I spent months reviewing coffee machines and settled on this. I bought the pour over adapter separately, and it arrived about a week after the coffee machine. Our initial impressions of the coffee maker were good. It's very nice looking and the basic coffee features worked well. It made a very tasty cup of coffee.The main knob seemed flimsy and the menu was not intuitive. Once I got the pour over device, I basically pressed a bunch of buttons until it started, because none of it made sense. We found out later, from the Breville Customer Support Person, that the reason the packaging box and directions didn't match our machine exactly is because the packaging and documentation we received was for the European version of the machine, and the machine itself was for the US!The main frustrations occurred when we received the pour over adapter. This is hard to describe, but there is a flange underneath the brew basket that has a ball shape on the end. When you use the carafe for regular coffee, this ball and flange connects the brew basket with the carafe.When using the pour over adapter, this ball and flange rises during the brew cycle as the water empties from the tank. By the time the tank is nearly empty, the ball has risen high enough that it knocks the pour over device and Hario Dripper to one side, titling it to the point that water starts to spill out. There is no obvious way to stop this and it renders the pour over feature useless.We contacted Breville Customer Service. It took 4 hours for them to answer! The rep, Cecilia, was very pleasant and helpful. She set up a video call so I could show her the problem instead of trying to explain it to her. She saw the problem and set up a return label, which went seamlessly. About a week later, the replacement arrived. I anxiously set it up and tested the pour over, and it has the same malfunction as the first one did! In our experience, it was a 100% failure rate!We tried to call Breville Customer Service again, and as of this writing, nearly 4 hours later, have not received our return call. While we waited, we read the reviews more thoroughly and saw at least one that described exactly the same issue. There were other disappointing reviews about the reliability of the machine, poor customer service, etc. We read that Breville only had a store credit policy, rather than a refund, and decided then and there to stop wasting our time.I contacted Amazon, requested a refund, and promptly tool it back to UPS. You may get lucky and get a machine that works right from day one, but you may have any number of problems. The machine may work fine for a few months until the return time or warranty runs out. My advice is to keep looking for a coffee maker and forget about this pretty face!

Si pudiera, la devolvería de inmediato. Estaba entre esta y la Moccamaster. Compré esta máquina al ver los reviews en youtube y acá. Por favor, vayan por una moccamaster, por algo las cafeterías de especialidad de TODO EL MUNDO las ocupan. Gran error cometí al comprar esta Breville... La presión del agua/vapor que genera la configuración "gold" es tan fuerte que dobla el filtro de papel sobre la cama de café en AL MENOS 8 de 10 veces. Tengo que tener un limpia pipa de metal y una linterna al lado de una máquina de 8000 pesos para hacer café, para cuando el vapor doble el filtro y yo lo pueda corregir. Eso implica que si no estoy poniendo atención, en varias ocasiones queda un café "a medias" muy aguado... eso implica café $$$ y filtros $ que se van directo a la basura.

