Hamilton Beach Single Serve Scoop Coffee Maker, 14oz, Stainless Steel (49981) (Discontinued)

Let me first tell you that I am an extremely picky person who is not prone to gushing over anything. I can always seem to find something to fuss about. I give this machine a triple 10!! I was suspicious of everything. My husband and I are both coffee drinkers. I don't always drink reg coffee. Sometimes half caf. You can make a cup of whatever kind you are wanting with absolutely no fuss whatsoever. And quickly & quietly. And there are 2 scoops so that if I make a cup of whatever kind I'm wanting that day, I can rinse out the scooper and then use the other scooper to make the kind he wants without putting a wet scoop in the container of coffee. I tend towards a regular size mug, but he likes a bigger man size mug. And sometimes one of us wants to use one of our travel mugs to take a taller cup with us when we have errands to run. No problem there either! In the blink of an eye you can flip over the silver plate that the cup/mug sits on and it becomes shorter so that you can use it for a shorter container. I tend to get frustrated with all the different machines in the house. It seems like a person needs a college degree and a 5 pound instruction manual to learn how to operate them. This one is as easy as it gets. You do need to learn how much coffee to put in the scooper to make your coffee the way that you like it, but that's about it. After you put your scooper with the appropriate amount of coffee in it, you fill your mug with water and pour the water in. Push the button. I always push bold. And by the time you do your next little morning chore. Feed the dog, open the blinds, etc. there's your coffee. I have read many of the reviews of this item and usually I will decide to purchase or not based on reviews. Glad I didn't let the reviews make my decision this time. The things that people are complaining about I don't see what they are seeing. I am very temperature sensitive and the coffee comes out quite hot. And someone wrote about a plastic taste?? Huh?? And there were several complaints about weak coffee. Now I will tell you that you will need to use a different grind of coffee for this machine. You will need to use one that grinds the coffee very finely. Like powder. Because of how quickly the coffee is made the water and the coffee spend very little time "together". Maybe that is their problem. You can't use the grind type that we are all used to using. The automatic drip grind. You won't get the flavor out of the coffee that you are used to. Take a few minutes. Go on a few of the sites that sell the different brands like Caribou, Green Mountain, Paul Newman, etc. and learn about the different grinds. It's no different that having to learn about the auto-drip versus the old percolator coffee grind that Grandma used to use in her old coffee pot. Remember those? I asked quite a few of my friends and no one has one of these so I went ahead and took the chance and bought one. I couldn't be happier. I just got done cleaing up our Cuisinart coffeemaker and putting it in the cabinet. We will save it for when we need to make more than a couple of cups of coffee. Maybe if company comes over. This wonderful machine is about 60% smaller than the machine it replaces so it takes up a ton less counter space. It also doesn't have a water resevoir that uses electricity constantly to keep the water warm 24/7. Why is that necessary? So you can save like 10 seconds cause the water is already hot? That sure doesn't help the electric bill. And frankly. I like my coffee to be made with fresh water. Not water that has been sitting around for days. My husband has been bugging me for about a year that he wanted a Keurig, but I refused to succumb to all the hype and get locked into having to use the ridiculously expensive per cup cost K cups. Even on sale, the cheapest I could find K cups were about 55-60 cents. And that was extremely rare. Now yes. That is much cheaper than going to your neighborhood _______ (you fill in the blank) but I just wasn't going to do it. I did find that there are now some companies that make reusable plastic cups that look like the K cups and you fill them with your own coffee, so that would have been okay. I guess. Those refillable cups were $9-10 each so I don't know what you save there. But somehow I just knew that if I kept looking I would find what I wanted and I did. An inexpensive machine to buy. Easy to clean and use. No stupid K cups. Doesn't take up a lot of space on the counter. Simple to use. Inexpensive to buy and use daily. Made by a company that has been around for decades so if heaven forbid there is a problem, my guess would be that you could call them and get it solved quickly and to the satisfaction of the customer. All in all, a rare thing. Good value for your money & a machine that is totally geared towards the customer's satisfaction. Go get one!

