Breville – the Grind Control 12-Cup Coffee Maker – Brushed Stainless Steel

Been using it since Aug 2019 and it always makes a grwat cup of coffee!

This is an amazing coffee pot. Fresh, great tasting cofffee with many options, can adjust strength and amount. Takes whole beans or ground coffee.

Not just the easiest to use coffee maker, but outstanding quality of the roast.

This is the worst coffee maker I have ever owned. To start off with the coffee filter compartment doesn’t stay closed when you start the machine, grinds everywhere. Second it never makes the same amount of coffee 2 times in a row. I have it set on 12 oz , This thing will be replaced as soon as I can afford a good machine.

Watery coffee everytime. Beans dont automatically fall into grinder. Its a lot of work for the price, and bad quality

I adjust the machine for the most potent brew possible, and the coffee is still weak. The grinder jams frequently.

Couldn’t be happier with this new coffee maker. We get our whole coffee beans from a shop in Pittsburgh and I noticed the difference with this machine and how much better it tastes I love all the bells and whistles. Great purchase.

Makes great coffee!!! I recommend good quality coffee beans for the best results. Some review suggest it takes to much work to clean after each brewing, however, I find it takes me 2-3 minutes tops, and that is being VERY thorough! Very much worth it in my opinion.

Amazing fresh brew coffee. Love how it grind down coffee bean

The Good: Nice burr grinder, nice display and options to make a single cup through a pot.

The Bad: everything else.
1. Coffee maker doesn’t fit under standard sizes cupboards. There is a protruding knob that makes it too tall.
2. Thermal Carafe opening is so small no reasonably sized hand can fit in it to clean. It also has a weird lip that makes it very hard to empty.
3. Pouring the coffee out of the carafe is very very slow. Like almost trickle slow.
4. Coffee in carafe immediately after brewing is warm, not hot. The instructions in the book say to preheat the carafe with warm water. Newsflash: anyone who wants to use the auto timer, so they don’t have to get up to make coffee in the morning cannot preheat the carafe. Is this defeats the purpose of the auto timer.
5. There is no heating element to keep the coffee hot. The thermal carafe is supposed to keep it hot. Refer to point #4.
6. The brew basket leaks drops across your floor when you remove it to empty and clean it. Every time. It also has a weird chute piece that holds debris so you have to make sure you don’t miss it when cleaning it.
I love Breville typically, but they really have done a poor job with this coffee maker. A redesign is needed. I returned mine and I’m going back to the Cuisinart burr Grinder and coffee maker.

Great tasting coffee. Easy to use.
Not so easy to clean. And as far as I know, no way to customize the amount of grinds produced per preset water setting.

We love this coffee maker, a little bit too big but the functions are worth it.

Not as user friendly or is easy as the other reviews make it sound. unfortunately we’re pretty disappointed in it and now we found out we are unable to return it which really sucks. Thought we had 30 days to return it and wanted to give it the best chance that we might like it now I have a $350 item I don’t want

Works great and is perfect for grinding coffee. Makes it taste fresh!

Bought this coffee maker about 6 months ago and I have been very happy with the purchase.

Makes a great cup of coffee, is easy to use, cleaning is easy, and is very convenient. The single serve cup is my go to method for a quick and delicious cup of coffee for my morning drive.

Absolute garbage. Excessively needy of pampering and attention and only after a few years of minimal use, the calibration no longer works. You would expect a bit better product at this price point. It’s a sad day when a Hamilton Beach out performs this “premium” maker. Do yourself a favor and get a nice burr grinder and a good drip maker and leave this one for the uninformed sheep.

This thing is crap that makes crap coffee. I feel like if they just gave this to a couple people to try for a little bit that they would figure out that it’s junk. The only reason breville can sell this is because there are so many Breville groupies that’ll buy anything Breville. I guess I was one of those but I hate using it. The coffee pot is junk you have to pour it upside down with the lid on and it still makes a mess. The reservoir holds more than the coffee pot so you’ll make 2 trips to the sink if you want 12 cups of coffee. Plus the coffee it produces isn’t very good. Hate it. Dave yourself the hassle of returning it because it takes up less space and just get the other breville coffee maker.

Unfortunately, I had to return it because it malfunctioned but Best Buy customer service was helpful.

Grinder is weak point of the system. The grind delivery portion broke causing clogs & the grinder jammed frequently requiring clean out. Returned the coffee maker for a refund.

I finally had one of the two I own fail (7 years). So I purchased the same one and couldn’t be happier.

Good quality appliance that we know will last for years! Makes a nice strong cup of coffee. Parts are easy to clean!

A great cup of coffee, love the grinder, n auto set with thermal carafe, best money spent!

My Breville Grind Control Odyssey

Like a moth to the flame, my love for a good cup of coffee led me down the treacherous path of owning not one, not two, but three Breville Grind Controls. Yes, three. Each one was a siren, luring me in with promises of a perfectly brewed cup, only to dash my hopes against the rocky shores of malfunction and despair.

Our first dalliance with Breville was promising, like a summer fling. It lasted about a year before the basket started shedding parts like a dog in spring. The grinder, no matter how much we pampered it with cleaning, became as stubborn as a teenager refusing to do chores. Yet, we were seduced by its sleek look and the convenience of grind-and-brew all in one.

Undeterred, we waded back into the waters of Breville, buoyed by the belief that surely, this one would be different. Alas, it was not. The second one succumbed to the same ailments before it could even celebrate its first birthday. Breville, perhaps sensing our impending betrayal, sent us a replacement unit. It, too, died a slow, agonizing death, with the grinder grinding to a halt and parts falling off like a poorly made costume at a school play.

Still, we clung to hope, as one does to a dysfunctional relationship, because we had other Breville kitchen items. We liked the idea of a matching set, a cohesive narrative in our culinary life. So, we gave it one final shot. Purchased in February, by June it was déjà vu all over again. The grinder was on strike and the basket was a disaster zone.

Breville’s customer service suggested we return the unit for inspection and possible repair. The audacity! Were we expected to endure the coffee-less limbo while they tinkered with our machine? NOPE. We marched to a competitor, betrayal in our hearts, and began plotting the slow replacement of our other overpriced Breville gadgets.

In the end, I must implore you, dear reader, do yourself a favor and steer clear of this money pit. Let my tale of woe be a cautionary one: don’t waste your money on the Breville Grind Control.

I have bought two of these and both of them stopped working after a few months. The grinder just stopped working. I use the one have now for just brewing regular ground coffee.

Very good high quality coffee maker. Grinds the coffee beans and then brews the coffee. I highly recommend.