Posted Tue Jan 7, 2003, 10:05am Subject: Gevalia promo coffee maker - is it decent?
I use a Melitta cone at home directly into a carafe for my drip coffee but I'm spending more time at my GF's home lately. She "needs" het kitchen appliances to be white and doesn't want to deal with the mess of boiling and pouring into a filter cone when I'm not around. She currently has a cheapo GE or Black & Decker auto drip maker w/glass carafe. I noticed a magazine ad for Gevalia Kaffe - join their "club" by committing to a pound of coffee for $14.95 you get a free thermal carafe auto-drip maker. I joined Gevalia briefly years ago to get another promo item and stopped my membertship as soon as I received the item, thus I know there's no risk of spending more than the $14.95 if I'm diligent about dropping out right away. I've attached a pic of the coffeemaker below (it is also available in white). Does anyone recognize this machine, which is obviously a rebadged version of someone else's product.
Posted Tue Jan 7, 2003, 2:22pm Subject: Re: Gevalia promo coffee maker - is it decent?
phaelon56 Said:
Does anyone recognize this machine, which is obviously a rebadged version of someone else's product.
Hi Owen,
I did the same thing when I first started out, & got the free Gevalia Kaffe brewer. Mine just has silver lettering. It looks like a Krups, but the company rebadging them (on the bottom of the brewer) is Connaisseur Home Concepts, Parsippany N.J. For service 100 Central Avenue,Bldg,39, S.Kearny N.J. 07032. My model # is KA-865MB, also listed on the owners manual is KA-965MW, KA-865AB. When I saw your post on this, I went & ran a performance test on the brewer. The insulated carafe holds 44oz (1.25liters),46oz right to the inner rubber sealing gasket.My measurements are in Canadian Imperial measure. 8oz = 1cup. 32oz = 1 American qt 35.2oz = 1 Canadian liter.
4 cups measured = 5.5 cups displayed
5 cups measured = 6.75 cups displayed
Temps in showerhead (Calibrated thermocouple)
1 min 184 - 186F
2 min 191 - 195F
3 min 190 - 193F
4 min 191 - 193F
5 min 190 - 193F
6 min 192 - 195F
7 min 199 - 201F
8 min 199 - 202F
Temp in carafe (Calibrated thermocouple)
185F
This brew cycle (no coffee in filter) was with plain fresh cold tap water at 48F! straight out of the tap,corrected to 70F, normal room temp. My workaround on this long brew time was to do two split brews, a PITA, otherwise anything upwards of 5 min & you're over extracting. I used a Swissgold KF-4 permanent filter.
The Gevalia insulated brewer still makes a suprisingly good cup of joe!
Posted Tue Jan 7, 2003, 4:51pm Subject: Re: Gevalia promo coffee maker - is it decent?
That works for me.... it's just the two of us drinking coffee on most occasions and she only has one cup. I can easily live with making two four cup batches on the rare occasions that I need more. Thanks for the detailed info and the confirmation that this is a good choice (especially for the price!).
No problem.., glad the info helped! It gave me a chance to try out my new (Dec 6th) DMM with temp probe.When I first checked out the brew temps when I got the brewer,I had a lab grade mercury thermometer,with the bulb end stuck directly under one of the two holes of the shower head,hot water spewing everywere! This was much easier!! {:-D For the half brew (22oz of capacity), if you brew a 6oz cup you'd have 3.7 cups in 4 minutes.Let it run 15-20 secs longer (still under 5 min total brew time), & you guys could still squeak out (2 each) of these 4 slightly smaller cups in the one brew cycle. {;-)
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Posted Tue Aug 12, 2003, 1:05pm Subject: Re: Gevalia promo coffee maker - is it decent?
Yeah, I had this Gevalia drip machine that I had never even used - I just wanted to try the coffee back when I ordered it. This was before I got into coffee, so now, years later, I was trying all these different things, presses, single cup drips, espresso, etc. and I suddenly remembered I had this thing up in a cupboard. So I pulled it out, and using my high quality digital food thermometer, I got readings of 195+ where the water drips into the coffee. I was shocked. Then I thought about it, and I realized these Gevalia people aren't stupid, they want you to like their coffee and keep ordering it monthly, so they put together a machine that brews it at the right temperature to best highlight their coffee - cool. So now I use it all the time. Mine is just a regular glass pot.
Posted Tue Aug 12, 2003, 1:51pm Subject: Re: Gevalia promo coffee maker - is it decent?
Nice to see this thread revived as I did order the promo maker but it sat unused for a few months at my GF's house until I visited there recently. I agree that it just takes too darn long to make a full pot and that's an issue. We typically make it to the 4 cup or 5 cup mark and I find that preheating the carafe for a few minutes with the hottest possible tap water makes a big difference in the final result. It is a great deal for the price. For my "free" coffee I ordered the whole bean Peruvian Organic and also the Breakfast Blend. Really liked the Peruvian but was lukewarm on the blend. I exchanged emails with someone who got the same promo and she did not like the Peruvian - said hers was flat and seemed stale. I guess there's some inconsistency in the coffee but even if you throw out the coffee, at $14.95 it's a good deal.
Posted Wed Aug 13, 2003, 11:12am Subject: Re: Gevalia promo coffee maker - is it decent?
Interestingly, when I go to their site (via Google), it shows me this offer for the glass carafe. When I click around their site, I come up with a better offer for the thermal carafe. Both appear to be valued at for $59.95 on their site.
This is the path I took: >home (Gelavia) >Learn (Begin Your Gelavia Experience) >Free Gift Offer
note: I haven't figured out how to add two pictures to the same reply.. so I will add the other picture in another reply.
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