The moccamaster is the gold standard for good drip coffee. Buttttttt it doesn’t have a timer and you have to physically turn it on and off. Unless you got an outlet timer adapter thing. If you’re a regular coffee person, I would suggest the breville luxe or the behmor brazen 2.0. Just solid coffee makers.
And then get a moka pot for days you want espresso. Unless you want the novelty of having an actual espresso machine on your counter, I get it.
Also a good grinder.
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.
I have the Luxe in my office. It's my weekday driver and makes a great cup. Super simple to use and well built.
Weekends I'm down the rabbit hole with espresso equipment
The sage has alot of settings to mess with, that could be a plus or negative. Also it has a more conical basket in it so that could be a plus for you, it makes it a little more acidic. Maybe a ratio 6 if you want a more even extraction with less acidity, or the new fellow aiden if you want a 4 cup machine. The opus isnt bad like some are saying. It depends on the type of coffee you drink. If you like a darker or richer coffee it works. Imo I would go with the fellow ode gen 2 to get that slick rich fully extracted brew.
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.
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