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| List Price: www.amazon.com's Price: $250.00 Condition: New Release Date: 2006-02-01 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 | Features• AM/PM Programmable Clock/Timer lets you set the time when to grind and brew automatically• The elegant, illuminated white-on-black display is easy to read. • Charcoal Water Filter and Electronic filter indicator shows when to replace the charcoal filter • GoldTone Filter, Size 4 Conical is included. CoffeeTEAM can also be used with Size 4 paper filter • Special setting maintains flavor when brewing only 2 to 4 cups. Capresso 454 CoffeeTEAM-S Coffee Maker/Burr GrinderI can't recall just when I bought my first Capresso Coffee Team or from who but I know it must be going on five (5) years now and it is still going strong and I use it every day. Some of you people have to understand that this is NOT a commercial coffee maker, so if you're looking for the same cup of coffee you get at Starbucks, you're comparing apples and oranges. As a home appliance, I feel that this is one of the best and when mine finally gives out, I would seriously consider buying another. The only complaint I have is: they changed the color of the control panel from black to silver. Looks totally out of place. But it still makes a great cup of coffee. For those of you complaining about temperature, this dear friends is what separates home from commercial units. Don't buy itThis is the third one I have had. First one worked great till a stone was in the hawaiian coffee beans I used and jammed the burr grinder. Second one digital panal was broke right away. Third one digital panel broke after 3 years. I m not buying any more.Save your moneyMy husband bought this coffee maker for my birthday last June. For about 6 months it worked perfectly. Now it has started making the coffee so strong that it looks and tastes like mud. I make 4 cups in the morning and have had to pour it out because it uses a half of hopper of beans. We called customer service and they told us to send it back and they would send me another one. The one they sent is worse than the one I returned. My husband called today again and was spoken to very rudely by a customer service rep. Would I recommend this coffee maker to anyone...NO.Lame, Lame, LameTotally Dead, just 13 short months after purchase, and frankly I'm releived. If you like strong coffee, or have to make a pot for a group, then this machine isn't for you. The water dosn't get hot enough to truly bring the flavor of the beans out and the grinder doesn't produce enough grounds for a full pot of stong coffee. The manufacturers standard (and only) response is to use less water.The parts fit together poorly, especially the basket. While not a chore to re-asemble, I cant say the things just "drop right in". This machine eats coffee at an alarming rate. If you purchase this unit, like I did, you will need to settle for using somewhat of a excessive amount of coffe or inadequate amount of water to get your brew tolerable. My major complaint is about myself. I should have returned it the day I got it. Owned this for several years and have been happyWe've had this coffee maker for several years now. We replaced our cheap coffee maker with the CoffeeTeam S, and it was a world of difference. Waking up every morning to freshly ground coffee has been great! Overall, here are our impressions on the coffee maker:BUILD/QUALITY: The construction of the unit is very solid. The buttons are a little wobbly, but everything feels very secure in it's place. Unfortunately, our LCD display did break. With as many responses as I've seen here about the same problem, this is probably the biggest manufacturing flaw. We called Capresso, and they replaced the display for us no questions asked. We were without our coffee maker for about 4-5 days. COFFEE QUALITY (after using several different whole bean coffee): We drank sludge compared to this coffee. The freshly ground coffee does not taste bitter or burned. If you like really strong coffee, be sure to get a really dark roast beans. By default, the unit grinds enough for 2,4,6,8,10 (you select) cups of coffee. And, for each amount, you can select mild, medium, or strong. If you need a really strong roast, just select a higher amount of grinding than the amount water you add. Plus, there is a button for 2-4 cups that I believe keeps the water in the basket longer than when this option is turned off. SOUND: You're grinding coffee. It's loud. MAINTENANCE: Cleanup is pretty simple. Just don't let the coffee sit in the filter for a long time. It's easy to clean, but the filter can get really oily. Overall, we've been really happy with it. If the LCD display didn't go out, this would be a 5 star coffee maker. Product DescriptionThe only combination machine with a Conical Burr Grinder! Just pour in the beans, program the time and amount of coffee to be ground¿and CoffeeTEAM-S does the rest! Only CoffeeTEAM lets you program the amount of coffee you want to grind: choose from 2, 4, 6, 8, or 10 cups and select mild, regular or strong. You can even program two completely different settings, one for manual operation and one for automatic operation. This way you always enjoy exactly the same coffee taste. The CoffeeTEAM uses solid steel conical burrs. The slow grinding of the burrs imparts minimal heat, preserving more aroma than blade grinding. It also allows for a finer and more uniform grind than combination machines with a blade grinder. Grinding and brewing are separated, keeping moisture away from the grinder. The CoffeeTEAM grinds the programmed amount of beans directly into the filter. Then the filter automatically swings back and the brewing process begins.Read more... 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