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.
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.
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.
Bongo BCBeanBoy (quality: 4.8)
03.18.2002
Rating: 1.6
Bottom Line: DO NOT BUY; great idea but a failure in practice.
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.
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.
Gustav Stanowitz
08.09.2006
Rating: 3.6
Bottom Line: A vac pot that makes good coffee-IF YOU GET ONE THAT WORKS!
Mac Penn (quality: 5.0)
11.20.2007
Rating: 4.0
Bottom Line: DO NOT buy this product...bad machine...bad company.
Eric Evans (quality: 7.3)
05.10.2001
Rating: 4.4
Bottom Line: Great idea but design needs an overhaul. Poor reliability, especially considering the price of $169.00
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.
WRW (quality: 7.0)
05.12.2001
Rating: 4.8
Bottom Line: Would not recommend.
Cheryl Rose (quality: 6.0)
10.26.2002
Rating: 5.0
Bottom Line: Bodum pretty much dropped the ball here.
George Aaron (quality: 6.6)
02.24.2003
Rating: 5.2
Bottom Line: Stylish with the appearance of great potential. Did not live up to it.
Brian (quality: 4.0)
08.14.2001
Rating: 5.2
Bottom Line: I don‘t recommend spending this kind of money until these guys clean up their design act. Too many flaws!
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.
Michael (quality: 3.5)
12.28.2000
Rating: 6.0
Bottom Line: Perfect coffee day in day out.
Steven Ehrlich (quality: 3.0)
04.03.2001
Rating: 6.0
Bottom Line: Good idea but problem with quality/defect
Mark (quality: 6.0)
01.14.2001
Rating: 6.0
Bottom Line: Buy it. Brew it. Drink it. It‘s really worth it.
Anders Nygaard (quality: 4.0)
11.08.2001
Rating: 6.4
Bottom Line: Good as your first brewer and as introduction to vacuum pots.
Scott Boje (quality: 8.8)
10.27.2002
Rating: 6.6
Bottom Line: You have to operate this machine manually to get good results
Phillip Quattrocchi (quality: 7.0)
01.23.2002
Rating: 6.6
Bottom Line: I am very pleased with this unit and may never go back to a drip again.
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