Overall Rating
7.0, Based on 61 Reviews
Avg Price
$100.00
Manufacturer
Bodum
Machine Type
vacuum brewer, vac pot, electronic, timer, automatic
Colors
Varies
Class
Vacuum Coffee Maker, Automatic
Pro Review
No
First Look
No
QuickShot
No
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The Bodum Santos Electronic was the first successful electronic, timer controlled vacuum brewer on the market. Starbucks sold it for a time as the Starbucks Utopia.
Eric Evans (quality: 2.0) 05.03.2001 Rating: 8.0
Bottom Line: Makes great coffee, easy to use, difficult to clean.
Eric Larson (quality: 7.7) 12.30.2001 Rating: 7.6
Bottom Line: Great coffee, Fun to Watch, But treat it with TLC and use a cleaner periodically.
Frank Smrdel 04.05.2007 Rating: 5.4
Bottom Line: Great tasting coffee, but a pain to clean. Watch out for warranty service. It took one month to get mine back.
George Aaron (quality: 6.6) 02.24.2003 Rating: 5.2
Bottom Line: Stylish with the appearance of great potential. Did not live up to it.
George Swanson (quality: 9.0) 06.05.2002 Rating: 9.0
Bottom Line: Despite negaitive reviews, I purchased the unit and love it!
Greg Keough (quality: 7.8) 02.22.2002 Rating: 8.0
Bottom Line: Great coffee, interesting product
Gustav Stanowitz 08.09.2006 Rating: 3.6
Bottom Line: A vac pot that makes good coffee-IF YOU GET ONE THAT WORKS!
Howard Sheppard (quality: 7.7) 07.08.2002 Rating: 8.2
Bottom Line: Try it and return it if you aren't happy. Have an open mind and see what you think!
Irene and Lubos Palounek (quality: 7.3) 08.07.2001 Rating: 9.2
Bottom Line: Makes excellent coffee. This unit and a good espresso machine (and freshly roasted beans and a conical burr mill) is all a coffee lover needs.
Jeff Parduhn (quality: 3.0) 06.27.2001 Rating: 7.6
Bottom Line: Makes what I consider the perfect cup of coffee. Highly recommend it.
Jim Pellegrini (quality: 8.3) 02.08.2002 Rating: 7.8
Bottom Line: Good first vac pot, provided you can use or stand to throw away the massive quantities it produces.
Jim Pellegrini (quality: 9.0) 11.23.2002 Rating: 8.0
Bottom Line: Great daily use vac pot for those who don't need more than five cups.
Joel Bates (quality: 5.5) 03.18.2006 Rating: 0.4
Bottom Line: This is a dangerous, poorly designed hunk of junk and you risk buring your house down or, at the very least, making bad coffee, if you buy one.
John Hudak (quality: 6.5) 05.29.2007 Rating: 7.0
Bottom Line: A great coffee maker with a possible short life due to it being made of plastic. Hard to clean, but worth the trouble if you can stand it.
Joseph Wallis (quality: 5.0) 12.16.2003 Rating: 9.0
Bottom Line: This is the way coffee should be brewed!
Karl Keyes (quality: 8.5) 10.05.2005 Rating: 7.6
Bottom Line: I'd buy it again, but think Bodum should seriously think about re-designing the length of the dip tube. It definitely works better with that 1/4" removed.
Kayakman Hungary (quality: 5.7) 10.05.2008 Rating: 9.2
Bottom Line: This machine produces some of the best tasting coffee I have ever had.
Keith Blume (quality: 3.5) 12.21.2007 Rating: 7.4
Bottom Line: Great Brew, Great Entertainment, Requires much Coffee grind
Keith Wissman (quality: 5.0) 03.07.2005 Rating: 7.2
Bottom Line: not worth the money, especially if you pay retail...i keep going back to my 1960ish sunbeam coffeemaster c50...eBay has them all the time relatively cheap.
Lin Phillips (quality: 8.8) 01.20.2002 Rating: 7.4
Bottom Line: This a good introduction to vacuum brewing for neophytes who are intimidated by the more traditional alcohol fueled apparatus.
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