Best Coffee Makers of 2019

• Consumer Reports’ experts round up this year’s top drip and pod brewers, from Cuisinart, Nespresso, Technivorm, and more • By Daniel Wroclawski • Last updated: February 17, 2019 • 1.3K SHARES • • • • • • • • Today’s coffee makers do far more than brew a pot of joe. Some grind beans, others froth milk for specialty drinks such as lattes and macchiatos, and a few even brew iced coffee. CR’s extensive lab tests—and our reviews of top models, here—can help you zero in on the machine that’s right for your kitchen. • And new features aren’t the only improvements we’ve seen lately. “Over the past few years, coffee makers have also gotten faster at brewing,” says Ginny Lui, the CR test engineer who oversees the coffee maker lab. • How We Test Coffee Makers For drip coffee makers, we conduct a brew-performance test and measure contact time (how long water stays within the sweet spot of 195° F to 205° F for brewing). For single-serve (pod) coffee makers, our enginee