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The Best Coffee Maker
Suitable caffeine without sacrificing flavor
Our goal was to find which of the best coffee makers could ace a great cup Right out of the box -- and be mindless to use and easy
to adjust. Ten pots, a panel of taste testers, three interviews with experts, and about 500 (seriously...) cups of coffee later,
we
found our answers.
A smart machine that's easy to look at and easier to use, plus makes delicious Coffee right out of the box. It features
programmable

This machine makes it simple. The
and the slowest to brew a full pot.
Our Top Pick
maker.
It's a large machine --
second-highest scores in our taste test, and is sleek both to look at and to operate. Convenient features like programmable
auto-brewing, a
removable water reservoir that doubles as a kettle, and a spigot that stops the brew mid-stream if you remove the carafe make this
machine feel
For People Who want to be a little more hands-on with the brewing process, its single-button dial also
lets you adjust the water's brewing temperature, giving you more access to
But if a 12-cup capacity or $300 price tag seems like overkill, there are three
tests.

OXO On 9-Cup Coffee MakerA similar look and feel, without any customization options -- and the coffee isn't quite as good.

is after it's been brewed is identical.
and it's $100 cheaper.
Machine that didn't earn our top spot just because the coffee it makes didn't Perform quite in addition to another three top picks
in our preference
Tests, and it doesn't allow you to tinker with water temperature and extraction the Way the larger machine does.
Most Customizable
sleek, but its coffee won our taste tests.
If tinkering is what you're most excited about, we recommend the Behmor Brazen This
is a drip machine that takes its job seriously. Our out-of-the-box taste testing, but still provides you the chance to
Play around with various variables, from water temperature to pre-infusion times.
squat carafe, and an eight-button programmable interface that reminded

Excellent Coffee, No Fuss
tests.
If all you're looking for is a gorgeous cup of coffee and no fuss, we strongly recommend the Bonavita BV1900TS.
Better Still, it ranked in the
You
temperature; and it even lacks some convenient touches like a brew basket that Attaches to the machine (when you're done brewing,
you must
Place the brew basket on a plate or in the sink before it makes a whole mess).
A whole eight-cup pot in under six minutes.
How We Found the Best Coffee Maker
In our quest to find the best, we pitted 10 highly regarded coffee makers These are the machines that regularly make it on
experts we talked to over the course of this review. We aimed for
to muddy the results with French press, pour-over, or
espresso. Those are for other reviews.)
It's quite a mix.
Reports. $300 and, while endorsed by two of our experts, has mixed
reviews elsewhere.
At their cores, all drip coffee makers function more or less the same way. A reservoir of water is heated then poured onto some
coffee grounds,
Pretty simple.
But the machine is just 1 part of the equation when it comes to a great cup of coffee.

·
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· Allowing the grounds to brew for between four and eight minutes
Water that is too cold or a brew time that is too short will under-extract the
Dissolve, making coffee that is thin, weak, or even sour. Over-extraction, on the other hand, can leave coffee burnt-tasting or
bitter.
But there are other variables that have a major impact on taste, including the quality of the bean, the size of the grind, and the
flavor of the
water.
If a machine can hit its three requirements, Miller says, you'll be able to Make your perfect cup of coffee by adjusting any of
the other
variables.
That advice led us down a multi-pronged path to locate the best coffee maker.

requirements.
Easy enough with a thermometer and a stopwatch, or an SCAA certification.
Next, a taste test.
likely take some tinkering of bean type, grind size, and water. But
The coffee maker that makes great coffee right out of the box will require
The problem: Taste is subjective.
notes?
Their palates ranged from baristas and
Usually take my coffee with milk ... and a ton of sugar." It was
Important to us that we have a broad range of tastes.
