Last Updated on October 6, 2021 by John Moretti
Fans of pour over coffee makers will accept no substitutes, and for good reason! These machines are perfect for making delicious, consistent brews whenever you need them. If you love a good cup of pour over coffee, you’ll want to have a machine that can make it whenever the craving strikes.
Below are 11 of the best pour over coffee makers, and at least one of them will be perfect for you!
Hario V60 Dripper
Hario is one of the most reliable names in the world of pour over coffee, and this Japanese brand is beloved around the world for a good reason. The Hario V60 Dripper doesn’t only make an amazing cup of coffee, but it is also incredibly satisfying to use.
Its layered design makes pouring your coffee feel like a fulfilling experience. Of course, if it made bad coffee, this design wouldn’t matter at all. Fortunately for coffee fans everywhere, the coffee it makes is actually very, very good.
On top of being great for making coffee, this device is also quite cheap compared to many mainstream coffee machines. It generally costs under $50 when you order online. It’s also fairly durable, which puts it miles ahead of most glass models and small electric coffee makers.
Of course, this coffee maker does use a funnel-shaped design that can be fairly difficult to use for many pour over coffee beginners. If you’re not used to making this type of coffee, you may struggle to properly use it at first. This means that while it may pretty much be the best pour over coffee maker on the market, you might want to pick something else if you’re inexperienced with making your own coffee.
Kalitta Wave
A lot of people consider the Kalitta Wave to be even better than the Hario V60 Dripper. Are they correct about this? It’s hard to tell at first glance. The Kalitta Wave certainly has the Hario Dripper beat when it comes to usability, as its patented wavy filter and flat bottom make brewing relatively easy.
Like the Dripper, the Wave is affordable and durable. The biggest reason that it isn’t first on this list is because it doesn’t scale with skill nearly as well as the cone-shaped dripper. This means that experienced users of pour over coffee makers might not be able to make their coffee quite the way they like it.
However, for anyone who hasn’t put in the years of work, the Kalitta Wave might very well be the better choice, and if it isn’t, then you can just pick up a different one. It’s not like you’re spending a fortune on it!
Chemex Pour Over
Chemex may sound like the name of a pharmaceutical company, but in reality, Chemex is in fact a very reliable brand that does normal things, like create the third-best pour over coffee maker.
The Chemex Pour Over is unique for a couple of reasons. The first is that it has its own little built-in container for the coffee you can make. This is great because it means that you don’t need to spend the extra effort to put it on top of something. It also just looks really stylish, which is a huge bonus.
The second point in its favor is its height. Because of that built-in pot, it’s much taller than the average pour over coffee maker. This is great if you tower over your counter or table and like to stay standing while you pour your coffee. A tall container can also make more coffee!
So what’s holding it back? The big thing that puts it below the likes of the Kalitta Wave and the Hario Dripper is that it’s made of glass. Glass is fragile and a poor insulator, both of which are very bad qualities for a coffee maker to have. The glass tends to let out a lot of the heat that should be staying in the coffee grounds, and you don’t need to be told why fragility is an undesirable quality.
Bee House
Bee house makes very good coffee makers. This machine slows down the extraction process using a wedge-shaped cone filter and ribbed inner walls. This makes the Bee House machine great for beginners who don’t like the taste of flat-bottom filters.
It’s also ceramic and dishwasher safe—two huge advantages over its competitors. Not only this, but its filters are also very easy to find and use. Finally, its compact frame is great to use with glasses and mugs, which is perfect if you’re making coffee just for yourself.
It isn’t a perfect product, however, as it is very top-heavy and has a tendency to fall over and spill. This can be dangerous if it’s full of hot water, but more than anything else, it can be incredibly inconvenient. If you can get over this potential problem, this machine is easily one of the best options available on the market, especially if you’re a newbie.
But even if you’re an experienced barista, you may still enjoy this machine quite a bit!
Bartelli Paperless Pour Over Coffee Machine
The Bartelli Paperless Pour Over Coffee Machine does exactly what it says it says on the box: It doesn’t need a paper filter. This is great if you don’t like to spend extra money on paper filters (and many people do not!).
One other thing that makes this coffee maker stand out is that it can fit over pretty much any container, meaning that it has the flexibility to make one cup of coffee as easily as it can make several. Either way, it makes a very good brew.
It’s also made of metal, which is more durable than glass but can still lose heat pretty quickly. This makes it much harder to keep your coffee grinds hot while you’re pouring. However, this is a surmountable problem for a lot of people, and the savings from replacing filters can certainly be worth it for slightly cooler coffee.
