Well, I finally convinced my wife to give up the piece of shit MrCoffee in the kitchen and get a real coffee maker something 21st century.
Here's what I want:
High quality (read: minimal plastic, lots of metal, to make it easier to clean and reduce shitty coffee taste)
Insulated carafe
Single-serve option (ideally a side port w/k-cup, but side-port with single-serving ground basket is fine)
Programmable
Price = Don't care as long as it's under 500 bucks.
Here's what she wants:
Easy to clean
Cheap
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My wife is a notorious cheapskate and prefers drinking shitty coffee from two days ago rather than "let it go to waste". Me, I won't drink a pot that is over two hours old, I'll make a fresh one (life is too short to drink bad coffee). Hence my desire to have a multi-cup carafe and a single-serving. She also buys shitty, cheap, coffee and I only buy high quality, locally roasted beans. As such, I don't want a plastic filter cup that leaves the flavor of her shitty coffee mingling with my good stuff.
I can't stress this enough - I don't care what it costs - I want a high quality maker that will last a long time, and provide marital bliss. Seriously, coffee is about the only thing we ever fight about.
ETA: We could "compromise" (according to my wife), by buying a maker with a built in grinder. That way we can just fight about the quality of the beans that go into it...