We ground the Exact medium-roast Mexican bean to each coffee maker's suggested grind size using a Mr. Coffee blade grinder. (Each
distribution.) Then, using the SCAA's suggested ratio of 60

Our testers were asked to rate the coffee on a scale of 1-10 according to their They also used the SCAA flavor

extracted its coffee grounds. Keep in Mind, extraction is tied to water
temperature, how long the grounds had to steep, and how evenly that water is (Depending on how the machine
Distributes the water and the shape of the basket, any particular ground may or May not get the same amount of time in contact
with water
right.)
And aromas, from slight hints of acid to a pleasant amount of bitterness.
Then, we wanted to check out usability.
At the end of the day -- or, rather, the very beginning -- drip coffee makers are The most effective way to create large
quantities of coffee. And
Since most machines are fundamentally the same, we explored each one for Nice-to-have touches that set it apart from the rest,
from intuitive
Interfaces to programmable brew times.
For us, the best coffee maker is the one that lets you make coffee the way you want, as easily as possible. It's Easy to set up
and mindless to
use. If This coffee maker is also well-crafted and beautiful to look at, all the better.
Our Picks for the Best Coffee Maker
Best Overall
OXO On 12-Cup Coffee Brewing SystemA beautiful machine with intuitive controls That makes great coffee right out of the box. The
only
downsides: It's quite large and the slowest to brew of all our top picks.
The OXO On 12-Cup Coffee Brewing System is sleek to look at, streamlined to use, and tied for second in our out-of-the-box taste
test. If you
Want to make a fantastic pot of coffee without needing to sweat the details, this is A excellent option. If you want the freedom
to tinker around and
experiment with extraction, it's even better.
The OXO On 12-Cup feels high-tech without being high maintenance. It's beautifully constructed, with silicone gaskets, a stainless
steel
carafe, and sturdy-feeling plastic. But let's go ahead and get its biggest downside right out there in the open. Of the 10
machines we tested, it
took the longest to brew eight cups of coffee -- nearly 15 minutes. It heats its Entire reservoir of water to temperature before a
drop touches the
Grounds, and if you're jonesing for a full pot to start off your day, that wait is going to feel like a lifetime. This was
particularly noticeable
Considering four of the machines we tested brewed the same amount of coffee in less than half that time. The Bunn BTX-B Velocity
Brew
could do it in three minutes flat.
At 14.5 inches long and nearly 16 inches tall, it's also rather large. But hear us out.
Right: Our top pick, the OXO On 12-Cup Coffee Brewing system. If 12 cups is overkill, we also recommend its little sister, the OXO
On 9-Cup Coffee Maker (left), which brews faster and is $100 less. We just didn't love its coffee quite as much in our taste test,
And it doesn't give you the choice to adjust the water temp.
The simplicity starts with its design: a single button with a scrolling dial underneath an LED interface. That button is the only
one on the entire
machine. With it, you set the time, set the water temperature, set how many Cups you want brewed, and when you want the brewing to
begin. It
takes a second to get the hang of it, but we were impressed with how intuitive it is -- a stark contrast to a machine like the
Moccamaster KBT
10-Cup Coffee Brewer, which had so many extra pieces, it required constant consultation of the instruction manual.
As soon as you start brewing, it makes a really, really good pot of coffee. Our taste test revealed the OXO On 12-Cup coffee was
"dark and strong"
and appealed to the more traditionalist coffee palates. The Terrific flavor comes From the brewing procedure. The OXO machines
have wide shower
Heads with multiple ports through which water streams, dispersing it evenly throughout the brew basket. Tons of other coffee
makers spout
Water through only 1 hole, or through shower heads with a smaller radius, Which can increase the chances of uneven extraction.
It also automatically pre-infuses the coffee, allowing the grounds to vent their CO2 and "bloom." Remember, only half of the
machines we
tested had this feature, and it proved to pay off in our taste tests. The four machines we recommend all pre-infuse. Only 1 coffee
maker
without it, the Hamilton Beach, performed well at all in our taste tests -- but that guy was so cheap and flimsy, part of the brew
basket broke
during our testing. Sorry, Hamilton Beach.
