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What to look for when buying coffee machines ? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Having recently graduated from instant coffee and currently being stuck with using using tea infuser to make coffee I'd like to know what to look for when doing research on coffee machines

If location is relevant I'm in Queensland, Australia

Edit: got a breville barista express

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Don't buy any of the pod based coffee machines, they're comparatively cheap up front, but they'll cost you more in the long run and give you a much more limited selection of the kinds of coffee you can have.

I'd say if you want to push a button and get a coffee, look into bean-to-cup machines. If you don't mind doing a few bits a traditional style espresso machine is going to give you a load of flexibility, and can generally be a bit cheaper than a bean-to-cup (though they can also get much more expensive!).

If you don't mind it being fully manual, perhaps look into pour-over or aeropress kit. Definitely a much cheaper step than buying a machine, and lots to learn from using those methods

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

/r/keurig is filled with "My Keurig brewer stopped working" posts, and there's no way to fix these things.

At best, Keurig ships a whole new appliance, and the old one goes into landfill.

The new one breaks in a couple of months as well, and joins the old one in the city dump.

What a waste.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

To elaborate on the price, those pods have ~11g of coffee in them (according to the first link I clicked on). For a (north american) standard size cup of coffee (350 ml), I use about double that. You can either chose to have a much smaller coffee, or a regular size coffee that tastes bad.

For the same price per gram of grocery store brand pods, you can get really good freshly roasted, single origin, free trade, etc. beans.