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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Apr 11, 2004
Pros: Best brew, great appearance, solid construction
Cons: Quality doesn't come cheap
Summary: First off, let me say that drip coffee isn’t my favorite way to make coffee. A French press will give you a much better cup. However it isn’t always practical or convenient to press coffee. The Capresso MT 500 might be the second best way to make ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 14, 2008
Pros: Easy to use. Coffee is piping hot and tastes wonderful!
Cons: Limited availability in walk in stores.
Summary: I have been looking for a machine just like this. I have gone through so many at home coffee machines looking for that "coffee shop" taste to no avail. Even those bought at the "coffee shop" just did not meet the standards I was looking for. After ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 15, 2008
Pros: Nice design features
Cons: Fatal flaws you shouldn't have for the price.
Summary: The design is beautiful. Surface is smart and very easy to clean. The water resevoir top is wide making it a snap to refill. The design feature of stainless heating element is nice here in Florida where our mineral content is high and build up can ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 18, 2008
Pros: Attractive, makes great coffee quickly.
Cons: Some issues with placement, design quirks, expensive.
Summary: This machine makes coffee really fast - around seven minutes for a full carafe. The coffee that results from such a fast brew tastes great, with no bitterness. It is also very attractive. The wide, shallow design looks like it was made with poured metal ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 15, 2008
Pros: Makes excellent coffee, keeps coffee warm for long enough
Cons: The carafe lid is a hassle to use
Summary: This is a good, solid thermal carafe coffee maker that has lasted about 3 years so far. It makes great coffee. The thermal carafe keeps coffee warm enough for long enough for me to enjoy it all morning without the coffee tasting 'old.' Although the ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 22, 2008
Pros: Consistently flavorful coffee made quickly and kept hot for a long time.
Cons: People that cannot follow instructions or cannot visually discern improperly located equipment may have problems.
Summary: This review is being written from the perspective of a person who is not a “Coffee Snob”. I cannot tell you by drinking a cup of coffee, what blend, roast process, grind type, species of bean, or travel from what region of the world that the ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 10, 2007
Pros: Thermal carafe
Easy to clean gold filter
Best tasting coffee
Cons: So long as you are careful about placing the carafe, there are no cons
Summary: We have used this coffee maker at least once daily for more than four years and are about to order a new one because the whole machine is showing its age. It makes excellent coffee and we have no hesitation about buying another. Having grown up ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 24, 2007
Pros: Comes with mesh filter, better-than-average quality coffee
Cons: Small capacity, doesn't keep coffee hot for long, price
Summary: This coffee maker was purchased with a store refund to replace a Cuisinart DTC-975 12-Cup Coffee Maker that was determined to erupt all over my counter and floor. We have been trying to find a good thermal carafe machine, and I am hoping we have found a ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 7, 2006
Pros: excellent coffee, super easy to use, attractive machine!
Cons: none
Summary: This is my third thermal carafe coffee maker this year. The Zojirushi I started with died after six weeks. I moved on to a Barista from Starbux that I loathed and returned. After reading many good reviews of this Capresso on epinions and some coffee ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 23, 2006
Pros: Excellent hot coffee.
Water filter.
Good manual.
Easy to use.
Excellent carafe.
Pretty!
Cons: 3-5 cup selector=watery coffee.
Not easy to clean.
Summary: This coffee maker is pretty, oh so pretty (bling factor! all it needs are some spinnies.. lol). It also makes hot, delicious coffee that keeps its temperature for hours. No, really, it does keep the coffee hot for hours... after a 10 hour day of work, ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 24, 2005
Pros: Beautiful Machine
Produces outstandingly flavorable coffee
Piping hot coffee in larqe quantity
Cons: Flaws in design
Produces lukewarm coffee in small quantities
Carafe must be positioned perfectly
Summary: My original review followed by an update at the conclusion I love coffee! Unfortunately, for most of my life, I have been drinking brew from the likes of Mr. Coffee. Their machines, and most others in their price range, provide ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 17, 2005
Pros: attractive. great coffee. Easy to clean and operate. Thermal carafe A+ after several hours.
Cons: More expensive. coffee basket doesn't stand alone. coffee basket next to water reservoir
Summary: My wife and I had 10 year old Krups we liked a lot. It made a very good cup of coffee. We needed a new one and bought another Krups, but the new ones have a little plastic catch and spring lever that looks like trouble, will wear or break in time, and we ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 28, 2005
Pros: Great-tasting coffee. Thermal carafe doesn't burn the coffee to oblivion on a hot-plate.
Cons: If anything goes wrong during the brewing process, you have a mess to clean up.
Summary: I'm very picky about my coffee, and prefer that it taste in the cup the way coffee smells as it's being ground. I used to think that the only ways of experiencing this level of coffee flavor was to hand-drip it through a Chemex funnel or to go to a ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 9, 2005
Pros: great coffee, beautiful design, insulated carafe, auto shut off
Cons: carafe smaller than reservoir, a tad expensive
Summary: This replaces an 8 year old Krups 12 cup. Purchased from Sur La Table in Scottsdale. I followed the instructions and ran a couple of full pots of water through the machine prior to use. The instructions don't seem to indicate that you should rinse ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 23, 2005
Pros: Insulated carafe.
Looks nice.
Cons: Too easily makes a mess.
Way too complicated.
Summary: I bought this product, despite the high price, because I liked the idea of the insulated carafe as well as the built-in timer. It's also a very good-looking machine that you don't mind sitting out on your counter. Although the coffee is good, it ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 3, 2005
Pros: Best Tasting Coffee
Cons: Price, one piece lid, carafe lid alignment indicator
Summary: My wife and I have had our MT500 for about a year now and we both really like it. It makes the best coffee we have ever had at home. We fill it with water and grounds before going to bed. I used the instructions to set the clock and timer the first ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 30, 2004
Pros: Well built and looks nice.
Cons: Expensive, weak coffee, sloppy pouring.
Summary: I have been a coffee snob for about 20 years, only drinking premium coffees such as Peets, Gevalia, Melitta and Starbucks, almost always grinding my beans with a $150 burr grinder. After 12 years of using a non-thermal Krups coffee maker, I wanted to ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 18, 2003
Pros: Best tasting coffee, Looks beautiful on the kitchen counter
Cons: Hard to read water level indicator.
Summary: Actually, I don't drink coffee, I just love its smell. I'm quoting my partner, whom I bought the coffee maker for on his birthday. We've had it for a year with no problems.
This product brews the coffee in a slightly different manner than ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 13, 2003
Pros: Fast, hot and excellent tasting coffee. Unbreakable carafe
Cons: none
Summary: This coffeemaker brews a great cup of coffee and there is almost no heat-loss during the brewing cyc ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 12, 2003
Pros: It looks great. The coffee if hot and flavorful. It's very easy to use.
Cons: So far, we really don't have any complaints about this machine.
Summary: My husband and I have been using the Capresso MT500 for a couple of weeks now. We are thoroughly satisfied with it. We tried some other brands that either did not make the coffee hot enough or didn't fit between my counter top and the bottom of the ... read more
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