The OXO is SCAA-certified, so we knew going in that it would heat water to the right temperature range and let coffee brew for the
right
amount of time. But what really sold us on the OXO was how its scrolling dial made even that customizable. Assuming you want to
bring the
extraction down a touch for lighter, subtler coffee, you can lower the water temperature with a twist of the dial. Likewise, if
you want a slightly
More robust aroma from your brew, you can raise the water's temp the same way.
That water is heated in a detachable reservoir that doubles as a kettle. This Is a special feature for a coffee maker, but one we
ended up
Appreciating, particularly for households with a mix of tea lovers and instant-oatmeal eaters alongside coffee drinkers. Fill up
the bag, lock it
Set up, and scroll the dial to the amount of coffee you need brewed. The Machine is designed so that, even if you have more water
in the
Kettle than you need, it will brew only the amount you specify. The one thing You truly have to measure with the OXO On 12-Cup is
the
grounds. Do that right, and it's pretty much impossible to screw it up.
Once your coffee's ready to go, a "freshness" timer starts on the LED display, So you know precisely how long your coffee has been
sitting,
preventing you from pouring any cups of stale coffee. Pouring is easy, too -- no fiddly lids with levers or buttons that can trap
stale brew. Just
a clean, even stream.
Once coffee is brewed, a timer starts to show how long it's been sitting in the carafe. Coffee starts losing its flavor after 30
minutes.
Most experts (and the OXO manual) say it's not really worth drinking after an hour.
Let's circle back to that extra-long brew time. There are two factors that didn't make it an automatic "no" for us. The first is
that the OXO On
12-Cup is programmable. Like our experts say, grinding coffee in advance isn't going to make the most perfect cup of coffee. But
the fact that
You can program the machine's "wake-up time" to start brewing and have coffee Ready when you are takes the sting out of the wait.
The next is the machine's auto-pause. If you remove the carafe before your full pot is done brewing, the flow will stop until the
carafe goes
back in. It is not a perfect system. There are a few inevitable drips that add An extra step to clean-up, and if the water is held
up in the brew
Basket for too long, it increases the chance of over-extraction. But if you Want a great first cup to sip on while the rest of
your pot is brewing,
You will get it in a much more satisfying time frame.
1 last downside: a $300 price tag. Yowch. Even for a Fantastic machine, that's going to be an inevitable deal breaker for some --
which is why
We also have three other recommendations.
Three Other Coffee Makers to Consider
OXO On 9-Cup Coffee MakerA similar yet slightly smaller version of our top pick, though we weren't as blown away by the coffee it
brews.
This coffee maker is excellent. How could it not be? Its SCAA-certified, and the technology is practically identical to the 12-Cup
brewing
system. Lots of what we love about the 12-Cup, from its single-dial programmability to its auto-pause brewing to its multi-port
shower head, is
pretty much the same. Plus, it brews eight cups in a much swifter nine minutes, and is $100 cheaper.
There are two reasons it didn't quite win our top spot. The coffee it brews didn't wow us as much as the 12-Cup. This is likely
because the of
The brew-basket and filter shape: a cone, in contrast to the flat bottom of the larger machine.
It's not that cone filters won't make a great cup of coffee -- the OXO On 9-Cup still ranked fifth out of 10 in our taste test.
But flat bottoms
Generally allow for the grounds to be more evenly extracted and increase the coffee's flavor. (It's no coincidence our other three
recommendations have flat-bottom brew baskets). You May Need to do a little more tweaking to get this coffee maker's brew to the
best it can
be, and that's the other reason we like the 12-cupper more. This smaller Version doesn't allow you to tinker with water
temperature.
1 last thing: The 9-Cup is still quite large. It's about the same size as the 12-Cup OXO, although no handle on the reservoir
makes it seem a
bit more compact. If you lack counter space or have particularly low-hanging Cabinets, both OXO coffee makers will be out of
place.
(In that case, we heartily recommend the Bonavita 1900TS.)
