If you are a coffee lover with a busy schedule, then you probably have a keen interest in having a high-quality machine at in your kitchen at home that doesn’t take up a lot of room on your counter and can deliver a great cup of coffee reliably in time for you to make your morning commute.
Sure, a lot of people are going to want to go for the high ticket coffee makers which will brew café style coffee drinks and espresso. But for those of us who are willing to invest a bit more, but don’t want to break the bank, there’s a viable alternative.
The Good
A versatile brewer with pretty much everything you’d need from a home coffee brewer. One of the top-ranked coffee machines at Freshpresso for 2017.
The Bad
While it makes for a perfect fit as a home brewer, it is definitely not suitable for more commercial settings as a coffee shop. We’d recommend the Breville BES980XL; if you’re looking for a commercial brewer.
The Bottomline
Overall, it is an excellent choice as a mid price range coffee maker. It has plenty of interesting options for brewing that will keep most coffee drinkers happy for the life of the appliance.
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The Ninja kitchen appliance company has produced blenders and other food processing devices over the years and made it’s first foray into the area of coffee makers with their Ninja Coffee Bar device a few years ago.
This device has set the standard for the brand and has had its competitors within the middle price range running to keep up ever since.
The Ninja small kitchen appliance company produces products with a consistent black and chrome appearance so that if you like the brand you can have a running theme in your small kitchen appliance motif. That’s a big plus for those who prefer to have a nice looking kitchen area to prepare and enjoy food in.
The ninja company’s Coffee Bar is a bit of a standout item and makes a lot of big promises for what is it at heart- a simple drip coffee maker with an array of added tricks. The Ninja Coffee Bar promises to deliver café quality coffee drinks including an espresso.
Three Brew Settings
The Ninja brewer is versatile. It has three brewing settings. One setting handles single cup brewing with a special platform that folds down where the carafe normally stands. Another setting is for normal drip brewing for a full pot of regular coffee.
This second setting features the standard hot plate that you expect with a drip brewer to keep your coffee nice and hot- as well as the requisite safety shutoff timer. The third setting, which is billeted as an espresso setting, doesn’t quite hit the mark.
This is because it does not force feed the water through the grounds- which is required to make a proper cup of espresso. It does, however, deliver a strong and smaller serving coffee drink that is a nice approximation of an espresso.
Specialty Brew
The speciality brew setting comes with a companion hand creamer. This is used to whip your milk or crème into a frothy base for your espresso approximation drinks.
This is the signature feature of the Ninja Coffee Bar, and while it does not manage to create what an espresso aficionado would accept as a genuine rendering of the famous Italian pick me up- it does manage to create a strong caffeinated beverage of a new kind. It is a large, creamy coffee drink that your guests will probably never have had before.
This, while possibly an accidental near hit, is actually an interesting perk for the “Coffee Bar” and it represents a very nice change of pace for anyone who drinks coffee on a regular basis.
Self Cleaning
The Ninja Coffee Bar also comes apart very nicely for ease of cleaning. It also has a self-cleaning feature that helps it to keep from getting clogged up with coffee grounds- which is a major problem for most less expensive coffee makers. But you will still need to take it apart and clean it manually on occasion.
Since releasing the Coffee Bar, the Ninja small kitchen appliance company has expanded on its line of coffee makers with a number of products that are more advanced, better made, and- of course, more pricey. But, if you’re just in the market for an upgrade on the ordinary drip coffee system that is ubiquitous in the average kitchen, then the Ninja Coffee Bar fits the bill very neatly.
But, if you’re just in the market for an upgrade on the ordinary drip coffee system that is ubiquitous in the average kitchen, then the Ninja Coffee Bar fits the bill very neatly.
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