

Also, Ratio makes the best thermal carafe I’ve ever seen - I ordered one of those.
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Me, I’ll stick with my manual pour-over method, if only for the ritual, but if I were going to buy a machine to automate it, I don’t think I’d consider anything other than a Ratio. I was recently at a friend’s house who owns the Ratio Eight and it’s a splendid device. Many people pay close to that for drip coffee from not-so-good coffee shops. Yes, $350/495 is significantly more than $200, but many coffee lovers gladly spend $5 a cup every day for pour-over coffee from a good coffee shop. The “concrete benefits” to these machines is that they make better-tasting coffee and they look better on your kitchen counter. And pour-over coffee tastes better than the stuff regular drip coffee makers brew. The difference is only that they’re automatic. They don’t just brew coffee similarly to pour-over, they brew pour-over. The Ratio Eight costs $495, and the Chemex Ottomatic $350. For the price, however, it’s hard to see any concreteīenefits to these machines, and they’re also less widely available Pour-over - pre-infusing the grounds and evenly pouring the hot Makers is that they brew similarly to manually making a batch of They’re all made for connoisseurs who are willing to Clive Coffee’s RatioĮight and the Chemex Ottomatic are two prominentĮxamples. Small quantities for enthusiast audiences. You can find a number of expensive, stylish coffee makers made in And within “quality” I include design aesthetics, which, let’s face it, almost always goes hand-in-hand with price.įrom their current list of “best” drip coffee makers, which is topped by OXO’s $200 Brew 9-Cup: Here’s a perfect example of what I was talking about in the previous item, about The Wirecutter institutionally fetishizing price over quality. Wirecutter’s ‘Best’ Drip Coffee Makers Pooh-Poohs the Two Best Drip Coffee Makers
