KRUPS Simply Brew Compact 5 Cup Coffee Maker: Stainless Steel Design, Pause & Brew, Keep Warm, Reusable Filter, Drip-Free Carafe

Makes a great cup of coffee. I use 5 level scoops and fill to 4 cups. PERFECT. Ilike Krups always have a good experience. The reason I bought this was previous carafe broke. It would have cost me $38 to but I new one. So I just purchased a new machine for a few dollars more. Great price love the 5 cups. THIS DOES NOT LEAK WHEN POURING MY LAST ONE DID It was a Krups but had a different spout. I hated everytime I poured. Coffee all over. This is pleasant

I have made coffee with the Krups coffee maker for the past 7 mornings. Over the past decade, I've relied on a French Press and have always ground my own coffee beans. It took a while to figure out the right proportions, especially since I needed to use a finer grind. I've finally adapted to the Krups. The coffee maker looks good and fits well on the counter. It is compact and doesn’t overwhelm the area. This is my routine: I use 40 grams of quality (Peet’s) whole bean coffee which I grind on a medium setting. I fill the carafe with 48 ounces of water (1420ml) which I weigh (1360 gm) so I can have a consistent tasting cup of coffee every morning. It took several days to get the proportions correct. Using a French Press required more coffee beans to achieve the desired strength. (Forty-eight ounces of water brings the top past the maximum line and just to the bottom of the little hole in the water tank. I had no problem with this at all.) If you are a coffee enthusiast, and taste and consistency matter to you, it is important to use premium coffee beans that you grind immediately before use, fresh cold water and the same proportions each time (adjusted to your taste.) There is no more fine silt at the bottom of my cup that you get with a French Press. The coffee brews fast, though I haven't tried the ½ anti-drip function that makes a slower, stronger pot. I find the strength with no anti-drip to be just fine. Having coffee with the perfect strength matters to me—it shouldn’t be overpowering, but it also can’t be watery or too weak. The coffee is rich and robust, and I think the Krups machine enhances its flavor well. I have used the “blooming button” each time because I was intrigued by the “extra fullness and character” that the instruction booklet claims the blooming provides. The concept of releasing some water to soak the beans and then continuing the brewing process seemed to make sense. You can try both ways and see if there is a difference. Clean-up is quick. You just slide out the filter holder containing the grinds and dump them. Then wash the carafe. For me, there is a negative with this coffee maker. When I read 8-cup coffee maker I thought 8 American cups where a cup is usually a mug or at the very least, 8 oz. Not the case with this coffee maker. We are two people. Between us, we drink at least two full mugs of coffee each morning. One carafe of this coffee maker makes eight 4oz. cups. Every morning, I need to repeat the process twice since I brew a carafe and a half to ensure there's enough coffee for both of us. This coffee maker would be perfect if the water tank were larger so that a larger carafe of coffee could be brewed. There is one final note. There is no mention of coffee filters in the write up on Amazon so I didn’t know that even 1 or 2 complimentary filters were not included. Hence, a run to the grocery store the first morning. Also, no mention of the filter type in the instruction booklet either, although there is a Q & A on the Amazon page where it explains it uses a paper filter, cone type, #4. Be careful, the instruction booklet has a few typos and partial sentences that you need to use common sense to fill in. Enjoy your coffee!!

I needed a coffee pot with a small footprint. Since the cup sizes they talk about are only 5 ounces, I opted for the 10 cup since we both use 8+oz mugs and I'm glad I did. I am very particular with my coffee which is why I detest Keurig even after trying several versions. Also, I wasn't about to spend 100 dollars or more for a coffee maker unless Don Juan came with it. I love the foot print of the Krups because I have a small kitchen counter and this unit fits perfectly nest to my toaster oven and cuisinart 14 cup food processor. It is really nice looking on the counter, very sleek in design and shiny black with stainless accents. Also very easy to use. I would like to have seen that the warmer stayed on for two hours instead of one hour. I use paper filters with this pot for a variety of reasons, one being I want to eliminate plastic as much as possible so I think the paper filters help and definitely improve the taste of the coffee in my opinion. Yes, I am aware this unit is predominately all plastic. It will drip a few drops on the warming plate but it is minimal and doesn't do it all the time. I did a vinegar water rinse which was necessary to get rid of the plastic taste and the improvement was noticeable. Very easy to fill if you are careful. Auto shut off works as does the pause when removing the pot before it is done. The only other thing is, I would like it better if the coffee was hotter for those of us who use milk or cream in our coffee. Other than that, the price is right and this product does what it claims to do. Recommended

I owned a KRUPS 5 Cup Coffee Maker several years ago. I had it for a few years and probably would have had it longer but someone dropped the glass carafe and I did not bother to replace it. I also own a KRUPS coffee grinder that I have had for several years and that works flawlessly. I bought a Mr. Coffee 5 Cup for the office and its just ok. When I decided to get another 5 Cup Maker for home, I researched the brands that were out there. I decided to get another KRUPS. This is as simple and basic as you can get, however, that is not a bad thing. It has a sleek and stylish design, no useless added features. I especially like the cone shaped basket. I feel that it works better than the round type. The water level indicator on the side is easy to see and read. Another important feature is that the drip-stop valve does not have to be pushed up when you put the carafe on the plate. This is an annoying feature on many coffee makers. The look and feel is what you might expect from a brand that would cost double the price of this coffee maker. The only negative of this machine is that it does not have automatic shut-off feature, which would be nice. I would recommend this as a great value for the money.

