Coffee Brewers
Coffee brewers refer to appliances that are used in brewing coffee drink. Coffee brewers have an integrated water boiler. With coffee brewers, you don’t have to boil the water yourself to make the coffee. There are three types of coffee brewers including drip brewer, vacuum brewer, and percolator.
Drip brewer is the most popular brewer for brewing coffee. The brew is done by combining warm water and ground coffee. Drip brewers are available in different sizes. If you want to use it to make coffee for yourself, you can buy one with single serving size. The larger capacity drip brewer is suitable for multiple users. To make a flavored drip coffee, you need pour the warm water over 1 tablespoon of ground coffee. The drip brewer can be operated manually or automatically. With automatic coffee makers, the water is heat up automatically. The manual coffee makers require you to manually prepare the warm water.
Vacuum brewers consist of upper and lower containers that function together via a siphon tube. The bottom of the upper container is equipped with a filter. To make the coffee, the user will pour the water into the bottom container and put the ground coffee in the upper container. After that, the user will place it on top of a stove. After the water is heated, vapors will appear. The vapors will be transferred to the upper container via the siphon tube. The whole brewing process takes about 3 minutes. The two globe vacuum coffee maker is the first vacuum brewer that existed in 1920. Nowadays, people use the modern automatic vacuum brewer. The modern automatic vacuum brewer is first invented by Sunbeam. Sunbeam automatic vacuum brewer is still available and can be bought at store such as Ebay. Vacuum brewers are produced by a small number of companies including Bodum and Cona. The cost of a Bona vacuum coffee maker is $50 – $100. Cona’s vacuum coffee maker costs about $150.
Percolators can also be used for making brew coffee. In percolator, the water is boiled in a pot inside a basket. The ground coffee is placed on top of the boiled water. The components of a percolator include pot, lid, funnel, basket and filter top. Most stores sell the stove top and electric percolators. Modern percolators can be programmed and relies on electricity to operate. The size of the percolator depends on the number of servings you want to make. Small percolator can only brew 1 coffee at a time. Large percolator can brew up to 12 cups of coffees.
