OXO Brew 8-Cup Coffee Maker - Single-Serve & Carafe, Thermal Stainless Steel, SCA Certified

I got this for replacing a 16 year old Cuisinart coffee maker. So far this Oxo coffee maker has been doing a good job. The coffee does have slightly better flavor than my old coffee maker. It's easy to use. Of course I had to fiddle with it at the beginning but it is easy to use. After trying out the carafe for my first batch of coffee just to check how everything works. I've been using it primarily with the single cup filling feature. This lets me fill my coffee cup directly. I really like this feature since I use an insulated coffee mug so the temperature is well maintained so I can enjoy the coffee. This coffee maker as many others uses 5 oz as a standard for a cup of coffee. I've been filling up my water tank for three cups and used three scoops of coffee ground. I pour in water to bring the water level right to the 3 cup level line. So I'm starting with 15 oz of water and I end up with 13 oz of coffee in my cup. The final 2 oz of water won't drip out. There's a sliding switch to use when I'm making a single serving of coffee to a cup. The position is pushed to the left so that it will hold open the valve on the coffee ground basket. I also push the switch to the right to close the valve to make sure no coffee leaks out after I take my cup away to close the valve. One thing I don't like about the carafe is that coffee can drip from the pouring sprout and it drips coffee onto the body of the carafe and the table. I took off one star for that. There's a power button and two buttons to chose if you're making 1-4 cups of coffee and the other button is for 8-12 cups of coffee. I tried 8-12 for my single serving of coffee and it doesn't seem to make time difference. Over all I like this coffee maker. It looks simple and modern and is easy to clean. If fits easily under my cabinet. I was able to buy this at under $150 as there was some deal going on so I bought it. I'll have to see how long this one will last. June 13: I noticed after making a cup of coffee that at the hole where the water drains in to fill the holding tank. There was a slight bit of water backing up. I was curious so I used some descaling solution and did a cleaning cycle. This happened before the cleaning light turned on. After the cleaning cycle the water wasn't visible anymore at the end of a brew. So now when ever I see water backing up a bit I do a cleaning cycle. It may be too early but I guess it depends on how hard the local water is. I'll do it this way instead of the letting machine time it and give a signal to run a cleaning cycle.

We were daily french press brewers for years. We wanted to shorten the prep/clean up time and also move away from the sludge filled last cup offered by the french press. First we tried a new Keurig, with the multiple water jets. While that method was certainly first place as far as convenience goes, it was dead last in any other metric one would use to judge a coffee experience. We really enjoyed the Nespresso machine. That said, we are more coffee drinkers than espresso sippers. The monthly cost of the Alto XL pods in the Vertuo line was going to increase our monthly coffee budget four fold. That wasn't going to fly. For purely cost reasons we returned the Vertuo. We had not wanted to go down the road of drip coffee maker because we felt that the clean up and prep was not that far off from the french press. In addition, it had been over a decade since we last owned a great Cuisinart drip maker. We had forgotten that good coffee could come from a drip machine. So our research started... Of course, the <$50 coffee maker wasn't going to cut it. We weren't going to shell out the money for a Mochamaster. The middle market of drip coffee makers is where we found ourselves. After reading (too) many reviews, it was clear there were some solid options to choose from: OXO, Bonovita, Bunn, Ninja and Cuisinart to name a few. A sealed stainless carafe that keeps coffee warm for an extended period of time was the second most important factor after quality taste. After consideration, it came down to this OXO or the comparable Bonovita. The closed lid brewing design on the OXO is what tipped the scale. The Bonovita requires you to brew with the lid off, screwing it in place after brewing is complete. We could just envision a hectic morning with the kids where we forget to put the lid on. Hello cold/not as hot coffee. We really wanted a programable start feature, but neither this nor the Bonovita had the capability. Not having the feature has been inconsequential. The brew time from start to finish on a full 8 cup pot takes less than 4 minutes. That is not too long to wait. Somethings we really like: - The coffee really does taste good. We are using the same coffee we've always used with the french press, but it tastes like a totally different bean, in a good way. Can't say enough about quality. - The single serve filter basket is great. - Most people should be able to get there hand inside of the carafe for cleaning. I recall my old Cuisinart where you could only get a cleaning brush in the carafe. This is a much better design. - Coffee stays hot for a solid 4+ hours. If you're putting refrigerator cold creamer in your coffee, the window to have hot coffee post cold-creamer addition is about 2 hours. - Like that the shower head is removeable and can be cleaned. Great feature. I've noticed some comments talk about overflowing grounds based on the amount of coffee used. Like others, we enjoy a strong cup and use more than the recommended amount of coffee. When we received the OXO we had a pound or so of coffee previously ground for the french press (coarse ground). We measured 75 grams of that coffee for a full 8 cop pot and did not experience any grounds overflowing the top of the filter and into the carafe. Though the shower head did have some coffee residue. Any finer of a grind and I'm sure you'd have some coffee grounds overflow. At 75 grams of coffee grounds, we experienced about a 4 ounce loss of water. When brewing a full pot, we now fill the water to just above the black rim inside the water reservoir, well above the 8 cup mark. This ends up brewing a perfectly full carafe of coffee. For two people this fits the bill. We are able to enjoy our individual Yeti mugs and partial refills on both with one pot. The single brew option lets you easily whip up something fresh should afternoon coffee call your name. We've been really pleased with the unit.

