Coffee Machine Brands

Bosch is a well known brand where quality tools and garden equipment are concerned, but they also offer a great range of home appliances including coffee makers. The company has recently been awarded the prestigious Which? ‘Best Domestic Appliance Brand’ award for 2009. Bosch also maintains that their products, including coffee makers, are highly energy efficient, which is useful to know.

Cuisinart began as a food processor specialist but today offers a wide range of innovative products for use in the kitchen. It has been producing coffee makers since the 1990s and entered the United Kingdom market in 2003. It offers a range that includes a bean to cup filter machine and other filter machines as well as an espresso maker. The website is attractively designed and functional with a high-tech feel to it that reflects the products on offer.

DeLonghi is one of the best know names when it comes to Coffee Makers. In 2006 it was voted one of the United Kingdom’s coolest brands. Its website is pretty cool as well, being uncluttered and well designed. And what’s more it has a site called Serious About Coffee that tells you all you’d want to know about their products, as well as the history of coffee and a coffee forum. There’s a link to finding the right machine for you and a feature on Bean to cup coffee makers.

Operating for over 50 years, Dualit are manufacturers of catering equipment for commercial use, especially toasters, but they have a home selection as well. They pride themselves on being essentially British, which means hard working, sturdy but well designed product. Their website – which is simply laid out but functional – features a new espresso coffee machine in the Espressivo range and a percolator. The coffee machines are of high quality and designed to appeal to the coffee enthusiast.

It takes a while to find but Electrolux do have one coffee maker on offer under the ‘AEG – Electrolux’ banner. It’s a bean to cup variety that uses beans, ground coffee or coffee pods.

Electra coffee makers might be said to be minor works of art, or at least design objects created to look superb on your table or worktop. And, of course, this means they aren’t cheap. But if you want a coffee maker that produces the best espresso and looks good doing it, it might be worth the expense. Look at their microcasaaleva model and drool. Electra machines are made for those who enjoy the rite of coffee making and go by the rules. They are meticulously crafted but you don’t have to be a professional barista to enjoy them.

Gaggia is one of the names you associate with espresso and coffee makers in coffeehouses. But there is a useful selection of domestic items as well. Now it has introduced capsule machines that use the ‘Caffita’ system of packaging the coffee. The ideal amount of 8gm of ground coffee is vacuum-sealed in each disposable capsule and the capsule placed in the machine. Gaggia has been receiving awards for its coffee makers for some years now and its Gaggia Baby Class machine won Gold in the Industry Award 2007.

Made in Italy, and now one of the best-known names in that country, the Isomac brand features espresso machines that hover on the border between commercial and home items. These espresso machines look the business and exude high quality, with their use of polished metal casing. They enjoy a high technical performance rating as well. The website is fairly basic giving just enough information to allow you to make an informed choice without being over-elaborate.

Krups is a major player in the coffee machine market, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of espresso machines. The Krups website underlines this. Bring up the home page and you’re met with a polished metal ambience that reflects the quality of their products. There’s a sliding panel that shows a number of machines. Click on the machine and you open a magnifying window that you can manoeuvre around to see details. It’s sharp, cool design. Click on ‘World of Coffee’ and you can enjoy a history of coffee as well as the company itself along with other useful information for the coffee buff. The product range features a useful mix of espresso, combination, nespresso and filter machines.