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The price is very reasonable too. The brew is good unlike the 4-cup coffeemakers where the coffee is either too weak or the taste is burnt because I've added to much grounds to compensate for the weak taste. This product was difficult to find in stores, so I was very pleased to find it @ amazon.com. For the "on the go" one to two person household, this coffee maker makes sense. I like that there's no carafe to clean and I can choose my own coffee, unlike the pods needed for Keurig-like coffeemakers.
It makes excellent coffee. I bought it when they had it as their daily sale. Finding a 2-cup gold mesh filter is very difficult, so add it to your online order.
The plastic inserts will come out sooner or later, then you're stuck tryng to press them back in every other use or so. I would not pay $85 for this. I can't believe the price is $85 though.
This maker makes great coffee once you get a gold cup screen. The cup lids are a pain to get on and off, but don't leak. The quality is just not there.
I've had mine for many years. Why other makers just make hot tasteless liquid, I don't know.
I've tried it with numerous brands of coffee. Otherwise one cup will overflow and the other will only be half full. I don't know what the deal is with this coffee maker, but I can't seem to get a good cup of coffee out of it. That and you have to be on a perfectly level surface to get 2 even cups out of it. Not that impressed. It comes out sour. No matter how much I clean it.
Only problem was on my second one the "On" buttom was a problem to work. They hold up well. This one works perfectly. This is the third one of these I have bought. It makes one or two cups of coffee better than any other I have tried.
Another level of disappointment is that I paid $9 for it to be shipped to me, then $12 to ship it back, insured, according to the fussy requirements of the supplier (J&R Electronics or something like that). But nothing so far has come up to the level of quality I get from using a manual filter and Peets coffee. Because I was seeking a machine that made only 16-24 oz of coffee and did not want a programmable one, that limited choices. I wanted to put in the water, put coffee in the filter, hit a button and come back in a few minutes to a wonderful cup of coffee.
If I want to buy a cup of coffee I go to Peets or I make it at home. I hated the cup of coffee made by this product.I spent hours reviewing various coffeemakers online at many many sites with products and reviews from users and experts. They were fine with me returning it, but I spent >$20 just to try it out, plus the effort of repacking and going to the local UPS, which is difficult as I am disabled. I tried all the tricks, preheating the thermal cups, making only one cup (all I needed) instead of two, and even using hotter water directly from the faucet (not the water I want to use regularly as it has that chlorine tang)instead of the water from my Brita filter. The coffee from the machine was barely hot enough and tasted terrible. Verdict: the machine doesn't make good coffee probably because it doesn't heat the water hot enough.
I think it is because the water isn't hot enough when it goes through the coffee filter. It is difficult for me to get out to stores and then to walk through those giant stores and then still be able to think clearly due to exhaustion and pain from Lyme disease. I never buy coffee from places like donut shops, Star$, or drive-thrus. For those who read this review and wonder if it relates to their expectations, I am very fussy about my coffee and have a particular coffee roaster (Peets) that I've used for decades. Whatever the cause, I don't need a coffee machine that saves me a bit of effort but produces a cup of coffee I don't want to drink. The coffee from my pour through manual filter was excellent. Even if I am making a large amount of coffee for guests, I prefer using the larger filter cone and my thermal carafe. Whole process was worthless and an added difficulty to a life that is already difficult to manage.
So I do alot of shopping online with great success. The cup of coffee always tasted flat and wasn't very hot even at the first sip and before half finished was tepid. If I am somewhere Peets isn't available, I'll try the local coffee roaster's shop and it is often acceptable. This online shopping adventure had no success. I've tried other coffees when it wasn't convenient to buy from Peets, but always found the other brands duller tasting. I did everything the same. This machine doesn't make decent coffee. So I finally did a direct comparison using exactly the same water and coffee with the machine and with water heated on the stove and poured through my two-cup Melitta plastic filter that sits atop a thermal cup.
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