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BUNN VPR Commercial 12-Cup Pour-Over Coffee Brewer, with 2 Warmers

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About 15 years ago, I purchased a Bunn home duty coffee maker and found it to be excellent. After about 5 years of nearly daily use, it started to get a little finicky so I took it apart in an attempt to clean the hot water chamber. Turned out the sealing parts are not really made to be taken apart after 5 years of use and then go back together.

In a quest for a new Bunn, I found that the VPR cost about double what the home version cost so.... 10 years later, the Bunn VPR is still going strong and has helped out at family events serving large groups of people (just what the machine is designed for!). Despite having water poured into the bottom heat plate (don't try to pour water in without a carafe in place), it still works perfectly!

A hint to those who make coffee only on the weekends: the design of the Bunn is that it is a small hot water tank and keeps a couple gallons of water hot and ready to go at all times. This will use some electricity and I've taken to putting a towel over the top of mine to help insulate and lower energy usage. Additionally, being hot all the time, water will evaporate. If going more than a couple days without making coffee, it's best to pour a pitcher of water in (with the filter basket empty and a carafe ready to catch the hot water) to top off the tank and then make a pot with coffee after it has reheated the reservoir.

If by some Act of God, my Bunn stops working, I will not hesitate to purchase another Commercial Bunn for what is essentially personal, home use. If you love coffee and can tolerate the price, this is a great choice for a coffee brewer!

I have worked in the foodservice industry for years, and the Bunn has always been the standard by which commercial coffeemakers are judged. Years ago, I decided to buy the consumer version for my home, and although it served me well, it eventually wore out and I wanted something better and sprang for the VPR. One nice feature of the Bunn is that you can unscrew the sprayhead, leave the filter basket off and you can instantly have a couple of pots of very hot water available for recipes. I typically buy the gallon size Lipton tea bags, put one in a decanter, run a decanter of water through and let it steep for about 10-15 minutes and add enough water to make a gallon, people love my Iced tea.
If you do unscrew the sprayhead, set it in the screened inlet where you pour the water into the maker, so that you don't inadvertently start a pot of coffee without the sprayhead in place. I did get a steal of a deal on mine new on ebay for $100.00...

This thing is a tank! I am in health care and just about all long standing nursing stations have one of these to brew a never ending supply of coffee. This is a product meant to last a long time. It comes with a reamer to clean out calcium deposits from hard water in it's stainless steel lines. I purchased one for our new women's clinic where it makes lots of coffee each day. If you are shopping for a home product this is not what you are looking for unless you consume gallons of coffee daily, but if you buy one count on it outlasting you. It's refreshing to know that there are still great american made products out there.

Great product, works well and fits our needs. Was NOT aware that it didn't come with the carafes, luckily we had some extras that fit the profile. Brews fast, coffee tastes great!

We purchased our Coffee Brewer to replace our older model of the same make for our VERY active Senior Center. With clubs, excerise classes, art, and card games, the coofee flows all day long! We have found this Coffee Brewer by BUNN, a workhorse that can put up with the demand 8hrs and day 5 days a week for years! Thanks BUNN for exceptional quality!!

Our Bunn that we had in the office for 25 years finally quit, so I ordered the closest match I could find. I had it sent next day air--received it the next day and our customers were very happy to have coffee as usual. It works great!

I got my first Bunn machine as a premium. The town we lived in at the time had the worst tasting water EVER. We started getting bottled water delivered and with the water machine they gave us the Bunn coffee maker. It really made great coffee, just like the kind at restaurants. When I moved back home briefly, my mother glommed it.

Since I am only a little worse than Leroy Jethro Gibbs about having a decent cup, I was on a quest for years after that. Tried almost every household maker out there. They either died an early death or the coffee tasted like plastic or both. One had a unique carafe we couldn't replace (broke it, of course)--and lousy coffee to boot. Some were cheapos, some not, including a beautiful yellow Cuisinart that got zapped in an electrical storm. So I gave up and shelled out (they ain't cheap) and I never regretted it. Anything that can stand up to hubby and I day after day has got to be TOUGH and they are.

The coffee maker is great!! You need to know it does not include the carafes, it does come with some coffee filters to get you started. The only problem I had was I received free shipping on the coffee maker but was charged seperate shipping on the 2 carafes and 1000 coffee filters. The shipping charges on the filters were almost more than the cost of the filters, so watch it.

Beware: this item comes without any decanters/carafes. Even though the picture shows 2 decanters this product does not come with any.

I am very unhappy about the write up on this item. I did not see the notation on the bottom of the page "Please note that the decanters for this unit (Bunn 6100 and 6101 Easy Pour) are sold separately." until the order had been processed. Both Costco and Sams had the same unit with 2 decanters included for less money. In all, this added $75.00 over the units from the other retailers. You should put that info on the top of the page in the description so a consumer can compare "apples to apples" not apples to lemons".
Joe Pescatrice pescj@comcast.net BUNN VPR Commercial 12-Cup Pour-Over Coffee Brewer, with 2 Warmers

PS. after discussing the issue on the phone with Jacques (JD) in Customer service, an adjustment was made. He noted there were 2 pictures there one with and one without decanters and the larger picture used in the display had 2 decanters. On closer inspection, I discovered they were different models. The one with the decanters has a black protective lid on the water inlet while the one with no decanters had no lid or perhaps a different design feature. Kudos to Jacques for prompt and great customer service.