I originally bought one maybe 10 years ago, after our first $200 Keurig died. It cost $40 at a small kitchen store. It made excellent coffee and was far cheaper to operate and far more eco-friendly than Keurig/Pod based coffee makers, that exist only to generate plastic waste and dissolve plastic into your coffee, whether or not you can taste it. I had a job where I sometimes lived alone during the week, so I got a second one for the rented house I lived in as making a full pot of coffee seemed excessive. We got a second home somewhere in there, so I got a third one. One of my sons stole one, so I got a fourth one to replace it. I've given a couple away as gifts. I LOVE this coffee maker. To make coffee you take the STAINLESS STEEL pan (dry) and scoop up some ground coffee. With experience, you can easily eyeball the right amount for your tastes. You put the pan into the machine on top of the secondary screen, add water, put your cup underneath, and hit one of two buttons that nominally alter very slightly the brew temperature/pattern. You can vary the amount of coffee relative to the amount of water to the regular/bold button results to get at least some degree of optimization to your own tastes, but honestly, if you use good , fresh coffee to make coffee, the coffee that comes out is going to be good, hot coffee for almost any reasonable permutation in its range. To make a second cup, you take the pan, rap it sharply on the side of your garbage can to remove the grounds, rinse it, and rinse the little filter that sits under it to keep the coffee grounds-free. Put back the small filter, and either dry the pan and scoop etc or use a second pan (I generally keep two to rotate them) or refill the wet pan with a secondary scoop. Literally a minute, with no non-biodegradeable waste. You can even compost the grounds if you are eco-fanatic enough and generate NO waste. If you are a coffee essential oil fanatic, you can use a small piece of coffee filter paper in/under the pan to absorb the "bad oils" and further improve the cup it makes, but I rarely bother as I don't use paper filters at all even in full pot machines -- too much waste, too little gain. Good coffee beans make good coffee, stale ones make bad coffee, simple as that, no point in trying to make good coffee out of bad coffee grounds/beans. A simple trick makes this coffee maker even better. It has (for reasons that escape me) a big hole in back above the tank intended to keep you from overfilling it with water. This hole limits the size of the coffee cup you can make at one time pretty substantially. If you leave the hole open, you can use an Ozark stainless steel cup that holds 16 oz of coffee and has a snap-shut lid (available at Wal-Mart, usually near camping) to make a perfect thermos cup of coffee if you add water to the very edge of the spill line. If you COVER this hole -- which I routinely do now -- you can add enough water to fill their LARGER stainless thermos cup with a snap-shut lid and basically end up with around 22-24 oz of coffee in a single brew, ready to safely carry to your car -- say, 1/3 of a 12 cup pot. Obviously, you fill the pan a bit more if you do this, but there is plenty of room to make coffee that is still plenty strong enough if you do, especially with "bold". So you can in ONE PASS make enough coffee in a single stay-hot stainless cup to get even a fanatic/addict through the morning and well-launched on a day, or you can (of course) just make two 16 oz stainless cups. Either way, these "travel" mugs/cups are double walled and insulated and can keep coffee warm to hot for hours when snapped shut. This coffee maker does need to be cleaned/descaled periodically, and you should use soft water or clean more frequently, just like any other, but my ORIGINAL purchase is still running after years of service cleaning it with vinegar as usual a couple of times a year. You do need to rinse off the brew head (where the water comes out to hit the grounds) a lot more frequently, especially if you (over)fill the pan, but you can actually hold it upside down in the sink and run water over it to do so and at the same time hose out the water reservoir etc as need be. A second thing to note is that if you own this machine on a decadal time scale as I have, you have to either replace the pan or periodically clean off any coffee that sticks to the pan screen or the holes will close up and your brew will back up into the head or overflow onto the secondary filter. Soaking in cleaning vinegar or "the Works" toilet bowl cleaner (basically hydrochloric acid) and then washing/scrubbing rinsing will revive it for a few more years, but at some point it will probably need replacing (when the screen wears through, for example:-). Wearing a coffee maker OUT, of course, is something that never happens in the planned obsolescence world of today, but with this single cup maker, it is possible. The ones I own just might actually last the rest of my life, except for the pan, if I can keep the guts descaled. There just isn't much else to go wrong. Could it be improved? Maybe, a tiny bit. It's brew temperature is a hair colder than "perfectly optimum" -- fresh-brewed coffee comes out at maybe 150-160F, a good drinking temperature but a bit cooler than the 180 coffee fanatics insist on as the ideal brew temperature. Still makes a damn good cup, though. They could either leave out the hole or at least, put it up where it NEEDS to be, right before the point where water overflows down into the brew head and makes a mess, not down there at least 4-5 oz short of the true maximum brew capacity. But overall, as I said, I LOVE THIS COFFEE MAKER. It has already outlived generations of 12 cup makers on the side and I'm thinking of buying another spare just in case they ever stop making it.

