Mr. Coffee - 5-Cup Mini Brew

I have a 5 cup all plastic Mr.Coffe I've used for 11 years without issue and it's still working like new. I finally said screw it and bought a Mochamaster just because I wanted one lol.

Nope. Pour over is a great way to make a single cup of coffee. I use a Chemex and a Kone. At the end of the day, it is just another way to expose ground up scorched coffee seeds to hot water. A lot of the machines have a minimum volume they can brew. M6 Bunn is 20 oz. For instance. But there are machines that have small batch settings (I believe the Precision does) and there are small machines like my son's Mr. Coffee 5-cup that will make a single cup. The only drawback to pour over is that you have to attend it for 3 minutes or so to do the pours where a machine is fire and forget. Keep in mind that you have to take this sub with a grain of salt. People here are really into the deep specifics and precision, which is fine, and often required with light roasts, but for the rest of us, just grab a V60, a Chemex or whatever dump your ground coffee in, fire up some hot water, do a bloom to soak the grounds, then maybe 3 more pours and coffee. Then, if you're me, dump in a bunch of sweetener and creamer. Excellent.

Commenting on Drip coffee makers are garbage....yup I also have a Mr Coffee, 5 cup, $10, the heating plate has partially broken but it makes coffee still and I’m hoping for at least another two years out of it. If the bottom plate survives two years I think it’ll survive forever.

The only thing to worry about the Mr coffee maker is that the hot plate gets way too hot after brewing and will burn your coffee. Turn it off the moment its done brewing and if it gets cold just microwave it

I have a 5 cup Mr. Coffee and it makes coffee just fine! I wanted to spend the least and i don’t regret it!

this looks great. i might actually buy one. ive been useing a 5cup mr coffee for 15-18 years but this could be a nice upgrade

am I the only one with a 15 yr old $30 Mr Coffee ?? My parents have one thats now close to 30 yrs old.

it could the thing where it WAS made better, but now its garbage. its the 5 of 6 cup one i have and my parents have the 12??? idk its huge.

If she drinks it daily but doesn't need much, the mr. Coffee 5cup was the perfect size for me because I (like coffee flavored sugar milk lol) only needed a small ammount in the morning. It has a heated bottom and on off switch but I just used the coffee pot to fill it and unplugged it when I was done. I absolutely base model I think I paid $15 for it off amazon. Used it until the coffee pot broke, put mugs on it until I got tired of having coffee that way. I second the Oxo though

So will my $40 Mr. Coffee I've been using for over 15 years.

The only real difference in performance of a $30 Mr. Coffee for and the moccamaster is that in the moccamaster the hot water tube is insulated from the water in the reservoir. Both are thermosiphon designs and by definition have to get the water to boiling to draw it from the reservoir and into the coffee bed. In uninsulated design you get a cold start. But honestly, it’s not night and day. If you take the time to tweak the grind size to taste in a Mr Coffee, the end result is surprisingly close. Yes they are all plastic but you can buy enough of them to last an adult lifetime for the cost of a moccasmaster. (Admittedly the environmental outcome is sadder with a mr coffee.) As for living wages, hard to say from a humanitarian aspect which purchase is more noble. People make more money in the Netherlands but you are hurting the much poorer chinese worker by buying nothing from them. I just think that is not a clear cut moral stand.

Agree. The boiler part of the Moccamaster is far better made and a pleasure to use. But functionally, It is not that much different than a mr coffee. The slow start on temps has an effect but it’s not huge. James Hoffman even noted this in his review of “cheap coffeemakers”. You can get very decent coffee from a $30 drip brewer if you spend as much time tweaking and obsessing on grind as moccamaster owners do.