# Can you recommend a good coffee maker? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** coffee\ **Created:** [February 8, 2011, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-recommend-a-good-coffee-maker/570600 "2011-02-08T01:00:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-recommend-a-good-coffee-maker/570600/21 "2011-02-08T16:49:34Z")
Many of the best-rated are made by Capresso. You really need to do your internet homework on coffee makers, as most of the complaints about the cheaper ones like Black & Decker, Mr. Coffee, etc., involve water leaks, which obviously is a bad thing for a coffee maker. Most of them are made in China, with the accompanying crappy construction. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-recommend-a-good-coffee-maker/570600/22 "2011-02-08T16:49:42Z")
> [@](#): > > Technivorm owner here. I’ll never go back. Jesus Christ. $300?! ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-recommend-a-good-coffee-maker/570600/23 "2011-02-08T16:52:42Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Many of the best-rated are made by Capresso. You really need to do your internet homework on coffee makers, as most of the complaints about the cheaper ones like Black & Decker, Mr. Coffee, etc., involve water leaks, which obviously is a bad thing for a coffee maker. Most of them are made in China, with the accompanying crappy construction. One of my chief complaints about my current maker (Hamilton Beach, 10-cup thermal carafe) is that every three or four brews, unpredictably, it will fail to drain into the carafe properly and puddle up around the base of the coffee maker. I’ve cleaned the carafe, lid, etc. It’s a big-time :mad:. The other is that 10 cups is not enough, most of the time. It makes a GREAT pot of coffee, but it makes me want to throw it through a window occasionally. ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-recommend-a-good-coffee-maker/570600/24 "2011-02-08T17:01:02Z")
> [@Athena](#): > > Hee. According to my local coffee nerd shop, the Aeropress is already old news. The new new hotness is the [Chemex.](http://www.amazon.com/Chemex-1-3-Cup-Coffee-Maker/dp/B000EEXA9A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1297172292&sr=8-1) > > For the record, they made me a cup out of the Aerorpress and the Chemex, and I liked the Chemex better. But not so much better that I’m giving up my precious, precious Capresso. Technically, the Chemex is the _old_ new hotness, since it’s been around for years. The _new_ new hotness is the Coava Kone filter. (Haven’t tried it, since my one-cup pourover thingie is working fine.) [http://coava.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/kone](http://coava.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/kone) ---
**Author:** ![xanthous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xanthous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanthous)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-recommend-a-good-coffee-maker/570600/25 "2011-02-08T17:23:52Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > Jesus Christ. $300?! If I hadn’t gotten it as a gift, I would have happily paid $300 for it, and it would have been the best $300 I ever spent. I guarantee you it’s worth more than four $75 pots and I’ll come back here and eat my words if it doesn’t outlast all of those $75 pots put together. Two years in and it still puts out 198° water every day and looks brand new. Best coffee I’ve ever had! ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-recommend-a-good-coffee-maker/570600/26 "2011-02-08T17:29:27Z")
Another vote for the Cuisinart with the grinder. Other than a little more trouble in cleaning, it has proven superior to every other coffeemaker Mrs. Inexplicable and I have owned. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-recommend-a-good-coffee-maker/570600/27 "2011-02-08T18:34:13Z")
Hamilton Beach makes a very good 12 cup coffee maker. I bought mine in 2007. Programmable. Doesn’t have the thermal carafe. We drink ours long before it goes stale anyway. [http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&sugexp=ldymls&xhr=t&q=hamilton+beach+coffee+maker&cp=2&client=firefox-a&hs=ErD&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=11540520951395811332&ei=SYxRTaSVNc2z8QOJ7JXrDQ&sa=X&oi=product\_catalog\_result&ct=result&resnum=7&sqi=2&ved=0CGAQ8wIwBg#](http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&sugexp=ldymls&xhr=t&q=hamilton+beach+coffee+maker&cp=2&client=firefox-a&hs=ErD&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=11540520951395811332&ei=SYxRTaSVNc2z8QOJ7JXrDQ&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=result&resnum=7&sqi=2&ved=0CGAQ8wIwBg#) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-recommend-a-good-coffee-maker/570600.md?page=1)