Bunn BXB Coffee Maker
The Bunn BXB is an excellent coffee maker, but requires a different understanding of brewing coffee.
Instead of super heating the water immediately before spraying it over the grounds, this coffee maker has a stainless steel tank that stores hot water at around 200 degree fahrenheit. This enables the coffee maker to spray hot rather than super heated water over the grounds, eliminating the scorched taste and power surges associated with fast heating. Fresh water poured into the reservoir at the top flows into the bottom of the storage tank pushing hot water out the top onto the waiting coffee grounds making a hot pot of coffee in under three minutes. The storage tank takes about 15 minutes to heat the first time and will hold almost two carafes worth of water.
My last Bunn lasted 15 years and failed due to a design flaw, which has been fixed in this model. Other coffee brewers were lucky to last 5 years.
My old Bunn coffee maker had the hot water tank...
Great customer service!
I purchased a new BXB Bunn coffeemaker approximately 4 weeks ago. I purchased a Bunn because of the quality and great coffee flavor. I noticed immediately the coffee tasted weak, no matter how many grounds I added. I thought maybe it was just me but after having a few people over they too remarked at how weak the coffee was. I just made a phone call to Bunn customer service and they were wonderful. I was asked to remove the basket and check for a sprayhead. Sprayhead, what sprayhead? All I had was a threaded screw with a nut, no sprayhaed. Needless to say my coffeemaker was missing this most important part. That would be the reason my coffee was weak. The water was merely dripping through the coffee grounds and spilling into the pot instead of spraying the grounds. I'm going to be sent two sprayheads for free! I have read other customer reviews and there are numerous people who are complaining of weak coffee as well. I would have to say that they too are probably missing...
Great reliable cup of coffee.
Cons:
Standard grocery-store filters are shorter than the type that works best in this machine, but you can get by with the grocery-store variety. It just makes a little more mess in the grinds-basket.
You have to wait 15 minutes for the machine to heat the tank of water before you can turn on the drip coffee function. This is pain if you don't use it for more than one pot of coffee, but not really much more wait time than a standard brewer -- it just requires you come back after 15 minutes and click it on.
Retro "Denny's" look.
No programmable settings.
Pros:
No programmable settings to learn.
Once heated, it makes very consistent coffee in 3 minutes. It sprays super-hot water all over the coffee grounds (in a circular pattern) so you get a really even flavor from all your grounds.
If you're making more than 1 pot of coffee, this machine is even better.
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