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Well designed, thoughtful features, delicious coffee much better than older style autodrip makers
By Ryan D on Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2024
There's a lot I like about this coffee maker. In short, it is EASY to use, brews DELICIOUS coffee and is actually pretty FAST considering how it works. This is a relatively unique coffee maker given all the options out there. It's a great design conceptually and practically. I feel it brews more similar to a manual style pour over than how most basic coffee makers work. So far, I have been using basic bottled drinking water from the gallon jugs from the grocery store (as opposed to tap, even filtered tap, because we have pretty hard water) and it works very well with the the drinking water. I'm using the stack of supplied Bunn filters that came with the coffee maker and ordered more Bunn filters for when those run out. I grind my coffee using a Flair Royal manual grinder on a "medium" setting (typically around a "7" within the second rotation from the zero point, for those familiar with how that manual grinder works) and the coffee is very balanced with great flavors and easy to drink, even black. It's not bitter at all. The controls are very easy. Once you have water poured and a filter with grounds in place, you just hit the brew button and wait about 10 minutes. After it heats the water at the top, you hear a single dull pop sound when the water valve opens, the brewing starts and within seconds you start to see hot coffee dripping into the carafe. The actual dripping down of the water through the grounds only takes a couple minutes. If you only brew to "4" cup line on the carafe (about 2 average sized mugs worth) it's usually done dripping in about 8 minutes total but the machine will continue to say "brewing" for a few minutes afterwards. Some things to be aware of: 1. There's no auto-pause, so if you pull the carafe out while the coffee is dripping down then it will just keep dripping and go everywhere. So it's important to leave the carafe in place until the dripping has completed. Again, once it starts dripping you only need to wait a few minutes. 2. The lid is designed to come off very easily when it is in the VERTICAL position. Many reviews seem to complain that the lid "comes off too easily", but I'm guessing what is happening is they're raising the lid by blindly pushing it down with their thumb unaware that the little nubs holding the lid on have flats on them for this exact purpose - to allow it to come off easy when veritical. When the lid is down, and even partially raised, it is effectively "locked" into the handle, or at least prevented from poping out. You can of course raise the lid all the way without it coming off, but if you push up or pull up on it in that position it WILL come out easily. 3. Grind size matters. To get the best tasting cup of coffee, grind your coffee fresh to the correct size using a high quality grinder. If it's coming out bitter, it's likely that your grind is too fine. 4. At the beginning, you need to pay attention when you're lining up the basket and sliding it in. If you don't catch the lip of the basket on the sides then you could potentially not realize it and drop it. But, once you get used to sliding the basket in it's not hard to do. There's no tactile indication that it's in place other than you just can't push it any further. But, if you slide it back 3/4" it could fall out. So just be careful that it's seated fully before you let go! Specific things I really like about it: 1. The coffee tastes really great! 2. The filter basket is easy to clean. There aren't super deep ridges in it like most auto drip makers have. 3. Brew time is relatively quick. I think under 10 minutes for a couple mugs is great. 4. The carafe pours flawlessly without dripping thanks to the unique lid design! The lid does look a bit odd at first but it really works amazingly well at preventing the drips. 5. It's pretty quiet while brewing even when heating the water. Not a major thing but I still appreciate it. 6. For the money I haven't seen anything that brews coffee this way and I think it's a winning design concept. I recommend buying this machine.
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112 people found this helpful
Great coffee Maker....BUT!!!! Read my follow ups and year follow up......JUNK! EVERYONE HAS FAILED!
By steve on Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2020
I did a lot of research and chose this coffee maker....it is highly rated....a very good price for the quality.....I had owned BUNN before and enjoyed them.....here is the problem literally 3 weeks after I bought it.....it would only make 1/2 of a pot....I tried to make another pot but again and it took over an hour to brew 1/2 of a pot and stopped. I sent it back.....Amazon had a 30 day warranty. I received another after about 4 weeks...(took to long) but oh well. It worked great. The day after the Amazing warranty was up the same problem.....I called Amazon and they said sorry you need to deal with Bunn your warranty is up. So I took a hard look at the machine and emptied the water out. I then gave it a light smack on the top. I unscrewed the removable sprayer and cleaned that part and reinstalled it......I then filled it up with coffee pot cleaner and it only dripped but soon it began working. You can hear the valve open when the temp was right.....Today about a month later same problem go up and only a half of a pot I followed the same procedure and it again began to work.......I think it needs to be cleaned often.....If you get one be sure to clean it once a month in order to avoid this problem. I do have very hard water. ***Update I have had this coffee pot for 4 months I have had to send the first one back.....the new one stopped brewing like the first one but stared working again..... the water overflows the basket....I switched to a different sprayer even though I don't use decaf or have soft water and it is still over flowing......apparently you can not use cheap coffee filters. You need to buy Bunn filters and they are expensive. This coffee make does make good coffee but there are issues that need to be fixed....the pots spout should be even with the outer edge of the glass so it is easy to empty all the water but it is not. The lid on the glass pot falls off all the time. Bunn should inform customers that soft water and decaf coffee needs a different sprayer and you are required to use Bunn coffee filters.....Bunn your better than this! *******REVIEW AFTER OWNING IT ALMOST A YEAR! Piece of junk! Nothing but problems! The first one stopped working....amazon took care of it sending me a new one....although it took a month to receive the replacement. The second one stopped working after 31 days.....Amazon said "sorry you now have to deal with Bunn". I gave it a thump on the top and it started working again. I have had constant problems.....It began over flooding the basket and there was coffee all over my counter.....Bunn said you have to use our special coffee filters. That helped not it floods over just once a week. Bunn coffee filter are expensive....thanks for not informing me! I got the low flow sprayer thinking that would help...now it floods over twice a month! I never know what I am going to wake up to......the pot it self is ridiculous......the spout is set behind the edge of the pot thus you have to turn the pot upside down to empty it......the crazy top on the pot falls off all the time.....I have owned Bunn coffee makers since 1989.......I am done with the company BUNN.......I will NEVER buy a Bunn product again. Save your money and by a Mr Coffee! *****UPDATE: Hate this thing.....It either over flows or you end up with coffee grounds in the pot. Nothing but trouble with this....BUNN you lost a life long customer. Your R&D should have done a far better job.... ******LAST UPDATE: After the replacement machine stopped working. I contacted Bunn. They sent me a new machine but I was responsible to send back the old machine.....The cost to mail it back was $56.00. I would have never allowed them to send the new machine....so much for the warranty! I am done with Bunn....after being a life long customer I will never buy their machines again. What a rip off. UPDATE.....After returning the first one....getting the second and now the second one is dripping water once it is filled......so again not working right.....it's going in the garbage! I AM DONE WITH BUNN.
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