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 I should have listened to the other reviewers June 15, 2010
Boos Mom (Queens, NY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I so wanted this product to work as I was happy to find a grind 7 brew with a small capacity since I only drink a cup a day. However, the "4" cup size actually is the size of the cup I drink per day, which was surprising. What was surprising is how big a footprint this thing takes considering it makes so little coffee. But the most disappointing thing, which is what i read in most of the reviews and why i returned it, is the coffee beans get stuck and you have to manually dig 1 bean out to get the grinder going again. That is unacceptable.
 Dissapointed February 26, 2010
Mike from Golden, CO (Golden, CO)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Loved this coffee maker but after a few weeks it stopped brewing. On the up side, Kalorik offered to fix it but I wasn't willing to ship and wait for it's return so I went back to a simple brewing machine.
 Major disappointment January 7, 2010
Alan D. Mckirby
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Regretably, I ignored the mostly negative reviews that I read here and elsewhere and decided to purchase this product from Amazon. As an Amazon Prime member, I was happy to get the coffeemaker in just 2 days so I could start my long Christmas vacation with a freshly ground, rich and bold cup of coffee (that i roast myself). As others have suggested, the instructions are pretty much useless. It's my guess that the instructions were translated from the original German to Chinese, then to Sanskrit before ultimately being rendered in English.
Despite the poor instructions, I was able to get the brewer up and running pretty quickly. I filled the grinder with beans, added water using the fairly nice mug that was supplied, pressed the "auto" button and heard the pleasing rumble of the coffee being ground. After a couple of minutes, I had a very nice, though fairly weak cup of brew. I cranked up the boldness setting on the left side and tried again, but it didn't seem to make much difference. I speculated that the grind may be off a bit, but since there are no settings on the other adjustable knob, i couldn't really tell.
These minor shortcomings notwithstanding, i was actually quite happy with my purchase. On day two, however, the gremlins came out. That morning, I happily filled the water chamber and again hit the appropriate button. The grinder started and then began to make a sickening, high pitched whirr...the grinder was stuck. Clearing the jam was not easy and created a huge mess. After cleaning it, the grinder started fine, but jammed again within seconds. I tried a different blend (my Ethiopian beans were a bit small), but ended up with the same result...a jammed grinder. I fiddled with it while my wife scowled at me for wasting money on yet another coffee pot, but each time, the darn thing jammed.
I whipped out my handy krups burr grinder and proceeded to grind some beans so i could at least have a cup of coffee. I filled the filter and started to brew...within seconds, i noticed a nice puddle of light brown liquid puddling around the base...my nice new brewer seemed to have sprung some sort of leak. I cleaned everything up..refilled the resevoir and tried again, this time watching more closely. I immediately noticed that the brewed coffee was leaking at the base of the filter. I fiddled with it a bit more and discovered that a small rubber gasket that is part of the brew pause function was dislodged in the mechanism. I repositioned the washer and it brewed fine...til the next cup. It seemed that everytime i inserted the mug, it dislodged the gasket. I finally removed the gasket completely to resolve the overflow issue, but of course created an annoying drip when the cup was removed.
Ultimately, I grew frustrated with the whole experience and neatly packed everything back in the original packaging, printed the convenient return label from Amazon and bid farewell to this conceptually nice, but fatally flawed device.
I am very happy that Amazon accepted the return and refunded my purchase. I am still on the look out for the perfect, single serve with grinder brewer...hopefully someday i will find it. Meanwhile, my trusty Krups grinder paired with the simple, but effective Aeropress have been forced back into action.
not great March 28, 2009
Chuck M. Longstreet (gr. mi usa)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
seems to be a quality product, but dosen't perform at all. leaks,jambed grinder,plugged grounds shute all the time,sent it back
Suitable, fits some needs, but falls short in others. January 27, 2009
Jeffery M. Parks (Chicago, IL United States)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
This coffee maker is over-priced, but it is a quality product. If my frustrations below were corrected, it would have earned a 5 instead of a three. It is ideal for the person who enjoys an occasional cup of freshly ground coffee, without a need to make 2-12 cups at one time.
One is suppose to be able to adjust the coarseness of the coffee, but turn after turn of the dial to adjust the coarseness yielded little difference. Eventually, I stripped the knob, after only about 4 sessions, trying to make the beans more coarse.
A major of frustration is a single line in the manual that left me misunderstanding how the grind feature worked. The manual indicated, "... add the right amount of beans." What does that mean? It led me to believe that I had to add the appropriate amount of beans given the number of cups I wanted to make. Which, I just figured out is not the case at all. You basically fill the hopper to the top and it grinds the number of beans based upon how much water you put in and whether you want mild or strong coffee. Outside of that one line in the manual, I applaud the company for the simple instructions in the manual.
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