Technivorm Moccamaster KBT Coffee Maker, Black #79114

The coffee maker is great - simple functions, ease of cleaning, rather fast brewing. My only issue is about the carafe itself - I'm not sure why we would have to have a carafe with glass lining inside? The glass makes it prone to breakage. I had been using a Breville one before and their carafe keeps the hot for at least 2 hours. But other than this, overall, it's a great coffee maker.

Makes a great cup of coffee. Thermal carafe is lined with glass and keeps coffee warm for hours.

J`aime beaucoup cette cafetière. Elle a belle apparence et fait un café savoureux avec une fraction de ce que j`utilisais avec mon ancienne cafetière.
Seul bémol, la feuille de protection inférieure à la cafetière aurait dû être plus solidement fixée au bâti. Elle se détache à chaque transport.

I kind of had my doubts about Moccamaster, but with the generally glowing reviews I pulled the trigger during a decent sale.

I'm no coffee snob, but I love good coffee, and wondered if a unit that met the "golden cup standard" would make even better tasting coffee than my old maker (which is supposed to meet the standard, but actually falls short temperature-wise).

The Moccamaster brews much faster than my old unit and has no bloom phase (I didn't know about this prior to ordering - I assumed it would have a bloom phase). The coffee taste profile is also somewhat different (more acidic), and I prefer the taste of the coffee brewed from my old unit.

Also to consider is that none of the covers are hinged, so it's much less user friendly than a standard coffee maker; you have to physically lift off both the filter cover and the reservoir cover, to load the filter and fill with water. It tends to get water droplets wherever I temporarily set the covers, which is annoying for cleanup. The covers and filter housing are also very light plastic and feel cheap. Pouring water into the reservoir is also more difficult, since the water outlet arm blocks of part of the reservoir, unlike other more standard coffee makers; if you hit the arm with the flow, it'll cause water to fly all over, and will also direct cold water to run into the filter housing area.

There’s one other annoying aspect I didn’t consider prior to ordering the unit. If you want to brew directly into a travel mug rather than the carafe, you have to find a way to depress the little white button at the front of the unit so the coffee will brew. Again, it’s just another quirk of the coffee maker that you can’t disable, and have to work around.

As an engineer and very practical hands-on person, it's a real head-scratcher to me why this unit is so highly rated - it's not a user-friendly design at all, and in my opinion the coffee is makes is subpar. From other reviews, I don't doubt that the unit will function well for years, but we've moved beyond this kind of outdated design.

Overall, I'm not impressed considering the cost of the unit, even on a decent sale.

2 weeks old now and we are very happy..... easy to operate and clean.... brews hot coffee quickly and keeps it hot.... I expect we will have this a very long time (no gimmicks, no complicated electronics, very well constructed)