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4out of 5 |
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4out of 5 |
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4out of 5 |
Written By:
Anonymous
(NC)
Customer Review
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| "It did not pass the audition" |
Date: 10/18/2006 |
"Original review: I just brought this home today and have made the first pot o' joe with it. Prior to this, I've been using a Krups Moka Brew which I was really tired of having to deal with and was continually dissatisfied with the coffee it made. After one use of this Braun, my impressions are as follows: first cup quite good & flavorful using some gourmet beans, and the temperature pretty hot! The second cup, for some reason, seemed to lose a bit of the flavor of the first cup. Too soon to say if this will be the norm - if it is, I'll probably take this back to the store. But for now, I'll keep it for a day or two, experiment with more coffee, slightly different grind, etc. and see what happens. I've been drinking coffee and trying different coffemakers for many years so I'm quite finicky about my coffeemaker & the cup it produces. A follow-up review will be posted once I decide if this is a keeper or not, but I do know it makes better coffee than the Krups Moka Brew and it's heck of a lot user-friendlier. UPDATE - Well, I really wanted to like this coffeemaker but it has a couple of problems. Firstly, the full coffee flavor isn't quite there like I was hoping it would be for an 80-dollar coffeemaker. Secondly, when it's finishing up the brewing process, it steams like a locomotive. This product did make coffee very hot but, again, the flavor wasn't all there, so I think this model is a missed opportunity for Braun. If they can come up with a model that truly gets full bean extraction at the temperature this machine makes the coffee, they'll have a winner. Back to the store this one goes."
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