As a single woman with a conventional coffee brewer, I tend to pour as much coffee down the drain as I drink in the morning. Which means that I effectively pour a lot of money down the drain as well. When my percolator finally bit the big one, I began my ardent search for a new, less wasteful device that would deliver that blessed morning elixir. I knew Keurig was very popular with its shiny, savvy single-serve coffeemakers, so my search began there. It seemed like an easy solution to my overreaching problem, but I found the thought of all those plastic cups that wind up in landfills, the expense of purchasing said cups, and the expense of the units themselves a bit daunting. Especially since, at the prices Keurig charges for their units, they should be made of steel. Alas, they are not. Upon inspection in the stores, I found them to be all plastic parts, and none too sturdy at that. Still, I was nearly lured in by the shiny promise of becoming a fashionable member of the K-cup crowd. Then I discovered the Hamilton Beach Single Serve Scoop coffee maker. Simple, sleek and unpretentious, this durable unit almost passed beneath my radar amid the cleverly implemented Keurig craze. With its own steel and mesh measured scoop that doubles as a filter, there is absolutely no waste...and no insidious plastic cups to feed those newly-burgeoning landfills. Simply scoop your favorite coffee according to the size of your cup - there's a line for 8 oz and 16 oz on the scoop - place said scoop in the holding bay, pour cool water from said cup into the compartment at the top of the unit, place cup under the elixir feed (my terminology) and press the button. (The measuring lines on the scoop/filter are not prominent at first, but easily discernible upon closer inspection.) Within moments, you'll have a nice cuppa joe to kick-start your noggin! Easy-peezy, soft and breezy! Now, the only reason I didn't give this particular unit five stars is because, given that there is no under-burner, if you walk away for too long while the coffee's brewing, you'll have to nuke it to get it back to the desired temperature. This is a bit of a drawback for me, since it's February, I'm an easily-distracted working writer - and hence my home is kept a bit on the cool side - I've found this to be a common occurrence. I find that by using a travel mug (the steel cup tray adjusts for this) and pre-warming it with warm water before brewing my coffee, I've alleviated most of that issue. However, I'm a bit of a princess and like to drink my coffee from fine ceramic pottery, so I've smugly lobbed off the fifth star. You may not have such a prissy preference, and feel just fine about drinking out of a travel mug. In that case, feel free to consider that fifth star. If you're currently considering the purchase of a single-serve coffee maker, are green-minded and on a budget, considering The Scoop over pricier, less-durable units is pretty much a no-brainer. It's currently listed at $58.98 on Amazon, which is highly doable in today's market. Sure, you won't be able to stand around at parties, comparing the variety of flavor combinations available with K-cups, and sharing what you've found to be the least-expensive resource for obtaining such fodder. However, you WILL be able to stand off to the side, observing the conversation, while secretly feeling superior that you get the same convenience as them without the added expense and waste. Try to be compassionate. They're not quite as savvy as you. Someday they'll catch up.

