Breville - Precision Brewer Glass (BDC400BSS)

I agree with all of that except I prefer an uninsulated glass carafe on a hot plate rather than an insulated carafe (heresy, I know).  Luckily for me Breville offers a variant of their Precision Brewer with that one difference, so that's what I have.

I have the glass carafe version, got it for $110 open box. Both the breville brewer and baratza encore that I bought at the same time have been amazing for 5 years daily use now

I sold my precision brewer after a while, partly because of it being difficult to clean properly. It had all these nooks in the basket and the thermal caraffe lid always contained leftover liquid which seemed unhygienic[](https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&sca_esv=8c342fd051715880&q=how+to+pronounce+unhygienic&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOMIfcRowy3w8sc9YSnjSWtOXmPU5eINKMrPK81LzkwsyczPExLjYglJLcoV4pPi4eIqzcuoTM9MzctMtmJRYkrN41nEKp2RX65Qkq9QANSVD9SWqoBQBAAn2r_lXwAAAA&pron_lang=en&pron_country=gb&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwixyter7IuNAxXLcvEDHdKYIH4Q3eEDegQIPhAO). Has this been improved?

I picked up a Breville Precision Brewer at TJMaxx for $179 & havent looked back. It makes a great cup, once you figure out your settings. I havent tried it, but I hear the cold brew function on it is a joke, though. Really good coffee beans make all the difference in the world too. If you are going to go through the trouble of finding a really good coffee maker, find a local roaster & brew good beans. Cheers!!

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?

That's exactly how I use my precision. I also swapped to it from a pour over setup for convenience. I'm really happy with it.

Breville precision, pricey but solid.

I had this exact same issue and I never see it referenced in positive reviews of the machine. I would use special cleaners for straws to get into the lid and it would come out dark brown no matter how hard I tried to clean it thoroughly.

Had a Sage (Breville) Precision Brewer paired with a Wilfa Uniform for 2 years. It made good coffee and had enough customization to enable you to dial stuff in, but in my experience, the lid design on the carafe is absolutely atrocious and you cannot fully drain it, leading to coffee crust and mold getting stuck in it and pouring away into your cup, leading to (obviously) foul tasting coffee. On top of that, the grinder's tread got seized so I sent them both back as they were still under warranty and upgraded to a Fellow Ode Gen 2 + Fellow Aiden, and the difference is night and day, they really do feel a decade apart. The recipes on the Aiden enable you to taste coffee as the roaster intended (for roasters that do provide shareable Aiden recipes) and the overall recipe customization is just more fine grained. Can't really speak for reliability as it's mostly plastic, but the cups coming out of it have so far been superb. If, however, you find all the customization tiresome and just want to hit a button and get coffee, I got my parents a Moccamaster and they've been delighted since, it's built like a truck where it matters, so you really can't go wrong with that.