Customer Reviews

Capresso 452.01 CoffeeTeam Plus Coffeemaker/Grinder, Black

5 star:		(29)
4 star:		(11)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(8)
1 star:		(10)

 

 

K... it's now almost 2011. I now want the machine to break, so I can upgrade. However, it just won't die. Still works great. No complaints. I just want a new one with a thermal carafe. Have moved it 3 times. Didn't even break in the moving truck, like so many other things did. Sigh....

I have now had the coffee maker for 8 years (in 2007), and have still not had one problem.

I wrote this back when we bought the machine:
I have used this coffee maker now for 2 semesters of medical school, and I wouldn't trade it for any other coffee maker. It makes my life so much easier to have coffee waiting for me every morning. The instruction manuel warns that if you use oily beans, the grounds chute may clog. You can take the top off of it, and push them through. If the much superior to blades boar-grinder is clogged, you put dried bread pieces in the grinder and run it (as the instruction manuel advises), so the bread can absorb the oil and "unclog" it. Moral of the story if you use oily beans...maintain before it gets completely stuck. I haven't had one problem with medium oily beans. And my aunt in Anchorage hasn't had one problem with this model in many years. I LOVE THIS MACHINE!

My wife and I enjoy strong coffee (espresso roast) and the Capresso seemed to be a great machine - for three months - and then it started clogging and clogging and ...

Thought we just bought a bad unit and returned it for a new one. Sadly the new unit suffered the exact same problem with the oily beans clogging up the chute.

We now use the Krups gring/brew and it is worse! At the end of the grind/brew cycle, the Krups emits steam (to cleanse the machine.) The steam ends up running down the sides of the machine and all over the counter. Needless to say we are still looking for a "bulletproof" grind/brew coffeemaker.

Based on my homework - people who enjoy really strong coffee seem to suffer our same fate. We continue to look.

This coffee maker is amazing. The flavor is at least as good as what you get from your neighborhood cafe, and its timer lets you wake up to the java. I clean out the chamber that drops the grind every two weeks, so it won't clog up and lead to dilute coffee. I've never had a problem with dark beans clogging the machine. The device is very plasticky, as are most home coffee makers today, but the filter holder basket has a piece of plastic to locate the holder into the machine, and it broke. It still works, but I have to be more particular in setting the filter holder in place. All in all, a definitely great purchase.

I love this idea because I'm tired of cleaning up coffee grounds off my counter, but sometimes the grinder doesn't fully engage and I get very weak coffee. My parents have used this machine for a while with no problems. Unfortunately the grinder piece cannot be disassembled, so there is no way to clean or otherwise try and fix this.

This product has proven to be very reliable and convenient. We've had it in an office environment for two years now and we probably make about four to six full pots of coffee a day and it continues to function as it did when new. However, occasionallythe beans will fail to feed through the grinder and it'ss necessary to stir up the beans to resume the feeding - this is not a major flaw except that the result of this is that the pot about to be brewed is then weak because enough coffee

didn't get ground (the setting for the number of cups to brew appears to be timer based -- so if the grinder is grinding air for a few seconds, it's not generating ground coffee!). The display panel is a little difficult to read - esp. in poor light -- the 'coffee strength' setting is very hard to read but once set for personal use, it's unlikely you will need to reset it.

I'm not a really picky about coffee, but the coffee this unit brews seems fine - we use quality beans and the coffee seems comparable to convential drip coffee makers with the same beans (not suprisingly).

I just love my Capresso Coffee Team. I wake up mornings to the sound of fresh coffee beans grinding in the built-in commercial burr grinder, then the next sensation is the aroma of freshly brewed coffee. It makes the best coffee I have ever tasted

Before I decided to buy this Capresso coffeemaker, I did some research comparing it to Cuisinart coffemaker. The final dicision was made, and I'm very happy with what I bought, Capresso Coffee Team Plus. The thing is that Cuisinart products have one problem all the time. Poor quality that one out of a hundred products tends to be defective, poor customer service. On the other hand, Capresso has much less defective problem with its products, far better and thorough customer service. The item comes with both a paper manual and a videotaped instruction. Easy cleaning unless you're a oily beans lover. I am recommending this item to my friends and they say the same great thing as I say. Some of my friends are also oily beans lover but they are happy to master how to clean the machine. Sure worth it!

this is by far the best coffee maker we've had for 40 years.it's so easy to use. it's clean, no bean mess, we are buying 2 more for our son-in-laws. we love it.

....if they had read their books they would have seen that
all coffee teams have one pot of coffee run through them by the
manufacturer as a test and that is explained in the beginning. The coffeemakers weren't used, the buyers were ignorant of the facts and didn't read the disclaimer.

I wanted to love this machine. We had it two years and it made a great cup of coffee. But, the burr grinder jams on hard beans. Twice it did that, and we had to send it to Capresso for repairs, at $45.00 per event, = $90.00.

Then, a couple weeks ago the grinder started grinding at odd times, on its own. The only way to stop it was to unplug the machine. Capresso said to leave it unplugged and the electronics might reset themselves. Seemed to fix it, but only for a day. Then, it started grinding again, in the middle of the night. I feared it might overheat and start a fire. Capresso said to send it to them again, for another $45.00. Well, that's 3 times and enough.

Then we discovered the Miletta Mill and Brew ($89.00). Only had it a week now, but we are pleasantly surprised that the coffee is just as good tasting as we had with the Capresso, PLUS, the two most irritating features of the Capresso are absent in the Miletta: no coffee "dust" on the body of the machine and counter top after grinding, and no dripping carafe. We used to always have paper towels under the Capresso and on the counter to catch the dust and drips. NONE OF THAT WITH THE MILETTA!

The Miletta grinder is a blade, inside the bean basket, the same one the water runs through. Clever. You therefore don't have a problem with oily beans clogging the chute...there is no chute. The noise of the grinder is about half that of the Capresso. It's "footprint" on the counter is about a third smaller than the Capresso, too.

We'll see what happens over time. For now, we're somewhat sad to see the old Capresso go to the junk yard, but the new Miletta is quickly diminishing our grief and then some.