Yes, this is an expensive coffee maker. Yes, it is worth the pricetag. This is going to be lengthy review, but I really had to dig deep to decide to spend $300 on a coffee maker and wanted to weigh my options with you. For me, I only seriously considered 3 makers: the Breville (which I bought), the Technivorm Moccamaster, and the Bona Vita.I love coffee, and several other makers (french press, espresso machine, etc.) this is hands down the best maker. I had gotten really mad with drip brew makers over the years. I had 2 Mr. Coffee in college, since have used two different Cuisinart makers. This maker has restored my faith in good drip-brew coffee. I recommend 2 different sources to help you shop for a coffee maker. James Hoffman on YouTube did a review of this maker that really persuaded me to get this particular maker. America's Test Kitchen/Cook's Country Gearheads reviewed their coffee makers (although a year or so before this particular product was launched). Between those 2 sources I was in between the Technivorm Mocca and the Breville Precision Brewer. The America's Test Kitchen Review of drip brew coffee makers is what inspired me to look at a higher end product, as they identified so many of my issues with previous makers that I have used. America's Test Kitchen also cited the SCAA (Specialty Coffee Association of America) and their "Golden Cup" standards for a good cup of coffee, these include consistency of temperature of brew water and ground coffee to water ratios. My big issue with the Mr. Coffee and Cuisinart products is that they just do not hold enough grounds to make a great pot of coffee (our Cuisinarts had to be loaded lightly to avoid having the grounds spill over into the pot and water tank). America's Test Kitchen identified the ground capacity along with water temperature issues as a key in making a consistently good cup of coffee. Again, even though they did not review this specific coffee maker, the details of their segment on this helped me with the decision process, especially pointing me towards the SCAA Golden Cup info.Without getting into a deep comparison, here is why I chose the Breville over the Technivorm and Bona Vita. The primary factor was the volume of brewed coffee. The Moccamaster and Bona Vita make 40oz of coffee. I live by myself now, and 40oz is a perfect amount for me, but should I have guests over, 40oz could go pretty quick, and who have to make multiple pots of coffee... The Breville will make up to 60oz at a time and has the option to make less coffee that is still of high quality for 40oz. So this was the biggest draw for me. I personally drink 2-3 12-14 oz cups a morning, so any of these makers would be enough, but I wanted the extra capacity. I mentioned that Breville has an option to make more volume of coffee or less. This is achieved with a cone filter insert (that is included) that fits a standard #4 cone filter paper. Breville recommends this insert for 40oz (8 cups) or less of coffee, and you simply remove the cone filter holder insert and use either the included gold mesh basket filter or large basket filters.Breville also offered an option that the Moccamaster did not (unsure of BonaVita) and that was the option to do a delayed brew, I can load the grounds before bed and wake to freshly brewed coffee (I have used this feature once, but it is nice). The Breville adds a little more options and customization to the mix compared to the Technivorm. The Breville offers 5 preset brew options: FAST, GOLD, STRONG, OVER ICE, COLD BREW. It also offers the option to tweak and adjust and create a personalized brew setting manually adjusting temperature, speed of brew, soak time, etc. The GOLD Brew Setting meets the parameters set forth by the SCAA (Specialty Coffee Association of America), the Technivorm meets these standards as well. The Technivorm has an on/off switch. The friend who owns one has attached a timer to the machine so he can load it at bedtime.Having had hands on both the Technivorm and the Breville, there is a good build quality on both products, neither feels cheap. The Technivorm is more solid, and I would expect that it will last much longer due to the simplicity and quality. The warranty is also better for the Technivorm. Ultimately the ability to adjust the settings and the 20oz of extra brew capacity sold me on the Breville.I have had this product for a month and a half and still love it. I don't think that I will ever be able to go back to a cheap coffee maker. I have used this with my favorite variety, some local varieties, but I have also used my favorite cheap coffee (Wholefoods 365 Pacific Rim $11 for 1.5lbs). This really does elevate coffee. I previously had only used the hot plate and glass carafe brewers, and I do think the insulated carafe helps significantly.Bottom line: do you spend $300 on this coffee maker? Yes, if you drink and use your coffee maker almost daily, I think that this is worth the investment. Especially if you are a bit of a coffee snob. If you simply want coffee to taste warm and brown or use Folgers, I would look at a less expensive machine. If you do not need timed brew, and more than 40oz capacity, I would choose the Technivorm over this product. If you just cannot spend 300 on a brewer, the Bona Vita is good option.

