Best Blue Coffee Makers

Blue is the most common of the uncommon colours - around forty machines here offer one - and almost all of them are a colourway of a model that also comes in black. That single fact shapes everything about buying one.

You are choosing a finish, not a machine

Because blue is nearly always an alternative colour rather than a separate product, the specification is identical to the standard version and the price usually is too. There is no performance reason to prefer or avoid it. What you are really choosing between is a small set of machines that happen to be offered in blue, which is a narrower shelf than the category as a whole.

Blue covers a very wide range

Navy, cobalt, powder blue, denim and the various named blues that makers invent are all filed as blue, and they have almost nothing in common visually. Teal sits at the edge of this family and is listed separately, because somebody matching a kitchen cares about the difference even though a filter does not. Judge these from photographs rather than from the colour name.

A fashion colourway can disappear

Limited colours are produced in shorter runs, and when a run ends the spare parts for that finish end with it. For a machine with no user-replaceable panels this does not matter at all. For anything with a coloured carafe, lid or water tank - the parts most likely to be dropped - it is worth checking that spares exist in your colour before buying, because a black replacement on a blue machine is what you will otherwise end up with.