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Drink a lot of coffee. Had a Breville BDC650 that died (thankfully). I really like fresh ground coffee. I tolerated the Breville, it was nice but lacking. We had tried to get a Spin coffee maker, first round, after a year realized it wasn't going to happen got our money back. Had ninja, multiple Kuerig and a dozen other brands. I am not an expert, most I bought used or on sale, most given away. Still use a k-Café® Special Edition for hot chocolate, family/inlaws, tea, hot water.... The other coffee makers died or I broke the carafe. I will base my reviews compared to other coffee makers with grind and brew.
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Pros
1. works with alexa, I say "make coffee" & it starts to make it if the door shut, carafe in place and has water
2. Uses enough water to make the requested amount of coffee
3. Grind the coffee well, has SEAL on hopper to help keep fresh
4. Stays clean ( my Breville needed to be cleaned up a lot) hopper was a pain to clean out
5. Coffee filter pretty good, much less fine grounds then other coffe makers make it through
6. App is decent, I can set start times, set it to start when I come home ( not sure why)
7. Strength settings of weak, medium and strong (yes the strong is strong for me)
8. carafe poors well lid opens easily for filling or dumping out.
9. The smallest setting (4 cups) is really 1 mug for me so that worked out
10. the cone filter extracts a lot of coffee flavor from small amount of grounds
11. Decent simple display and controls. No annoying dials that don't work well.
12. can Turn off keep warm but has pre warm. This way the coffee hits a warm carafe but doesn't burn.
13. You don't have to clean out the filter every time you brew. I don't mind putting new grounds on slightly old grounds. The Breville had to have the grounds door opened and closed to brew again.
Cons
1. can't dispense directly into mug, which is fine because a few times i forgot a mug and had a mess
2. Water tank is a bit small. and a little hard to fill. its on the back and the fill level is on side. Not ideal
3. Coffee hopper is Mhee. Sealed but still small for me and oily coffee might not dispense well.
4. non-insulated carafe, not a big deal since I can just say "make coffee" and have fresh coffee
5. Manual is a joke (to be honest not needed and wasn't going to read it anyways).
6. Setup not perfect but close, first sync failed, maybe i did it wrong 1 minute of my life wasted.
7. Cord is a bit short. Longer then some others but still way too short for me.
8. Louder then all others. its nice to know its working but don't like waking up the house
I am really hoping this review doesn't jinks me. So far haven't had any real complaints, will update when I have the time. If it does or tries to kill me I will immediately update. this reviews.
Again this is NOT a perfect machine for me or others, but It suits me well and better then anything else I have tried. I would love a bigger water capacity or auto fill water. Would love it to empty its grounds between runs. Would love direct to mug (with mug detection). Would like Thermal Carafe (Will try other carafes I have to see if they fit).
After reading the other reviews I almost didn't try this, maybe they lowered my expectations. I have watched Technoman on youtube for years and he wasn't very happy with it. But looks like they made some improvements.
I am not a shill, Not paid for this review, paid for the coffee maker, I absolutely would sell out for the right price but this review is completely honest.
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Love I can ask Alexa for my coffee from bed
I see there are a lot of people complaining about this machine. I have to say I have been very pleased with it. The only 2 things that popped up for me was I can't get the timer to set the keep warm time to 120 minutes. This doesn't really bother me since I use Alexa to start the machine. The other thing is you can not over pack the coffee beans. The grinder will not feed them in if you do. That really could be considered user error. Other than that the controls are easy to use, linking to my smart home was super easy and it has worked every morning since I bought it in July. I loved it so much that I actually built a water fill circuit and modified the machine to fill on its own. Now all I have to do is empty the filter and it does all the rest for me.
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Love I can ask Alexa for my coffee from bed
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I see there are a lot of people complaining about this machine. I have to say I have been very pleased with it. The only 2 things that popped up for me was I can't get the timer to set the keep warm time to 120 minutes. This doesn't really bother me since I use Alexa to start the machine. The other thing is you can not over pack the coffee beans. The grinder will not feed them in if you do. That really could be considered user error. Other than that the controls are easy to use, linking to my smart home was super easy and it has worked every morning since I bought it in July. I loved it so much that I actually built a water fill circuit and modified the machine to fill on its own. Now all I have to do is empty the filter and it does all the rest for me.
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