Different types of coffee filters can give different taste to your coffee.

There are various types of coffee makers available in the market but they can be categorized in three distinguished types. These are manual, automatic and super automatic coffee machines. Automatic and super automatic coffee makers are automatic drip, which is preferred by most of the people. These make coffee via heating water internally, soaking grounds into it and then dripping coffee into a coffee bin by supporting a filter. While in manual coffee maker; heating components are not there inside the machine.

Manual coffee makers

French presses, Mokas, single servers, stovetop percolators, and Vacuum brewers are the names of different types of manual coffee makers.

French press is such a coffee machine which includes a filter attached to a specific type of container and plunging instrument. The filter in the machine is installed on a specially designed disk. A metal rod comes out of the middle end of that disk and a handle is affixed to enable the rod to move freely.

Before water is added coarse grounds are to be placed into the carafe. Then the rod is plunged violently with the movement of up and down till the blending changed into the expected color and taste of coffee.
 
Moka, a specially designed, manual coffee machine is meant to provide espresso and crema coffee. Inside the moka there are two metal containers with unique designs. The bottom end of one of these containers is wider at the bottom end and gradually turns narrower towards the top end. The other container is with larger top end and smaller base end. The top container has a chamber at the bottom end and a rod with a hole on the top passes through in a manner, to make it possible to reach the complete height of the container. When the two pieces are linked, the machine starts to blend the coffee.

The machine is placed on the stove once the bottom carafe is loaded with optimum amount of water. The heat creates pressure and encourages the boiled water to come into the upper carafe through the filter and then through the hole of the rod. Coffee can be served once all the water from the bottom carafe passes to the top one.

Single severs is not so much in practice to prepare coffee nowadays. A funnel-shaped plastic piece with an aperture at the bottom end and coffee ground filter inside the plastic piece is affixed on the top of a carafe.
 
 Though single serving purpose is effectively fulfilled, it becomes a troublesome matter in case of batch coffee. Since the water does not get adequate time to stay in the filter, the full taste of coffee can not be experienced always. The quantity of oil extraction is also very less.

Stovetop percolator coffee making is quite similar to that of moka where hot coffee is brought to the grounds. It consists of metal or even glass carafe where stem runs from the bottom to the top. A basket is placed at the top of the carafe and it helps the stem to pass through.

It becomes very tough to understand when to discontinue the source of heat as the unit is made of metal. The lid of the unit can not even be pulled out as there is a chance of the process coffee to come out in a splash. To overcome such complexity glass knob is a good substitute and the same can be placed on the top of the lid.
   
 Similar to the kind of moka, vacuum brewer also have two carafes. Two of the carafes are connected by a small tube. As the water gets boiled, the inbuilt pressure forces the water to enter into the upper carafe through the coffee filled filter. The water comes back to the bottom carafe in the form of coffee when all the water runs through the tube and heat is discontinued simultaneously.

The taste of the coffee can be altered time to time because of the absence of metal pieces. The only disadvantage of the vacuum brewer is its complex design structure.