While it certainly isn’t a perfect product, it is still a very good one, and one that should be on your radar next time you’re choosing a pour over coffee maker.
Tanors Ceramic Coffee Dripper
This might be the cheapest up-front investment of any of the coffee makers on this list, as it costs less than ten dollars for the dripper itself. You do need to have paper filters to make it work, however, that isn’t the biggest downside that comes with this coffee maker.
The problem with this coffee maker is that it’s quite difficult to use properly. If you have the process down perfectly, then this will work great for you, but even more so than the Hario Dripper, the Tanors Ceramic Coffee Dripper will be practically unusable if you’re not skilled at working with it.
The other quality of this coffee maker that acts as a double-edged sword is the speed at which it makes coffee. Because it extracts from the coffee so quickly, it shows any impurities in the beans that you purchase. On the other hand, it does extract coffee very quickly, which is great if you’re a busy person who doesn’t have much spare time in the mornings.
These drawbacks have the potential to make the Tanors Ceramic Coffee Dripper more expensive than many of the other coffee makers on this list over time. This is because you’ll need to keep paying for filters and more expensive beans just to keep it working.
Hario Woodneck
It seems rude of the Hario brand to hog not one, but two of the slots on this list. However, the Woodneck is an incredible coffee maker that makes amazing coffee. The Woodneck deserves its place on this list because of the fact that it is completely unique!
It uses a pure cloth bag as a filter for the coffee, which acts similarly to a cone-shaped filter but doesn’t keep its shape as well. And even though this machine uses a cloth filter, it sacrifices absolutely nothing in terms of coffee quality. Once you get the hang of using it, it will perform fantastically!
The Woodneck is another example of Hario excellence, built to brew coffee to perfection. It’s definitely worth looking into!
Gourmia GCK9975 Pour Over Coffee Station
The Gourmia GCK9975 Pour Over Coffee Station (GGPOCS) is a coffee maker from Gourmia, a brand that usually produces electric coffee makers with similar styles. However, for people who are just trying their hand at manual coffee brewing, it can be a fantastic option.
The GGPOCS has one particular feature that sets it above other pour over coffee makers, and that is the fact that it comes with a stand where it can be stored both during and after use! This makes it easy to simply put your coffee cup or thermos under the coffee maker and start brewing immediately.
As far as coffee quality goes, it wouldn’t be on this list if it didn’t make good coffee now, would it? The GGPOCS uses a flat-bottom filter that really smooths out the brewing process for beginners and makes it relatively easy to get a good cup of coffee.
All in all, this is a great product for coffee lovers who are looking to try something new, as well as coffee lovers who like a stylish stand! This is a great product if ever there was one.
Walkure Bayreuth
For fans of European-style coffee, this machine is a must-have. Produced by a German company, this pour over coffee maker takes several design cues from the long history of simple but elegant German-designed products.
It’s made up of four clean-looking porcelain pieces. It has a brew chamber with a porcelain filter-grid that holds the beans as the flavor is extracted, a server in the style of a small cylindrical coffee pot, a dispersion plate for helping to control the splashing of water during pouring, and a fashionable little lid to lock in the heat.
But does it work? It does, and it works because its design does everything right. The whole coffee maker is built to lock in heat, meaning that unlike other pour over coffee makers, you can be sure that when you pour yourself a cup of coffee from the Walkure Bayreuth, it’s going to be hot.
Not only that, but its flat-bottom filter makes brewing simple even for beginners, making this product quite usable for just about anyone who’s interested in doing so.
Cafec Flower Dripper
Don’t let this coffee maker’s similar appearance to the first one on this list put you off, this thing has its own very clear identity. This machine comes from another Japanese company, but this one’s primary strength lies in its high-quality paper cone filters. The Cafec Flower Dripper actually seems almost like it could have been an afterthought to that.
However, it does stand on its own as a very good coffee maker. It isn’t quite as good as the Hario V60, but it does stand apart due to the unique design it has on the inside of its walls.
This is an incredible brewer that not only looks fantastic but also allows inexperienced coffee makers to make great coffee. This one should definitely be on your radar.
Munieq Tetra Drip
It is difficult to understand this machine the first time you look at it. For one thing, it doesn’t appear to have any place to actually place the coffee! This is because it isn’t assembled in most of the pictures you will see online. This travel and camping-oriented coffee maker is not only lightweight and easy to pack into a bag (or even a small pocket) but also makes a great cup of coffee to boot!
Once the pieces are assembled, it brews just like any other pour over coffee maker, which is to say very well. Of course, it’s still not quite as useful for home brewing if you don’t plan a lot of time on the road, so definitely only choose this model if you plan on doing a lot of traveling.