Behmor Brazen Plus Customizable Temperature Control Brew SystemThe winner of our out-of-the-box taste test. It's a machine that
takes drip coffee seriously, but isn't as elegant to use.
If you want to experiment with your drip coffee and really dial in on making it As great as possible, the Behmor Brazen Plus
Customizable
Temperature Control Brew System (around $200) is your machine.
It scored the highest in our out-of-the-box taste test, brewing coffee our tasters described as "light" with subtle notes of
blueberry, citrus,
cherry, tobacco, and hazelnut. The machine simply brews great coffee, and it takes its job seriously. If you're interested in
playing around with
The flavor and extraction of your roast, the Behmor Brazen gives you more access to more variables. You can adjust water tempe
rature, play
with pre-infusion times (15 seconds to four minutes) -- it even has you enter your altitude to better determine water's boiling
point, and
calibrate its internal thermometer during setup.
Having said that, it's not as elegant to use as the OXO machines. (Nor is it as nice to look at. One tester described its tall,
bulbous body and squat
carafe as "UFO-like.") Take its eight-button controls, for example, which you use to toggle among brew modes, scroll up and down
within the
menu, and engage a manual brewing feature. Programming it to start brewing at a certain time was about as intuitive as setting an
alarm on a
clock radio -- easy enough, but more technical than sleek. OXO definitely feels like the future; Behmor is more, "If it ain't
broke, why fix it?"
It is a little clunkier in practice too. Small things, like a water reservoir Lid that had to be totally removed and set aside to
fill, as opposed to
flipping up on a hinge, felt like oversights. Even the $30 Hamilton Beach brewer could do that. We also noticed its brew basket
was drippier
(read: messier) when we were tossing out old grounds.
It brews eight cups two minutes faster than the OXO 12-Cup and three minutes slower than the OXO 9-Cup -- and we should note that
the
Behmor maxes out at just eight cups.
Bonavita BV1900TSThe most straight-forward of our top picks. It makes gorgeous coffee, but lacks some features like auto brew
times and
adjustable water temps.
The Bonavita is a simple, compact machine (about 12 inches x 12 inches) for only $190, and it makes coffee that ranked in the top
three in our
taste test. Its philosophy seems to be "everything you absolutely need, nothing you don't." That means it's SCAA-certified for
water
temperature and brew times, boasts pre-infusion capabilities, and has a flat-bottom filter basket that extracts grounds evenly.
That's it.
Like the OXO machines, it has just 1 button on its interface. Unlike the OXO Machines, that button does only one thing: start the
brewing
process. If you hold it down until it blinks, you'll activate the pre-infusion; otherwise a simple click gets it going. Brewing a
full pot of eight
Cups took us about seven minutes, undoubtedly the fastest of any of our top picks -- Which is a good thing, considering you can't
program it to start
brewing before you wake up.
One downside: The Bonavita's thermal carafe performed the worst of all our top Picks, with a complete pot dropping from over 190
degrees down to
Mid-170s in one hour. All thermal carafes have some sort of heat loss over time, but the Bonavita's 16-degree drop was the most
dramatic of our
top picks.
Thermal vs. Glass Carafes
There's also no way to adjust the temperature of the water on the Bonavita, or Tinker with any of the other factors some of our
other top picks
gave access to. And that's the other downside to this excellent machine: What You get is what you get, and if you do want to
experiment with
The flavor of your coffee, it is going to depend entirely on the beans you buy and the size you grind them to. Great thing the
coffee it brews right out
of the box is so dang good.
The Way to Create Great Drip Coffee
Be prepared to tinker -- at least a little.
The point of getting a Wonderful machine is that it takes the fuss out of your Coffee making -- if you're going to fiddle around
so much, why not just
get a Chemex? But our refrain throughout this entire review has been that a Coffee maker is only 1 part of the good-cup equation.
Some
Methodical experimentation could reveal a whole world of taste you never knew you could achieve.
Grind matters.
