In households across America, the coffee maker is a key purchase, a kitchen essential, and the secret to success in the morning ritual. To help you source the right brewer, from Krups to Cuisinart or Bunn, you'll find useful coffee maker reviews from our customers, and their ratings.

For single serve coffee makers or commercial-grade home coffee makers with thermal carafes, one popular brand to check out is Bunn coffee makers. They're serious about delivering fresh coffee fast. The Thermofresh model has a sprayhead designed to shower the grinds for the optimum funnel turbulence. The result is 10 perfect cups of coffee in 3 minutes, less than half the time it takes a regular maker. And that stay-hot thermal pot is vacuum insulated, and so effective that it doesn't even require a warming plate. Or for a one cup-at-a-time crowd, check out Bunn's commercial-grade Pourover Pod Brewer from the My Café line. It brews one cup in 30 seconds and can steep a cup of tea in just 50 seconds. Unlike most pod brewers in its class, this machine can take the widest range of tea or coffee pod types, and even works with a tea bag.

If single cup brewing is your method of choice, Keurig is another brand worth reviewing. They've helped define the single cup brewing system world with their encapsulated grounds, called K-Cups. You can buy K-Cups for many types and flavors of coffee, tea, cocoa or even iced beverages, but they also offer the reusable My K-Cup Filter so you can fill them up with your favorite brews.