Best Green Coffee Makers

Green is the rarest finish here that still has enough machines to make a list. Under twenty offer one, and they cluster at two ends: heritage enamel on stovetop and pour-over ware, and the sage and olive tones that have arrived on modern kettles and drip machines.

The shortlist is genuinely short

With this few options, the useful order is reversed. On most colour pages you pick the machine and then check the colour; here it is worth deciding you want green first, then choosing the best machine that comes in it, because insisting on both the finish and a particular specification will usually leave you with nothing.

Sage, olive, forest and mint are not interchangeable

Pale sage reads as a neutral and sits quietly next to wood and stone. Forest and British racing green read as a statement and want a plain background. Mint belongs to a different decade entirely. All four are filed as green here, so judge from the photograph rather than the word - the gap between them is far wider than the gap between two blacks.

Check the spares before you commit

Fashion colourways are produced in short runs, and green is the shortest of them. Where a machine has a coloured part you might reasonably break - a carafe, a lid, a water tank - it is worth confirming a replacement exists in that finish, because after a run ends the only spare available is usually the black one.