I will preface this review by saying I haven't owned a drip coffee maker since the late 80's. Mostly because I don't like the concept of making coffee in a plastic machine, I've done glass pour over or stainless steel French press or percolated coffee for decades. Am I fussy about my coffee? Yes. Am I a coffee connoisseur? Absolutely not. That being said, this is an attractive, compact, quiet and quick coffee maker. I followed Mfg. directions to a T the first time I used it. Holy strong coffee! They consider a cup of coffee to be 5 oz of water, but I haven't owned a 5 oz coffee cup in my life. So yeah, their water to coffee ratio was DOUBLE what I would normally use. But hey, I figured I ought to follow their directions at least once, because you never know. Well, now I know that was a mistake. I tossed the coffee out and started over again, using the water to coffee ratio I would normally use when making my regular pour over coffee. (Half the amount of coffee!) That turned out much better. However, 8 cups of coffee this coffee maker does NOT make! Again, that estimate is based on a cup of coffee being 5 oz. So realistically, I'm only going to get 2.5 cups of coffee from a pot, not 8 cups, because I use a Thermos travel mug that holds 16 oz. of coffee. Math. Not my forte. The unit itself is very sleek and simple. You fill the tank, add a filter and coffee to the appropriate basket, select single cup or full carafe and push a button. Super easy. I was pleased to find this coffee maker is actually whisper quiet. A little muffled gurgling can be heard at the very end of the cycle, but that's it. I was also pleased to see that there was very little steam produced as the coffee is being brewed, and the steam that did come out is vented toward the front of the machine, not the back. (You really can't even see the steam, but if you hold your hand over the vents you can feel it slightly) If you're putting your coffee maker under your kitchen cabinets that's a big plus, and has always been a pet peeve of mine. Why can't they make a machine that's sealed and doesn't spew steam under your cabinets? Anyhow, this machine does emit a little bit of steam, but it's greatly reduced compared to the drip coffee makers I've had in the past. The machine beeps once when the coffee is ready. Again, nothing obnoxious. The "on" button for the machine stays lit for an hour, but there isn't a hot plate to worry about or turn off, which is helpful if you're like me and get busy with your morning and forget to come back to shut things down. You can make a 'single' cup of coffee if your mug fits under the drip mechanism. There's a little removable plate that can either lift a smaller cup up closer to where the coffee comes out or you can remove the plate to buy more room for a taller mug. A 16 oz Yeti fits fine under the drip opening when the plate is removed. Again, I would measure the amount of water you'll need for a single cup of coffee by using the mug or cup you plan to drink from to fill the water tank. Regardless of what setting you use, either single cup or full carafe, the machine will make the amount of coffee based on the amount of water you put in the tank. The single cup or carafe setting is really more for how the shower head dispenses the water over the grounds than for telling the machine how much coffee to make. All of this is explained well in the directions, which are thorough and straightforward. When you are making a carafe of coffee you can remove the carafe to pour a cup of coffee if you're antsy for that first sip. The basket has a little ball that will stop the drip temporarily. That said, this machine is pretty quick to make a full carafe of coffee. I didn't time it, but I'd guess it to be somewhere around 6 minutes or so from start to finish? (It does pause briefly for about 30 seconds after it starts to let the coffee grounds "bloom.") There's no clock to set the machine to start at a specific time of day. In other words you have to be present to start it, which is fine by me, but might be a drawback for someone who wants to wake up to coffee that's ready to go. But I don't really see that as an issue given how fast this coffee maker works. The carafe seems OK. Lots of raving about how ergonomic is it and how nicely it pours. Meh. It's a carafe. I always pre-heat my carafe (and mug) with hot tap water prior to making coffee, so I'm sure that helps retain the heat a bit longer. Two and a half hours after I made a pot of coffee I found the second pour to be just as hot as the first, so the carafe appears to hold up to the hype. I also like that the carafe has a wide mouth, which makes for easy cleaning. Overall, I like this machine and can't find much to complain about except that I don't see it being my weekend coffee maker. It just doesn't make enough coffee for two people who both like to drink at least two 16 oz cups of coffee over the course of a long morning. (We are always up very early) I only got this machine because I'm going to be out of town in a couple of weeks and my husband wanted a simple, fool-proof way to make coffee while I'm gone. I'm sure this machine will do the job just fine. After that I'll probably use it to make coffee for myself during the week, but I see us going back to pour-over coffee on the weekend, when we will want to consume at least two 16 oz cups or so each. I think this is the sort of compromise you're always going to have to make unless you're willing to have a big, huge, honking machine that sucks up most of your kitchen counter, or you're lucky enough to have a dedicated space for a coffee bar. But if you just want simplicity and a nice cup of coffee (or two) from a machine that doesn't take up half of your kitchen, then this is the machine for you. 2-6-26 Update: I've had this coffee maker a little over six months now and have used it daily. For the most part, the good things are still good. The only issues I've found is that when making a single cup of coffee (in my case, a 16 oz travel mug with a wide mouth) the coffee maker leaks/drips water down the outside the actual cup. Not every time, but often enough that it's very irritating. I can't for the life of me figure out WHY this happens. The mug is perfectly positioned. And the water that I have to wipe up after it's done is NOT coffee colored, so the water leakage is not coming from the single use coffee basket itself. No clue what the problem is, but it's very irritating to have a mug and a base that has to be wiped down every time. I did try descaling the unit to see if that might help. Nope. I took the showerhead off and cleaned it thinking maybe that was the problem. Nope. I'm stumped. Needless to say, I won't be using this machine to make single cups of coffee anymore because apparently that's not this machines forte. For some reason Amazon editing won't allow me to change my star rating, so just know that in light of this issue I'd only give this machine three stars.

