The Mr. Coffee 5-Cup Mini Brew Switch Coffee Maker is one switch and has the feature of auto-pause if you want to pour a cup while it's still brewing. It's smaller, but there's probably a larger version as well.
Basic coffee makers like this tend to last a long time. And they're a lot cheaper.
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.
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
My newer Mr Coffee (5 cup) is starting to die on me after only 2.5 years. I had an older version that lasted a long time without issue; lost it in a move.
The older models were superior to the new.
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