Customer Reviews Bodum Bistro Pour Over Electric Coffee Maker

I read a review of this coffee maker in BusinessWeek, kept looking for it and finally found it here on Zappos. Great maker, Simple to use, keep clean and it keeps coffee hot. Makes a great cup of coffee. One thing to note, when you pull the pot out, sometimes the basket comes with it. Still give it top rating for taste and easy of use.

Really excellent design, but feels cheap. I also thought that the water pipe on the back (transparent view) was made of copper, but the photo really deceives you. It is also tooooo speedy (I am wondering if coffee essential oils are absorbed well, since water passes very fast), that the water entering the filter chamber cannot be drained through the metal mesh filter. Finally, there is always coffee residue in the coffee mugs (though I grinded the coffee coarser). I really expected more for the price of 250 bucks !!! No value for money at all.

Product looks good, operates easily. The fill tank is nice in that you can remove it to fill it. Construction is not worth the price. Everything is plastic (Except for the gold filter). The top of the unit does not stay in place properly, it just lays on top and stays loose. Most annoying is that if you want to interrupt the brewing cycle and pour some coffee, the filter part start dripping onto the bottom of the unit making a mess on the platform. This also happens when brewing is finished. You have to wait for over 30 minutes to insure that it will not drip down. This unit has form but no good function. If I could would return it.

This coffee maker certainly looks good, like other Bodum products. The coffee is well-made too: brewed at the right temperature with properly saturated grounds. However, the Bodum Bistro Pour Over Electric Coffee Maker is very poorly made: the plastic parts do not fit securely together, resulting in regular leaks of coffee from the outside of the device to the inner part that houses the electronics. Also, cracks have developed around the point where the handle attaches to the filter cup. Finally, the screwed-on base of the pot too easily dislodges (and it isn't supposed to come off at all). One expects an ordinary coffee maker constructed out of plastic to have some structural problems but for this very high price the Bodum should be much better made. It won't last longer, I expect than any ordinary $75.00 coffeemaker.

I read the reviews and I bought it anyway...silly girl. It's a lovely machine (when you get past the fact that it's not white...more of a putty color...and the seams of the case don't quite meet each other) but unfortunately, form just isn't able to outdo function in this case. My first pot of coffee was fantastic - the thermal carafe kept it nice and hot, and the filter was easy to clean. My second pot, however, was a bit of a disaster because the water spraying into the filter forced the grounds up and out of the machine and all over my backsplash and counters (which are white and brand new - I just finished remodeling my kitchen). I assumed I used too much coffee so for the third pot, I didn't go all the way to capacity. This time, there was a coffee grounds EXPLOSION, and I'm still finding coffee in cracks and crevices in my kitchen. Worse, though, is that the grounds were ejected from the filter so forcefully that they are smashed up into the loose seams of the machine, and there is no way I can get them out without submersing the whole unit in water, which of course I can't do. This also means, of course, that I can't return the unit because it could not possibly be resold. So, I now have a very expensive thermal carafe (which is actually quite good-looking and works well, but I'm sure I could have gotten one for less).

If you like your first cup of coffee in the morning to be lukewarm and your second to be cold, this is the coffee maker you should get.

This is a handsome-looking but poorly performing machine. Ordered last Christmas, it was used once daily yet broke within six months. Zappos was fabulous in its return policy and sent us a replacement, no questions asked. The second one has now quit working after less than six months single daily use. I do not recommend it.

This is a lousy coffee maker! First it holds water for 1 cups yet will only take 8 scoops of coffee in the filter making weak coffee. More times than not the filter jams up so the grounds spill all over the thermos and base of the maker. I have used this several times and it has failed to make any good cup over 4!

I did not find that it produced a very hot cup of coffee. It brews very fast, but the water pressure spreads the grinds everywhere, what a mess. Perhaps my unit is defective, but I will be going back to my older unit. Getting in contact with Bodum was not easy.

Had to return it. It makes great coffee. The carafe leaked from the handle. The actual maker also leaked. And it was impossible to remove and replace the carafe without coffee coming out of the machine with nowhere to go except either down the carafe or onto the bottom of the maker. Great coffee but I didn't want to clean after every single pour.