I have only had this coffee maker a few days, so I will update this review as time goes on, but the machine looks great and makes a fast, quite cup of coffee. However, my major complaint is that the coffee -- as per OXOs directions -- is simply not strong enough. Easy enough, I simply increase the 8 scoop ratio to 10, and then grounds come up over the top of the filter and into the pot. Looking for some bigger filters to put in this. Update: After 4 months, my original review stands. The amount of grounds need to be increased to 10 scoops, big scoops. And just throw the filters than come with the pot in the recycling and go buy some Bunn 14 cup filters, that is what you are going to need to keep the grounds from making a huge mess. This machine requires approx. 25% more coffee to make a decent tasting cup compared to my old cheap Cuisenart. W/ the price of coffee that is going to add up. I like the look of this machine, and how long it keeps the coffee hot w/o burning it. But when the time comes I am going to be looking at other options. It just uses to much coffee. Update: May 9th, 2024 -- I took away another star, I am tired of cleaning this thing -- daily. I like strong coffee and in order to get enough ground in this thing to get strong coffee the ground float all over the place. Into the water spout (which only partially detaches to clean) and into the clean water reservoir. Additional, there is a design flaw in the filter holder. It has a handle that flips out to pull it out of the coffee maker, that handle also flips down very easily when you are emptying the grounds so your filter full of grounds hits it and then ... I am not even gonna wait for this thing to wear out, I am gonna get a mr coffee, black and decker, Cuisenart or something that is designed for coffee drinkers. People who want a northwest strong as hell cup of coffee, and drink it by the pot. This thing is for the "craft brewed" "no thanks, I already had my one cup of coffee for the day, crowd" Let me be clear: the coffee this makes is good. I don't think the coffee is better than what I had nailed in with my Cuisenart, but good. However, the mess this things makes when you try and use it to full capacity, along with the amount of coffee this thing requires is simply ridiculous. This $200 coffee maker is going into the basement as the emergency reserve and I am about to order a much less expensive coffee maker that doesn't require such a production to clean up after every pot. Update June 2025: I removed yet another star. I tried to make it work -- for two years. Too many design flaws. The lid to the pot has not one, but two valves. Wanna guess what happens if one of them gets stuck while you are trying to make a pot of coffee? If you guessed you make your pot of coffee all over the counter you are correct. Wanna guess what happens if one of the valves get stuck after you have made your coffee? You would think no coffee would come out, right? Nope it comes out the top of the lid ... all over the counter. If I could give this zero stars I would. My family has assured me that however many more disastrous pots of coffee this makes between now and fathers day is the last number of clean ups I'll have to do first thing in the morning because of this thing. Purchase this coffee pot at your own risk. Get a subscription for 5 lbs of coffee 2x a month, thats how much your gonna need to make decent coffee and a case of paper towels.

