Technivorm Coffee Maker Review

This coffee maker makes the best coffee I have ever had from a drip machine. I had a cuisinart grind and brew and the coffee was OK but nothing compared to what Id get at my local coffee house. I had gotten to the point that I wouldn't brew coffee in the morning just run over to the coffee house and grab a large cup to go.

After getting a cup of coffee at a friends house made with the Technivorm KBTS I became a convert. I now believe that coffee can be made with a drip machine thats as good as if not better than my local coffee brewer. I also upgraded to a Swissgold filter with mine so now there are 3 parts to wash: the filter the hopper and the carafe.

There are a few things about this coffee maker you should know. It is not sleek-it was not designed to impress you, it was designed to make great coffee, It has one function- on and off, no timers, presets, alarms, etc. I guess you could preset it with a plug in wall timer if you wanted...but it pretty easy just hitting the "ON" switch. It costs about $240 dollars.

Is it worth it? I tried to add up the cost of coffee with the purchase price of the machine and figure out how many cups id have to make to break even with the coffee house coffee. It works out to be about 160days/cups of 16oz coffee. My big thing is that I can make coffee in my underwear half-awake and then stumble into the shower. I buy regular coffee at the store(Trader Joe's) and it tastes better than anything I ran through the Cuisinart.

I would recommend this coffeemaker to anyone who buys coffee at Starbucks/Local Coffee Hut because they can't make a good cup at home. It is convenient and easy to use and to me worth the money. BTW, I am not a coffee snob, I dont care where my beans are from or who picked them. I bought this b/c I wanted a great cup of coffee w/o expelling any effort or technique to make it.