Breville - Precision Brewer Glass (BDC400BSS)

Breville precision, pricey but solid.

Same. Bought it full price though but worth it. They're called Sage in Europe (I guess the website redirects though) and they also have a glass carafe one with heat plate but don't get that. The insulated one will keep your coffee warm for roughly a working day and heat plates burn your coffee.

They are really simple machines so getting one that is more expensive means it is probably full of features you don't need but that are points of failure. You really need to go high end on drip machines. Like, my programmable Sage (Breville outside of the EU) Precision Brewer is great but it's a 300€ machine. Even a Moccamaster is just a 300€ machine that has two buttons. On/off and half / full can. It's maybe a bit more stylish. It might have a more complex program, it might have higher quality materials. But none of that matters if you don't grind your coffee in the morning. You can throw some store bought pre ground garbage into the cheapest coffee maker you can find and it will taste the same. So just get the 30€ one and replace it every 2 years. Everything between 30 and 300€ is just the 30€ machine with a timer.

I guess that is not the main design criteria. They are primarily designed to be Batch brewers, not single serve brewers. I brew a 750ml batch every morning and the thermal carafe keeps it warm all morning. But as a single serve machine, the stainless carafe would cool the coffee pretty quickly, I would guess. I personally think you would get better V60 results by doing it manually, seems like a lot of faff, cleaning and compromise to use a machine IMHO. I don't have the Luxe, but have owned the Precision Brewer for over 4 years and love it. It sounds like you are looking for a single serve machine that can do batch brewing, rather than the other way around?

The Breville Precision is excellent and is a jack of all trades that can do coffee a.million different ways. It would be an excellent choice. BUT, and hear me out on this one - consider a Bunn speed brew elite. I know, not 3rd wave approved but it works just like the commercial machines. It keeps 70 oz of water at 200 deg at all times. The water you pour into the tank displaces hot water from the tank onto the coffee. It doesn't drip and sputter or even dribble like boiler machines. The water hits the coffee in a streaming swirl. So here's the thing. It extracts significantly more that a pour over. My guess is that it acts more like a percolator than a drip machine because the basket fills with water over the top of the coffee and it is swirling. Fills my thermos with 30 oz of coffee in 2.5 minutes. It's excellent. And it also comes in a thermal carafe version. I got it at Kohl's on sale with another coupon and with $20 Kohl's cash for $93.

Idk why nobody has mentioned this yet-a good grinder is more important than a good machine. Invest in something like a DF64 or Baratza Forte first. Flat burr grinders are generally recommended for drip coffee but there are some cheaper conical burr grinders that work just fine. For coffee machines, there are many good ones. The Breville Luxe and Precision models are easy to recommend. They are good consumer machines with many quality of life features like auto start in the morning.

It works exactly the same in both I think. It will release the coffee on its own

I did say that most gold cup machines must use a pump to get the consistency of temperature and flow. I own the breville after cross shopping the mocamaster and decided my wife would enjoy the iced coffee pre-set and I like the idea of the descaling reminder.

There's a new model of the BPB coming out. Also, I had one and sold it. The carafe lid is a poor design for cleaning. And it's only available as a part by buying the whole carafe again.

For you... Moccamaster or Breville Precision. I did a considerable amount of research with your same parameters, and came down to these two. The OXO was third place. I ended up getting g the Moccamaster fo my brother and son in law. They love the machines, and I've used them both during visits. The Breville may be more sophisticated and capable/programmable, but the Moccamaster does one thing very well. Dead simple, a design proven over decades (changed little since 1979) and was featured in New York's Museum of Modern Design. Parts are available and it is user serviceable. No electronics to go wrong as with the other two. Get a great grinder! I love a V60, Hario switch, Aeropress, Chemex and use them all. None of these can have coffee waiting for me when I walk into the kitchen...

A lit of brewers are like that, they use the full water you put in. I have a Sage (Breville) PB and I just have a jug next to it that I use to fill it up. Just add only as much water as you intend to make, same as when adding coffee

Just bought the moccamaster a few weeks ago. Very happy with it. Love that it has a 5 year warranty. It was about $560 CAD after tax. Expensive but I read about people having it for 20+ years. Got it after my 5 year old Breville precision brewer no longer had a consistent temperature.

I've had my Breville Precision for a couple of years now. Choosing the "gold" option is very good, but you also have the option to create and save your own settings for water temp, bloom time, and brew time. I've only started tinkering with those settings along with grind size with my Breville Grinder and I have absolutely noticed an improvement by going beyond the default settings. This brewer can be a simple one button push if you just want fast and easy every morning, but you can also play around with things to dial in exactly what you want.

I bought the Breville Precision Brewer, and it is a great coffee maker. The MochaMaster was too small, and we only make one pot per day.

When brewing single cup (or low volume up to the single cup line) the machine asks you to remove the carafe lid. It will always do the steep method at those volumes, you cannot override that. You can still leave the carafe and lid but the machine still does the steep cycle so results will not be great. The Sage Luxe and PB are great set and forget brewers. They do not allow for the minutia of control that an Aiden or similar will give you. If that's why you are looking for it might be better to look at other machines.

Lol, yeah, I suppose I was exaggerating a bit. Anyways, that's beside the point - I don't think it would be worth the money for OP to buy an Aiden if he has a poor quality grinder and isn't buying good beans. That was the main thing I was trying to say. I've owned an Oxo 8-cup, Breville Precision and my dad owns an Aiden so I've tried that now too and they are absolutely fantastic, although my favorite is still a pour over. None of those would be as good without good grinders, though.

I have the Breville Precision brewer, it works great but the heating pad looks like shit. The non-stick coating or whatever is it wore out and now I have to clean it or it will get rusty. Before that I had a $20 coffee maker and the coffee the Breville makes is so much better. I just wish they would've made their heating pad better quality.

I have the Breville and to be honest, with I went with the Moccomastrt with an insulated carafe. The design of Brevilles is a pain to clean and often has a fusty old coffee taste if you if you don't submerge the lid in cleaning liquid. From a fine calibration setting point of view, yes it was all fun when I first got it but for the last 5 years or so I've only ever used the gold setting. I am a fairly high user though, probably used everyday except when we go on holiday. Min 1 litre a day, and most working days I brew 2 of them.

I wouldn't really consider it to be a one machine to rule them all type of machine because it is non-adjustable other than the amounts of coffee and water you use. But there is a machine that I would consider to be that, and an excellent machine all-around: The Breville Precision. Totally configurable, and is Hoffman's daily driver, in fact.

If you're in the US, go find a local TJ Maxx or Marshall's. They typically have Breville Precision Brewers for on sale for $179. I actually got one for $89 recently. Any of those on your list will be perfectly fine though. I like the OXO stuff for the money, but if you can wait on a moccamaster sale you'd be in good shape. It's not my favorite brewer at MSRP (I much prefer the Breville precision, the Ratio 6, and the Fellow Aiden-all of which I've owned), but if you can get it around $200 it's great.

The Aiden might be overkill -- sounds like the thing you want is a good drip coffee maker with a clock. The "clock" part isn't the expensive thing (you can get a Mr Coffee thing with a clock for $30), it's the "good". Tbh I'd buy a decent one second hand. I've used the Behmor Brazen and Oxo 9 cup, and recently switched to the Breville Precision (all second hand), and can vouch for all of them, tho I really do like the Precision the best. And all are cheaper than the Aiden.