I had been looking for a single cup coffee maker that DIDN'T use pods for a while, but none really impressed me very much. Then I came across "The Scoop" by Hamilton Beach and I pushed the button and made the purchase. The coffee maker arrived on time and in pristine condition. I had read the reviews beforehand so when I placed my order, I also purchased 1 box of #1 coffee filters (seen in the photo) along with a new 16 oz THERMOS Stainless King Vacuum-Insulated Travel Tumbler. After running 3 cycles of clean water through the system, I made my first mug of coffee following the directions exactly. I did NOT use a paper filter and to be honest, I didn't run into an issue of sludge being in the bottom of the mug, nor did I encounter any grounds floating in my coffee. Lastly, there was NO sputtering during the brewing and NO splattered coffee escaped outside the travel mug... not a drop. That said, I was using the travel mug pictured which almost goes completely to the bottom of the filter well so there was very little room for anything to escape. All in all, the first mug wasn't bad. It had a slight acidic taste to it but was within my boundaries of being called "decent." After I finished the first mug of coffee, I rinsed both filters and the filter well out thoroughly and prepared to make my second mug; this time with a paper filter. As seen in the photo, I placed a #1 paper filter between the brew basket and secondary filter. The grounds were placed inside the brew basket. Almost an entire bottle of Dasani water was poured in (which was surprising since the well is only supposed to hold a maximum of 14 oz and a bottle of Dasani is 16.9 oz) and the bold brew cycle was again started. A few minutes later the second mug was ready, and it DID actually taste better than the first. The slight acidic taste I experienced with the first mug was not present in the second mug. This improved the taste from being decent to being fantastic! So, in summary, I do not believe that paper filters are necessary when using "The Scoop" coffee maker but IMO the paper filters do cut down on the oil and acidic taste turning a decent cup of coffee into an even better cup. I would easily recommend this coffee machine to friends and family who are looking for something other than a "pod machine." The price is extremely reasonable, it's well made, looks nice, cleans up easily, doesn't take up a bunch of space and most importantly, it makes very good coffee. Oh... almost forgot... when brewing a cup or mug do NOT remove the cup when the coffee stops pouring into the cup. I discovered rather quickly that the coffee will stop pouring several times while filling my travel mug but would then start up again a second or two later. The mug/cup is ready to be removed once the green light goes out.

I bought this for my office and was reading all the reviews possible to find out about using disposable mini filters for ease of cleanup (no sink in my office). I’ve had this for several months now and wanted to come back and share my experience. I was able to find single serve, non-bleached filters here on Amazon, but my coffee kept brewing like tea—far too weak and tasteless. What I have found is that if you get Moka Pot grind coffee (finer than regular grounds, not as fine as espresso grind) it works perfectly to brew with a disposable paper filter. I don’t use the scoop at all (worried it would cause overflow) just the metal filter + paper filter and it brews a lovely cup. I have my own little scoop that I’ve tested the right amount of grounds for my cup to brew. So easy to toss the used grounds/filter and leave the top open for it to dry. I haven’t needed to deep clean it yet and it works great! If I had a grinder at home to dial in the perfect size grind I would, but for now I just order the moka pot grind. There was a period of time it tasted a little ‘plastic’ like, but all my testing to get the right cup worked it right out. Just brew some water and test runs and you’ll be good to go. Recommend!

