Cup-One

We got a Moccamaster Cup One and love it.

Moccamaster makes a single serve coffee maker that brews a cup in about 4 minutes. It’s called the Cup One and we replaced our Keurig with it. It’s been great and the coffee is so much better than the keurig. If you get the larger moccamasters it’s pretty simple to make a half pot.

I agree with this. I look forward to plain drip coffee from home. I mean I put a splash of sweet cream in it…but I look forward to it. The grind, the brew, the ritual. I have the Cup-One. It tastes SO MUCH BETTER than a k-cup.

KBGV pistachio at home and a white cup one at the office.

I grabbed the silver Cup-One version on Black Friday myself! It makes the most consistent cups of coffee; I absolutely love the thing.

The Cup-One is their single cup brewer. The glass carafe automatic drip stopper models have a half carafe setting which will slow the flow rate for when you aren't brewing a full carafe and the manual drip stoppers have a half-open setting which achieves the same thing. I've been brewing a half liter of coffee (about 1-2 servings depending on mug size) using a KBT and the half-carafe setting for about 4 years now, only issue is that I occasionally forget the reset the manual drip stopper. I do like having the flexibility to make a 1.25 liters when we have guests or my wife would like to have coffee.

If your mum literally only makes one cup a day, and doesn't really care about quality, I think the moccamaster might be overkill. Unless you gof for the CupOne the Moccamaster really shines with larger batches. That being said it is a good and durable machine, and ofcourse it can make only one cup.

I..didn't? If you read my comment again you'll notice how I didn't recommend the CupOne precisely because of the entire second half of the post.

The other half of OP's question mentions using it for himself for larger batches. CupOne is definitely not the right fit for everything he's hoping for.

I have the Cup-One and it's how I make coffee for my workdays. The best thing for me about it isn't the taste, it's really the convenience. I set it up the night before with my thermos so in the morning I just have to turn it on. If your Aroma is already doing that for you, I don't see a reason to get the Cup-One. The days I'm home and I have plenty of time to make my coffee I'll use my Hario Switch or some other manual brew method and I do actually notice a difference in taste with the same beans. I think if you're really looking to get an upgrade on the taste of your coffee, a grinder, trying different beans, or a manual brewer would make much more of a difference.