Commercial Coffee Makers

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One of the first things you should consider when looking for a coffee maker is whether you want standard drip coffee, or if you want to make it through percolation. Each method creates coffee with a distinctive taste and is either a preferred or reviled, depending on whom you are talking to.

Coffee Percolators

3 Models

Dual Brew Coffee Makers

52 Models

Single Brew Coffee Makers

175 Models

Percolation is the original method for making coffee. Inside the brewer, there is a chamber to hold the grounds and a tube that connects that chamber to water at the bottom of the unit. When placed over a heat source, water rises in the tube and trickles through the grounds to create coffee. This is a difficult method to master because over extraction and re-brewing will create bitter or tasteless coffee.

A simpler, more common method for making coffee is called drip brewing. For this method, coffee grounds are placed in a filter, a heating element heats up stored water which then passes through the grounds and into a pot or server. This is pretty much a fool-proof method for making coffee and several makers are available that can brew a single pot or two pots at once.