BUNN Heat N Brew Programmable Coffee Maker, 10 cup

Well designed, thoughtful features, delicious coffee much better than older style autodrip makers
There’s a lot I like about this coffee maker. In short, it is EASY to use, brews DELICIOUS coffee and is actually pretty FAST considering how it works. This is a relatively unique coffee maker given all the options out there. It’s a great design conceptually and practically. I feel it brews more similar to a manual style pour over than how most basic coffee makers work.So far, I have been using basic bottled drinking water from the gallon jugs from the grocery store (as opposed to tap, even filtered tap, because we have pretty hard water) and it works very well with the the drinking water. I’m using the stack of supplied Bunn filters that came with the coffee maker and ordered more Bunn filters for when those run out. I grind my coffee using a Flair Royal manual grinder on a “medium” setting (typically around a “7” within the second rotation from the zero point, for those familiar with how that manual grinder works) and the coffee is very balanced with great flavors and easy to drink, even black. It’s not bitter at all.The controls are very easy. Once you have water poured and a filter with grounds in place, you just hit the brew button and wait about 10 minutes. After it heats the water at the top, you hear a single dull pop sound when the water valve opens, the brewing starts and within seconds you start to see hot coffee dripping into the carafe. The actual dripping down of the water through the grounds only takes a couple minutes. If you only brew to “4” cup line on the carafe (about 2 average sized mugs worth) it’s usually done dripping in about 8 minutes total but the machine will continue to say “brewing” for a few minutes afterwards.Some things to be aware of:1. There’s no auto-pause, so if you pull the carafe out while the coffee is dripping down then it will just keep dripping and go everywhere. So it’s important to leave the carafe in place until the dripping has completed. Again, once it starts dripping you only need to wait a few minutes.2. The lid is designed to come off very easily when it is in the VERTICAL position. Many reviews seem to complain that the lid “comes off too easily”, but I’m guessing what is happening is they’re raising the lid by blindly pushing it down with their thumb unaware that the little nubs holding the lid on have flats on them for this exact purpose – to allow it to come off easy when veritical. When the lid is down, and even partially raised, it is effectively “locked” into the handle, or at least prevented from poping out. You can of course raise the lid all the way without it coming off, but if you push up or pull up on it in that position it WILL come out easily.3. Grind size matters. To get the best tasting cup of coffee, grind your coffee fresh to the correct size using a high quality grinder. If it’s coming out bitter, it’s likely that your grind is too fine.4. At the beginning, you need to pay attention when you’re lining up the basket and sliding it in. If you don’t catch the lip of the basket on the sides then you could potentially not realize it and drop it. But, once you get used to sliding the basket in it’s not hard to do. There’s no tactile indication that it’s in place other than you just can’t push it any further. But, if you slide it back 3/4″ it could fall out. So just be careful that it’s seated fully before you let go!Specific things I really like about it:1. The coffee tastes really great!2. The filter basket is easy to clean. There aren’t super deep ridges in it like most auto drip makers have.3. Brew time is relatively quick. I think under 10 minutes for a couple mugs is great.4. The carafe pours flawlessly without dripping thanks to the unique lid design! The lid does look a bit odd at first but it really works amazingly well at preventing the drips.5. It’s pretty quiet while brewing even when heating the water. Not a major thing but I still appreciate it.6. For the money I haven’t seen anything that brews coffee this way and I think it’s a winning design concept.I recommend buying this machine.

Your Search is Over!
I never knew much about coffee makers. I’ve bought drip coffee makers in the past. The last one was a Hamilton Beach internal brew machine. The coffee brewed and stayed in the machine instead of a glass carafe. I thought it was great. Had it over 5 years. Maybe 7 years. That started to have problems so I bought another Hamilton Beach with a stainless carafe. The coffee wasn’t hot when it left the machine. I had to heat it up in the microwave. Tasted bitter and just warm. I didn’t want a glass carafe so I kept researching. I discovered that the water needed to reach 200 degrees to make a good pot of coffee. So I kept looking. Some were over $200. I kept seeing the same coffee makers in every review site. Different problems with different products. Looked for days. Finally saw this one on a review site. It never popped up on Amazon. I don’t know if it’s new or what. I didn’t want the glass carafe but gave in. The stainless one didn’t keep the coffee hot.I ordered this, then saw that it went on sale after it was shipped. Amazon couldn’t do anything. I went to the Bunn site and saw it even cheaper and I also order a box of 1000 filters. I returned the one from Amazon and the one from Bunn came the next day. Wonderful coffee maker! Coffee is heated to over 200 degrees, and is smooth. No bitterness or strange taste. Now I know what I’ve been missing all these years! Simple machine to use. Can’t sneak a peak, and it seems the only problem might be the green water filter the water goes through as it leaves the machine. If you have a lot of minerals in the water, you’ll have to watch that. It will slow the water down. The little manual give great directions on how to clean that and the whole machine. The clock and timer is easy to set. It’s easy to read. I’ve done 6 cups so far and the wait is similar to my old coffee maker to brew.It gives a good guide line in the manual of cups/ounces of water to coffee I founds the 6 cups to 6 tbsp coffee guideline to be accurate.Edit-February 2024- I still love the machine. No issues whatsoever. I still miss the sneak a peak feature. I ended up having to put a coffee mug on the plate if I use the carafe to pour a cup of coffee. Does the job.

Compre 2 de estas cafeteras porque creí que era una excelente marca, pero ambas arrojaron un error qué impedía qué el plato se quedara encendido para mantener caliente el café… Llame a soporte técnico de BUNN y ni siquiera conocían el modelo, nadie supo resolver el error, es frustrante qué una marca internacional no sepa darte una respuesta.

este diseño no llena mis espectativas para una marca como Bunn. El canasto se sobre llena y no se filtra rapidamente causando una derrama de cafe sobre el mismo aparato. pasa muy seguido. no lo recomiendo.