Both are new to the market - has anyone played with either?

Motif: https://www.williams-sonoma.com/product ... 3326&qty=1

Breville: https://www.brevilleusa.com/products/th ... 1743635484

Not so sure about the Motif being " Designed by the coffee experts at Seattle-based Motif..." ...as it's just a re branded Melitta AromaElegance ® Therm DeLuxe, but none the worse for that, as the high end Melitta machines work well.

Bonavita have re-badged old Melitta designs in the past too, but the AromaElegance is a current model. Retailing for about £110 inc. 20% tax in the UK - and also available with a glass jug option.

The Melitta version is 1800w, but 1465w should be powerful enough to do the job well.

Should be a good performer if used properly.

(Edit - Correction - if the Motif version has a pre-soak option, that is a modification from the Melitta version.)

keepitsimple wrote:Bonavita have re-badged old Melitta designs in the past too, but the AromaElegance is a current model. Retailing for about £110 inc. 20% tax in the UK - and also available with a glass jug option.

I wasn't aware that Bonavita used rebadged Melitta designs... thanks for the info!

I've never studied all the Bonavita brewers, and some of them may well be original, but the first one they brought out was certainly a by then obsolete Melitta design (I used to have the Melitta version).

Melitta.de has all their current versions - think some more of the current Bonavita offerings are also originally Melitta.

I think that Melitta USA is a separate distribution company, which sells a completely different range of brewers from the European Melitta products, so no overlap with what Bonavita are putting out I guess. Almost certainly all of them are made in China anyway - quite probably in the same factory