Sometimes you just need a pot of coffee, and so I wanted to take a look at the BELLA Dots Collection 12-Cup Programmable Coffee Maker
In the box you get the coffee maker itself — note that they come in happy colors, so you can match your kitchen decor, or maybe even your iPhone. There is also a 12-cup glass carafe, a measuring spoon, and this is a wonderful idea — a permanent coffee filter, a removable filter basket, and an instruction manual.
The controls are fairly intuitive, though note that the Start button acts as power. You can select between three different coffee brewing strengths, and of course you can program the coffee maker to brew coffee at a future time, or right away.
The unit also as a deep-clean feature and an autoshutoff of the hotplate after 2 hours.
Making coffee is straightforward–fill reservoir with water, put the filter into the basket, put coffee into the filter, select your brewing strength, and push start.
If I had to complain about anything, I’d say that because it takes about 10 minutes to brew a full pot of coffee, I’d sure like a beep or something to let me know when it’s done.
That nitpick is counterbalanced though by the fact that after there about two cups of coffee have been brewed, you can pull the carafe out, pour yourself some coffee, and put the carafe back to finish brewing the rest of the pot.
That’s a winner in my book.
In the video review you can see the coffee maker and how to use it in more detail:
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