If you love drip coffee, you know how disappointing many automatic drip coffee makers turn out to be—all promise and no delivery, making coffee that’s weak, sour, acrid, or bitter or not hot enough. Add complicated controls, drippy carafes, and hard-to-fill water tanks, and they can also be frustrating to use.
In our testing, we were astonished by how different coffee makers could make the same two ingredients—ground coffee and water, identically prepared—taste wonderful or terrible. We looked high and