This HB Scoop seemed like the answer to this single-serve coffee user's dream: use my own high quality coffee instead of Keurig's weak, obscenely-priced K-Cups. With that in mind, I bought my FIRST Scoop in January 2013 here from Amazon. It worked perfectly for 7.5 months UNTIL one morning mid-August 2013 it simply refused to brew and just rudely flashed it's blue light at me for 6 or 7 times. I repeatedly dumped out the water and tried again. Plugged and unplugged. Researched fixes on the internet, such as tap it on the right side. Nadda. It was dead. Instead of calling Hamilton Beach, I just reordered a replacement from Amazon which I received 8/24/13. My SECOND Scoop also worked perfectly for months, until last Saturday Feb. 1, 2014 @ 8AM as I tried to brew my morning cuppa. UNBELIEVABLY, my replacement Scoop also refused to brew and simply flashed the blue light at me again. Again. Just like the first Scoop 7 months earlier had done. I couldn't believe it. Again I tried the usual fixes the website and other fix-it websites recommended. I dumped out the water and refilled it a few times. Moved it to a new outlet. Looked inside for an errant tube that needed readjustment. Nothing worked. So I ran to Dunkin Donuts and sat down to google fixes that may have come up since my last go-around with the flashing blue light. I was so dismayed to see the many identical complaints by Scoop owners--that all was well until the flashing blue light of doom arbitrarily appeared to prevent any future brewing. And nothing worked to fix the problem. This time, I decided to call Hamilton Beach c/s @ 800-851-8900. Well, you know how everyone always complains when US companies farm out c/s overseas? In my 2 calls to HB c/s, I was wishing for the polite, soft spoken foreign c/s reps that have trouble understanding me (and visa versa) but eventually do politely solve my problem. I spoke to two 20-somethings @ HB who argued with me, rudely talked over me, challenged my claim, snarkily told me "you would be surprised at the stories we get from people", demanded that I put more water in the coffee maker because I apparently was putting in insufficient water (despite me using the 2d unit for 7.5 months daily to brew coffee with zero problems--obviously I know how much water to put in it), telling me that my sharing of my experiences with 2 Scoops was giving them too much info and snippily telling me "no cut cord photo= no replacement), as if I was faking the whole experience. OY VEY! Hamilton Beach---you seriously need to add the topic of "customer service" to your customer service training classes. I was challenged at every sentence by TWO HB reps who clearly have zero conception of what c/s is. Eventually rep #2 agreed to send me a warranty replacement unit for $14.99 (supposedly what UPS charges HB but which seems insanely high for a business ship contract rate) if I emailed in a photo of my Scoop with it's cord cut to [email protected], with my claim # in the subject line xxx0172 (in case someone at HB reads this). I paid the $14.99 on the phone via c/c and emailed the cut cord photo within 5 minutes of hanging up the phone. I will update my post here when/if Scoop #3 arrives. This blue flashing light is clearly a manufacturer's defect that HB is ignoring. For all of you who currently love your Scoop, your Scoop days are numbered. This unit is not made to last. I am $120 into the dream of a single serve coffee maker that uses my own coffee. I have zero expectation of Scoop #3 (if it arrives) lasting more than 6 months again. There will NOT be a 4th Scoop or any other Hamilton Beach product in my life again.

Wow...I just brewed my first cup. I have used Keurig for years, but balked at the price to replace mine. I have never managed to get a Keurig to last beyond about 5 years, BTW, and despite descaling and/or using vinegar to clean, it became harder to get a nice coffee taste from the appliance once it bit the dust. To be fair, even with filtered water, our water where we live is extremely hard, so a great tasting up is hard to brew. Here is what I liked about this Hamilton Beach coffee brewer: Scoop to brew is convenient and MUCH EASIER to clean thoroughly. Nice and wide so it's easy to fill and dump. I detest the waste with pods and use my own coffee instead. Brew was fast. Temperature was right and I could drink immediately...not too hot or too cool. Stand for standard sized cup is sturdy and easy to set up. Also taller cup size will be fine when I need it. Filter brewed a nice, smooth cup of joe. Looking forward to using this every morning. UPDATE 7/5 After using this for a month, I can say that it is a better brewer than Keurig! Easier to clean thoroughly, double filter so you don't get bitterness from grounds. I strongly recommend this.

