Breville BKC600XL Gourmet Single-Cup Coffee Brewer
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Our Price: $399.00
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Category: Kitchen
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: BrevilleBrand: Breville USA
Model: BKC600XL
Product features:
- Measures 14-3/4 by 12-3/4 by 16-3/4-inch; 1 year warranty.
- Patented showerhead delivers precise amount of water needed
- Programmable LCD screen customizes brew to four cup sizes and any preferred brew temperature
- Made from heavy-duty stainless steel; internal water filter removes off flavors and smells
- Handsome single-cup brewer makes coffee one cup at a time for maximum freshness
- Breville BCG450XL Conical Burr Grinder
- Breville BKC600 Gourmet Single Cup Coffee Brewer Replacement Filters, 6-Pack (BWF100)
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Breville BKC600XL Gourmet Single-Cup Coffee Brewer
Customer Review: Outstanding. A wise purchase, regardless of price, for any coffee lover
Summary: 5 Stars
First of all, I have to say I all but stole this thing. Brand new in the box at Linens 'N Things, currently bankrupt and liquidating all stock. At 40% off (the list $300 price), I snagged it for $180 before tax. I could not find it on the web anywhere for much less than $250, before tax & shipping. While I was there, I also snagged a matching Breville BKC100 K-Cup Carousel for $24. [There's a bunch of wire carousels out there, but this one is of a sturdier plastic, it's more stylish and it matches the coffee maker's silver/stainless finish.] Out the door, both items, just at $219. Then I stopped and bought a box of 18 K-cup (decaf) cartridges for $10 at BBB and headed home.
The machine is sexy and gorgeous and it appears to be built very, very well. In researching I did find complaints about quality build for the black plastic single-serve units branded as Keurig, but I didn't find any such complaints about this puppy! Even the packaging demonstrate manufacturing excellence and thoughtfulness, with small pieces of tape, foam strips, little plastic bags and whatnot ensuring zero damage in transit.
Following the 1-page crystal-clear quick start guide (since the machine has to be run through a one-shot 'priming' process), I went from in-the-box to first cup in under 30 minutes. And it was outstanding.
The taste, speed and convenience is a vast improvement over my five-year-old Melitta Mill-n-Brew (model MEMB10TB, which I reviewed on Amazon and is now out of production) which over time shifted to producing lukewarm coffee, requiring me to pre-heat the thermal carafe with hot water for five minutes in the sink. And that also made the auto-timer, wake-up-to-your-pot-of-coffee, function useless.
This machine comes with, hidden under the lid, a mini-basket system for 'brewing your own grind.' But I can already see the convenience of the K-Cup system, where you just pop the sealed coffee cup into the top ... and clean up is nothing more than tossing the used cup in the trash ... is going to be addictive. But I expect I will be doing a good bit of grinding of my favorite brand. And I am looking forward to only having to rinse out this tiny-teeny-weeny basket as clean up. For the Melitta Mill-and-Brew, that involved cleaning the carafe, the carafe lid (which took grinds), the large basket, the basket lid (which also took grinds) and the inside bottom of the basket/filter hopper (which took grind residue).
And the machine has a little charcoal filter packet and holder that mounts/snaps easily right into the water tank!
The control buttons and the menu are almost 100% intuitive. Flip the power on switch then when the big "brew" button lights up, you are ready to go. The menu is operated by buttons marked menu, up, down and OK. Simple enough. The menu is brief and not deep - set the clock, set the temp, set the cup size, set the auto-on. The auto-on does not actually brew, it just starts the thing up so that the water is heated up and ready to brew at the push of the button. When the machine is in that "go mode," you get your coffee in about 30 seconds.
The LCD Screen is easy to read, backlit in soft/sky blue. And so is the water tank. Apparently, that backlight flashes to let you know when you are low on water! Clever!!
The thing makes a fairly loud racket for about 10 seconds as it pressure-heats the water before the brew ... and again afterwards, apparently 'reloading' for the next cycle. Posters indicate this is normal. It's not any worse than the racket a grinder makes. I bet a thin pad underneath (like a foam mouse pad) will dampen the sound somewhat. And the pre-packaged K-cups are not exactly economical. But, so far, after researching on the web and tinkering with the thing the first day, those are the only two downsides I can find.
Now I just have to add the perfect grinder! It will be Breville as well, the BCG450XL Conical Burr Grinder. The runner up grinder was the KitchenAid ProLine (the one that looks like an hourglass), but there are lots of posts about how it clogs easily, turning the grinds into pure putty and so requires frequent cleaning. And that the beans have to be poked down into the chute with a chopstick or whatnot. The posts for the Breville grinder don't indicate that ... or much of any downside for its grinder at all. And aesthetically it marries to the Breville coffee maker quite well.
There's a whole lotta' upside to this coffee maker. Give it serious consideration!
NB: Two days earlier I also snagged from LNT a Bialetti Moka Express 6-Cup Stovetop Expresso Maker - the device many Italians keep in their homes to do expresso - for about $15. And now I've got the Burr Grinder on it's way. Look out - now I've got the MacDaddy coffee setup!
Description of Breville BKC600XL Gourmet Single-Cup Coffee Brewer
Enjoy a fresh cup of gourmet coffee, tea or hot cocoa in less than a minute, without any set-up or clean-up. The Breville BKC600XL Gourmet Single Cup Coffee Brewer brews a single cup of fresh coffee, tea or hot cocoa at the touch of a button with its revolutionary brewing technology. A patented showerhead delivers a precise amount of water through the K-Cup at an ideal temperature and pressure for optimal flavor extraction. Choose one of four brew sizes (11.25oz, 9.25oz, 7.25oz and 5.25 oz) and program the brew temperature with the easy-read, backlit LCD screen and easy-to-use controls. The backlit 60 ounce capacity tank brews up to 10 cups before refilling and includes an optional water filtration system to reduce substances that affect the smell and taste of water. Keurig's popular coffee, tea and hot cocoa brands offer over 150 different types of K-Cup beverages from 13 gourmet brands.The best coffee is always the freshest coffee. That's why it makes no sense to brew by the pot: by the time you get around to drinking most of the joe, it's been sitting in a carafe (or worse, on top of a burner), going more bitter and stale with each minute. The Breville single-cup brewer takes a different tack. It makes coffee one cup at a time, so each cup tastes as fresh as the first one in the pot. Each cup is also 100% customized--by brew temperature, by grind, by varietal, even by cup size--so it's perfect for households or dinner parties in which everyone likes a different brew. Best of all, the brewing process is very, very difficult to mess up. The Breville's patented "showerhead" sprays a precisely calibrated amount of water through a "K-Cup," a technology made famous by Keurig's single-cup brewers, using temperature and pressure designed to extract the maximum amount of flavor from the grounds. More than 150 pre-packed K-Cups are available for beverages ranging from hot chocolate to organic dark-roast Columbian, produced by roasters from Tully's to Green Mountain Coffee.
Like all of this company's handsomely designed kitchen equipment, the Breville single-cup coffee brewer is aesthetically gorgeous and feels solidly constructed. It's made from heavy-duty stainless steel with a die-cast safety locking arm, and comes with an internal water filter system to remove impurities that can impart off flavors and smells. A backlit reservoir holds 60 ounces of water and can brew up to 10 cups before it needs refilling; the programmable LCD screen has a refreshingly easy-to-use interface. The Breville single-cup coffee brewer measures 14-3/4 by 12-3/4 by 16-3/4 inches --Mary Park
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