Keeps coffee hot: Many of the machines we looked at in this price range come with a thermal carafe, but some come with a glass one.We looked for machines with minimal settings and clear interfaces that allow you to brew with little more than the press of a button. Ideally, a groggy person or a houseguest should be able to just walk up and brew a pot of coffee without any confusion. Easy to use: A good drip coffee maker-even one with lots of special options-should be relatively quick and simple to use.But we’ve often seen it for between $100 and $120, which is about as good a deal as you can get for a high-quality coffee maker. The price of this brewer has fluctuated quite a bit due to higher demand during the pandemic. There’s no programmable auto-brew setting, and you can’t brew a single serving of coffee into a mug, as you can with the 8-cup OXO. And if you don’t put the lid on as soon as the coffee finishes brewing, the pot will quickly cool. But the Connoisseur’s carafe is clunky: You have to take the carafe’s lid off in order to brew into it (in contrast with the 8- and 9-cup OXO models, which let you brew into the carafe with the lid on). We like that the interface is little more than an on/off switch, and that the printed measurements on the water tank tell you how many grams of coffee to use per serving-making this machine incredibly easy to operate.
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The Connoisseur has a pre-infusion cycle (though it’s not automatic, as it is on both OXO brewers) and can brew a full pot in less than eight minutes. Of any machine we’ve tried, the Bonavita Connoisseur 8-Cup One-Touch Coffee Brewer makes some of the best-tasting coffee (better than our top pick and similar to the 8-cup OXO), and it is the simplest, smallest brewer we recommend. A representative for Bonavita told us that stock issues are due to shipping delays, but the Connoisseur is now available for pre-order through the company’s new website and is expected to ship March 21. The 8-cup OXO’s self-explanatory four-button interface is probably easier for the uninitiated to figure out than the 9-cup brewer’s minimalist digital screen, but the trade-off is that the 8-cup OXO lacks a digital clock and an auto-brew function.įollowing a split with Bonavita’s US distributor, the manufacturer (Smartco) is relaunching the brand, and Bonavita products are currently unavailable. And the OXO Brew 8 Cup is the only machine we recommend that allows you to brew directly into a mug (although you do have to use a different filter basket and special paper filters to do so, making the process somewhat fussy). The thermal carafe works just as well as the larger OXO’s carafe at keeping coffee hot for hours. We found that it brewed coffee with a slightly more well-rounded flavor than the OXO Brew 9 Cup (whether you’re brewing a full pot or just one or two cups), and it was the fastest of all our picks, making a full pot in just over six minutes. If you don’t mind not being able to set your drip coffee maker to brew you a pot before you wake, or if you just want something a little smaller and simpler than our top pick, consider the OXO Brew 8 Cup Coffee Maker.
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