39340 CDT Grand Coffee Maker

The grinder will be bad and the espresso it produces will be frustrating if your goal is to replicate what you’re drinking in good coffee houses. And cleaning it will be tricky and with grounds retained in the grinder. For $360 you could get a used Bambino and a $200 grinder on Facebook Marketplace

Technivorm Moccamaster, the absolute gold standard for coffee machines and it does go on sale at Amazon regularly; you’ll pay for it but it makes drip coffee that tastes like pour over in a consistent basis and it is very easy and quick. You also want to make sure you are grinding the beans fresh in

Technivorm Moccamaster. Simple, brews fast, and is highly repairable. The coffee tastes pretty good too. We’ve only had it for 4 years, but I’ve had other coffee makers die in that amount of time so it’s doing well so far. Keep the grinder separate.

Before you buy a coffee machine, buy a good quality burr grinder. Grinding your own fresh beans just before you brew them will make an enormous difference in the quality of your coffee. Coffee begins to lose its flavor within 20 minutes of grinding, so buying pre-ground coffee is really a non-starte

Expensive: Technivorm MoccaMaster drip coffee maker. My wife and I use it every morning to start our day. The coffee brews in the time it takes us to get dressed, makes an incredibly good cup (if coffee is your thing), and allows us to spend time together before waking up the rest of the house. Chea

Horse and Harpe decaf is where it's at IMHO. The "bitter" flavor of decaf only happens because the grounds weren't frozen fast enough after decaffeination, and/or were transported too slowly at too high of a temperature. Caffeine preserves the coffee normally so decaf is much more perishable as a re

I use Technivorm Moccamaster filters and it gives me exactly what you are looking for, consistently great cup of coffee. I use medium to medium light roasts.

It fits on the top of the standard moccomaster basket and spreads the water out from the original 9 hole want making for more even saturation. Huge improvement! https://coffeepilot.ca/products/shower-head-insert-for-technivorm-moccamaster

My technivorm moccamaster coffee maker. It's the best tasting drip coffee I've ever had.

The filters are from newer supplier. The older ones had a zoomed in circular area around the perforation. I just learned that Filtropa makes the original Technivorm filters that I like so much. The Moccamaster makes great coffee. I would recommend downloading the manual and following the instruction