CDN IRB220-F-6.5 ProAccurate Insta-Read NSF Beverage & Frothing Thermometer

Pros:

Reads temperature rapidly

Has correct temperature marking for frothing milk and beverages.

Adjustable clip

Cons:

Tall, it sticks way out of my frothing pitcher.

Who should buy this? Someone looking for more consistency to their steamed milk in their coffee beverages.

My only complaint with it is the size, it is rather tall and sticks out the top of my pitcher. The sensor is also located about 2" from the end (there is a little dimple in the shaft), so it is actually outside of the cold milk (when I used 8 oz in my frothing pitcher). However, it still works well, as the temperature transmits up the metal shaft rapidly, but it would be more accurate if the sensor portion were immersed in the milk.

I would still buy this thermometer again, but I might look for a shorter version of it.

Love this thermometer. I use it for making lattes, getting milk the right temperature for yogurt, to testing meat for proper internal temps. However pay attention to the length of this thermometer. It's quite long and can be awkward at times trying to keep it in the right place, as it often hits the bottom of the container making it hard to keep clipped in the desired place.

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A must have for cappuccino/latte drinkers. The thermometer is durable and the clip can be adjusted to the proper height to fit in your stainless steel frothing pitcher. Just squeeze the clip together and it slides to proper height (so the tip of the thermometer doesn't rest on the bottom of the pitcher). Stays in place nicely during the frothing process. The red zone lets you know when the milk is the perfect temp. So easy!

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This thermometer is the worst product that I have purchased in a long time. Lets see where to begin. The sheath supplied with the thermometer does not fit it. It is impossible to insert the thermometer into the sheath as the sheath is too tight. As the sheath is also the tool to recalibrate the thermometer this renders recalibration impossible. More importantly, the instrument is not well made to begin with. As you are frothing milk, the thermometer sticks or hangs. The needle will lodge for a period of time and then jump instead of exhibiting a smooth rate of climb as would be expected with an analog instrument. Don't waste your money on this cheezy offering. It is one thing to buy an inexpensive quality product. It is quite another to buy a cheaply made inferior product. This is an inferior product.

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I use my beverage thermometer daily... actually 2X per day. I love my thermometer!

I could live with the dial steaming up and having to wait till it 'un-steamed' to be able to read. I could live with the small dial. I could live with having to recalibrate every other week.

What I could NOT live with was it deciding to no longer register temperatures acurately AT ALL. After 3 months, suddenly it now spikes and pegs the dial on LESS THAN BOILING WATER. no temperatures are accurate any longer.

**TOSS**

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Melitta Ready Set Joe Mug & Cone Coffee Maker - Red - 64074

This is an ingenious concept---a miniature manual drip "coffeemaker" for one cup. I saw this in my local grocery store for $6, and I thought, "Why not give it a try?" I'm really glad I did. It makes a great single cup of coffee, so it's convenient to take to work or to keep on hand if you just want one cup of coffee. Also, it's so small that it's easy to store it. Some tips to keep in mind as you make a cup of coffee:

1) A course grind doesn't work as well with this. If you use a course grind, your coffee will be weak. I have a burr grinder and use a medium/fine grind. It's perfect.

2) The perfect tempature for coffee is somewhere around 206 degrees. I don't bother with a thermometer, but I just bring about 1 1/2 cups of water to boil in the microwave (using a Pyrex cup). I let it boil, and then just let it rest for about 30 seconds or so.

3) Pour enough water in to cover the grinds. You'll see it foam up at the top (if your coffee is fresh). Let that water flow through. This initial "soaking" of the grinds is important to extracting the flavor.

4) Finally, just pour the remaining water through (or however much you need to fill your coffee cup). The slower you pour, the stronger the coffee.

It sounds complicated, but believe me, it was really quick--quicker than making a cup of coffee in an automatic drip coffeemaker.

It's rare to find something that is cheap and works great, but this is just such a product.

This cone is useful if all you want is one cup of ground coffee, and don't want to deal with the hassle of a coffee machine.

One of the attractive features of this cone is that it has a little window in which you can see the coffee drip into the cup. Just put your ground coffee into a #2 filter, put the filter into the cone, and add boiling water to the cone. You will have to add hot water several times (about 3 times) as the coffee will take a while to empty into the cup.

Personally, I prefer to extract more flavor from the ground coffee, so I put the coffee into another cup and add boiling water to it, and let that sit for about 3 minutes before pouring it into the cone + filter.

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The cone filter holder works well for making single cups of coffee. It's not really necessary if you do have a coffee maker, but perhaps good if you just have a tea kettle or other means of heating the water.

The set of the mug and the cone is an odd pairing of two different shades of red that are not asthetically pleasing to me, but the cone fits on other mugs and travel mugs so I don't bother with the included one. I don't know why I expected it to match and look pretty!

Also, the shipping is a bit steep for such a small, inexpensive item, but it came well-packed in lots of padding.

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We've had one of these for years and it's perfect for making one cup of coffee at a time. The pot really only works best if you make a full pot (which encourages a one-cup-a-day drinker to be a one-pot-a-day drinker) and the french press was a bit of a pain to clean. Our original made excellent coffee (probably aided by the fact that it was very simple to clean). Also, it's great for camping it's easy to carry with you + makes (great) coffee anywhere that you have boiling water.

Costs less, less packaging/resources needed to make it, lasts forever, can make great coffee almost anywhere? That's a five-star product!

Unfortunately, we recently had to get a new one (lost the old one) and this design looks great, but the hole the coffee drips through is larger, so the coffee is weaker. Well, unless you use more coffee we had been using a standard 2TBSP scoop to make a cup in the old one, this one requires almost 2 of those scoops to come close to the same strength of coffee.

This design does look much more modern, and it is nice to see how full the cup is without having to lift the filter off.

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I love having a simple, easily-cleaned, non-electronic way to get that one perfect cup of coffee in the morning. Because I can make it exactly as I like it, and in whatever amount suits me that day, I can get my coffee satisfaction for the day in one cup. The mug that comes with it is attractive but broke when I set it down. No matter, the cone goes over any mug. It was simple and affordable and does the job. I feel like I have my own Starbucks.

And I can use any kind of coffee, don't have to buy "pods", and the filters are readily available at the supermarket. And I just dump, rinse, and am ready for the next day. Such a simple thing, and such a great solution for me.

Saeco Odea Go Espresso Machine

It lives up to the functionality described fairly well. However, there are a couple of things you should know.

1) Even at the full-cup setting, it doesn't really fill up a coffee cup. If you have a large cup, it might fill it up half way, if you're lucky.

2) Due to #1, the picture that shows two cups being brewed is somewhat misleading. The picture would look like the one shown only if the cups were left in place after the first brew cycle in order to run a second brew cycle into those same half-filled cups. This no faster than just brewing one cup and swapping in the next cup for the second brew cycle.

3) There is a low water sensor to let you know you need to fill up the reservoir -which is good. However, it will stop brewing the instant the low water sensor triggers even if it is in the middle of brewing a cup. This ruins the cup in progress, but to make matters worse, the low water sensor triggers when there is about two cups of water left in the reservoir. There is pleny of water left to finish the currently brewing cup (and probably enough for yet another cup), but the brewing comes to a crashing halt mid-brew. I wish it would perform the low water sensor check AFTER finishing a cup so you know when to refill the reservoir withot ruining a brew cycle (or wasting beans).