For our taste tests, we used an inexpensive blade grinder to grind our beans -- That's what the typical home coffee brewer uses.
But blade
grinders aren't super reliable, and, Miller explained, consistent grind size is The number one variable outside of your coffee
maker that you can
Control to affect the quality of your coffee.
For Instance, If your coffee tastes a bit salty or sour, the grounds are under-extracted, which can be remedied by a finer grind.
But what if
only some of your grounds are too coarse, and others are too fine -- and maybe Some are just perfect? Having uniform grind size
throughout your
Brew basket makes it easier to isolate and adjust this variable in order to get The level of extraction you want. The only way to
achieve that is
with a burr grinder. Miller -- as well as a handful of our other experts -- recommends the Barazata Encore Coffee Grinder ($129).
Use filtered water.
Water quality also plays a gigantic role in the way your coffee tastes. As we discovered in our review of the best water filters,
water isn't
tasteless. Total dissolved solids (TDS) are what give "good tasting" water its Sweetness -- in actuality, the SCAA recommends
water with 150
milligrams per liter of TDS to brew coffee. (Want to look at your water? A TDS Reader is just about 15 bucks.)
The other nice thing about filtered water: less mineral content flowing through Your machine will cause less mineral buildup and
extend the
life of your coffee maker.
Select a good coffee bean.
Drip-style coffee makers already have a bit of a flavor handicap when compared With other brewing methods, like pour-over and
French press,
Which give coffee drinkers ultimate control over all aspects of the brewing (and therefore extraction) process. This makes it even
more
Important to select a high-quality coffee bean for your at-home drip coffee maker. To learn more, we spoke with Saadat Awan at
Woodcat
Coffee in Los Angeles.
The flavor of any bean is defined by three main variables: The varietal (type Of bean), the manner of roast, and the freshness of
the roast. It's
Always better to get freshly roasted beans, so if you have access to a local roaster that regularly makes small batches, that's
going to be your
Best resource.
If you're Looking for coffee at the grocery store, "check the roast date, rather than the 'best by' date," says Awan. With mass
market roasters,
the "best by" date can obfuscate the window in which coffee beans are at their best: about 4 days after roasting, when some, but
not all, of the
carbon dioxide has escaped from the beans. (Too much carbon dioxide captured Within beans tends to create uneven extraction, since
the gas
Escapes -- this is what pre-infusing tries to counter. Conversely, too little Carbon dioxide in the bean may cause a loss of
flavor.)
Whole bean coffee that you grind yourself is preferable to pre-ground, too. The Bean's exterior traps and protects all the
delicate, volatile,
and water-soluble oils that give coffee its flavor. As soon as you break the Protective shell, it's easy for the flavor to get
contaminated, and
A lot of the aroma escapes as soon as the oils are exposed to air.
From there, it's up to your personal preference. Arabica beans have a higher acidity, with notes of fruit and berries. Robusta
beans are darker
and richer, with more caffeine. Various levels of roasts -- light, medium, dark -- determine how much of the beans' oils will
break through
the surface of the bean, which also affects acidity, flavor, and caffeine levels. "Get to know your regional coffee expert,"recommends Awan.
Nothing beats a conversation with a barista or local coffee roaster who can Help you try different beans and roasts, and to
experiment with those
variables in real time. Finding your favorite is all part of the fun.
And don't forget to clean up.
It's obvious, but easy to forget: If you don't clean out your coffee machine's Carafe after each use with soap and water, you'll
always end up
tasting a little bit of yesterday's now-bitter brew. Thermal carafes need to be hand-washed, but all the plastic components of our
top picks --
brew baskets, lids, etc. -- are dishwasher-safe if you keep them on the top rack.
Our Top Pick
OXO On 12-Cup Coffee Brewing SystemA smart machine that's easy to look at and easier to use. It features programmable brew times,
single-dial controls, and a removable water reservoir that doubles as a kettle. Want to experiment with different water temps and
see how it
affects extraction? This machine makes it simple.