Archive for February, 2012
Hamilton BrewStation® 10 Cup Dispensing Coffeemaker
This shiny black model, 47380, is a new to Hamilton Beach, but has the original 10 cup dispensing coffeemaker has the hallmarks of the original 10 cup dispensing coffeemaker. It brews a full 10 cups and dispenses one fresh cup at a time. The coffee stays fresh longer just like the 12 cup BrewStations and the same one-hand dispensing. The gentle warming heater maintains the coffee’s temperature.
Make your coffee as always, add water, a standard filter in the filter box and ground coffee of your choice. This programmable coffee maker has a clock-timer and a 2 hour automatic shutoff. This is a great coffeemaker that is worth sharing the news about with its new exterior look.
Hamilton Beach Programmable 1.7 Quart Electric Kettle
This programmable kettle model offers cord-free serving, 5 Pre-set temperatures for a variety of teas, coffee, or cocoa. The programmable clock offers “Wake-Up Ready” hot water while simple +/- buttons adjust temperature to your liking. Their Smart programming keeps water hot for one hour. The push-button to open the lid sits on top of the handle so you won’t accidentally open it when pouring.
This brushed stainless steel kettle hides fingerprints and boils water faster than a microwave and is safer than a stove-top kettle; no hot open hot plate. It comes with a one-hour automatic shutoff with countdown timer, a concealed heating element, a water window that is easy to read and most important boil-dry protection.
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Hamilton Beach BrewStation
Since Hamilton Beach is showing off their Hamilton Beach BrewStation coffee makers, I thought you would let you know more about them. Their first pick, and mine, the BrewStation® Summit 12 cup coffeemaker, model 48464. It has a stainless steel control panel for added style and one-hand dispensing for quick fill-ups and an insulated tank with gentle customizable heater from 0-4 hours. It has versatile brewing, which means you can select bold for stronger coffee, regular for regular brewing, iced coffee mode and small-batch for smaller amounts without changing the brew you want. And, a programmable clock-timer that allows you to set a time when you want it to start making coffee.
But, what else does it have? Accessories that are only available through Hamilton Beach.com. They include an insulated cup,$13.99, a descaler 6 pack to rid the inside of your coffeemaker of any lime build-up, $7.99, a water filter,$.99, a water filter pod, $4.49, a drain tray assembly,$8.99, filter basket,$8.99, permanent gold coffee filter,$13.99, scoop,$7.99, and tank brew SS panel, $14.99.
Essential to a long lasting coffee maker is the descaler if you live where there is lime, also known as calcium, in your water. Share this info with your friends and let me know what you think about this 12 cup coffeemaker and where you can get it.
Cecilware Coffee Station Automatic Coffee Brewer
This week, I have been writing about commercial products. The word commercial scares some as they think of extremely large coffee makers. While, in fact, some commercial coffee makers are about the same size as some coffee makers that people use in their home every day.
This Cecilware coffee station is an automatic coffee brewer that brews into a 12 cup capacity glass carafe or insulated carafe. The water automatically refills a polysulfone water tank that keeps liming to a minimum. A high temperature limit control automatically turns the heater off if the brewer runs dry or overheats. After filling coffee filter with coffee toggle the brew switch on; when the brew light indicator illuminates the brewer is ready to brew the coffee. This high performance coffee maker takes only 3½ minutes with instant recovery for another batch of coffee to be brewed. This coffee brew station also has an extra burner that can be switched to warm to keep the coffee at an ambient temperature.
This brew station by Cecilware is made of stainless steel construction, is easy to service and the components are easily accessible through the top. A .25 inch water line with a minimum of 30 psi (pounds per square inch of pressure) is required. The brew station itself weighs a little less than 28 pounds. The glass decanters are sold separately in cases of 3 or 6 decanters. Each case offers either brown handles for regular or orange handles for decaf. A few coffee filters come with the coffee brewer. More filters are also sold separately, but we sell them at a discount when buying a brew station.
This brew station is perfect for a busy office, small warehouse or parts store where workers can stop and fill there cup or mug. Create a Coffee Station for your workers who are on the go by adding a 1.9 quart vacuum insulated decanter with brew through lid. The number for the regular coffee insulated decanter is SS-1.9 LR and for decaffeinated coffee SS-1.9 DR.
Grindmaster GPod Single Cup Brewer
The GPOD is a commercial Precision Brew™ single cup brewing system that is a non-proprietary pod-based brewing system. It combines commercial infusion technology with digitally controlled brew sequencing to ensure a great tasting cup of coffee every time, in less than one minute. It uses an EasyPod™ Brew Basket.
Its exclusive design accepts a wide variety of pods, allowing you to choose your favorite coffee or tea… Plus, the brew basket is dishwasher safe. These features make it great for the home as well as for commercial use. You will find many of these pod brewers in hotel and motel rooms where in-line water is available.
The brew control flavor selector has 4-positions for adjustable brew strength control; this allows you to easily fine tune the strength of each cup to match every ones personal preference. It includes three positions for coffee and one position for tea. AccuBrew brewing interfaces with an easy-to-follow, five-color LED display that makes brewing simple. A low-water alert notifies you when it’s time to refill the reservoir. The energy savings feature is an automatic shut-off that is activated after 36 hours of inactivity.
Cecilware
For the rest of this week, I have decided to write about commercial products. The word commercial scares some as they think of extremely large coffee makers. While, in fact, some commercial coffee makers are about the same size as some coffee makers that people use in their home every day.
