Hamilton Beach 2-Way 12 Cup Programmable Drip Coff
$69.99
Price: $69.99
(as of Feb 24, 2025 09:27:15 UTC – Details)
The Hamilton Beach® 2-Way Programmable Coffee Maker lets you brew with your favorite ground coffee into a cup or travel mug or brew 12 cups of coffee into the glass carafe. Not compatible with K-Cup®* pods. Mugs and cups not included.
5 WAYS TO BREW: SINGLE CUP OR FULL POT. Brew a single-serve cup or a full coffee pot with your favorite ground coffee. Whichever way you brew, this programmable coffee maker makes it easy to do both.
SIMPLE SINGLE-SERVE BREWING: With the included mesh scoop, adding your favorite ground coffee to the coffee maker couldn’t be easier: just scoop, place and brew. (Not compatible with K-Cup* pods.)
ECO-FRIENDLY AND EASY ON YOUR WALLET. For fresh flavor and less waste, skip the plastic pods. Since this Hamilton Beach coffee maker doesn’t use K-Cup* pods, there’s less to buy and throw away.
PROGRAMMABLE WITH MULTIPLE BREW SETTINGS: Choose whether to make a single cup or full pot, select bold or regular brew strength options, and program the coffee maker up to 24 hours in advance for wake-up ready coffee.
GET YOUR FIRST CUP FAST WITH AUTO PAUSE & POUR: Pour yourself a quick cup as coffee brews with Auto Pause & Pour — no need to wait until the whole pot has finished brewing.
5 SEPARATE EASY-FILL WATER RESERVOIRS: Each brewer has its own water reservoir that’s easy to fill and features a water window, so you always know how much water is on each side.
K-Cup is a registered trademark of Keurig Green Mountain, Inc. Use of the K-Cup trademark does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by Keurig Green Mountain, Inc.
Amazon Customer –
Great coffee and looks expensive!
After trying to stomach instant coffee because I just wanted one cup, I decided to buy a dual use coffee maker. I’m so glad I did. This one is so easy to use and I can make a whole pot or one cup. Fast brewing and quiet. Looks more expensive than it is. Highly recommend!
LK409 –
Solid, basic coffeemaker, and great alternative to k-cups
Purchased this as a holiday gift for my 85-year-old father. For all his life, he has used a plug-in percolator, but the extra cleaning required for it was becoming cumbersome, so he wondered about switching over to k-cups. For environmental reasons, we decided against those, and we needed a machine that was simple and straightforward to operate. This one ticked all the boxes, and Dad is delighted with it. The fact that there’s only one switch and one button to push made it easy for him to learn, and he likes that he can brew a single cup for himself, or a full pot if he has company. The coffee it brews tastes fresh and bold and clean-up is simple. The machine seems nicely built and looks good on the counter. Very pleased.
Amazon Customer –
What’s not to like!
Received this Hamilton Beach Two-In-One coffeemaker yesterday. I immediately put it to use. I tried out the single serve side for tea and it worked nicely, although a little slow. I loaded it up for coffee and pre-programmed it for this morning; excellent coffee and no issues with programming for a delayed brew. My only complaint is it’s a bit awkward to load the water due to the narrow opening for the tank. The single serve side is even smaller and I had a clean up task due to spillage. I will be ordering a wheeled tray to set it on since it’s a bit large and I need to be able to move it out from under the cabinet more easily. It looks nice and brews a great cup of coffee.
Glen –
Very good and flexible coffee maker for the price
It’s a pretty straight-forward coffee maker with the added benefit of having the separate single cup brewing feature. I particularly like the single cup option because I drink decaf and my spouse drinks regular, so am able to get up in the morning and make myself coffee using the single cup side and make regular coffee in the carafe for my spouse, which will stay warm until she gets up. Otherwise, it’s got your typical bold/regular setting and programable brewing clock.I read a lot of reviews about leaking and overflowing and I found no evidence that this would be the case, unless you were not following instructions for quantify of water and/or coffee for either the carafe or single cup side that every other retail drip coffee maker recommends. Or using coffee ground too finely, like for espresso.Which brings me to my biggest gripe for this coffee maker and all other retail drip coffee makers – they are all sized to accommodate only 1 tablespoon of coffee for every cup or water. I don’t understand why they don’t make coffee grind baskets that can accommodate the coffee to water ratio that every premium coffee brand recommends and coffee shop uses, which is 2 tablespoons of coffee for every 6 oz. of water. I just don’t get it. None of the coffee makers will accommodate 24 tablespoons of coffee in a 12-cup capacity coffee maker. It will overflow with grinds every time in this and every other retail drip coffee maker I have looked at. I have found that I can use more than 1 tablespoon per cup of coffee, but have to put on the bold setting, which slows the rate of water flow which usually prevents the coffee from overflowing the basket, provided I don’t try to brew to the 12 cup capacity. It’s one of the greatest mysteries – why the industry hasn’t adapted to premium coffee standards and remains stuck in the 1970s, when using any more than 1 tablespoon of nasty pre-ground Folgers-like coffee would cause people to stop drinking coffee altogether. Please join me in rising up against this anathema!
