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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Balog on September 09, 2013, 03:23:07 PM
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Just moved into a new building and the coffee situation is pathetic around here. Some crap-tastic little Mr Coffee that's a pain to use with a carafe that I can't pour without spilling about %90 of the time. Finishing up the 2014 budget and I need to put in some numbers for a quality industrial coffee maker. I'm looking for one with a built in hot water tap, hard piped or free standing both work. No Keurig or other nonsense.
On a related note, I'm hoping to get a decent grinder for my personal use. Budget would be around $50. Capable of both espresso and drip grinds preferred. Thoughts?
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Maybe you can find one here.
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^got a link?^ Them things are pretty scarce around here.....
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This.
http://www.samsclub.com/sams/bunn-commercial-automatic-brewer/142980.ip?pid=_CSE_Google_PLA_Commercial%20Coffee%20Makers&CAWELAID=730010300000106784%26catargetid%3D730010300000110088%26cadevice%3D{device}&cagpspn=pla
Or this for greater capabilities.
http://www.webstaurantstore.com/bunn-cwtf15-3-12950-0212-12-cup-automatic-coffee-brewer-with-3-lower-warmers-hot-water-faucet-bunn-12950-0212/234CWTF153.html?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=GoogleShopping&gclid=CLL_-KyNv7kCFc6e4AodVGkAvg
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This.
http://www.samsclub.com/sams/bunn-commercial-automatic-brewer/142980.ip?pid=_CSE_Google_PLA_Commercial%20Coffee%20Makers&CAWELAID=730010300000106784%26catargetid%3D730010300000110088%26cadevice%3D{device}&cagpspn=pla
Got one of those at work also, make sure you have filters on the water line going in.
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I like the K cup ones
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restaurant auctions are good
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On a related note, I'm hoping to get a decent grinder for my personal use. Budget would be around $50. Capable of both espresso and drip grinds preferred. Thoughts?
I have a Mr Coffee Burr grinder than is almost 7 years old. Just went to google it and they don't make it anymore.
A couple friends have this one, they love it and its on firesale price on amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Cuisinart-DBM-8-Supreme-Grind-Automatic/dp/B00018RRRK/ref=sr_1_1?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1378763871&sr=1-1
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Every 4 or 5 year when we wear out the 12-cup coffee maker at work, I go to the Goodwill Store and buy us another one for $5. (Company policy it has to be a fancy one with auto-shutoff)
I also really like those 30 cup percolators, but that's more coffee than even I can drink in a day.
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woot home has a couple in todays garage sale
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I like the K cup ones
I've always been pretty fond of the D cup ones myself.
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I've become rather fond of the new trend to not make a burner on the coffee pot to keep it warm. Instead they just have an insulated carafe.
If you've ever come into the office and found that somebody left half a cm of coffee in the pot overnight with the burner on you'll understand why.
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We aren't allowed a coffee pot anymore :(
We had one guy that loved to make a pot, drink 3/4 and wander away without turning the damned thing off. Certain folks of sufficient pay grade got tired of smelling it.
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I've become rather fond of the new trend to not make a burner on the coffee pot to keep it warm. Instead they just have an insulated carafe.
If you've ever come into the office and found that somebody left half a cm of coffee in the pot overnight with the burner on you'll understand why.
We got a lot of people who leave just a few millimeters of coffee in the bottom of the pot and walk away. Pisses the non coffee drinking secretary off royally. People do it because they are too busy to make a new pot.
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The Bunn. Pretty ubiquitous, must be good. Our last one had a hot water reservoir, but you had to pour in water to drive the hot water out. You can NOT do it quick enough to do this wit only on carafe. Burnt coffee sucks. Don't know of any industrial type brewers that use an insulated carafe, tho'.
My maker at home is a Krupps, with an insulated carafe.
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We got a lot of people who leave just a few millimeters of coffee in the bottom of the pot and walk away. Pisses the non coffee drinking secretary off royally. People due it because they are too busy to make a new pot.
