Electric coffee maker for selectively brewing espresso coffee and americano coffee

An electric coffee maker comprising:

• a base including a housing and a support frame that is disposed within said housing;
• a water supply device disposed within said base and including a heater that is supported on said support frame and that is formed with a hot water outlet, and a three-way electromagnetic valve that has a hot water inlet, a main outlet, and a secondary outlet, said heater being adapted to heating and supplying water to said three-way electromagnetic valve;
• a flow control unit mounted on said support frame and having a main water path that is in fluid communication with said main outlet in said three-way electromagnetic valve, and a secondary water path that is in fluid communication with said secondary outlet in said three-way electromagnetic valve;
• a dispensing member mounted removably on and under said flow control unit and including a vertical outer surrounding wall and a partition unit for defining a brewing space and a water passage space within said surrounding wall;
• a filtering member mounted removably within said brewing space in said dispensing member and adapted to receive ground coffee beans therein;
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• a selection unit for controlling said three-way electromagnetic valve so as to activate an assembly of said water-supplying device, said flow control unit, and said dispensing unit to operate in a selected one of a single-stage Espresso coffee mode, in which hot water flows from said heater into said filtering member via said main water path so as to discharge brewed coffee from a lower end of said dispensing member into a cup, and a two-stage Americano coffee mode, in which hot water flows from said heater into said water passage space in said dispensing member via said secondary water path so as to discharge the hot water from said coffee maker into the cup of brewed coffee formed in the Espresso mode.