastic body construction isn’t the best [...]

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Crazy Little Breakfast Machine

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

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This puppy is a coffee maker, juicer, toaster, in one. Oh yeah, it’ll make your eggs too. Not only that, but it’ll butter your bread and add jelly too. Designed by Yuri Suzuki, 26, a design teacher in London and his friend Masa Kimura, 28, this machine was featured at Platform 21 in Amsterdam. It [...]

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Bring Out the Coffee Maker In You With New iPhone App

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

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There’s a new iPhone app called Barista that’ll bring out the true coffee maker in you. It’ll let you crank out cafe-quality drinks from your home coffee machine. With sleek graphics and easy to follow instructions, you’ll be making sophisticated coffee drinks in no time. Selected as “App of the Week”, here’s what Apple [...]

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Grinder-Brewer Coffee Maker Combos

Saturday, November 14, 2009

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Regardless of what kind of coffee maker you have and irrespective of your coffee beans, if your coffee grinds don’t match the type of coffee maker you have, your cup of coffee won’t be as good as it could be. So it’s important to pay attention to the kind of coffee grinder you have. The Grinding [...]

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Iced Out Coffee Maker Would Make Every Rapper Proud

Friday, November 13, 2009

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This Nespresso Crystal Coffee Machine is one the silliest coffee makers I’ve ever seen. At $4,000 this coffee machine is a real spectacle. I read about it over at UberReview. Apparently this thing is made of Swarovski crystals and was made by Goldstriker. They took a regular Nespresso machine and added a ton of crystals [...]

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The BMW Espresso Maker

Friday, November 13, 2009

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This espresso maker is a beauty. It is a 15-bar pump-driven espresso maker with a stainless steel broiler. It’s got a dual brew spout with user-programmable settings. Standard steam wand and rapid steam boiler to quickly switch from frothing to brewing. It was designed by the award winning BMW Designworks for Starbucks and is great [...]

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Bugatti Coffee Makers: The Ultimate Luxury Coffee Machine

Friday, November 13, 2009

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I found these pics of Bugatti coffee makers the other day. These $1300-a-piece beauties are THE high rollers coffee machine. With slightly more capacity than a single serve coffee maker, they’re sleek and stylish and can make two cups of coffee at a time. Luxury Launches says: If you are addicted to coffee, you need to own [...]

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Why To Stop Using Your Coffee Percolator

Friday, October 30, 2009

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The coffee percolator brings back memories of Grandma making coffee on the stove. Stovetop percolators are novel and nostalgic, but they aren’t the ideal coffee maker for a number of reasons. Your traditional coffee percolator is made of a heat-proof metal pot. This pot sits on top of the stove and holds cold water and has [...]

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Stylishly Designed Eco-Friendly ‘Presso’ Espresso Maker

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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The Presso espresso maker is an eco-friendly manual

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Beautifully Designed Nespresso Coffee Maker

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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This post, like the last about innovative and uniquely designed “BeMoved” coffee machine highlights cutting edge coffee maker designs. This single serve coffee maker, called the “Caffe Inn”, was created by Charles Teyssier, a French designer. It brews coffee and drips it from a spout near the top of the machine. You simply put a [...]

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The Amazing “BeMoved” Motion Activated Coffee Machine

Sunday, October 25, 2009

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This coffee maker has been setting the tech blogs on fire over the past few days. It’s a motion activated coffee maker by coffee experts Douwe Egberts and was unveiled at Dutch Design Week. The BeMoved coffee machine was cranked out by Douwe Egberts R&D department to inspire creativity and innovation in coffee maker design. [...]

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Coffee Makers for Different Types of Coffee

Thursday, October 22, 2009

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Coffee maps will show you that coffee comes from places all over the globe. While they stay within longitudinal parameters (mostly in tropical areas), the coffee bean is found in South America, Africa, the Middle East, and East Asia. Coffee production spans 5 continents and dozens of countries across the globe. The variance in climate, [...]

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iPhone Inspired Coffee Table

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

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I found this iPhone inspired coffee table on iLounge. It’s made completely from corrugated cardboard and glued together with simple glue. It has removable coasters in the form of iPhone application icons. // Technorati Tags: coffee, coffee machine, coffee maker, coffee makers

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Cool Coffee Maker Made From a Computer

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

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I found this ingenious coffee maker on ByteMods by way of Neatorama.com It was constructed from a custom painted Compaq Deskpro case. He cut out the 5.25″ drives and then installed the heating element by cutting the coffee maker open. What’s cool is that this coffee maker actually brews coffee. It uses a Visual Basic [...]

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Fire Up the Coffee Maker! Health Benefits of Drinking Coffee

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

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There are a few studies about the health benefits of coffee. Now, not all of them are conclusive, but they do indicate that there are health benefits related with drinking coffee. Here are some things known about coffee: Drinking coffee has been shown in independent studies to reduce the risk of Parkinson’s Disease by almost 80%. [...]

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Vacuum Coffee Maker (some of the coolest coffee maker videos ever)

Thursday, October 15, 2009

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Intro to Siphon Coffee Makers Siphon coffee makers are really cool. They use springs and/or heat to transfer water from the kettle to the glass. Watch this quick video to see how it works: Siphon Coffee Maker Play-by-Play Basically, water moves through the overflow pipe and into the glass, moving the kettle up, the springs then release [...]

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Turn Off the Coffee Machine!

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

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St. Louis Community College at Forest Park was hit with $200,000 worth of water damage from a coffee machine hooked up to a faucet in the photography lab. It was left on and eventually ruptured a waterline in July causing 10,000 gallons of water to gush down four floors damaging walls, ceilings, and computers among [...]

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Capresso 454 Coffee Grinder/Coffee Maker In Action

Friday, September 18, 2009

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If you know anything about coffee makers, you’ll know that the fineness of the coffee grinds affects how long it should brew. Not sure how this coffee machine holds up, b this coffee grinder/coffee maker combo is a real time saver. Visit the main site for more on: Coffee Makers | Coffee Machines | Coffee Grinders Technorati [...]

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Cold Brew Coffee Maker – Really Cool!

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

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I’ve been on a kick of collecting unique coffee maker videos from the web and sharing them here. Here’s another interesting one I found. It’s a quick video of a cold brew coffee maker. If you don’t want to watch the whole video, here are some notable facts: This coffee maker requires no electricity. You just add [...]

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“Artsy” Coffee Maker

Monday, September 14, 2009

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This is a high end explanation of the Chemex coffee maker. His description is a bit long, but here’s the summary: The filter is the key to this coffee maker. It is 40% thicker than other coffee filters and removes all sediment and oils The coffee should be brewed at 200 degrees Farenheit. You do this by [...]

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2 Easy Steps to a Perfect Cup of Coffee

Thursday, September 10, 2009

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A perfect cup of coffee depends on a lot of things. The type of coffee maker you use, the quality of the coffee bean, the type of brewing you’re doing, and the grind of the coffee. Generally, you can solve quality problems by using purified water and high quality coffee beans. Here are two tips [...]

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