Overall Rating
7.0, Based on 61 Reviews
Avg Price
$100.00
Manufacturer
Bodum
Machine Type
vacuum brewer, vac pot, electronic, timer, automatic
Colors
Varies
Class
Vacuum Coffee Maker, Automatic
Pro Review
No
First Look
No
QuickShot
No
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The Bodum Santos Electronic was the first successful electronic, timer controlled vacuum brewer on the market. Starbucks sold it for a time as the Starbucks Utopia.
Sam Uretsky
07.04.2009
Rating: 7.8
Bottom Line: I have fond memories -- but you can't go back.
Paul Foster
12.01.2008
Rating: 8.8
Bottom Line: Great buy, two years old going strong, fun to watch... stil.
Chris Staley (quality: 7.5)
11.19.2008
Rating: 7.2
Bottom Line: A good quality daily use vac pot with several quirks - get around them, and you'll be happy
Kayakman Hungary (quality: 5.7)
10.05.2008
Rating: 9.2
Bottom Line: This machine produces some of the best tasting coffee I have ever had.
Keith Blume (quality: 3.5)
12.21.2007
Rating: 7.4
Bottom Line: Great Brew, Great Entertainment, Requires much Coffee grind
Mac Penn (quality: 5.0)
11.20.2007
Rating: 4.0
Bottom Line: DO NOT buy this product...bad machine...bad company.
T W (quality: 5.0)
06.23.2007
Rating: 2.0
Bottom Line: There is very little possitive to say about the coffee maker. Great form, lousy function.
John Hudak (quality: 6.5)
05.29.2007
Rating: 7.0
Bottom Line: A great coffee maker with a possible short life due to it being made of plastic. Hard to clean, but worth the trouble if you can stand it.
David Black (quality: 6.5)
04.17.2007
Rating: 3.2
Bottom Line: A beautiful, entertaining piece of junk that makes great coffee for its unbelievably short lifetime.
Frank Smrdel
04.05.2007
Rating: 5.4
Bottom Line: Great tasting coffee, but a pain to clean. Watch out for warranty service. It took one month to get mine back.
Thomas Barnes
12.12.2006
Rating: 7.0
Bottom Line: I wouldn't do without it for entertaining and wish I had owned one when we were assigned to Embassies and did a lot of entertaining. Now I have it and don't use it enough.
Robert Seidlitz
09.07.2006
Rating: 8.0
Bottom Line: Produces the cleanest coffee I've ever tasted; the compact disc of coffee makers
Skye Hen
08.20.2006
Rating: 4.8
Bottom Line: Lovely, yummy coffee with an extraordinarily high maintenance machine that will leave you in the end. Like a certain kind of woman.
Gustav Stanowitz
08.09.2006
Rating: 3.6
Bottom Line: A vac pot that makes good coffee-IF YOU GET ONE THAT WORKS!
Ryan Knudson
03.18.2006
Rating: 8.6
Bottom Line: If you care about proper extraction, and are willing to make a simple modification, then go for it!
Joel Bates (quality: 5.5)
03.18.2006
Rating: 0.4
Bottom Line: This is a dangerous, poorly designed hunk of junk and you risk buring your house down or, at the very least, making bad coffee, if you buy one.
Karl Keyes (quality: 8.5)
10.05.2005
Rating: 7.6
Bottom Line: I'd buy it again, but think Bodum should seriously think about re-designing the length of the dip tube. It definitely works better with that 1/4" removed.
Don Paquette (quality: 9.3)
06.06.2005
Rating: 8.8
Bottom Line: Great value.....Makes an EXCELLENT Brew........If you make a QUICK and EASY modification.....
Keith Wissman (quality: 5.0)
03.07.2005
Rating: 7.2
Bottom Line: not worth the money, especially if you pay retail...i keep going back to my 1960ish sunbeam coffeemaster c50...eBay has them all the time relatively cheap.
Andy Page (quality: 7.0)
01.06.2005
Rating: 1.4
Bottom Line: This coffee maker is overpriced, unsafe and doesn't last longer than a few months if you use it everyday.
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