This is why, although I use a french press at home, that I bought a Keurig for the office. I buy six Costco sized boxes a year of Neumann's or similar coffee that most people will drink, and then the rest of the staff is responsible for buying all the rest, including any of their specialty coffees, liberal free trade coffees or whatever the hell else they drink. Of course I still walk into the coffee mess at least once a week to find the "add water" light flashing. ;/
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I have a Mr Coffee Burr grinder than is almost 7 years old. Just went to google it and they don't make it anymore.
A couple friends have this one, they love it and its on firesale price on amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Cuisinart-DBM-8-Supreme-Grind-Automatic/dp/B00018RRRK/ref=sr_1_1?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1378763871&sr=1-1
I have that one as well, and it's a pretty good unit.
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The Bunn. Pretty ubiquitous, must be good. Our last one had a hot water reservoir, but you had to pour in water to drive the hot water out. You can NOT do it quick enough to do this wit only on carafe. Burnt coffee sucks. Don't know of any industrial type brewers that use an insulated carafe, tho'.
Yeah you can, but I'm out of practice. You cover the hole in the bottom of the filter basket with your finger tip, pour the water in as fast as you can, then get the carafe in place before it starts to hurt and pull your finger away.
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Why would you want to? The Bunn my parents bought in the 80s came with a plastic pot/bin/whatever for filling the tank while the carafe was on the burner.
FWIW, that Bunn made the weakest coffee regardless of how much you put into the basket. I don't think the water was getting hot enough.
Chris
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We got a lot of people who leave just a few millimeters of coffee in the bottom of the pot and walk away.
We have those people too- they are called accountants.
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Bunn of whatever model has the features you want. Accept no substitutes if you want a quality unit. My mom buys one every ten years. She consumes more coffee than anyone I ever met. Makes good drip coffee and lasts a long time.
I have started using these buggers:
http://www.amazon.com/Belkin-Conserve-Socket-F7C009q-Energy-Saving/dp/B003P2UMS0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1378779967&sr=8-2&keywords=electrical+outlet+timer
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Even if the coffee pot has a timer, I plug it into this. Works great for other "I really don't want to leave this on over the weekend" appliances.
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Definitely a Bunn. Get the new ones without the heated plate and they use the vacuum insulated pots. I use one at home and it keeps the coffee hot for 5 or 6 hours. At work they had to disable the heaters on all the makers (and that's a lot of makers) and get the insulated pots because people were always blowing up dry glass coffee pots.
I keep my own pot for the maker at work so I can make coffee in what I know to be a clean and uninfected pot. I've seen too many guys who leave the restroom without washing or a quick rinse at best. I don't want to eat anything from work.
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I don't drink coffee so have no opinion on which one makes the best tasting, but as far as break-room/office aggravation go things have been better at my work since the Bunn type with the burners was replaced with one that fills the aforementioned vacuum-insulated carafes. No nasty burnt coffee smell constantly floating through the office.
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Bunn is teh awesum for industrial coffee makers. We have one piped into the building water line in one of our conference/class rooms (with inline filter), and it's the bomb. It heats up the water to just below boiling - I think the setting is 205F, according to the LCD screen - and it'll brew a full pot in like 3 minutes. It's a glass-carafe-plus-warmer model, but it's been well attended, so it's never burned a half-cup of coffee into sludge on us.
The kitchen coffee maker is a no-name Nr. Coffee knockoff, not NEARLY as good. Not piped into the wall, doesn't heat the water enough, and still a glass-carafe-plus-warmer model, which people WILL ignore and create sludge from that last half-cup.
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I actually prefer my french press, but have no readily available source of heated water (hence why I want a hot water tap on the maker). But that doesn't work so well for folks coming to visit and just wanting a quick cup.
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Get a European-style 220V outlet installed (the one with 2 round pins) and a smuggle in a British small electric kettle. The wattage on those things is crazy; they will boil a liter of water in about 15 seconds.