Warning, this is a critical review. I give this a 5 star because overall product merits an excellent rating. However, if I was to rate this based on value, I rate it a 3 star. I'm not a coffee snob. I like my cheap coffee. I've watched several coffee snob reviews on this product prior to purchase, and this is my take. What the heck is the difference between a $30 drip coffee maker and a $300 drip coffee maker? Well, it's the same difference between a 900watt microwave and a 1400watt microwave. This $300 coffee maker has a higher wattage heating element. Which means it'll heat the water of faster and hotter. Does it make that big of a difference? That's something only a coffee snob can tell you. I'll say this: I can tell the difference. It's not earth shattering, but it does make a difference. Does it make a $200+ difference? Most will say 'no'. So now I move onto rating the coffee maker on overall quality. This is where I get a little more critical. Why? Because it's OXO. I own lots of OXO products and I love them all. I'll be honest and say, this feels more like an OXO product in the making. It's not the user experience I'd expect from OXO. Translation, this misses the mark on being sensational. The insulated carafe is nice, but OXO could have done better. It's a quality carafe, but like some reviewers point out, it leaves about a table spoon or more of liquid when done pouring. It's a minor inconvenience. But ever day use will add up that frustration. Means when you clean the carafe, you'll have that fair amount of water left inside as well. I admit, it is annoying. Very surprised OXO couldn't have designed that better...for $300. The other complain perceived by many is the filter basket. This is my biggest complaint. For $300 and being OXO, this is really were they missed the mark. The basket is flimsy. Not the $300 quality I'd expect. The snap into place operation is clunky. It doesn't just easily slide into place. Little details you'd expect from a brand like OXO are completely missing here. I personally find the selection of 2-4 cup vs 4-8 cup a garbage design. I've used both modes. Makes little to no difference. I recommend using the carafe at all times. The 2-4 cup operation is a waste. And because of that waste, it adds to the frustration of the lacking filter basket design. The sliding lever you use to select 2-4 vs 4-8 doesn't lock into place. That will annoy you. The big difference between 2-4 vs 4-8 is having a choice of which type of filter you want to use. THAT is where OXO could have made a killing on their design. For whatever reason, most expensive coffee makers opt for basket style filters. I personally hate them. They're a pain to use and tedious to fiddle with in the morning. Conical filters are superior in my opinion. It's great that OXO created an option to use conical filters. However, as pointed out their filter basket design is garbage. Not worth using conical filters in the 2-4 cup mode. My advise to OXO, fix this aspect of your coffee maker! The filter basket design will make you crave your Mr. Coffee simplicity. This filter basket will make your $300 coffee maker feel cheaper than a $30 coffee maker. The coffee snob channels will detail how wonderful the filter basket design disperses the water and so on. Garbage observations. Even a $30 coffee maker does the same job. The last complain is so trivial, and yet surprised OXO could have designed this better. Why the two power buttons? You turn on power, then you actually need to select 2-4 vs 4-8 for brewing? Why? Maybe it needs to sense you're boiling less water vs more water. It couldn't have been designed to sense that? The fact that the coffee maker will auto shut off really hammers home the uselessness of having two buttons. Why am I complaining so much right? It's because it's OXO! You expect something different with OXO. You expect great quality and super simple operation. And I admit you don't feel that with this coffee maker. It should have been a one button design from the start. You expect OXO to be innovative. There's nothing innovating in this design. Nothing at all. It's just a quality coffee maker with seemly more complexity in it's cheap filter basket design than what's needed. OXO had a great idea in allowing both conical filters and basket style filters. It's a shame they couldn't have executed on that design better. I personally would prefer conical filters. Especially for an OXO product. Why? Because conical filters are always easer to work with. People buy OXO because they like simple quality and easy. Saying that, they may want to cater their next design to those that prefer conical style filters. I definitely have some criticism for this product. Keep in mind the harsh criticism is do to the $300 price tag and it having the OXO brand. You expect something different from both. Do I recommend buying the product? Oddly yes. I admit in the world of automatic drip coffee makers, no one really rises to the challenge of nailing the perfect design when it comes to quality and simplicity. That surprises me to this day. It's just a coffee maker! I commend OXO for it's styling. To be honest, that's why I bought it. I would have bought the Brawn if it had the better heating element. Overall it's a 5 star compared to competition. A solid 3 star in falling short of OXO expectations.

