Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This coffee maker works well if you understand how the design works. To help everyone I have decided to provide this review in hopes that more information will provide a better experience for all. To clairify I dont work for nor am i affiliated with the manafacture in anyway shape or form nor have i been given any compensation for my time. That being said lets move on. I have read reviews of people where they complain about the pot being turned on when they brew on the single serve side and how it takes longer to brew, well for those of you that are unaware all traditional coffee brewers have a channel inside the heating element for the carafe that they pump the water through to heat it prior to it being drawn back up and deposited onto the coffee grounds so when your using the single serve side i would recommend that you keep about 2 cups of water in the carafe or remove it so you dont burn your pot. Obviously on kcup only models the heating element is placed elsewhere due to the fact that there is no carafe thereby making the travel for the water much shorter and resulting in a faster brew. Secondly people have complained about the kcup not being punctured on top well if you dont press down on the flap on the front of the single serve side which says press down it wont lift the cup enough to fully puncture it and you will end up with water coming out of it. Also if you put a kcup in there but dont select the kcup option and leave it on grounds the coffee pot will pump the water too fast for the little cup and it will cause an overrun of water resulting in a spill. So please make sure that you select all of the options correctly as this coffee pot needs your input for it to do its job correctly. For the few people who have stated that there is a plastic taste to the coffee some watersheds have minerals or other things in them naturally that can have an adverse effect on certain types of plastic. As this plastic is listed as BPA free and for those that are unaware BPA is utilized as a plastic hardener so BPA free plastics are going to be a bit softer and thus more prone to being affected by the many trace pollutants that are in our water supply. So for those of you who are experiencing this issue i would reccomend trying bottled or distilled water and see if that doesnt make a difference for you. To address the concerns regarding having to put the exact amount of water in for the single serve side you you have to understand that in order to save your counterspace the company made this coffee pot with one main resovouir and one main pump so that is something you will have to learn to live with and really the only major trade off that you will experience in this machine at least from my perspective. So in conclusion this is a great machine if you are willing to understand that multiple functionalities will require a little more information as well as input from the end user. Thanks for reading my review to the end and have a great day.