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Just gave my older machine to my son and bought my second. I love this machine. Very durable and makes the best cup of coffee I've had anywhere.I like using a fine grind with this.Filters are expendsive but I buy 6 at a time through Amazon and don't really notice it. But I think its worth it.
So I have to use a weight to hold it down while it brews. Anxious to try the taste after all these wonderful reviews - I was sadly disappointed. It arrived very quickly yesterday and the heating element did not work. Still the Cook's Essentials was noticeably better. Read the wonderful reviews on the Moka Brew and couldn't wait to get it. My coffee is good but who wouldn't want to try better. The lid to the grinds chamber no longer locks down on my 9 year old Cook's Essentials machine from QVC. This morning I tried a taste test between the 2 machines measuring everything exactly the same including the cream and amount of coffee in each cup.
So I paid a premium for the Krups with So, So results - oh Well. The flavor is THIN, not full bodied. The people writing these great reviews must have had terrible coffee makers before. I kept playing with it and pressed a rubber button looking thing in the water tank and after a few tries it finally started working. Tired of that, went in search of a new machine. While the Krups flavor was not bad, it was not better than my old machine.
Krups customer service said I did every right and it must be broken. The instruction manual does not mention that rubber thing at all so it may be coincidence that it worked after all. Too bad Cook's Essentials no longer makes coffee machines. I will experiment using more coffee grinds.
This particular Krups model will make you feel like a world champion barista. I am salivating thinking of tomorrow morning. Don't buy a prettier color or one with a timer or one with a built-in grinder or a cheaper one or a more expensive one.
It will make you suddenly love getting out of bed in the morning even if you've always hated it. I did and if it ever breaks I pray Krups is still making it. It will make you forget Starbucks.
Get this one. Do yourself a favor and get a Moka Brew. It makes a kind of Italian style coffee, sort of like an Americano, or with halfandhalf like a really tasty cappuccino.
Come to think of it, I think I'll buy another and put it away, just in case. See ya.
I LOVE this coffeemaker. This brews a perfect cup of coffee. And as to filters, I would get #2 cone filters and cut to size. then you end up with 2 filters.And today I see that not only does Amazon carry the filters, they have a replacement carafe, which I jumped on just in case I break mine.
Good coffee; not worth $100 + $43 + another $43 and so on. The manufacturer gives you some line about each carafe being specifically made for each lid.
Hate the waiting time; at least 10 minutes once it gets up to temperature. Love the coffee.
The ONLY way that Krups will sell you a replacement carafe is with the entire 2 piece lid to the tune of $43. What is the absolute worst: I broke the carafe.
Treat your glass carafe like gold. I don't believe it, and even if I did, I will not replace the carafe again if it breaks.
Rip off.
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