Update after one-year plus of use. While the basic achievements are still present the overall performance is not. By overall performance I mean ease of use, cleaning, and end-product. It is easy to keep the carafe clean but the basket - filter receiver - and base are a bit of a pain and require more attention than you would think. At times, the machine will leave a small amount of brewed coffee on the outer rim of the carafe - why I do not know. The ability of the carafe to hold temperature is not great. If you want any hot product after 15 minutes you would need to preheat the carafe with hot water before brewing. Even then the ability of holding temperature is less than ideal. Emptying the filter basket of spent grounds is a real pain. The filter does not release cleanly from the basket creating a mess at times. If you do not hold the basket handle in place against the basket when emptying then you have an even bigger mess. The Oxo Brew 8-cup (40 oz.) coffeemaker delivers good results; but not great overall. The coffee maker delivers, at first, on its SCA gold-cup rating - although this rating process seems narrow to me. So many other factors to consider that just water brewing temperature. It produces a good cup of coffee quickly and holding temperature at initial delivery - but not consistently. Easy to keep the carafe clean using commercial cleaning products. Important for a good cup of coffee. For thirty-five years I have used a Chemex glass pot and stainless insulated serving thermos (51 oz.) for my brewing; pouring the finished coffee into the thermos to keep hot. An electric kettle used for the brewing water. The process could get tedious at times. While the Oxo Brew delivers a better result than my previous process, it is not ideal.

I researched coffee makers for over a month. I owned a Cuisinart for about 4 years and the last year or two I had it, I had to microwave because the coffee was luke warn and never hot. This is an OXO 8 cup coffee maker. It kept being rated as one of the higher rated SCA coffee makers. I wanted an higher end coffee maker that made good coffee, but since I'm the only one in my house that drinks coffee, I didn't see spending $350 for a Moccamaster. This is HOT coffee, although it does cool in the carafe a little. If you drink it within 2 hours, it's perfectly hot enough. The taste is definitely better than my less expensive $100 coffee maker. The machine works great, no leaking, and the carafe is easy to clean and dry. It has a nice wide opening on the carafe with a lid that screws nicely in place. I generally fill to the 4 cup mark and it easily makes 2 diner cups of coffee. So this 8 cup coffee maker will make 4 cups easy. Perfect for one or two people max. I have another carafe, so if needed, I can make more coffee for more people. After all my research, I can say this....please take each review you read lightly. I found the AI with Amazon reviews helpful, but it picked up on positive reviews and placed the verbiage of the review in a negative category which is not accurate. No product line is going to be perfect and there may be some defective products out there, but in the ratio of how many of these are ordered, just how many people who are satisfied with the product are going to write a review? I'm very pleased with this product, although I've just had it less than a week. I'll definitely update this review if any problems arise. Overall, great coffee maker!

