Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Sanyo SAC-MST6 Coffee/Tea Maker with Built-In Grinder, Black

Product Description

A great unit for coffee and tea lovers. Free up counter space with this 6 cup design. It has a fast, built in grinder to ground beans to make fresh coffee and includes a unique tea basket that captures true tea flavor when brewing tea. Use the removable water tank with printed measurements for coffee, tea or iced tea/coffee to easily fill to your requirements. Use the special designed soft shower drip coffee basket to brew your ground coffee to its optimum taste. For tea lovers, the tea basket has a special screen to allow the use of tea leaves and the vented sides provide a slow brew to insure the ultimate tea experience. A charcoal filter enhances your coffee and tea flavor. A keep warm function maintains the temperature until turned off. Charcoal gray finish with stainless steel accents.


Customer Reviews

Does as it says5
*The built in grinder works just fine and detatches easily so you can pour it into the filter.
*It uses Militta type #2 cone filters and the water drips slowly, so there are not flooding problems.
*Instead of filling the carafe, you fill the detatchable water tank. Not more or less convenient really, just different. Hey, you wanted to be different. Nice because it's not breakable like the carafe.
* 6 cup maker instead of 12 cups -- its my own fault I didn't notice that.
* Temp is fine. I think those fancy BUNN machines everyone loves so much get the brew so hot it destroys the flavor. That's just a personal opinion.
*I have not used the ice tea maker function - we already have a different unit for that, so I can't render an opinion.
* Small carbon filter twists off and they ask that you just rinse it in regular water before you make a fresh pot. Its suggested replacement is every 2 years - although most people never replace them, so its not a worry.
* Instructions are specific and simple - they also come in spanish / Se habla espanol :)

It does what it says it will do, but is it as great coffee maker?
No, it's as good as most. You can get a $20+ Mr. Coffee or whatever you like and it will do no better or worse, Im sure.

Pleasantly surprised5
I had been searching for a coffee maker with a built-in grinder and even went as far as purchasing a Cuisinart for $150.00, which I didn't care for and returned. There aren't that many coffee makers out there with the built-in grinders, so I decided to give the Sanyo a try. I must admit I was pleasantly surprised at how hot the coffee was (compared to the Cuisinart) and how delicious. I was a little bit disappointed in that I thought the grinder automatically ground the coffee and brewed it, but got over that quickly, since everything else was so great. I also would have preferred the coffee maker been in black rather than the dark gray color, but again, it is a minor flaw to me. All in all, for the money, I don't think there is a better coffeemaker out there with the features it has for the low price. Buy it! Patricia Davis in Cave Creek, AZ

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