The Two Best Office Drip Coffee Makers

Drip coffee makers in the average office are machines of the devil. Even if they started out shiny, fresh, new and innocent, the evil ways of the office user – never cleaning any of the parts, refusing to wash out the carafe or turn off the heating pad so that thick nasty brown crusts form, the infinite variety of poor decision making about what coffee and how much and when, all these lead the poor machine down the road to perdition no matter the way things started out.

But there is a reason – office coffee tastes BAD. Always. So nobody cares and the vicious cycle starts up effortlessly. So how do you break out of the cycle before it starts?

Part one is using good coffee. Get good beans, get a grinder (a burr grinder is better but a cheap blade one will do) and grind the coffee fresh.

Part two is a good coffee maker. There are two ways to go here. If your office cares about its coffee, get a Technivorm Moccamaster. For a few hundred dollars you can get the single best drip coffee machine there is. Check out what some users have to say here.

But if you don’t have that kind of money, go to the local drugstore and get the cheapest drip coffee machine that can make a minimum of 8 cups of coffee at a time. Just make sure that the drip mechanism is plastic and looks a bit like a shower head with just a few holes. Now, you can dramatically improve the coffee you get from it by converting it to emulate those fancy drip machines at Peets that have hand directed heads that the barristas use to gently spray the coffee grounds. Get a drill and drill the drip mechanism (which looks a bit liek a shower head) with LOTS of little holes. That way you get a more even and thorough delivery of hot water over the grounds and a much improved brew. Drink the coffee promptly or turn the hot plate off after ten minutes.

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1. How To Brew Perfect Drip Coffee
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