Moccamaster (Technivorm) - Cup-One

I’ve had a larger moccamaster for 10 years and it’s great but find that we were using the keurig for the single cups because my wife and I started work at different times. I recently replaced the keurig with a Cup One and it is awesome.

We got a Moccamaster Cup One and love it.

Moccamaster makes a single serve coffee maker that brews a cup in about 4 minutes. It’s called the Cup One and we replaced our Keurig with it. It’s been great and the coffee is so much better than the keurig. If you get the larger moccamasters it’s pretty simple to make a half pot.

KBGV pistachio at home and a white cup one at the office.

I grabbed the silver Cup-One version on Black Friday myself! It makes the most consistent cups of coffee; I absolutely love the thing.

Wife gave me a Cup One for Christmas for my desk at work. It’s fantastic.

The Cup-One is their single cup brewer. The glass carafe automatic drip stopper models have a half carafe setting which will slow the flow rate for when you aren't brewing a full carafe and the manual drip stoppers have a half-open setting which achieves the same thing. I've been brewing a half liter of coffee (about 1-2 servings depending on mug size) using a KBT and the half-carafe setting for about 4 years now, only issue is that I occasionally forget the reset the manual drip stopper. I do like having the flexibility to make a 1.25 liters when we have guests or my wife would like to have coffee.

If your mum literally only makes one cup a day, and doesn't really care about quality, I think the moccamaster might be overkill. Unless you gof for the CupOne the Moccamaster really shines with larger batches. That being said it is a good and durable machine, and ofcourse it can make only one cup.

I..didn't? If you read my comment again you'll notice how I didn't recommend the CupOne precisely because of the entire second half of the post.

The other half of OP's question mentions using it for himself for larger batches. CupOne is definitely not the right fit for everything he's hoping for.

I will give you my experience as someone in a somewhat similar position. My wife and I used the Vertuo Deluxe for 2 years. I drink my coffee black personally, and I never truly enjoyed any of the black coffee I drank from it. I just dealt with it because I only drink a cup a day most days that I’m home. It genuinely just wasn’t good in my opinion. I had been eyeing a Moccamaster for so long and finally pulled the trigger on the Cup One. I’d love to be the person that has a grinder and gets local whole beans to grind every morning but it’s just not realistic for me right now. So I’ve been using store bought pre ground. Anytime I’m in the closest city I’ll get higher quality local roasted but still preground coffee. Even with store bought I enjoy it 100% more than I enjoyed any of the Vertuo pods. And I chose a MM because they are almost truly buy it for life machines. I wanted something reliable. My wife on the other hand has not enjoyed the MM. I think she really got sold on the “creaminess” or the foamy-ness of the Nespresso. So now we’re going to have my Cup One and her soon to be delivered Pop+ lol. I guess my final answer is the Moccamaster isn’t going to make some insane coffee that changes your life. But it will consistently make good coffee and will do it for 15+ years without fail. Of course putting freshly ground quality coffee will enhance the experience, but it sounds like you would be happy with store bought pre ground as well!

I actually kickstarted it and received it in October. So far take this with a grain of salt, but I’ve had literally zero problems. I’m a big fan of the brews. That being said it is plastic and definitely comes at a premium. I had the moccamaster cup-one also and sold it because I like this far more. It is almost all plastic and not metal like the cup one mocha master metal. That being said, the parts of the moccamaster that are plastic feel far cheaper. I love my ratio!

How are so many people missing the point that OP asked? The Moccamaster OneCup is the perfect coffee machine for your mum. Enjoy

I don't think the MM does well with light/ultra light roasts and those are better kept with other methods of brewing. No need to manually intervein with the brews either. If the grind is the right size, the basket will fill and fully saturate everything. People get too caught up on what the coffee bed looks like. There's a reason the MM has been around so long, it's just dead simple, reliable, and consistent. Generally people that are disappointed have incorrect expectations going in.

If you're only making one cup at a time, you should have bought the Cup One. That's what it's made for...