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Re-activateCoffeemakers are a popular holiday gift, so if you're looking for a machine for the coffee achiever in your life, check our coffeemaker Ratings. You'll find many low-priced models that hit the mark, including traditional drip, espresso, and pod machines.
But not every coffeemaker we test deliver the convenience and optimal brewing that count, including those featured here.
Paying big for the Panasonic drip coffeemaker buys you superb brewing and sturdy construction. but it makes only eight cups at once compared with 12 or 14 for our top picks, and it has a heavy carafe that we found hard to empty. The 12-cup Michael Graves (shown) costs far less and is styled like a 1930s radio but was only so-so in our brewing tests. And Calphalon's 10-cup Quick Brew was only middling for brewing.
The bare-bones Black & Decker and Proctor Silex lost points on brewing, which was just so-so. The Better Chef and Hamilton Beach (shown) did, too. And though the brew-and-dispense Hamilton Beach comes with a syrup dispenser, adding grounds and water requires turning the machine around and working from the back.
Cumbersome carafes and mediocre brewing put the bunn models and the KitchenAid at the bottom of our scores for conventional drip machines. The grind-and-brew Breville (shown) has a stainless finish, an interactive LCD menu, and other helpful features. It also brewed respectably. But we found it to be a chore to clean compared with others we tested, and its thermal carafe was hard to empty.
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