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For those wanting a quick cup of coffee or simply want one to take for the ride to work, a single serve coffee maker could be ideal. They are designed to brew one cup, eight or twelve ounces, at a time and most have an automatic shut off and no warming tray.

While prices vary from about $15.00 to almost a thousand dollars, longevity may be a determining factor, along with your budget, as to how much you spend. Features, color and design are determining factors to the cost of a single serve coffee maker.

Single serve coffee makers are fairly simple, and not much different than, a larger coffee maker to use and many accept pre-measured coffee pods eliminating the mess of coffee grounds. Although most cheaper models require the use of a paper filter, some contain a permanent filter and most will accept pods provided they fit into the holding area.

Travel mugs are available with many single serve coffee maker models, which flow the finished brew into an insulated mug to take on the road filled with freshly brewed, hot coffee. The automatic shut off feature on most, prevent the risk of an overheated unit starting a fire.

Many Uses For Heated Water

Single-serve meals often require the use of hot water and instead of heating it on a stove or in a microwave, a single serve coffee maker can make just the right amount of hot water for this use as well. Running water through a single serve coffee maker can also make a cup for tea.

There also the cup of noodles meals that require only a cup of hot water, which can sit, where the coffee cup would go on a single serve coffee maker and the hot water runs right into the cup, preparing a snack quickly and without fuss.

While the single serve coffee maker is not for everyone, especially for the person who may drink several cups quickly, they can be beneficial to those wanting a cup to take with them or those trying to reduce their intake of caffeine. By limiting the amount of coffee brewed at one time, they will have to keep making one cup at a time and probably reduce the number of cups they drink in a day.

Coffee pods available for a single serve coffee maker come in many flavors from different manufacturers, giving a person the option of having different types of coffee without a lot of waste if they find they are not particularly fond of one type.

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