OXO - 12-Cup Coffee Maker with Podless Single-Serve Function

I have the previous OXO “barista brain” maker and a Moccamaster with the insulated carafe(I take my coffee pot to go) and both are really great. The old OXO provided twice daily coffee to a great standard for almost a decade until one day it would just run and keep the heater on whenever it had power. We were just plugging it in to use and unplug, until I found the exact moccamaster I wanted by luck. I do miss the pre-set your coffee feature and the brew timer, but not that much. We did a couple side-by- side comparisons and I have to say the moccamaster did make the better brew. For the record, just as spontaneously as it broke the barista brain fixed itself, so we’re keeping it to use at the cottage. A fitting retirement for a rock solid machine.

Oxo 12 cup with the stainless carafe. Great buy

And they have a 12-cup. Very happy with mine. Programmable, stainless carafe, etc

Oxo Barista Brain. I bought mine second hand 5 years ago and is awesome. I love the reminder to descale it every so often. That's a feature I wish all coffee makers had.

I like my OXO 12 cup. It preheats the water in a glass tank so I’d assume temp it is pretty consistent (haven’t tested it). Coffee it brews is great IMO. Plus, the basket can be changed out for a Mellita #2 for smaller portions. Only gripes with it are a carafe that can’t quite be emptied and that it uses filters that are hard to replace without buying the expensive OXO brand filters (I use Bunn commercial filters and cut them down to size).

Don’t get a glass carafe. Get a thermal carafe instead. The glass craft needs to be heated, and those heat plates use hundreds of watts of electricity, and also negatively affect the taste of coffee. (Source: 30+ years in the coffee industry.) We have an Oxo at home and love it. It brews at the appropriate temperature, has a very good extraction rate, and brews into a thermal carafe which keeps the coffee hot and drinkable for hours.

They’re good, but I think they’re overpriced. Towards the end of my Moccamaster’s life it wasn’t brewing very good coffee no matter how many times I descaled it. I got about ten years out of it. I replaced it with an OXO brewer, which was about half the price and, frankly, brews as good if not better coffee than the Moccamaster ever did. It doesn’t look as cool, admittedly, but it has a bloom cycle, and the shower head distributes water more evenly over the grounds. I never understood the Moccamaster’s weird wand thing with a single line of holes. It never saturated the coffee very evenly. I feel like the Moccamaster needs a design reboot.

I agree. I’ve had both machines. The OXO is excellent and brews coffee just as well for half the price. I still miss my Moccamaster sometimes because I liked how it looked, but that’s about it.

Moccamaster. I have had both (thermal carafe version) and prefer the MM. America’s Test Kitchen just reviewed some options and recommended the thermal carafe version. Using a burner to keep coffee hot can burn it. I started with the Oxo and the stupid dial control for everything was annoying. I had to keep the instructions nearby for reference. Also, the water diffuser (where the water comes out over the grounds) would not stay on and constantly fell in the grounds which would cause an overflow and grounds would end up in the carafe. The MM has an on/off switch and a button at the button that the carafe presses against to say it’s properly seated so the water won’t run everywhere. I’ve had it 4 years and never had an issue. Perfect coffee in around 6 minutes. I recommend paper filters because the reusable ones still let some grounds through ( may just be that my burr grinder makes a little fine powder). Every box of filters (100), I run one of the cleaners through with a couple of rinse cycles and she keeps purring along. I also pull the top square metal water dispenser off every week or two and give it a quick scrub in the sink. As the water drips down on the grounds, the steeping water can splash on it. Every review I saw on it said you could also easily buy any of the parts if they wear out.

Anything certified by the SCA is going to make a great cup of coffee. Lots of folks swear by the Moccamaster, I have an OXO because it was like half the price, but I doubt you can go wrong with anything on this list. https://sca.coffee/certified-home-brewer

I’ve got the OXO which I use when guest are here (day in and out I mostly brew espresso or pour overs.) it makes a very good cup of coffee, on par with the Moccamaster. It is louder and doesn’t feel like it will last 20years like most Moccamasters do. For occasional use or tighter budget it’s a really good option. Sometimes you just need a big drop for ease of use.

Unpopular opinion. No. I made a post a few days ago. You can read up on it. The unit feels cheap. Compared to my oxo which cost 50% less, it is considerably cheaper plastics. As for the brew. No matter what I do, the coffee is weak and under extracted. I'm currently waiting for different filters. I suspect the moccamaster filters are too thick, and catch too many oils / flavor compounds. As someone who really wanted to love the moccamaster, I can only recommend it for style and the absolutely amazing thermal carafe it comes with. As for actual brewing and material quality, it is second tier.

If you are in the US check the current SCA approved coffee makers. I have a Moccamaster, bought used for €100. The Oxo ones are highly rated too though & I had a KitchenAid that was on the SCA list but they haven't resubmitted it for approval so it's not there anymore but still a great cup of coffee. Iirc that's about $150? New.

We have the oxo and I'll second that it makes. A great cup of coffee

I agree. The Oxo is great.

A while back, I had a fancy Oxo coffee maker that had a removeable water scale, you could tell how many cups of coffee you want to make, how hot do you want the coffee to be, how to brew the coffee based on how the grids are, etc. It originally cost about $300 back in 2016 or so. It was great while it worked but after a few months, it kept on giving me random error messages (descaling, water scale needed to be constantly reset, it would stop mid-brew, etc. After about a month of trying to troubleshoot it, I gave up on it and got a Moccamaster for the simplicity (No scales and it had just 2 buttons - on/off and half pot/full pot) of making a simple but enjoyable cup of coffee. It's also incredibly dependable to work whenever I need it to and I have some relief knowing that when it comes time to repair it, the parts for it will be readably available.

I loved my Oxo. Great machine, super easy, one button great cup. Aiden there’s so much you can do. I can control the temperature and duration of the bloom, temp & the rate of water pulses into the bed of coffee throughout the brew. I can do an 8 hour cold brew. Aiden will use the exact amount of water you set and will tell you how much coffee to add based on your selected profile, the type of coffee or exact batch from specific brand. It’s the closest cup to pour over I’ve had from a machine.

Found a moccamaster for free on my towns buy nothing FB page. Needed a new filter basket and lid for the water tank as they were both missing. Both easily grabbed from Amazon for $15-20 each. Looks and works like new. Great coffee. The Oxo also get hot enough, and has great customer service for lot of replacement parts.

Ok hear me out. Nespresso. The vertuo type makes 7oz cups (which is as strong as like 12oz of drip) and it’s sooo good! We’ve switched entirely and put away our regular coffee maker. Which, btw, is an oxo kind. I think it was like $200-$300, and makes really good coffee!! There’s no timer on it but it’s pretty quick and keeps coffee hot like literally all day, which was amazing when our oldest was a newborn.