Ben Powell –
Great coffee maker- single cup or full pot
This the best coffee pot I’ve ever owned, seriously. I appreciate good coffee and regularly buy beans from a local roastery. I am not a barista nor do I claim to be a coffee expert. I enjoy good coffee and a drip coffee maker is good enough for my daily habit.This maker can be used to brew single cups on one side or a full pot on the other side. Typically, I am the only coffee drinker in my house. Sometimes we have guests. This coffee maker allows me to serve both situations easily.To use the single serve side, I fill the cup that I’m planning to use with the correct amount of tap water and add it to the single serve side of the maker. This is accessed from the top under a small lid that flips up. This side is designed to only hold enough water for a single serve amount of water. I don’t use manufactured pods as I prefer fresh grounds but this maker apparently can handle pods too. I grind my beans or use pre-ground coffee and add that to the slide out tray on the single serve side just above the cup location. There is a metallic mesh screen that holds the grounds on the single serve side and I find that I waste less coffee than when I try to make only 1 or 2 cups in a large pot. The single serve side has a nested set of plastic circles that sits under a tall mug when not needed. These little circular risers can be un-nested and stacked to allow a shorter cup to be closer to the dripping coffee (see photos). This allows the maker to accommodate a variety of sizes of cups. The single serve side takes about 2 minutes to brew. I think the coffee tastes great and I can control the strength of the brew based upon how many grounds I add.The full carafe side is much like any basic drip-coffee maker. There’s a small reservoir that holds enough water to brew a full pot of coffee. There’s a flip lid and a basket for coffee grounds. You can use paper filters or buy a separate metallic, re-usable mesh filter that fits inside this basket. I like these baskets as it’s less wasteful than using paper filters daily and I don’t have to remember to constantly purchase filters. I’ve used the same mesh filter for over 7 years now. It doesn’t filter as finely as paper filters do and the last sip of coffee contains a small amount of grit / sediment but this seems normal to me now. If someone doesn’t like this idea than I would warn them not to drink the last sip. It’s pretty easy to avoid.The coffee maker has a very obvious and easy to use manual switch that selects whether you are brewing a full pot or a single serve. Only one side can be used at a time. You simply move the switch to the left or right as the illustrations show to select which side you wish to utilize.I frequently use the timer feature. Prior to work I have one 16 oz metal travel mug filled, warm and waiting for me when I wake up in the morning.The display is bright when you touch a button and dims to normal again after about 30 seconds so it doesn’t light up the kitchen at night like a beacon. There is a single bright green LED light that indicates that the timer is set and ready to go. Personally, I like this feature as it is an obvious acknowledgment that the timer is ready to go at the time that I programmed in. Some might find this too bright but it’s hard to imagine it being a nuisance to most people.Other reviewers have indicated the their carafe broke instantly upon the first use. I’ve used my carafe several times without issues. I also noticed that a new pot is around $10 so if it does break down the road, I can probably replace it easily. Some said that it tastes like plastic, I haven’t experienced this. Some said that it leaks after 3 months – I’ll try to update this review later but so far so good – no leaks. Others say it takes too long to brew. I think it takes about as long to make coffee as every other coffeepot that I have owned and if you set it up the night before, you won’t have to wait for it. It can be ready for you whenever you tell it to be ready. I even read that some people were annoyed that they had to slide the coffee pot out from under a counter in order to add water to the top of the coffee maker. I once added felt pads to the bottom of a coffee maker to make this process easier. Without a dedicated water line and a commercial coffee apparatus, I’m not sure how the manufacturer would avoid this overly burdensome task. You have to add water somehow; that’s how coffee works.I have not had any negative issues at all with this coffee maker and I’ve been using it daily for over 1 month. It’s easy to use, it’s easy to program and I like that I can make a full pot or single cup depending on my needs. I definitely recommend this unit.