Just purchased this OXO coffee maker a couple of weeks ago. It's a second coffee maker as we also use a Dynamica which is great for specialty coffees, latte's, cappuccino, etc. Our initial reactions to the coffee maker were positive. The unit looks simple and nice. We love the thermal carafe, it feels and looks solid. Now that we've been using the maker for a few weeks, the initial pleasure has evaporated. Here's why, including both criticism and things we like.: User interface: Pretty simple, there are only four buttons to use. ON/OFF, 2-4 Cup, 4-6 Cup, and clean. The print could be larger near the buttons to prevent the clean button being mistaken for a "GO" button after the size is selected. Carafe: Looks great! The thermal build does make that first cup at a perfect temp but, then cools quicker than you'd think. Within 30 min, we have to heat up our fresh pours in the microwave. The handle is solid and doesn't feel flimsy like some other brands we've had over the years. As others have mentioned, the pour spout is not a good design. It easily is overwhelmed by the water or coffee coming out and spills everywhere. You also can't pour out the very last tablespoon or so of liquid (Including soapy water). Per the instructions that come with this maker, we've only hand washed all pieces. The lid to this carafe is a big fail. We use both a sponge and 1/4" bottle brush (for straws etc.) to clean it. The hole in the lid where the hot coffee enters the carafe from the brew basket can become obstructed with seemingly some inside plastic. When this happens, the coffee starts by sounding normal, but then within 2 minutes, you can see the area around the top of the carafe filling with coffee and soap bubbles coming out of the pour spout. Thinking this must have been our mistake, we washed it again, rinsed copiously, dried it, looked through the hole to make sure it looked good and that's when we saw these strange plastic projections into the middle of the hole. It could be some sort of design that is supposed to catch errant coffee grinds, but that seems like a bad place for this as a clog can and does occur. Thinking we had just missed seeing this initially, we went ahead and brewed another pot since the first attempt at coffee was on the floor and counter. Same thing happened. The quick fix is to brew the coffee with no lid on the carafe, but that is just so frustrating with a brand new $200 coffee maker. Soap bubbles are still coming out of the lid. Shook the lid to see if it sounded like water was trapped in there and didn't hear anything that would indicate this. What we did hear is some light piece of possibly plastic clicking around in there. Not sure if it came that way or this is a new development... Water reservoir: A smaller reservoir as it only holds what you are planning to brew at that time. Lid to the reservoir is lightweight and due to the carafe having to be poured certain ways to avoid a mess the two pieces just don't work well together. Brew Basket: As others have mentioned, our brew basket area is just a large reservoir that seems like it's missing a smaller basket to hold your filters and grinds. We have had to purchase a $50 filter to make up for this flaw in the design. Unit Housing: Easy to clean, looks nice. Time to brew: Less than 5 minutes to brew a full pot. Not as advertised: Although the item description says it fits easily under you cabinets for easy accessibility, it's just not true. You cannot open the lid to the reservoir and use the carafe to fill it. There simply isn't room, and since the carafe pours rather messily, it only adds to the frustration. Although this is a minor thing, it was purchased with this feature being one of the ones we most desired. An easy accommodation is to just slide the maker forward so it's not under the cabinets prior to use. WRONG: This unit has the best non slip footings of any appliance out there. You can't slide it out. The options are to lift it and move it or put somethings under it that does slide. The caveats to putting something under it are 1: You have another thing on your counter that takes away from the aesthetic of your kitchen, sounds trivial, but to some it matters.. 2: Whatever goes under the coffee maker can't be flammable, for safeties sake. We are going to return the maker as a $200 coffee maker shouldn't have such bad design flaws. This is the only OXO product that hasn't met or exceeded our expectations over the years. The fact that all sorts of accommodations and need for constant observation while brewing make this a regretful purchase for us. We will update with the return process when completed.