This is a nice little coffee maker for 5 cups. It works well, brews a good cup of coffee in the few days that I have had it. I have no problem with having to turn it off myself, since it doesn't do so automatically. It has a cone filter, which ensures that all the hot water touches all the coffee, and that's better, in my opinion, from the flat coffee filters. I can't speak to durability, because I've only had it a short time. The negative is the fragile glass carafe. Some other brands have a more sturdy borosilicate glass carafe. Krups should have done the same. Of course, buying a replacement carafe costs almost as much as a new coffee maker. I haven't broken it, but it surely is very thin glass. Most of the 5 cup coffee makers have customers whose reviews share some question about durability or reliability. I chose Krups because I had a larger coffee maker which lasted a long time. We shall see. Of course, you can pay over $100 for one. I am not convinced that that is worth it. In any case, this is a nice coffee maker with a. very small footprint, just right for 5 cups.

This coffee pot comes with a reusable filter. I prefer the paper coffee filters so I use those. They are the cone shape not round. Only has 1 button which is for Off / On. It says it does have a 1 hour auto shut off. I have not used this feature because the button has a blue light that shows it is on which helps me to see I have not turned it off. Brew strength it great and gets hot. The water flow design is better than most. No arm that comes over when closed. This coffee pot has a rain shower type flow when the lid closes and I find that to brew the coffee best. Love it.

I love this Krups pot! Easy to use and compact. I only make 3 or 4 cups in the morning so this is exactly what I needed. And...the coffee is delicious. Replaced an old Mr. Coffee where coffee was getting bitter - it was time. It's fairly quiet and brews pretty fast. Good buy at $38.52 with tax. You won't be sorry!

A little overpriced. The sheet-metal where the logo is on the front looks like it's kind of dented in. Guess that's normal. Brews a hot cup of coffee. If you remove the silly spring-loaded plunger thing, you can slide a (somewhat short) mug directly underneath the spout and let it brew directly into it without having to use the glass carafe. A bit overpriced for what it is but it allegedly has a 2-year warranty. Probably more of a hassle than its worth to try to make use of that warranty though. It does brew hot and I like the cone filter system. Much better for small batches. I use 15g of coffee and 250 ml of water and can brew a nice cup in a couple of minutes. Another nice thing is that it just has an on-off switch. That means I can use it with my Alexa plugs. I can have it come on when I want and turn off when I want, hands free.

This product is 110V and has what looks like a US plug on it. It is not suitable for use in the UK. The product is listed on Amazon.co.uk. As it was an electrical product listed on the Amazon UK site i stupidly assumed it would work in the UK. I am now 3 conversations deep with Amazon customer support. There is no issue returning it, however the returns label is to a destination in Kentucky in the US. Given that i am in Edinburgh, I did contact Amazon to ask if that was the most efficient way to return the item. I'm still in the chat - explaining. What ? - the product ? - that looks fine - we spent a long time searching for machines before finally settling on this one. What idiots we were to check it wasn't going to be listed with a US plug on an UK website.

Me encanta la marca Krups siempre haciendo los cafe aun sencillos más ricos! Tengo 1 año con ella y aún funcional increíble

Well where to begin, I guess my wife quitting drinking coffee, this coffee machine is replacing a Cuisinart Keurig machine, my wife only liked flavoured coffee and I prefer regular so a Keurig machine made sense for us at the time, now he has quit drinking coffee and only drinks tea (Yorkshire it's delicious) anyways, I've never been the biggest fan of Keurig so I decided since she won't be brewing flavoured coffee in it I'd get myself a dripper (not to be confused with RDA). I decided against a full size coffee machine since it's just me, this 5 cup machine fills about 2 and a half of my mugs (I suppose 2 if I didn't use cream) and is just perfect to get me through the morning, 2 is my norm, some days I want that extra half a cup, it brews pretty quick and you get a nice hot coffee out of it. It came with a reusable filter and a coffee grind scoop (I use 7 scoops as I like my coffee strong), the thing just looks nice, the black and stainless steel look matches our kettle and toaster so it doesn't look out of place at all, I have it plugged into a smart plug, I purchased this specific coffee maker because it has a simple on and off swich I fill it with water and coffee grinds before going to bed, with the smart plug turned off I turn the coffee machine on so the coffee machine will only turn on if the smart plug is on. In the morning when I wake up I have a routine created for my Echo "Alexa Make Coffee" that turns on the smart plug for one hour then it turns off automatically. Looks great, works great so far, I do recommend it.

Cette cafetière est vraiment excellente. Elle est très simple à utiliser, idéale pour le quotidien. Elle prépare le café rapidement, a une bonne capacité familiale et le design en acier inoxydable est très beau dans la cuisine. Un excellent achat que je recommande vivement !

Excelente producto. Buena cafetera con sus aditamentos, en relación calidad- precio, yo diria 10 /10. Recomendada y aprobada. Bien empaquetada, sin alguna rotura.