The ratio of four coffee machines: Great dripping

Four Coffeemaker makes one of two things: it will make a delicious coffee cup. Or it will make two delicious coffee cups.

Technically, you can also make a good cup of coffee, or half a cup. But this is where it stops. This is the end of what the device will complete.

What a rare and wonderful achievement.

This is something. Your classic drip coffee machine is a simple and useful device, but it escapes Singleton. It looked aside, even, at a couple. A 12 cup coffee machine makes large batches instead of offices, diners and church society.

It is not a big problem, each time. But it is one Bigness problem. If, like many of us, you live in a household one or two adults, even an eight -cup carafe can be a real responsibility unless you drink coffee in form IV or let it it. On a burner to be oxidized and weird. I think about this whenever I poured out the sad things of a full carafe. Those who wonder if they use Pod coffee, even when sacrificing the flavor.

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This is a fourth situation designed to solve. Released in November, Four is the third and smallest coffee manufacturer designed by the percentage of Portland, Oregon, Oregon.

The device is easy to fit the cabinet, and its form is elegant in a modern minimum style related to many polymers without BPA. Its carafe, made of Borosilicate glass, shaped in familiar ways. But otherwise, its specifications can look like limitations. Its largest batch has only four cups, large enough for two steamed cups. There is only one button and no heating element in safety. In addition, the machine is priced at the North $ 200.

But after weeks of testing, I was convinced. There is no device that I know to make this coffee drip this nose delicious, with so easy and simple.

Coffee comes from the surprisingly good ratio. On light and medium grilled dishes in particular, my cups were fully satisfied while still the sweet whisper of berries or hard butter. I brewed the beans that I knew well, just to explore the new flavor.

All single women put your cup

But what makes the four especially the ease that it gives a great single cup for one, or for two.

When I tried smaller batches on drip machines made larger beers, it was usually unsuccessful. It requires Futzing, and the result is as compromised. Coffee rolled up, or I had to make a cup too strong. This is true even on a series of favorite devices, including the previous eight cups of the ratio. Most large machines are simply not designed to create a great single cup. POD coffee serves single There is no great tasteor.