I am a coffeegeek. My 'other car' is a German lever operated espresso machine. I often use gram scales and kitchen timers to ensure optimal brewing of my target.However...I have three kids that get on each of their school buses from 6:45 to 8am and don't have time in the morning race to go through the rigmarole of making drip coffee properly. I know others might say 'oh.. it doesn't take that long to... (blah blah blah blah)' Hey! I'm drinking coffee? Do you HONESTLY think I'm a morning person?? I need a couple cups of coffee to wake up enough to make my cappuccino on my lever machine after the kids are off to school!I used the highly rated Bonavita Connoisseur (https://smile.amazon.com/Bonavita-One-Touch-Featuring-Thermal-BV1900TS/dp/B00O9FO1HK/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2HIS36HH6ROCK&keywords=bonavita+coffee+maker&qid=1573311622&sprefix=bonavita%2Caps%2C189&sr=8-3) for the last while after being disappointed in the low quality of the Kcup system (due to old coffee and over extracted amount of coffee (9.5gm / American mug is half strength). It makes a great cup of coffee (and also has SCA certification like this brewer) - BUT - you can only really make half a pot of coffee (4 5oz cups isn't enough for our household) and with 8-12c filters, you will overflow the filter 25% of the time-ish.. AND you have to preheat the thermos kettle or else you're going to be drinking luke-warm coffee ("I spit you out of my mouth!" - JC) especially if you use a little cream.The Breville rocks:• You can control the flow rate in case you're overrunning your filters• Holds the coffee at a good hot temp - 182'f (that isn't scalding for you pansies worried about using a heating plate)• Up to 1.8l of hot coffee!!• Even the quick start guide has proper grams per volume of water (5.5% extraction ratio per SCA standards)• .... aaaaaandddd.... **** drum roll please!!!! ***** AUTOMATIC timer!!!! THE best part of waking up... it's not THAT coffee in your cup - it's whatever you want in your cup, when you want it, HOT.Gripes -• Only keeps the hot plate on for 2 hours... usually the coffee is gone by then, so no biggie for me.• That's it.If you read online reviews of brewers you'll see complaints that it's too complicated. Uh.. sorry snowflake - took all of 30 seconds of reading the quick start guide to figure it out. Drink more coffee. OK - one point that wasn't immediately obvious - when you enter the hardness from the included test strip, the number on the machine is the number of red bars that show up on the hardness scale.There's all kinds of other features that I don't care about - like using the single brew setting with optional adapters etc... I will like to play around with the iced coffee setting someday, but today I'm enjoying a hot cup of coffee.*******Addendum:If you are looking for filters for this machine - you won't find any information in the manual that comes with the machine. I believe they are 12c filters, usually found for commercial machines. See the attached picture to compare against a typical brand 8-12c filter. You can see why you'll end up with a pot full of grounds if you try to use the 5.5% ratio for more than a 8c pot... and forget about 100g of grounds for a 12c pot! Sams locally had the commercial 12c filters you might want to check out.

Love the HOT coffee

I've only had this coffee maker for a few days now, but the resulting cups of coffee speak for themselves. I'd always wondered why coffee I made at home never tasted as good as coffee I'd had out, then saw some reviews for this (and similarly designed) coffee makers explaining that standard drip brewers boil the water as part of the mechanism for getting the water up to the grounds, and that boiling water burns the coffee and makes it bitter. Sure enough, the coffee from this maker isn't bitter in the slightest and tastes much, much better than anything I got from my previous ones (a Cuisinart, two Hamilton Beaches, and a Braun). It also makes coffee very quickly, I've got it on the "Strong" setting and it takes a little less than 10 minutes to brew a pot, compared to nearly 20 for the Braun it's replacing. I haven't tried "Fast" mode yet, but presumably that's even faster.It's quite tall, tall enough that I was worried about clearance issues between my countertop and the cabinets above, but it fits with a couple of inches to spare. Make sure to measure if you're going to be putting it in a similar place, this is easily the tallest coffee maker I've used.The UI is also one of the best I've used. There are only three controls - a start/cancel button, a dial that can be pressed like a button, and an "auto on" button, then with a pretty nice little LCD screen. The menus are pretty intuitive, certainly moreso than the Braun I was using. Setting up what strength I wanted my coffee and which filter type I was using was very easy. Setting auto-on was extremely easy. Hit the auto-on button, turn the dial until the LCD shows the time you want it to turn on at, hit the auto-on button again.Speaking of which filter type, it can be used both with basket and cone filters, it's got an adapter that goes into the grounds basket for cone filters. It also comes with a gold re-usable basket filter.There are a few reviews complaining that it's loud. I did not find that to be the case. It does have an audible pump, but it's about as loud as a quiet aquarium pump. It's significantly less loud than the burbling and popping from my previous coffee makers that comes from the water boiling. I live in a small townhouse and previous coffee makers would wake my wife and I up if we set it to brew before the alarm, whereas I can't hear this one at all in our bedroom. I also saw complaints about it demanding to be descaled mid-brew and refusing to work until it is descaled. I'm hoping those are similarly overblown, but will update the review if/when that becomes a problem.The one thing I don't like is the inability to set the amount of time it keeps coffee warm, or to extend that time if you want to keep enjoying the pot of coffee you made earlier. I'd love a way to be able to at least have a button that says "I'm not done drinking coffee, please keep it warm for longer." However, that seemed to be a feature lacking in pretty much all the nicer coffee makers.Now, if it can last longer than two years without breaking down, it will outlast all my other coffee makers. The one it's replacing made it 21 months before dying. Here's hoping.

Es perfecta tanto para una taza como para toda una jarra. Me encantó, tiene el tamaño justo y luce genial en la cocina