New Gourmia 12 Cup Programmable Hot & Iced Coffeemaker, Stainless Steel

I spent about 30$ a week on coffee and this has been such a life changer. This was my first coffee machine, ever. I followed the directions and it took me about 2 minutes to learn. All the instructions were very clearly laid out. As for the machine itself. It feels on par with a standard hotel room coffee Brewer, pretty standard. However, the "brew later" feature really comes in handy. Set it and forget it, great feature for me considering I can totally forget I need a refill, and only remember by the time I'm cranky. The smell will literally wake me up from my work stupor to remind me that another coffee is not a bad idea. Not only that but it has a cool feature in that it senses when your machine needs to be cleaned based on bacteria inside the machine. Heck, it self cleans. I've never seen that before especially in such a cheap model. I can get kind of lazy and its gonna get dirty again when I make another coffee in 2 hours, at least now I can pretend its still clean until it really isn't. Choices between Strong and Iced make this a year round thing or at least mood round, I can switch back and forth pretty frequently. Not to mention, Stainless steel and black matches pretty well to the rest of my kitchen so that was a nice touch. Most of the ones out there are white or all black, but the touch of stainless elevates this

This is my best coffee maker. I've tried a few, even the Ninja bit I just love how strong my coffee is with coffee maker!