BUYDEEM K176 Tea Maker, Multifunctional Stainless Steel Electric Kettle for Tea and Coffee Brewing, Auto Keep Warm, 5 Flavor Controls, 1.5L

Works great

Sorry I sent this one back.

I give credit for coming up with the idea of a machine that can brew both tea and coffee using steam but this product needs a lot of improvements. I am rather disappointed that Amazon Vine Customer Reviewers did not mention any of the issues in their product reviews. First given how much space this takes on your countertop, it is only good for 2 cups of coffee or tea. Second, if you use this machine to brew tea and coffee you need to know that the flavor of coffee will get into your tea and ruin it and vise versa. I suspect the reason is because of the tea/coffee brewing basket. The holes are so tiny that cleaning seems to be impossible. The cleaning instructions mention to use "a small BAYDEEM cleaning brush" but no such brush was provided in the box. One would think for the price they are charging a cleaning brush should have been provided in the package... I do not know if you can buy an additional basket so you can use one for brewing tea and the other for coffee, that could be the solution for the flavor issue. Also note that the brewing basket is very delicate or maybe cheap quality. You have to be very careful while cleaning you do not squeeze as it. may go out of shape. And by the way, the instructions are not user friendly either but after a while you figure things out yourself. The metal rod that is in the middle of the basket makes it difficult to empty the tea and coffee grinds after brewing your coffee. I use Gevalia coffee and found that the coffee grinds still do end up in my coffee. As mentioned in other reviews, the lid is hard to full out but it is also hard to get it close. You have to be careful and make sure that it is closed properly before you start the machine. If you make the full two cups of tea/coffee, after you take your first glass note that by the time you return for the second cup half of it has disappeared. On a positive note, I got delicious cup of tea the firs time I made tea, and got delicious cup of coffee when I made my first cup of coffee. After that first time nothing was the same and was a big disappointment. Following up to my earlier comment: Seller contacted me regarding my above issue and went out of the way to to take care of the issues. Their customer service is excellent. Five full stars fot the service.

I thought this was going to be a game changer; the marketing makes it sound like it would. But, this is nothing but a very expensive kettle that can be used as a percolator. Supposedly, you can use this to brew tea and coffee. I don’t drink coffee, so I can’t comment on how well it makes coffee. But, I do drink tea. Let’s just say, the tea brewing feature leaves a lot to be desired; it percolates tea. Boiling water flows over the tea leaves in the basket to extract the tea. But, the boiling hot tea continues to flow over the tea leaves for the duration of the programed cycle. What you end up with is extremely astringent tea. The tea is extracted with too hot water for too long of a time. There’s no way around this function. The water has to boil to flow into the basket. You can boil water without the basket (or tea), then add tea to the kettle once it’s cooled slightly. Then serve after an appropriate brewing time. But, you can do that with a very cheap kettle. Why pay $200 for a kettle? You have to make minimum of 500ml and no more than around 700ml. I’m assuming it doesn’t function very well outside of those parameters. Again, a lot of effort for only 2-3 large servings of badly brewed tea. An additional feature is that you can heat water to several pre-set temperatures below boiling. Why? This is just an odd piece of kitchen tech that will end up on a shelf somewhere.

Works week and appears to be well constructed time will tell. On the pricey side for what it is.

The media could not be loaded. We love this tea maker! This will be the best gift for people who love to drink tea!The filter is very fine grinding so that I don’t see tea leaves in the water. It could keep my tea warm with the temperature I wanted without being too bold or too light because the tea leaves stay in the filter instead of water.It is made with high standard stainless steel. Highly recommended!