KitchenAid Stainless Steel 8-Cup Siphon Coffee Brewer

Pros: - Very easy to make a lot of coffee. - Very quick. - Can set it up the night before and then just use a smart powerpoint or other nest-type power device to turn it on from bed - Looks pretty. Cons: - The cleanup takes a while - there's a fair bit more cleaning with this than other types of filter coffee makers. - The included filter is not fine enough. The addition of the (also included) cloth filter that you wrap around the mesh filter seems to have been an afterthought. They should have just used a finer mesh filter to begin with. We find that we aren't happy with the coffee (it has a lot of residue/kind of muddy) at all unless we use the cloth filter. As for the coffee it makes, I'd say that it is moderately good but not great. I prefer coffee made from my chemex or aeropress, but that takes a long time to do in any quantity and not what I want to be doing first thing on a weekday morning, and I also prefer the coffee from a Moccamaster, but the siphon brewer is much, much faster, so it scales better. I'd say the coffee from the Siphon brewer is more robust - closer to a long back from an espresso than the tea-style coffee you get from a pourover or slow drip filter.

The coffee does taste better. You are clearly able to separate the differences between coffee brands using this method. It would be nice to have a feature that would keep the pot warm after brewing. The brewed coffee seems stay hot longer than any maker. Impressed with the durability... it looks more fragile than it is.

I have used this brewer for a month and the family are very happy enjoying the full bodied flavor coffee it makes. It is easy to use with the bonus of the aroma of freshly brewed coffee wafting through the house.We have experimented with different coffee brands and found that even using the more expensive coffee bean brands it is more economical than pods. This brewer makes a vastly superior tasting coffee than a pod machine and is more environmentally friendly. Cleaning is not an issue with coffee residue added to our compost bin. We love our KitchenAid coffee mate! .

We brew 100% Colombian coffee at home and we wanted to do it in a manner that we could get the best taste out of the richest coffee in the world so we bought the best siphon brewer in the market and now we can enjoy the real quality of our Colombian coffee.

I have heard about vacuum brewing (siphon brewing), but have never tried it. I usually drink my coffee through a french press, but wanted something that would be able to brew more coffee at once, rather than just a couple of cups with the french press. I was also looking for something that would brew a little quicker than waiting for a kettle of water to heat up. This blew my mind the first time I used it. It was so simple, quick and even fun to watch it in action. I was a little skeptical of the price that I was paying, but after using it for a couple of weeks the price was well worth the product. The Coffee is strong and tastes great, it shuts down before the brewing process is done so it will never burn the coffee - I hate burnt, bad tasting coffee!!! I would recommend this product to anyone that is serious about their brew and enjoys a fine cup of coffee as this coffee brewer delivers.