Coffee Maker suggestions

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My 15yo Bunn shot craps this morning. Water leaking out the bottom and consistently tripping the GFCI, so it's gotta go.

I'm not a coffee connoisseur, as long as it's fast, hot, black, and strong, so something like Kuerig is interesting and even has different blends for those who want that.

What are you using for making coffee these days?
 
trcubed said:
My 15yo Bunn shot craps this morning. Water leaking out the bottom and consistently tripping the GFCI, so it's gotta go.

I'm not a coffee connoisseur, as long as it's fast, hot, black, and strong, so something like Kuerig is interesting and even has different blends for those who want that.

What are you using for making coffee these days?
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I have a nice Kuerig you can have Terry. I use a French Press. The K-cups are for company. If you don't like it find it a good home...
 
Cheap $20 one from wally world......I did get good service from the free one you get from Gevalia. ...it uses a cone style filter so it will make stronger coffee
 
I'm not on the keurig bandwagon. They're ok but I want a pot of coffee.
My Mr. Coffee is going on 22 years old. Still works great but I eyeball new ones when I'm out because ya-know..22 years old.

The secret to it's life is simple.
The only control is on/off. No clocks, no timers, none of that junk.
It uses a insulated carafe instead of a glass pot and hot plate. The carafe needs no hot plate, keeps the coffee fresh/not burned, and I don't worry about leaving on a hot coffee burner.
I love it. Next one will be just like it close as possible.
 
The one thing I have considered is buying another Bunn, but with the water feed option. Our coffee maker sits next to the fridge, so tapping off the icemaker supply to feed the coffee maker would be easy peasy.
 



Mr. Coffee

[Cool story about this song:
I went to see this band, along with The Vandals and The Ataris at Cat's Cradle in Chapel Hill back in, approximately, 2001. Got there and it was sold out. So me and my friend go to the pizza place next door and Im lamenting on how I REALLY wanted to hear "Mr. Coffee" by Lagwagon, "My Girlfriend's Dead" by The Vandals, and...some song by The Ataris, cant remember which. Well this guy ahead of us turns around and says, "Yeah, you'll hear those tonight, they'll be played." I responded with, "Well I probably wont, it's sold out and we dont have tickets." He answers with, "That sucks, good luck." and we all went our own ways enjoying pizza.

After we eat we're standing outside asking people if they have extra tickets for sale and the guy from the pizza line comes by, asks if we've had any luck yet, well my friend has gotten one, but Im still waiting on a second ticket to come up, "Right on" he says and walks off.

About ten minutes later some dude comes up and says, "Hey man, looking for a ticket, right? Come over here with me."
Now Im 18 or 19 and naive, I instantly knew I had messed up - this dude knows I have cash on me and is luring me into a darker area of the parking lot between a few cars. And then he starts digging in his pocket... my mind is racing, what is he going to pull out and what is my escape plan?

He pulls out a tour laminate - a small laminated pass that the tour folks carry on that particular tour to designate them as being in/with the band.
Hands it to me, tells me to put it on and follow him.

We walk right in, before the doors have even opened, and ends up taking me upstairs to where the bands hang out (green room, I guess you'd call it) and I met the dudes in The Ataris - turns out my pizza friend was the tour guy for them.]
 
I like the Keurig for when I'm running late or just want a quick cup of coffee. I use a French press most of the time though.
 
@trcubed ...
I'm tellin ya get the carafe thing. Glass pots suck.
I do the same thing with my coffee maker...workin mans brew.
Hooking up to the ice maker is a cool idea. Less work is more better.
I use a wall timer to turn mine on in the am. I don't wanna hafta eff with no coffee maker in the morning. Just be ready. :mad:
 
No doubt that Bunn makes a great machine, I have a two pot version at the office. Not sure that I'd spring for one for residential use unless I wanted to keep a pot on all day.

The carafe vs the hot plate, I prefer a glass pot and a hot plate.

When I'm feeling uppity I have a Jura. I like the convenience of a built in grinder.

Whatever you do, ask someone close by to grind some fresh beans for you to try, you'll stop buying ground coffee.
 
We are tough on a coffee maker since we run it in the morning and at least once after getting home ... weekends it goes all day. The Kuerig thing at 25¢ plus per cup is ridiculous for us. We received one a couple years back for Christmas and after two weeks and two cases on those cups the old Bunn we used prior was returned to its place on the counter. If it goes out we'll likely go back with another Bunn ...
 
JimB said:
No doubt that Bunn makes a great machine, I have a two pot version at the office. Not sure that I'd spring for one for residential use unless I wanted to keep a pot on all day.

The carafe vs the hot plate, I prefer a glass pot and a hot plate.

When I'm feeling uppity I have a Jura. I like the convenience of a built in grinder.

Whatever you do, ask someone close by to grind some fresh beans for you to try, you'll stop buying ground coffee.
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We buy ground coffee purely out of convenience. We have a grinder that gets used occasionally, but maybe not as often as it should. Seriously...we're not that picky about coffee...hot and strong are the only qualifications. We've just never developed the 'taste' for great coffee that some have. I'm only borrowing it for a short time anyway.
 
trcubed said:
A cool one in my house is a jug of milk...
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I will drink me some milk.... almost 58 years old and still not weened... :D

I use a Mr Coffee drip 4 cup for weekend coffee... (during the week, I make coffee at work in a cuisinart drip machine)

I did buy me a stainless steel stovetop percolator a while back, though... percolated coffee is the best tasting.
 
DLam said:
I will drink me some milk.... almost 58 years old and still not weened... :D

I use a Mr Coffee drip 4 cup for weekend coffee... (during the week, I make coffee at work in a cuisinart drip machine)

I did buy me a stainless steel stovetop percolator a while back, though... percolated coffee is the best tasting.
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Same here. My wife and I go thru about 6 gallons a week.

When I moved out of my parents' house, my mother saved enough milk money to buy a new couch. True story.
 
trcubed said:
Same here. My wife and I go thru about 6 gallons a week.

When I moved out of my parents' house, my mother saved enough milk money to buy a new couch. True story.
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I personally drink about 2 gallons of milk a week. At home, it is my primary beverage.

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After camping and using one my wife and I use it for a few weeks just because the coffee is that much better..... then I get lazy and set a timer!
 
Just using a plain old Mr. Coffee with glass carafe, but since I drink about 2 pots of coffee a day it works great for my purposes. Not a coffee snob, but have some friends who are. They hate to drink coffee at my house since I mainly buy store brand (Kroger or Harris Teeter) dark roast when it's on sale. My taste buds are gone anyway, so as long as it's hot, strong and sweet so what! I do enjoy coffee, but my Dr says I drink too much. Hell, I quit booze 30 years ago and my wife made me give up women, so caffeine and nicotine are all I have left.
 
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Look familiar?
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I could have posted that picture that I sent you when you and Paul were on the way up to the cabin, coffee pot on the stove, sun coming up, rockin chair on the porch...damn! That's a great thought! I may have to head that way tomorrow morning! This retired thing is the cats ass!
 
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