Like most kitchen appliances you currently own, the one-cup coffee maker has really evolved in the past 20 years. Everyone knows that fresh coffee tastes better, but not everyone had the time to run down to Starbucks every morning in order to get fresh and expensive coffee; that is why most people have coffee machines at home.
The main issue with old fashioned coffee makers that needed to be tackled was simply the measuring process: they simply make too much for one person. Every time you brewed your coffee, your brewing process would have to be consistent as you didn’t want to waste coffee but also wanted it strong enough to be ‘interesting’. Naturally people came up with ways of gauging how much coffee they needed to use to turn their large coffee maker into a one-cup coffee maker in effect; this process was not only crude but also inconsistent.
Another problem with the old-fashioned coffee pots is that when it sits on a hotplate smoldering away as you take time sipping your first cup of coffee, returning to the coffee pot after only a couple of minutes will make the second cup leave a rather bitter taste in the mouth. Even when people decide not to leave the pot on the hotplate, most of them end up throwing cold coffee away. The need for an efficient method of making coffee without making too much has been with us for decades, most likely. Is it any wonder that in the age of the Internet we have finally come up with a one-cup coffee maker that actually works as advertised?
Starbucks made it to the list of the world’s most successful companies because they know that well-brewed fresh coffee made from quality imported beans tastes better and they consistently made great coffee and even made it very easy for their (adventurous) customers to try out exotic flavors like cappuccino, espresso, latte. This last commercial push helped to encourage the trend toward the now nearly ubiquitous one-cup coffee maker, produced by coffee machine vendors all over the world.
Why Choose A Single Serve Coffee Maker?
You’ll find that your one cup coffee maker is simply a coffee brewer that is designed to make one “perfect” brewed cup of coffee at a time. With this machine, wasting coffee will be a thing of the past because your coffee will be dispensed straight into your mug and not on a pot sitting on your hotplate. You can count on having a great cup of coffee each time without going through the hassle of cleaning the coffee filter or washing the coffee stained glass pot. You no longer have to shell out money on expensive coffee in order to have the perfect coffee.
A one-cup coffee maker has a really ingenious method of brewing coffee by using precise measurement of coffee grounds; these coffee grounds come in small packets that have small barcodes on the labelling. The machine reads what is inserted into it and automatically measures just how much water is required, the exact brewing time and even the brewing temperature in order to make the perfect coffee each time. With single serve coffee makers you can fool even the most obstinate coffee connoisseur into thinking that they are drinking the most expensive coffee brand.
Not everyone is a huge fan of really well-brewed coffee, but if you are you owe it to yourself to try a coffee maker that specializes in making one cup at a time.