Not a butler, but makes good coffee
This will not turn itself on at 5:57 AM on Wednesday morning, keep your coffee hot, grind your beans, iron your shirts, or draw your bath. If you want that, hire a butler. What this does do is make a darned good cup of hot coffee in a quick amount of time. The footprint on this is tiny, which is a requirement in my studio apartment with it's 34" x 27" of counter space. The water volume tank is easily filled and clearly measured, so if you try to put more water in than your cup will hold, the spillage is your fault. I'm not having any sputtering problems. It's easy to access the coffee area. The water is hot enough unless you prefer burned-tasting coffee. I don't buy the individual serving cups, but I do buy the disposable filters by Perfect Pod and use them inside the metal filter to avoid sediment. Using 1.5-1.75 T of coffee in the filter with 8 oz water makes a rich and sturdy cup and doesn't overflow the paper filter, so you can just tip the metal basket into the trash and not have one ground to clean up. You can use more grounds if you don't mind cleaning the basket. I enjoy the ritual of making the coffee, so making the cups one at a time isn't a down side for me. On to the first world problems people seem to have. Yes, it drips. Never met one that didn't. There's no drip tray. But I'll bet you've got paper towels or a washcloth or a fancy paper doily you can put beneath the mug to catch that drip. If you're old enough to drink coffee, you're old enough to figure this out. If you put in 12 oz of water and a 10 oz mug, it will overflow. Your mug cannot be larger than 3.5" across and 5.25" high. If you want 20 oz of coffee, make two 10 oz cups (or a 12 and an 8 -- do the math) and pour them into your monster mug. Or stop drinking so much coffee; it's bad for you and it costs way too much money. Listen to Mom. Put that money into savings, along with everything you save by not buying avocado toast or fancy coffee drinks at coffee shops. Soon you'll be a millionaire. But I digress. You cannot set it for a dark or a light brew, you have to adjust the amount of coffee to water. So buy this inexpensive coffee maker that makes a good cup of coffee. You're still going to have to clean beneath the drip tray in one that costs more. And remember -- you've come so far from having to perk coffee in the metal basket on the stove for 20 minutes, which actually made wonderful coffee and made the house smell yummy, plus you had to develop the ability to delay gratification until it was ready. It built character. Ah, for the days of bacon and eggs and percolated coffee... Read more