OXO 8 Cup Coffee Maker Review update We have now had the unit for about two weeks and as a result I can give a more complete review. The unit is a smaller coffee maker, unlike many other more conventional home brewers. It is able to brew anywhere from two to eight coffee industry standard 5 ounce cups, or 40 fluid ounces in total. I point this out as the Amazon description still lists it as making 64 fluid ounces. I sent in a note to Amazon about correcting that mistake but nothing has changed yet. Interface: - The interface is uncluttered and intuitive, with none of the stuff I don’t want. - It has only 4 buttons: Power, 2-4 cups, 5-8 cups, Clean. - No unnecessary clock or timer functions. - Two brew baskets: the standard “main” basket and an insert for making lesser amounts - The base has a recessed pedestal which can be flipped over to lift a mug up when brewing directly into the mug Usage: - I have now used all options for making a brew: - 2-4 cups setting into both a pot and a mug, 5-8 cups into a pot. - Water comes in hot and FAST. Initial bloom phase (flow then pause) lasts about 30 seconds to a minute. - Coffee is ready in 7 minutes or less, depending on amount being made. - No spills or leaks seen at any time. - A few small drips and spatters when making the brew into a mug. Use a tall mug. Note: the included pedestal is your friend here. Make use of it. - Coffee is hot. The pot keeps it between low 170s and mid 180s (°F) for at least an hour. Quality of brew: - Flavourful, especially at the larger volumes (5-8 cups). - Flavour intensifies as it cools. This was expected. A note on the coffee grind & amount: - Grind: - Medium, i.e. use as directed by the manual to start. - Too coarse or not enough coffee and the flavour will be thin. - Too fine or too much coffee and the resulting brew might be over extracted. It might even clog. See note on water flow above. I never saw this happen but I suppose it is possible. - Amount: - Use as directed (~ 8 gm / 5 oz cup) for larger amounts to start. - Use slightly more for lesser amounts (2-4 cups), especially when brewing into a mug (~ 2 cups). Once you’ve played with it for a while, I have no doubt the sweet spot will be found for your favourite coffee beans and the amount of coffee you like to make. The one feature I have yet to use is the “Clean” function. That won’t be for another two months or so, given our use of the brewer. All in all, a great coffee maker, well worth the price of admission.

El café sabe espectacular. Yo lleno casi toda la cuchara por cada taza. Pero eso depende de como le guste a cada uno. La jarra completa tarda 5 minutos en hacerse.

So after my beloved National brand coffee maker (which I bought off a guy leaving Japan three decades ago) finally died at age 30, I went through the hell of trying to find a simple coffee maker to do the same great job. Yup, it took another five years to find one after failing with several costly others. This one by OXO was rated by several people on the web so of course it's easy to be skeptical, but one review convinced me to try it. Lo and behold...delicious coffee SO simple to make is BACK! Keeps the coffee HOT without burning it like my beloved National used to do, so it one upped it lol. Yeah it's great, Alice. Worth every penny. Get one.

I have had this coffee machine for two years now and it has made two pots of delicious coffee per day since I bought it. It has not leaked, dripped, failed to brew, or had any issues. This is the perfect machine for brewing full pots of coffee. We were not interested in using the smaller 2-4 cup filter basket so my review cannot speak to using this machine for smaller amounts. Keep in mind when it says 8 cups it means tiny 5oz cups - the pot actually holds 4 -10oz cups, which is sufficient for our needs. We use our grinder to decide grind and coffee amount and this machine does the brewing, which is consistent and delicious every time. The carafe keeps the coffee very hot for at least 1 hour, and hot for two. Some tips for new users: -Use the "12 cup" Bunn or commercial filters - they are taller and help prevent grind spill-over when brewing. Dollar-store filters are particularly short and can cause this issue, particularly if not placed in completely level. -Fill the water to the very top of the clear part of the reservoir - ignore the 8 cup water mark - as some water stays in the grounds, this will give you a full pot every time. -Experiment with grind and coffee amount at first to figure out your favorite strength of brew. -Ensure carafe lid is on tight and threaded on properly all the way before brewing or pouring. -Clean the machine whenever the cleaning light comes on - I just use vinegar water but any coffee machine de-scaler can be used. -Run the brew-head (it's twist-off-see arrows on brew-head), filter basket, carafe & lid through the dishwasher as needed. Carafe lid has an internal valve that rattles when lid is shaken - this is by design and not a flaw. Hand-wipe other areas of machine as needed. I hope you enjoy your machine and that my review may be helpful to you. For my use case, it's 5 stars all the way!

Prepara rapidísimo el café. (menos de 4 minutos para 6 tazas) Además, ahorra energía con su jarra, pues conserva el calor por más de dos horas...