[conchy]

Was impressed with mine, but after the first few days the mess, fuss, and hassle started to get a bit old. Next, this guy needs to invent the 21st century version, which is connected to your water supply, filters and heats the water, stores and grinds a few weeks worth of coffee, and you just press a button and out pops your coffee, with no mess.

[haswell]

I find it surprising that you find it to be overly messy / too much of a hassle. Maybe I've just gotten used to it, but I find it much less of a hassle than my old drip coffee maker, and it takes about 10 seconds to clean when I'm finished.

[conchy]

Perhaps I'm just a stickler for efficiency. If it's something that I'm going to do two or three times a day, every day, for the rest of my life, I like to think that I can economize every possible step and movement to the bare minimum. Certainly some people like the ritual aspect of crafting something by hand in multiple steps, and like I said, it was fun for me the first few days until it got old. Now I just want to press a button and have my cup of coffee.

[glibgil]

Nespresso.

[conchy]

Perhaps that's the right track, but now someone needs to invent one where you can just dump a kilo of regular coffee beans into the back, rather than supporting some huge multinational's billion$/year printer/cartridge revenue model.

[glibgil]

Where will the spent grounds go...? Now you have something that is not a simple problem and will not have a simple solution. In fact, it is a $15K solution

https://www.seattlecoffeegear.com/rancilio-egro-one-pure-cof...

Say what you will about Nestle, but they seem to be the only people trying to make a decent cup of coffee easy to serve.

Update: thanks for the downvote. I will stop attempting to show you how the expectations you have for a cheap, carefree coffee machine are unreasonable unless you make some compromises or invent it yourself. It is an unsolved problem, but I get the message. I am not welcome to burst your bubble with the real cost of things.

[icebraining]

Of course it's an unsolved problem, that's why parent said "someone needs to invent one".

And there's no such thing as the "real cost" of things when we're talking about inventing new stuff. You're talking about the current cost, which is completely different.

[matwood]

I agree with you. Nespresso is about as about as close as it gets to quick, easy, decent coffee.

[joezydeco]

How about a Miele CVA6800? Only $3,399.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8bDM79t42w