Good To the Last Drip: Part 1 (INeedCoffee.com) (#)

  „However, due to differences in basket design, some makers produce coffee that is over extracted. What this means is that the hot water has had too much exposure time to the coffee and is beginning to extract unpleasant flavors into the brewed beverage. Coffee should be brewed hotly and fairly quickly. For example, a 10-cup pot of coffee should take between 3 and 4 minutes to brew.“

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Good To the Last Drip: Part 2 (INeedCoffee.com)

  „It is very rare that the whole machine will fail at the same time. Supposing your coffee maker has a grinder and an auto-drip maker, what happens if the grinder fails? Do you buy a new grinder? If you do, then your machine that once saved you counter space is now taking up more space than it would have if you bought them separately in the first place!“

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Press Pot Tutorial (INeedCoffee.com)

  „Press pot coffee is coffee steeped for 3-4 minutes at a high temperature (195-205 F), which gives it a thicker and richer taste than you'll find with an auto-drip machine. Drip coffee makers produce a very clean coffee, whereas the press pot may have trace amounts of coffee sediment. Some people will be turned off by the sediment. Others will cherish the richness.“

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Keep Your Coffee Equipment Clean (INeedCoffee.com)

  „To maintain your Auto Drip coffee maker, you will want to do a basic cleaning weekly and a thorough cleaning at least monthly. The purpose of the thorough cleaning is to remove mineral deposits that may build up in your coffee maker. These deposits will eventually clog up the piping inside the machine and will give off flavors to your brew. Some modern drip makers have built in filters which actually will trap a great deal of these minerals in the filter before brewing.“

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Good To the Last Drip: Part 2 (INeedCoffee.com)

  „Remember, machines are mechanical and will thus wear out over time. The problem with machines that do many things is that one part will wear out before another does. It is very rare that the whole machine will fail at the same time. Supposing your coffee maker has a grinder and an auto-drip maker, what happens if the grinder fails?“

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Vac Pot Brewing with the Starbucks Utopia (INeedCoffee.com)

  „The Utopia has two features that clearly distinguish it from the rest of the vacuum pot family and make it akin to popular drip coffee machines: a "keep warm" feature and a programming feature. The base will keep the coffee in the carafe warm for a total of 2 hours and the heat sensors will shut off the power base entirely if the carafe has not been returned to the base within 8 minutes. Starbucks claims that their keep warm feature does not continue to "cook" the coffee, but they don't indicate in any of the associated literature exactly how their power base adjusts the temperature depending on the amount of coffee in the carafe, or how the heat is delivered to the system without cooking the coffee.“

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