The Cecilware C2002P Century 2000 is a 2 warmer pour-over coffee maker lets you always brew at your best with a wide variety of automatic features and simple operations! An extra-large water reservoir and independent heater switch keeps tank water at a precise brewing temperature, even with the power switched off, so you never have to wait for the water to heat up. Illuminated flip switches offer coffee at the touch of a button!
The seven main benefits of this commercial coffee maker are:
• With an up-top and bottom warmer, the unit can hold a variety of coffee types and flavors throughout the day
• You never have to wait for the water to heat with an independent heater switch
• Creates perfectly consistent brewed coffee time after time with hi-tech brew controls
• All flows evenly around the wiring to prevent drying out with a raised warmer plate
• Enjoy heater longevity with an automatic recovery system
• Keep service costs to a minimum with the unit’s durable flip switch design
• Never have to wait for the water to heat with an independent heater switch
Grindmaster Office Single Brewer
For the rest of this week, I have decided to write about commercial products. The word commercial scares some as they think of extremely large coffee makers. While, in fact, some commercial coffee makers are about the same size as some coffee makers that people use in their home every day.
The stainless steel single pour-over brewer from Grindmaster has 2 warmers. One warmer is on top and the other is under the brewing head so you can offer a variety of coffee types or flavors. Each warmers comes with its own lighted on and off switch, which makes it more energy efficient.
This coffee brewer is no wider than a single coffee maker that you have in your home that has a carafe. The width of this coffee maker is eight and one half inches wide. Like your coffee maker at home this coffee brewer is made to have an attractive appearance styled to complement any décor. Unlike your coffee maker, this model BL-2P coffee maker is made entirely of durable stainless steel construction.
Monday Fireside Chat
I have been writing about the history of companies that make coffee making appliances and electric kettles. I think I have covered most of the companies still making coffee-making appliances for the home.
For the rest of this week, I have decided to write about commercial products. The word commercial scares some as they think of extremely large coffee makers. While, in fact, some commercial coffee makers are about the same size as some coffee makers that people use in their home every day. Commercial coffee makers are made for constant use day in and day out. Most are made entirely of stainless steel.
Some Bunn coffee makers are made for home or office use, which makes them a commercial product. Many like the way Bunn because it keeps the water heated for a short brewing time. They say that the preheated water makes a better tasting coffee.
Pasquini
In1946, Ambrose Pasquini had just arrived in New York from Italy. Five years later he moved to Los Angeles as a top tool and dye maker for Mitchell Camera House, yet he could never escape the feeling that something times was missing. Growing up in Europe he enjoyed an espresso in the mornings and often during the day, but now in America he missed this rich coffee of his native Milan.
So he imported an espresso machine and opened a café called Moka D’Oro in Los Angeles on the now famous Vermont Avenue. It was the first espresso café in Southern California. The café only had few a customers at first, and Mr. Pasquini often felt he was alone in his passion for the small cups of strong coffee.
Eventually, other restaurant owners began asking him about this “new contraption that makes coffee”. So in 1957, he began importing machines, changing their European wiring to American standards and selling them to the local restaurants in his area. As time passed and business prospered, Mr. Pasquini started to modify the machines even more, adding improvements such as pressure and temperature controls that left less room for user error. His main concern was performance and durability for the restaurant owners.
He whittled away at the resistance to the new devices by introducing espresso to customers, consumers and restaurateurs through his successful Los Angeles business.
Around 1975, Mr. Pasquini used his tool and dye knowledge and experience to design an espresso machine for the home. Now people could enjoy delicious coffee with all the features and reliability of the commercial machines, in the comfort of their own home. His first home machine was called the Livietta; it was followed by the Livia 90, which came out in the mid 90′s. The Pasquini Family has added the new Livietta T2, an espresso machine for the twenty-first century.
Today, the Pasquini Company is a family business with Mr. Pasquini’s sons, Guy and Matthew, working at the head of the company. The present commercial machines, imported from the La Cimbali Company in Milan, are perhaps the most common espresso machines found in restaurants and cafés throughout the country.
Proctor Silex – P & S Company
Frank Wolcott, in 1919 at the age of 32, started a company in his own name as a distributor of electric heaters and appliances, using the trade name Torrid. The research was done under the name of P & S. The company continued to have financial and other problems, while the Silex brand made appliances as a subsidiary of the Wolcott Co. Considerable expansion occurred about 1930, both in product lines and in opening up a subsidiary in Iberville, Quebec. In 1936, The Wolcott Co. absorbed Silex, decorporated it, and then changed the name of Wolcott to Silex. The company started to have various financial problems when the U.S entered World War II in 1940. All appliance production stopped and all production went to the war effort.
In about 1960, Proctor & Schwartz Electric became interested in the Silex Company, a manufacturer of coffeemakers and irons. On March 1, 1960, the Proctor and Silex companies merged with great success to offer consumers a wide array of appliances. The new company was known as the Proctor-Silex Corporation. The company had many firsts: the first silent toaster, first electric glass coffeemaker, first cord-attached iron, first toaster oven with broiler, first pop-up toaster-toaster oven, first adjustable automatic iron, first snap-apart line of serviceable kitchen appliances, and the first see-through steam iron water tank.
In 1990, NACCO Industries, Inc. had the foresight to bring two powerhouse appliance manufacturers – Hamilton Beach and Proctor-Silex – together. NACCO merged the two companies in 1990 to create the largest U.S. manufacturer of small kitchen appliances. Today, Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc. continues to grow with a progressive new image and continued dedication to serving consumers.
Today, Proctor Silex continues to make some coffee makers, coffee grinders and other small home appliances, but under Hamilton Beach.