Bonavita - BV1500TS

Hay varios puntos a definir primero. Las 2 cosas mas importantes en el café son: 1) un buen cafe en grano. 2) un buen molino. Con tu presupuesto en mano, necesitamos definir tus necesidades. ¿Para cuantas personas estarás haciendo café? ¿Tienes tiempo para dedicarle en la mañana a preparte un buen café de diario o necesitas que ya este listo porque sales corriendo todas las mañanas al trabajo? Con $4000 te alcanza perfecto para un aparato de preparación más "artesanal", digase un v60 o un Aeropress + un molino MANUAL de buena calidad, por ejemplo un Timemore Chestnut C3 ESP Pro. Este combo te dará un excelente café todos los días. La mejor relación calidad-precio. ¿El problema de este combo? El tiempo y la capacidad limitada en la cantidad de cafe. Estos metodos toman ya en total con toda la faramalla de moler y preparar el café entre 6 y 8 min aprox por café. Imagina que quieres hacer 3 o 4 por la mañana, ya son más de 20 minutos haciendo café. El molino al ser manual, sera muy tardado moler mas de 1 o 2 dosis individuales de café y a pesar de que estos métodos de preparación tienen su version "XL" no obtendrás más de 500ml de liquido por proceso. Lamentablemente un molino eléctrico de calidad con el que ahorrarias tiempo, por si solo sobrepasa los $4,000 (Baratza ESP sería la opcion de entrada pero no es la mejor. Vale la pena ahorrar un poco mas para otras marcas). Si este es tu caso, lo mejor sería comprar una buena cafetera de goteo programable como una Bonavita BV1500TS (menos de $4mil en amazon) y un buen café de especialidad de alguna tienda local, el cual puedes comprar en porciones pequeñas y pedirles a ellos que te muelan el cafe de la semana en su propio molino pidiendo ajusten para cafetera de goteo. De esta manera por ahora eliminamos la necesidad del molino en lo que vuelves a ahorrar para conseguirlo y tienes una gran cafetera que en 5 minutos tiene 5 tazas de cafe listas de gran calidad. Si solo es para ti y tienes el tiempo por la mañana, sin duda me iria por el primer combo que mencione y de ahi ahorrar para el molino electrico de entrada. Espero sea de utilidad las sugerencias.

Not sure what qualifies as "crazy expensive", so with that disclaimer...I've been absolutely happiest with my Breville Bambino Plus (for about 4 years now, going strong, I take good care of it) and Breville Smart Grinder Pro. I chose not to get a combo deal because I could see one component breaking or going back before the other and then you're stuck with half a machine or replacing something that still works. Bonavita for drip coffee - had the fairly standard 5 cup model for years before it struggled and now have the Enthusiast, which has been great.

I really like my five cup Bonavita with insulated carafe. For the $200 CAD I paid, I couldn't ask for better. I really appreciate how small it is, it takes up very little counter space. And while it's not aesthetically nice like the Moccamaster, it's not ugly either. The insulated carafe on it is fantastic, I've had coffee that is still warm 6 hours after I've made it and without the burnt taste you get from a hot plate. And lastly, and most importantly, it makes a great cup of coffee. I've never had a bad cup from this machine. It blooms the coffee, gets to the appropriate temperature, and just makes a tasty and smooth pot every time.

I love my sboly single cup brewer and my bonavita 5-cup.

I go to Premium on Route 5 in Lackawanna and get their whole bean Costa Rican coffee. It's damn good. But their Venetian is very similar to Tim Horton's. I just have a regular drip machine by Bonavita, but I use Brita water and still descale regularly. I also have the Oxo burr grinder that lets you really adjust the fineness/coarseness of the beans so you can get exactly what you want.

Bonavita for under $200. Chuckling at all these people recommending non under $200 machines. To really save money buy a Clever dripper. I can make excellent coffee with it.

Which is why my first recommendation was a Bonavita. Did you even read my post? Jeez.

You won’t go wrong with a Bonavita. Priced fairly. Ratio 6 is not good. Moccamaster doesn’t have a shower head so you get dry spots and need to stir.

Technivorm Moccamaster is good but it has dry spots so you need to stir with a spoon during extraction. AFTER PAYING $250 for it. Bonavita has shower head so this problem doesn’t occur. Ratio Six has too shallow a bowl and coffee grounds can float up over the side unless you use a coarse ground. So you’ve paid $350 for a drip machine where you can’t fine tune a grind for best flavor. Using higher wall Bunn paper filters helps a little bit. Love the Clever. Lobe the Bonavita with thermal carafe. Love Chemex. Love Technivorm with thermal carafe. Sowden Soft Brew works kinda like a French Press but makes a smoother coffee.

Bonavita. One button drip coffee, generally very good quality. 

I am 5 years in on a BV One Touch and it's still making solid coffee with the pre-infusion mode. I would buy it again today.

Bonavita is my personal favorite drip coffee maker. Italian machine that comes with a thermal carafe, coffee pot so that it can keep your coffee warm without a heater. Not sure what the technology is like now but mine has a couple of drip style options when it comes to how the water falls onto your coffee grinds. Can find them for less than 200 for a 8 cup coffee pot, or less than 100 for a 5 cup coffee pot.

I had a Bonavita, traded up to a Moccamaster, and a few months later, went back to the Bonavita. Don't believe the hype.

Bonavita w/ thermal carafe