Technivorm refurbished

[jberzins]

Anyone know if these exist?
I am in between one of these and the capresso mt600

[slowhand]

    Buy the Technivorm, refurbished or not. You won't look back. If you buy the Capresso, you probably will.

[peter]

    Buy the Technivorm, refurbished or not. You won't look back. If you buy the Capresso, you probably will.

My thinking exactly.  A customer asked for drip brew recommendations, and she would up w/ the Newco at home and a Technivorm in her office.  It's only been about 4 years of at least 2 pots a day through the TV.  Not a hiccup at all.  She likes the Newco, but says the TV makes better coffee, but my guess as well as hers is that she uses a Swiss Gold filter in the TV and paper in the Newco.

A neighbor has an older TV that has been faithful for years and years.

I like the idea of buying the best of whatever, and have a fair level of assurance that it will be the last whatever I have to buy.  If you had to buy two or maybe three brewers in the time the TV will last, how good a value is the Capresso at that point?

[jimec3]

I have had my TV for about a year.  It makes great coffee day in and day out.  I highly recommend TV.

[jberzins]

Thanks to all, I ordered it last night.

[mp]

Let us know your impression and experiences with it when you get it.

 

[Ascholten]

seriously ... what makes folks think the technivorn is so 'superior' besides just it putting out the right temperature of water for coffee?  I mean, about 20 minutes and a dollar worth of stuff and I converted one of my older coffee pots into something able to do 195 - 200 degree plus water.

Im not trying to downplay the TV if it's truly a superior unit but besides for the water temp, what else makes it so much better to justify blowing 200 on a device that heats water?

Aaron

[mp]

Ok Aaron ... I'll bite ... what did you do?

 

[Warrior372]

Technivorms are handmade, achieve proper water temp at the coffee time-after-time and have a 10 year warranty. The 9 hole spray heads are nice, but not unique solely to Tecnivorm. I also like the fact that the water filter cone is controllable much like a clever coffee filter (I am sure T. Owens was inspired by Technivorm design) which has 3 settings. It allows you to cutoff water flow to the carafe, adjust to half flow or full open flow. I have never seen another machine with this option.

I have grown to appreciate handmade items more and more as my machine made items die one after another. No machine made products that I have owned has ever met the overall quality and longevity of items I buy that are handmade. I would just rather foot over a little more cash initially and be content knowing that what I buy will most likely be the last one I need to buy.

[Ray T]

seriously ... what makes folks think the technivorn is so 'superior' besides just it putting out the right temperature of water for coffee?  I mean, about 20 minutes and a dollar worth of stuff and I converted one of my older coffee pots into something able to do 195 - 200 degree plus water.

Im not trying to downplay the TV if it's truly a superior unit but besides for the water temp, what else makes it so much better to justify blowing 200 on a device that heats water?

Aaron

IT looks way cool sitting on the counter +1 The basket has a cool lever that you can play with instead of just watching +1 . +2 The wife loves it also  

[jberzins]

As for me, I had asked quite a few different sources, over the past several weeks, which machine I should buy and it seemed that most people had very good luck with this. I have had my old coffee maker for roughly 10 years and as I remember it was about 100.00, so I did not think this was blowing my money, at least not if I get anywhere near that amount of use out of this one. Other than the heating of the water I really like the design and the thermal carafe it comes with. It seems to be well made and yes it is true that I believe that in general the European designs are superior. It is also one of the two drip coffee makers that are SCAA approved. I think it is great that you altered yours and are satisfied with how it performs. I wanted to give this one a try, if it performs better, I will be happy. If not I am sure that it will not be worse than the one I am replacing it with.

[Ascholten]

mp,  I explained it some time ago in another thread somewhere, I have no clue where or when but ill go over it briefly.

The major part of the heat loss comes from the tube that takes the boiling water/steam from the cooker in the bottom of the pot THROUGH the water reservoir (cooling it off considerably) and out the spout on top.  What I did was take the spout off, and the tube, I got another piece of tubing that fits over it, a bit bigger and sealed it with RTV to the bottom of the resivoir and put it all back together.  Essentially there is a blanket of air between the hot water tube, and the tube now holding the cold water off the hot water tube.  The heat does not dissipate nearly as much through the air blanket as being in direct contact with the cooler water so the water now comes out the top of the pot at around 200 degrees.

The tech does sound like a really good pot but god, I have too many pots already here, and for the money it cost, I can't at this time justify getting one for myself.   For someone who doesn't have a decent pot then Id have to say yes get it.

Aaron

[MGLloyd]

I have had my Capresso MT500 for about 10 years now, it has never had any problems, and still maintains 198 degrees at the brewhead.