Looking for a “good” coffee maker

Frank311 wrote: ↑ I've always thought the Keurig was just an overpriced kettle that made instant coffee. OP, I'd avoid it at all cost.

EastGTARedFlagger wrote: ↑ Exactly my point. I'll listen to the above coffee experts, and not our resident MTY shill...

ericlewis91 wrote: ↑ Bodum or Nespresso

PointsHubby wrote: ↑ Good post

People are soft now... if they consider the basic act of pouring hot water over fresh ground coffee beans... too difficult / time consuming.

It’s the way Coffee has been made for thousands of years the world over.

No fuss, no muss. And easy on the environment.
(everything is compostable ... and coffee grounds are actually good in many gardening applications)

We use a Melitta Pour-Over Cone for single serve applications
A French Press if we plan on more than one cup ... or want to share with our SO
And if there’s friends about ... it’s an Automatic Drip Coffee Maker.
Also have a big honking Perculating Urn also for those times there is a houseful of Guests

Honestly, no interest in these pod coffee machines.
Makes poor, albeit EXPENSIVE Coffee

choclover wrote: ↑ I agree with PointsHubby that pod coffee machines do not provide a great coffee and they are expensive and produce a lot of unnecessary garbage (i.e. not great for the environment). I bought a Starbucks Verismo machine, used it twice and now it sits collecting dust.

EastGTARedFlagger wrote: ↑ Sounds like my experience. When Home Outfitters closed I was able to grab a Verismo machine on the final day of liquidation for $10 (90% off the regular price of $100). A month or two later, I walked into Almost Perfect (I think the company is now "Grocery Outlet" but my local store still has the old name) and they had a shitload of Verismo Guatemala Antigua stacked behind the checkouts, boxes of 12 pods for $2 each. So I stocked up and I had enough to last me a year (I didn't use it daily, but was nice to have pods ready to go). Since I used up my stockpile, the machine has sat idle.

Verismo wasn't a bad system at all, by my experience. Not as good as Nespresso, but kicks the shit out of Keurig. Verismo definitely heated water properly and there was enough pressure and extraction time to get a proper espresso "crema" (something Keurig cannot ever do given the inherent flaws of the system). For those that don't know, Verismo is just the Starbucks branding of K-fee which is a popular pod system in Europe and Australia. It's sad to think that North America is stuck with just 2 pod systems, one great and one horrible*, with nothing in the middle, unlike in Europe, where there's also K-fee, Caffitaly (which is a reversed K-fee), and ESE.

* used to be 2 horrible but now that Keurig and Tassimo have common ownership, the parent has chosen to keep Keurig going and let Tassimo die off

choclover wrote: ↑ Thanks for sharing your experience. You have got me wondering if I should dust off my Verismo and try it out again. After making my first cup which I didn't really like, I opened up one of the pods and put my own coffee in there before inserting into the machine. This improved the coffee a little bit but not to the quality I am used to.

EastGTARedFlagger wrote: ↑ I don't spend $1000 on coffee every year

death_hawk wrote: ↑ Haha that was me (or rather my friend)
If you had the money and could buy the cat shit coffee? Sure. Go nuts.
But how does one spend $1000 on K-Cups alone? Especially when you're retired. This just raises questions.

EastGTARedFlagger wrote: ↑ I knew it was not you but somebody you referred to.
As for paying $1k a year on Krap-cups, that's a great example of "more money than sense" and "a fool and his money are soon parted".

drpepper1 wrote: ↑ I like good coffee. Keurig is ok but would like to move to grinding my beans. I’m not after an Espresso but a good cup of coffee. Have been looking at the Breville Precision or a similar OXO. Any members have any suggestions?