dork on coffee geeks!
I’m sort of in the market for an electrical coffee brewer, and I want one that has a) an unbreakable thermal carafe instead of a hot-plate; 2) a programmable timer so the coffee can be ready for my early-rising sweetie without my intervention; and 3) a really cute little elephant logo/trademark and eerily self-referential souvenirs.
The place I buy my coffee, the inimitable Batdorf & Bronson, only sells one electrical coffee brewing device: the Zojirushi EC-BD15 Fresh Brew Thermal Carafe Coffee Maker. I figure they know their coffee and shit, and they probably took some time and some serious consideration to settle on just a single machine. You know, that’s kind of a statement, an endorsement … It’s like saying “well, if you’re actually going to go ahead and buy one of these contraptions instead of carefully extracting the coffee spirit by your gentle manual persuasion of 196°F — NOT BOILING!!! — water, we suppose this would be the one we’d, you know, maybe buy our moms who probably can’t really taste the difference anyways.”
