If you can’t be bothered with the manual labor involved with vacuum and pour-over brewing, then we’ve got just the thing for you. Our friend’s at Boyd’s Coffee in Portland, Oregon recently sent us a Technivorm, Moccamaster KBG-741. This handmade, Dutch coffee maker is very cool for a number of reasons. First and foremost, its heating system is fast and strong, getting cold water to brewing temperature (200° F) in what seems like just a few seconds. Secondly, the unit breaks down into its constituent parts quickly for easy cleaning. Next comes its switchable hot plate wattage selector, which is nice because you can elect a lower holding temperature for your brewed coffee if the volume is low. The Moccamaster also looks like it came from the design team of Back To The Future 2… Very retro, diner-chic, yet strangely modern with its molded plastic building block pieces. Did we mention that it brews an outstanding cup of drip coffee?
Despite its obvious merits, there are two noteworthy drawbacks to the Moccamaster. As evenly as the dispersion of water is over the coffee grounds in the basket, it still left some coffee grounds in the front of the basket unsaturated. We had to stir the grounds manually to get a totally saturated brew basket. Also, conspicuously missing from this $200.00 home coffee brewer was the convenience of an “auto-off” feature that is especially handy in the mornings when you are dashing off to work. Yes, you must turn this machine off manually, but if that’s not a problem, then this is a highly recommended, 1st class machine!
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