Ross Bateman –
For many years, the best-tasting and most flavourful coffee we ever made has been with our Drip-O-Lator, made by Enterprise Aluminum in Macon Georgia. We bought this for cottage-use a long time ago–when they were still being made–at Robinson’s General Store in Dorset Ontario. Later, we bought another, and then, they disappeared from the market. It was very cheap to buy and is simple to use: Measure the amount of cups you want into the middle of three graduated marked canisters; pour the required amount of boiling water into the upper marked canister, and wait a bit until it dribbled through into the bottom part of the coffee pot. Later, we had it dribble directly into a thermos butler, rather than into the pot on the wood stove. When we could get it, we used fresh spring water gushing from a woodsy hillside outcrop. That is a perfect coffee, always, fresh-ground or pre-ground—either way.When our Cuisinart maker with the built-in grinder stared leaking all over the counter at home, I research all available options for a new one. We took a chance on this Hamilton Beach, with mostly(not all) good ratings noting its low price. This machine, in its first days of use, rivals the Drip-O-Lator in flavour and even in simplicity of use. I can’t fathom the truthfulness of the critical reviews. The single-serve side is not messy, and the flavour is first rate. We bought the crinkly made-in-Canada basket for the multi-cup side, and the results are just the same on both sides, using Nabob Bold Full City Dark. This water is from a well, hydrogen peroxide treated and softened, but judging by the results, that seems perfectly fine. The Cuisinart never made compelling coffee, even in fresh-grind mode. The pre-heated urn never kept things warm and it was messy to pour in its necessarily upside-down position.The Hamilton Beach is very economical, seeming to deliver the same volume of brewed of coffee as the water that is poured in. Access to the water tank is convenient, and the graduated lines are very visible. The single-serve side takes a tiny bit of coffee grounds in the bottom of the stainless mesh basket, and then the amount of coffee you want to drink is poured into the upper chamber from the cup you’ll be drinking it from. Finally, the machine has a name that’s easy to pronounce and spell—this Chinese make (I guess) does not have a pretentious European name, like the other Chinese machines.The Cuisinart , even in fresh-grind mode, never made compelling coffee.At home, our Cuisinart coffee maker with
mgy –
・機能オートドリップ2way機構によりポットに大量に作るか、カップ1杯分に作るか選べます特筆するのはこの二つの機能くらいであとは普通のコーヒーメーカーと変わりませんコーヒーを煎れるボタンを押すと、水差し部分に入れた水の分量だけ作りますので、入れ過ぎると普通に溢れます、コーヒーの温度自体は熱々なので温いのが苦手な人には良いと思います。ただ、タイマーでのオートドリップ機能を期待して買った自分からしたらマイナスな商品でした。海外製品の全般に言える事みたいなのですが、時間というかタイマーが絶対にズレます、しかも分単位ではなく時間単位でズレますので半日ごとに2〜３時間程度の修正が必要です（出来るか！）朝起きてコーヒーがマグカッブに注がれている、そんな日常を送りたかった…が念願叶わずです…マグカップに注いでくれるタイプのコーヒーメーカーはとてつもなくすくないので期待していただけにショックが大きいです。
Shelley J Folbar –
Best coffee brewing machine as it makes single or pots. I use the single side to make tea as well. Seems to be standing up well as it is used more than once a day and people fall in the door to have a cuppa, they don’t even want to visit haha.
Michleine Cloutier –
Been using this coffee maker every day for the past 5years and it still makes wonderful coffee. Easily use single cup or pot brew. Only reason I didn’t put 5 stars is that I wish the single serve coffee basket locked into place. Very easy to accidentally hit it and make it fall out of its place and drop coffee grounds everywhere. Otherwise, I love it.
JSmith –
I bought one of these coffee makers 10-12 years ago and it worked perfectly until a few days ago. Perhaps my fault for not running descaler through it from time to time.I was thrilled to discover the model is still available. I had no issues whatsoever with the original machine. I love the option of a single brew which I use occasionally for myself and sometimes for someone who’s visiting who likes their coffee stronger or weaker.The controls are clean and simple. Love the 12-hour AM/PM clock.I’ve run the pot, basket and single cup components through the dishwasher countless times without any issues.I highly recommend this machine.