This was a replacement for my Bunn "MyCup" brewer, which by admission, cost over 4 times as much as this little guy. That coffee maker served me well for 4+ years, and in replacing it, I decided to go green(er) and ditch K-cups. I am going to try to keep this review simple, but hopefully helpful, to those of you searching. PROS: 1. The sleek, streamlined look. One of the smallest/thinnest-width out there. Looks great, fits right in. 2. The "flip-up" coffee-mug height adjuster. Simple concept but brilliant in execution. Has prevented sloshing/spills as long as I remember to adjust it for the current mug. 3. The price. Duh. It's one of the most inexpensive single-cup brewers with fairly high ratings overall. (Does it beat my previous $130+Bunn? No. But for the price, it's a good value). 4. Bold/Regular settings. I admittedly dump so much sweetener and milk in my coffee that true "taste" really isn't a big deal ... but I admit, I am very much enjoying the coffee brewed with ground coffee (vs my previous K-cups) on the "bold" setting. CONS: 1. The water isn't as hot as my previous single-cup brewer. I always add milk to it, so prefer it verrrrry hot to start, and this just isn't as steamy. Other reviewers have commented that it's "too hot" ... so I tried it fresh out of the maker, and yes, it's hot ... but if you add creamer/milk, beware, the starting point is not "hot enough". May need to re-warm it after adding a splash of milk. 2. The brew rate is slow. Considerably slower than my previous, which came out in a steady stream. This one is more "drip-drip-little-stream-drip", which takes a few minutes more. In my morning rush, those 2-3 minutes extra are annoying. I am hoping to get used to it and develop a little more patience waiting for my cup. NEUTRAL: "The sludge" -- after several cups, there is a some left-over sludge in the fine filter. Just rinse it out and you're good to go. Other reviewers have been annoyed, so they use additional "single cup" paper filters. I don't find it necessary. But do remember to rinse it now and then -- build up causes the flow rate to slow down considerably. Overall, I think I am going to keep this little coffee maker and stick with it. I purposely looked to save some money (and didn't replace my previous Bunn for that reason), so being a bit disappointed is to be expected. The transition from K-cups to brewed coffee has been a pleasant surprise (coffee tastes better!) but is a little more work and preparation, as expected. It seems a pretty good buy for the money.

This is a great coffee machine! Easy to use and brews a great cup of coffee. You can either use a small cup or a traveller's mug. It's easy to clean. It's good for the environment. I throw the coffee grounds in the compost, just rinse the filter container where you put your coffee grains plus the other screen container that is under the container you put the coffee grains in it and make a new cup of coffee. Fast and easy. At the beginning I made the mistake of not cleaning these two containers and of course they got clogged and would splash water as the coffee was brewing. I thought it was a bad product but really I was the bad user. It's a pretty silver machine and does not take a lot of room on the counter.

machine is not working . & not aware about the service centre

注文してから海外へ発送の手配をかけるらしく、手元に届くまでかなりの日数がかかりました。 日本語説明は付いていませんが、なくても操作を間違うことはないと思います。 商品は見た目も操作もとてもシンプルで、そのままコンセントを差し込み、カップ1杯分の水を入れてスイッチを押し、入れた水がなくなれば自動的に電源は切れます。(※2回ほど水だけで出してからコーヒーの粉をセットして飲んだ方が良いみたいです。) 途中で止めたいときは、スイッチをもう一度押すだけ。 カップを置く高さが変えられるので、高さ11.5cm/18.5cmまでのマグカップ/タンブラーなどが置くことができます。 スイッチは縦に REGULAR/BOLD と表示されたものが付いています。 何が違うのか？試して見ました。 REGULAR：一般的なコーヒーメーカーと同じようにポコポコと音をたてて断続的にお湯が落ちコーヒーができます。 BOLD：同じようにポコポコと音をたててお湯が落ち、しばらくすると止まります(蒸らし？なのでしょうか？)。そしてまたお湯が出てまた止まる。この繰り返し。当然BOLDの方が抽出時間がながくなります。 特別な機能がついているわけではないので、値段を考えるとちょっと高いような気もするのですが、日本製では見た目がスッキリとシンプルで、置く高さが変えられ、ちょうど1杯分が抽出でき、ペーパーフィルターを使わない！メッシュフィルターのコーヒーメーカーがなかった(T ^ T) 多少高くても気に入ったものが欲しかったので納得の買い物でした(^^)

Ideal para los amantes de una excelente taza de café sin complicaciones. Este producto prepara una taza de café de 8 oz en solo 3 minutos y una de 14 oz en 5 minutos. El café sale a la temperatura perfecta para disfrutarlo de inmediato. No necesitas filtros ni estar comprando nada más que tu café. El manejo es muy simple y la limpieza también. La función Bold y Regular permite ajustar el sabor a la amargura deseada, ofreciendo una experiencia personalizada y deliciosa. El material es de alta calidad y el diseño refleja la superioridad del producto, asegurando durabilidad y elegancia. No la recomiendo si piensas preparar usualmente más de una taza a la vez.

I received a damaged product didnt working ! Still not getting any help from Amazon