An Ultimate Guide: Best iced coffee maker [2020 edition]

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Ninja Hot and Cold Brewed System can brew a variety of tea and coffee beverages, hot and cold. In the summer, the machine can brew amazing cold brews, iced coffee and iced tea. The machine is easy to use thanks to the Auto-IQ technology, as the machine detects whether we want to brew coffee (orange filter holder) or tea (green filter holder). Ninja Hot and Cold Brewed System comes with settings to regulate bloom time, strength, and a large variety of drinks in 6 different sizes. Ninja Hot and Cold Brewed System can be ordered in two different models: with glass carafe (CP301) or with thermal carafe (CP307). Overall, we love this machine and recommend it as the best coffee maker for iced coffee.

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Ninja Specialty Coffee Maker is among the best iced coffee machines. It can brew delicious coffee over ice (iced coffee) along with other hot and cold beverages (e.g. latte, macchiato cappuccino). Further, the coffee maker gives control over the beverage strength (rich and classic). The machine is SCA-certified, which means that the machine complies with specific requirements for a perfect brewing temperature, blooming time and coffee ground saturation. We love that there’s a frother to top off an otherwise delicious coffee drink. Affordable price with years of satisfaction.

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Ninja Specialty Coffee Maker is among the best iced coffee machines. It can brew delicious coffee over ice (iced coffee) along with other hot and cold beverages (e.g. latte, macchiato cappuccino). Further, the coffee maker gives control over the beverage strength (rich and classic). The machine is SCA-certified, which means that the machine complies with specific requirements for a perfect brewing temperature, blooming time and coffee ground saturation. We love that there’s a frother to top off an otherwise delicious coffee drink. Affordable price with years of satisfaction.

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Mr Coffee Tea and Coffee Maker is not an ordinary top iced coffee machine. Instead, its primary function is to brew tea (and boy, we love that tea!). However, this automatic machine also can brew pretty neat iced coffee. All we have to do is fill up the basket with coffee grounds, put ice in the pitcher, and set it on. The machine is extremely easy to use, and brews REALLY nice iced coffee!

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Yama Glass Cold Brew Tower is not just an iced coffee machine. Yama Glass Cold Brew Tower was specifically designed to yield fantastic cold brews. With its tower-like design, the Yama Brew Tower is a drip cold brew system that delivers smooth and acidic-free coffee perfect at home or at a coffee shop. Unlike other machines here, Yama Brew Tower respects the brew times for the cold brew (2-3 hours), and, therefore, yields the best coffee. Furthermore, the iced coffee machine gives control over the strength (longer brewing yields stronger and richer flavors). Overall, we are in love with the premium cold brew drinks from this dripper.

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Unlike other iced coffee machines, OXO Cold Brew Coffee Maker is a manual dripper. There are 3 main advantages of this machine 1) preparing iced coffee or cold brew is extremely easy, 2) we have an enormous flexibility in the type of drink we want to brew, and 3) we can preserve the best practices in preparing iced coffee or a cold brew. The dripper comes with all necessary parts such as 10 paper filters, a coffee basket, a borosilicate carafe and a rainmaker to pour water. Once we filled paper filters with our desired amount of coarse coffee grounds, we poured water over the rainmaker on the top. We allowed the grounds to steep with cold water for 16-24 hours. After that time, we can begin dripping coffee into a carafe.

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Braun’s MultiServe coffee maker is a true multi-purpose coffee machine. In addition to brewing coffee over ice, it can also brew hot coffee beverages in multiple sizes, from a single cup to a full carafe. The machine allows to regulate strength, from light to bold. Therefore, those who appreciate a variety of coffee flavors may particularly enjoy the machine. Further, MultiServe comes with a temperature sensor system, which guarantees nearly perfect brewing temperatures and temperature stability throughout the brewing process. We were also impressed with the speed the machine can brew coffee. The machine comes at a higher price tag, but we feel the MultiServe coffee maker comes with an extraordinary price-to-value ratio.