8 Cup Drip Coffee Maker Machine, One-Touch Pour Over, Auto Pause Brewing with Stainless Steel Double Wall Thermal Carafe, SCA Certified, Dishwasher Safe, BV1901TS

This coffee maker is simple to operate and makes an amazing cup of coffee. I retired and wanted to replace my k cup coffee maker with a drip type for better coffee in the mornings. This makes a really robust and flavorful cup of coffee. No more k cups in my house.

I used to have another coffee maker for years. I though thought it did what it was supposed to do and coffee was coffee. When I would go to measure out the coffee for the morning brew, I would just eyeball it and make coffee. Coffee was coffee, right? A few weeks ago the coffee maker I didn't think much about because it did its job decided to stop working. It could have been sabotaged by my girlfriend who "cleaned" it, but dead none the less. Like with any appliance or object that needs to be replaced, I over-analyzed it and started looking into different coffee makers. I wanted a good one because I drink coffee every day and to me, it's worth the investment to find something that makes great coffee and has received favorable reviews. In my research of a day or so, I discovered there was this organization called the Specialty Coffee Association. They have criteria on what it takes to make a great cup of coffee. Those criteria are then used to review coffee makers. Bonavita Connoisseur (BV1901TS) meets that criteria and it shows up in the quality of the coffee. It's a great simple coffee maker that makes great coffee. I followed the instructions and measured out my coffee of freshly ground coffee. Basically, it's 2 tbsp of coffee per cup. If you have 8 cups, you need 16 tbsp or 1 even cup of ground coffee. Also used filtered water because the coffee really is the sum of all the ingredients and you can't cut corners on water. I did hold down the button for the power to turn on Pre-Infusion. The results leave you with a really clean, flavorful cup of coffee where I immediately tasted a huge difference. There was no bitterness. Another thing I make sure of, that it wasn't heating the coffee after it was done and instead it put the contents into a thermal carafe. This makes a huge difference if you're coming back to the pot for more coffee. It keeps the coffee pretty warm for a long while and allows you to have the same quality coffee you did when you made it. I've had experiences with my other coffee maker where subsequent cups tasted horribly after being cooked on a burner. The thermal carafe was something I didn't know I needed until I tried it. So what's the purpose of the review? Are you apprehensive about buying a coffee maker at $150 bucks and not sure about that type of investment? I think you can rest assured that this is a solid purchase as it makes a cup of coffee at a high level if all your looking for is a simple coffee maker. It doesn't have all the extra bells and whistles another coffee maker could possibly have. For me, I didn't need my coffee maker on my Wi-Fi or be able to do multiple jobs to earn its place in my kitchen. I just needed it to do its job at a high level and it does that. If that is also your criteria for a coffee maker, rest assured. I will say the only downside I can think of is the amount of coffee it makes. It would have been nice if it was on the 10 cup side instead of just 8. I hope you find the cup of coffee you're looking for.

We have been using Bonavita coffee makers since 2014. This is our third one. The first one worked great. We used it for four years before upgrading. We gave it to a friend. The second one worked great for 5 years. It recently stopped turning on, so we bought a new one, the Connoisseur 8 cup. It worked very well for about 5 weeks. The carafe was bad, as other reviews shared. You can’t empty it all the way, the lid is finicky and you can’t put it back on the coffee maker without removing the brew basket. However, it was simple and made good coffee. We noticed after 5 weeks that it was getting very loud. It had been incredibly quiet prior to this. It sputtered and gurgled throughout the brew cycle and only a few of the water holes were working. The ones that were working were working hard and left big holes in the coffee grounds. We tried descaling it 4 times, but it did not help. So, I contacted Bonavita support through their website’s chat feature. They suggested descaling it which we had tried and then asked me to fill out a warranty claim and gave me the wrong URL. I found the right one and sent it in. “Great!” I thought to myself that they will help us either get it fixed or get a new one. I didn’t hear anything back, so after a few days, I chatted with them again. They said that they never got the warranty claim and to try again. I filled it out again and waited. After about a week, I emailed their support to find out the status. They apologized and gave me a list of things to try including turning off the pre-infusion cycle, leveling it, and trying a different power outlet. None of this worked. They wanted a video, so I recorded one and sent it in. They replied by asking me to fill out the warranty claim again. I told them that I had done this twice and that the start of this email thread was the claim. They apologized again and replied that they viewed the video and that the loud noise is normal and is the sound it makes when it pumps water. Sigh. They obviously aren’t going to do anything. This will be our last Bonavita. It’s almost $200 wasted. We’re moving on to finally getting a Technivorm Moccamaster that is handmade in the Netherlands. They have a 5-year warranty and will repair their coffee makers indefinitely. They may be more expensive, but we’ve spent almost $500 on Bonavita’s over the past 9 years. $329 for a coffee maker that will last at least 5 years and is repairable, is a bargain in comparison. There is an interesting article online called “The Rise and Fall of automatic drip coffee pioneer Bonavita”. It outlines the messy changes at the company and the multiple lawsuits. They used to have a US distributor who actually had great customer support. We had worked with them in the past when our previous model had an issue with the clock drifting. It’s now an entirely Chinese-run company, Smartco, which now makes a terrible product and doesn’t care at all about its customers. If you want a SCA-certified coffee maker, look elsewhere. These are now junk.

Muy buen producto.

After a terrible experience with an overpriced Technivorm Moccamaster I decided to try out the newest in the Bonavita line. I read the reviews on older models of what people disliked mostly carafe dripping and grind holder resting on the carafe and seems Bonavita listed and fixed those in the connosisseur model. The unit is very well made and sturdy and it makes a fantastic smooth cup of coffee, the grind at the end is absolutely perfectly saturated no holes no blasting it all over. The carafe kept my coffee hot for over 3 hrs now I do put hot water in my carafe pre brew just to warm it up. The pre infusion works fantastic I have always done pour over but I find this has a smoother result perhaps caused the grind is all saturated at same time where in pour over it is not and there is overlap I'm no expert. If your looking for a high quality coffee maker that actually lives up to its reputation the bonavita connosisseur is your best bet and I've purchased ones $200 more.

La mejor cafetera que he tenido, ya llevamos tres meses con ella y muy bien. En la jarra térmica el café puede durar caliente 8hrs y a veces un poco más.

Bought this on a recommendation from a friend and happy that I did. It took 11 days to get to Edmonton and when I opened it I discovered that the cheaper 1900 model arrived instead of the 1901 that reviews recommended because the basket would tip and make a mess. We decided to test it before we returned it and found that removing the pot with the basket was easy if you removed it over the sink and removed the grounds later. I received the refund for the price difference in only 2 days along with an apology. I believe the the cheaper 1900 with the basket on top might deliver warmer coffee just be careful sliding it out and warm the pot first with hot tap water for better tasting coffee that stays warm longer. Small footprint, low height and one button a plus but the water resivor could use larger cup markings and on both sides. A black ink marker solved that deficiency for consistent results and the best coffee flavour and strength.

Cafetera que entrega un café de calidad y muy fácil de usar, recomendada al 100%