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Aiden Precision Coffee Maker

Fellow Aiden Precision Coffee Maker

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TL;DR: App-controlled customization, but unreliable and finicky interface.

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Sentiment score79% positive
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Last updated: Jul 11, 2026

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Reddit Icon10000000100
3 months ago

We have a fellow Aiden. You can brew any size you want. The water tank is only big enough for one pot, but you can brew 1 cup at a time. Brews a great cup of coffee.

Reddit Iconacridmonious
8 months ago

Fellow Aiden is pricey but dead simple to change for any coffee amounts. You enter in the sweet spot for coffee to water ratio for your particular brand of coffee and then the next time you just dial in the number of cups you want and it tells you how many grams of coffee to add and it consumes the right amount of water automatically. And its bloom mode is awesome.

Reddit IconA-Fun-Hunter
8 months ago

A Moccamaster has remained in an elite tier of coffee machines for a long time for a reason; it makes really good coffee...though if I were OP and deadset on buying one, I'd get one with an insulated carafe, rather than one with a glass carafe on a hot plate. But best non espresso coffee bar none is a bold claim. With admittedly more work, doing a pour over (or sometimes french press, depending on what sort of beans I had and what I was trying to get from them), I could pretty consistently get coffee that was better than what a Moccamaster could do, and although I have plenty of experience and might be a bit better than average, I don't think I'm particularly excellent at pour overs (I do think my french press technique is better than most, but that's a whole different conversation...). Now, however, I've got a Fellow Aiden and have had to grudgingly concede that the machine can make coffee just as well--if not better in many instances--than I could. But I've only had the Aiden for \~6 months, so we'll see if its longevity can match a Moccamaster; it's certainly more fiddly and thus with more potential failure points than a Moccamaster.

Reddit Iconalejandro117
8 months ago

Yall coffee people don't know a normal day in life for sure. OP wants a good, simple, automatic and programmable brewing method, and yall blast him with your v60s and chemex. Im sure OP loves a nice espresso or a rich cup from a french press, but when you're in a rush to work cause your alarm didn't go off, or you have 4 kids to take care of in the morning, you don't have 5-10 minutes to make that fuzz for a coffee. He surely knows there are better methods, but for the average working person, a drip coffee it's all you need during a week workday. So, answering your question, my brother in Christ, you didn't gave us a budget, so I will assume that's not a problem for you. My recommendation has to be the Fellow Aiden Precision Coffee Maker. It's a little pricey at $400, but I swear to God it's worth every penny. Check the video from James, he covers it all. His complaints from the machine are outrageous to me lol, but he is more picky. I have one and I love it, my life and my coffee improved substantially.

Reddit IconAllthrowawaytaken2
5 months ago

Fellow Aiden is great. Have had mine for like 4 months and it does exactly what you describe. Easiest coffee maker I’ve ever used

Reddit IconAlternative-Web5361
6 months ago

I have had my Aiden since September 2024 and I absolutely love it. My grinder is the Fellow Ode Gen2 and I couldn’t be happier with it. I have stopped making pour overs because the quality of the cup is so much better with the Aiden.

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79% positive of 111 users

App-controlled customization, but unreliable and finicky interface.

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