Provided is a refrigerator, comprising a cabinet, a door and a water dispensing device, the water dispensing device comprises a first water tank connected with an external water source, a first water passage, a beverage making chamber, a dispenser, a second water tank and a second water passage connected with the dispenser. The refrigerator according to the present invention at least has two water passages, in which the first water passage provides a room temperature beverage, and the second water passage provides ice water, so that user may obtain at least the room temperature beverage and the ice water through the dispenser.

Provided is a refrigerator, comprising a cabinet, a door and a water dispensing device, the water dispensing device comprises a first water tank connected with an external water source, a first water passage, a beverage making chamber, a dispenser, a second water tank and a second water passage connected with the dispenser. The refrigerator according to the present invention at least has two water passages, in which the first water passage provides a room temperature beverage, and the second water passage provides ice water, so that user may obtain at least the room temperature beverage and the ice water through the dispenser.

A machine for brewing and cooling a beverage includes a housing, a refrigeration system, a first nest, a second nest, a fluid system, and a dispensing port. The first and second nests are arranged in the housing and include first and second recesses, respectively. The second nest has walls defining the second recess. The refrigeration system is located within the machine and is confirmed to cool the walls of the second nest. The fluid system is configured to transfer water to the first recess of the first nest. The dispensing port is fluidly connected with the recess of the first nest.

Described herein are examples of a system which include a boiling system and a dispensing system. The boiling system includes a primary boiler to heat hot water, a holding boiler to maintain the hot water, a brew group to receive the hot water from the holding boiler, and a heated transfer hose to receive a beverage component from the brew group and apply heat to the beverage component. The brew group includes a motor, a tamp to form a puck, a heated brew chamber to extract a beverage component, a load cell to measure a weight of the brew group, a heating element to heat the brew chamber, a spray to press the puck out, and an ejector to sweep the puck away. The dispensing system is coupled to the heated transfer hose to dispense the beverage component at a set point temperature.

The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a heatable media line (100), in particular for conducting and simultaneously reheating brewing water or a freshly brewed hot beverage (1) in a hot-beverage dispensing machine (1000). According to the invention, along a hose line (2), at least one heat transfer foil which homogenizes the heat transfer via the hose line surface and which is composed of a material with a thermal conductivity at 0° C. of λ>10 W/mK, preferably λ>50 W/mK, is wound onto the outside, and an electrical heating medium is applied to the heat transfer foil, which electrical heating medium serves for heating the hose line surface.

A portable coffee machine includes a housing, a drainage module, an extraction module, and a controller, wherein the drainage module includes a water storing cup, a water pump, a conduit, and a drainage assembly, wherein the water storing cup is connected to the housing and is located at a top of the housing, the extraction module is detachably connected to the drainage module, the extraction module includes a transferring cup and an extraction container, the transferring cup is detachably connected to the extraction container, wherein the controller controls the water pump to pump the water in the water storing cup through the conduit and the drainage assembly into the extraction module for making coffee.

A portable coffee machine includes a housing, a drainage module, an extraction module, and a controller, wherein the drainage module includes a water storing cup, a water pump, a conduit, and a drainage assembly, wherein the water storing cup is connected to the housing and is located at a top of the housing, the extraction module is detachably connected to the drainage module, the extraction module includes a transferring cup and an extraction container, the transferring cup is detachably connected to the extraction container, wherein the controller controls the water pump to pump the water in the water storing cup through the conduit and the drainage assembly into the extraction module for making coffee.

A method and apparatus for venting a liquid supply of a beverage machine, e.g., by permanently open orifice and/or pressure relief valve. The orifice may always vent a heater tank, even while liquid is delivered to the tank by a liquid pump and/or while the tank is pressurized by an air pump to deliver liquid from the tank. A filter may be positioned between a heater tank and orifice and/or air pump. The pressure relief valve may be positioned between the liquid pump and the inlet side of the heater tank, e.g., so relatively cool water is released by the pressure relief valve when open.

A method of delivering a liquid heated to a desired temperature under pressure in a microwave oven uses a device having first and second chambers adapted to receive and hold, respectively, a first and second volume of a liquid, a vapor flow path from the first chamber to the second chamber, and a liquid/vapor flow path from the second chamber to a destination outside of the second chamber. The first chamber liquid receives less microwave energy per volume than the second chamber liquid receives. The device is placed on top of a receiving vessel and placed into a microwave oven, which is activated until the first chamber liquid boils and at least partially turns into gas, flows through the vapor flow path into the second chamber, and forces some of the second chamber liquid through the liquid/vapor flow path to the destination outside of the second chamber.

A mobile liquid tank is disclosed that includes an insulated tank body and two heating elements. Also disclosed is a liquid heating system comprising the mobile liquid tank, as well as methods of heating a liquid using the mobile liquid tank.