KBT

This is one question that doesn't seem to go away... Reddit has a serious hard on for the Technivorm Moccamaster, but I'm going to give you another recommendation - Bonavita. I own both, and both are SCA-certified and brew excellent coffee. However, the Bonavita wins for me for the following reasons

I have the thermal carafe KBT version and I actually brew into a chemex carafe because I feel like the moccamaster carafe makes the coffee taste metallic, which I don't like.

Consumer reports had Cuisinart DCC-3200 as the top rated model with a 5 (out of 5) on brew performance. And this has Technivorms and Fellows on their list. Those get penalized on ease of use or ease of cleaning, or carafe handling, but also have 5 on their brew performance. I own the Cuisinart and w

All of your gripes are 100% valid except number 1 which has already been explained. I would never pay full price for one and I had some buyer’s remorse at $200. The boiler part of the machine is solid but the ancillary parts are pure crap. People justify it saying it doesn’t matter. True. But crap c

I'll probably get hate mail for this, but for me the Moccamaster produces uneven extraction. I can close my basket (KBT) so to "fix" the issue, I do 3 cups of water to 18g coffee, let it steep 4.5 minutes and drain into a mug. perfect eveytime :)

My sister has the Moccamaster KBT, and she claims the same problem....full pots taste noticeably better than smaller batches...(she says "yes" that she changes the switch to lower the outflow on half batches).She is not a coffee maniac, but she can adjust coffee/water ratio. She says nothing she's t