The Best Coffee Gadgets for Early Risers

We went in expecting to send it back, which is usually the fairest place to start.

Price is the least interesting question right up until it is the only question. Something can be worth every penny and still be the wrong purchase, if the cheaper thing would have done.

Filed under Food & Kitchen, which on this site means we care about the boring parts: whether it holds a connection, whether the app is still maintained a year from now, and whether anybody answers the phone when it breaks. The question is never whether a thing works in the shop. It is whether it still works in six months, on your network, alongside your other devices, without you having to think about it.

If you want the short version: it depends, and the thing it depends on is probably not what you expected.

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Tomasz Mieczkowski

Writes the lifestyle tech beat for Drafted Tech. Everything filed here was paid for at retail, which is the whole reason this site exists.

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    Devon R.

    Dec 30, 2025 22:00

    Did you test it on mesh wifi? Mine drops every few days and support keeps telling me it is my router.

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    A. Whitfield

    Jan 02, 2026 12:00

    The support story is what put me off. Nine months is not a warranty, it is a hobby.

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    rjm

    Jan 04, 2026 12:00

    Did you test it on mesh wifi? Mine drops every few days and support keeps telling me it is my router.

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