Tassimo by Bosch TAS2001UC Single Serve Coffee Brewer, White
Product Features
- Single-serve coffee brewer brews at the touch of a button in about a minute
- Uses T-Discs with barcode technology; beverages pour directly from T-Disc into cup
- No measuring, no fuss, and virtually no cleanup; customizable size and strength
- LED user interface; 51-ounce removable water tank
- Measures W 7 7?8" x H 11" x D 11 3?4"; 1-year parts-and-labor warranty
Product Description
Product Dimensions: 14.8 x 10.8 x 12.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 7 pounds
Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
Customer Reviews
Pecos Bill (Gaithersburg, MD United States)
I can think of a few good reasons for owning one of these single-cup brewers:
* You are the only person in your house who likes coffee and you mostly only brew a cup at a time anyway
* You have a business and you want a convenient way for customers to be able to make coffee if they want some without just letting a carafe sit around all day
* You work in an office and would like a way to brew various types of coffee rather than the standard "1 flavor fits all" giant carafe that most offices do.
If any of those are what you had in mind, then this is a great idea. (If you really do brew giant carafes of coffee at a time then something like this wouldn't make much sense.)
So you buy some disks (sold separately) and put a disc in the machine and push a button and it will brew a cup of coffee for you. That's really all there is to it.
For more complicated drinks, like cappuccino, it's a two disc process: put in the steamed milk disc and let it do that, then put in the espresso disc and there's your cappuccino.
It can also do tea and hot chocolate. Shop around for the discs before you buy to see if you're okay with the prices and selection, and make sure you order some when you order this. It's a pretty wide selection, though, and the price is still less than I pay for a cup of coffee at a restaurant. (I did a Starbucks one first. It's Starbucks. If you don't like Starbucks, there's Maxwell House and other brands as well.)
The platform for the cup is adjustable so you can move it closer to the spout for small cups (espresso) or further from the spout to make room for a bigger cup. You can use a manual override to make a drink smaller+stronger or bigger+weaker.
Cleaning is easy. The spout and related bits pop out. (I had some trouble with this initially as the directions weren't real clear. Just push up on the spigot from below and it'll pop up, then you can unsnap it from the pokey bit.) Once you have the parts out, you can put them in the dishwasher or just rinse them off in the sink, then put them back in. Only takes about a minute. There's also a cleaning cycle you can run that just runs hot water/steam through the system (I'm not actually sure if this replaces the need to occasionally take it apart for a real cleaning...)
The splash guard backing and cup platform can be removed and replaced with another color, should you so desire. So the device itself is white but you can buy inserts to make the splash guard and platform red, blue, etc, in case white doesn't go well with your decor.
It's fast, too. No sitting around waiting for water to heat up as in my old coffee maker. You push the button and it starts flowing with hot water immediately. There is no apparent warm-up time required.
It could be argued that making coffee like this creates a lot of waste, but I dunno. That would be true if you were going to make 15 cups of coffee in a row from the same grinds, in which case you might as well just use a regular coffee maker. If you're just going to make 1 cup then it's probably close to the same amount of garbage generated. Rather than grinds + filter = 1 cup, it's 1 disc = 1 cup. Not that much difference.
The fact that this thing can do steamed milk for cappuccino is a nice bonus, too.
Anyway, it seems great so far. I think I'm going to get a lot of use out of it. I'm the only one in my house who likes coffee and it was just too much hassle to brew a cup at a time, so I think I'll enjoy using this.
(P.S.: Mocha Cappuccino: hot chocolate + cappuccino + big mug = yum)
(P.P.S.: 18/Dec/10 update - I've been using this almost every day since I got it. I do wish the default portions were bigger but apparently there are T-discs that have bigger sizes? I'll have to look harder next time I shop for them. Anyway, it's really great to be able to get a perfect cup of coffee every time rather than too weak, too strong, burnt or the various other mistakes I tend to make when doing my own. I can see that this coffee maker and I are going to be friends.)
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