Customer Reviews

Chemex Ten Cup Glass Coffee Maker with Glass Handle - 10 Cup Coffee Maker

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My family used the chemex system for brewing coffee. So I am very comfortable and familiar with using it. In today's hurry-up world, some people would not want to be bothered boiling the water, and slowly pouring it into the chemex glass coffee maker. When our power goes out, we have a gas stove, so we can still brew wonderful coffee, and that is a great thing to be able to do to warm-up while waiting for the power to come back on, here up in the mountains!

There is no plastic in this coffee pot ant the coffee tastes better than coffee brewed any other way.

I got this after hearing so many negative things about how bad using a Keurig is for you. I was not sure if I should order this, but I am SO glad I did. This makes some GREAT coffee, and you don't have to worry about platic and chemical leach like you do in other coffee makers. Totally worth the few extra minutes it takes and your kitchen smells yummy while it's brewing :o)

This was new to me until I first tried it, some 3-4 months ago. As soon as I started using it Chemex became my exclusive coffee-brewing method and it's likely to stay that way.

If what you want is a 'clean' yet tasty and flavorful cup of coffee and don't mind spending a few minutes making it AND you don't mind using a lot more ground coffee than you would otherwise the Chemex-made coffee should be your cup of tea, so to speak.

I was completely unaware of anything and everything Chemex until recently when, on the strength of another Amazon review, I decided to give it a try. Add the super-special Chemex filters and some good coffee and you get some honest-to-goodness good tasting, non-bitter coffee. I am happy with what I am tasting. It's a honest, clean coffee and it's good enough for me to drink it unaltered, milk and sugar-free, Espresso-style or with frothed milk. My coffee tastes very much like an Espresso or like a sugarless Cappuccino only not so hot and not so bitter but this is my preference.

The process involves bringing some water to a boil while grinding your coffee - 'medium grind' seems to be optimal. Place the filter into the top of the coffee maker, add the desired amount of coffee and SLOWLY pour the just boiled water after first just wetting the grounds. It takes 4-5 minutes to produce my 3 five-ounce cups. Chemex claims that their own filters have some extraordinary properties including 'the right filtration speed' which (hint) is NOT 'fast'.

The glass quality is good enough to allow for heating the coffee by placing the coffee maker to sit on top of a gas range or a glass top range (but NOT on electric heating coils) without breaking. I don't have a gas range but I can testify that it works well with glass tops.

My verdict so far is 'excellent' for an inexpensive, clean, likely to last forever coffee maker but, as I noted already, you will have to dedicate a few minutes of your time to brewing your coffee if you decide to do it the Chemex way. Ever since I brewed my first Chemex cup I never went back to the old ways. The only use my Cappuccino machine has now is 'milk frother'.

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Expect to use A LOT more coffee than you would normally need to make the same amount in a 'regular' coffee or espresso machine. Probably twice as much.

Like other reviewers, I chose this item because of it's simplicity and purity. Without plastic or metal, the flavor of the coffee comes through. Pouring boiling water through the unbleached chemex filters and then discarding that water accomplishes two outcomes. First, it eliminates any flavor or impurities that someone with highly refined sensitivities may detect. Second, it warms the coffee pot, ensuring that no sudden temperature change arises. This warm pot then also ensures hot coffee, ready to serve.

This is my third chemex pot. The first one was the original, with the split wood handle and the leather lace. That ended up with a friend who admired my system so passionately that I gave him the pot. The second one, used daily for the past couple years, broke this morning . . . careless me.

Simple, pure, clean, quiet . . . but why does it have to cost this much?

I owned and used for over a year the 8 cup version. I bought this 10 cup version because my wife and I enjoy 2 cups each. I love my Chemex and use it daily. I've sold many family members on it's use and superior coffee taste.

Its simple. Glass is the only way to ensure you are not drinking chemicals leached from plastic. Every coffee maker has plastic parts the HOT water runs through. This elegant coffee filter pot is easy to use and cool looking! Make sure you get the chemex filters, they fit and work perfectly. Use only filtered water and good coffee. Follow the brewing instructions for the best cup of coffee you ever had.

At my work (a hospital) our coffee is totally flavorless and resembles something more akin to burnt water. I normally make my own espresso at home and I was looking for a portable source of flavorful coffee. Unfortunately lugging around that espresso machine isn't practical in the slightest sense. Then I stumbled upon the Chemex coffee maker in my search for a good portable coffee maker.

It works very well, especially for how simple it is. The instructions state to boil water, then wait about 30 seconds to a minute for it to reach around 195-205F. You put your coffee grounds inside a conical filter and just wet the grounds slightly for it to bloom. Then after another 30 seconds pour around the edges towards the middle and fill the water up until it reaches the brim of the filter and maintain the water level there until you reach your desired volume. There are two indicators that tell you your approximate volume (based upon size of the maker) - there is a small indentation a few inches up from the base, and the bottom of the handle.

The main con of this brewer is the accessibility of the chemex coffee filters. You can use a melitta #4 conical filter for smaller amounts of coffee if you'd like, and these are easy to find at most supermarkets. The only problem is the water spurts out from the spout with higher amounts of coffee since the filter is thinner than the chemex. The chemex is a square filter folded into a cone, with 3 layers on one side and one layer on the other side. You just put the 3 layered side on the spout side of the brewer to avoid this problem and it works great.

As for the taste of the coffee - if done properly with the right temperature of water, the coffee doesn't come out bitter and it maintains a lot of it's flavor. Overall I think it was a great purchase.

This coffee maker broke after about 400 uses. A crack mysteriously appeared, from no trauma of which either of us was aware. I've read similar reports of the fragility of the Chemex product. At this rate, the recurring cost of the Chemex exceeds the cost of the filters. Plus one star for the idea of Chemex (the coffee is great), but no stars for the Chemex itself. It's simply overpriced. Nonetheless, we feel compelled to replace ours with the identical unit. Forced to buy a 2-star product. Curse you, Chemex! May you burn in precisely controlled 200-degree brewing water for all eternity.