Available as Coffee Brewer, Tea Brewer, Tea Brewer Complete Set, or Coffee Brewer Complete Set
Complete Sets offer additional, underneath glass carafe and stand
Coffee Brewer and Tea Brewer:
Dimensions: 7.2 in L x 5.8 in W x 6.6 in H
Weight: 1.13 lbs
Power Input: 4.5V (3 AAA alkaline batteries)
Coffee Brewer and Tea Brewer Complete Sets:
Dimensions: 7.2 in L x 5.8 in W x 13.5 in H
Weights: 2.26 lbs
Power Input: 4.5V (3 AAA alkaline batteries)
Coffee Brewer/Set:
A combination of full immersion and pour-over glass brewer, ideal for producing full-bodied and rich brews
Automatic timer dispenses Coffee at the end of the brew cycle, avoiding over-extracted Coffee
Easily programmable timer allows for optimum brew time based on user and Coffee preferences
Reusable metal filter that’s easy to clean and use
Battery operated, using 3 AAA batteries - batteries not included
Tea Brewer/Set:
Automatic tea brewer, perfect for steeping a wide variety of loose leaf teas
Customizable brew timer to avoid over-steeping and highlight user preference
Magnetic brew mechanism automatically dispenses tea at the end of the cycle
Reusable mesh metal filter that’s easy to clean and use
Battery operated, using 3 AAA batteries - batteries not included
What’s in the Box?
Coffee Brewer: 1x Coffee Brewer with 34oz/1000ml brew capacity and includes: glass carafe with lid, brewer, and battery-operated timer OR
Coffee Brewer Complete Set: 1x Coffee Brewer with 34oz/1000ml brew capacity and includes: glass carafe with lid, brewer, battery-operated timer, stand, and underneath glass carafe OR
Tea Brewer: 1x Tea Brewer with 34oz/1000ml brew capacity and includes glass carafe with lid, tea brewer, and battery-operated timer OR
Tea Brewer Complete Set: 1x Tea Brewer with 34oz/1000ml brew capacity and includes: glass carafe with lid, brewer, battery-operated timer, stand, and underneath glass carafe
@hchavers - That extra nice punch can be added at one’s convenience, and preference. So, load the carafe with your favorite Vodka, Tiquila, Rum, or whatever Whiskey you fkn desire & ENJOY!! If you’re on the wagon, please, don’t fall off the wagon, just step to the side, climb on that beer horse & ride till you can’t no more!! Ride that Old Town Rode with a few ice cold Bud Lites & be happy you made it through one more day of fkn sobriety, of living & living fkn sober!¡! Life’s Just Not Worth Ruining Even One Moment, But Life IS Worth Living!! My PTSD, At Least, Taught Me That Much!!
@paulg1982, I think you can buy either Brewer Set & brew either Coffee, or Tea outta the same Brewer!! The Fuckn Brewer doesn’t know the fkn difference does it? Am I right, or wrong¿? Someone, please, let me know, so’s I can buy 1 of these damn brewers!!
Uhh what? What part of this is automatic? I’m the one putting in the grounds, water AND batteries! And I have to wash the top part after every brew? Sheesh! I’ll stick to my beloved cone and my #4 filters, thanks.
I would prefer this to the $20 POS drip brewers out there. Honestly, it’s probably pretty good. There are so many options that it’s hard to keep track. I’ve been using an aeropress with a microwave and an electric grinder for a couple of years, but geez, am I really getting better coffee than pour-over/stove-kettle/manual-grinder guy? Almost anything is better than K-cups or drip folgers, just pick something different and go with it if you care about your coffee.
@Superllama7 Keep an eye out for the Motif machines that come up on here occasionally. Works basically like a pour over. Makes a great pot of coffee or a cup if that’s all you want.
@Superllama7@tweezak I picked up the motif last month and am very happy with the Brew. It’s not just the pour over I suspect, but a combination of that and the precise temperature control.
Great value, very happy. I just wish they’d make them so the presoak could be set by timer.
@spavlis@Superllama7@tweezak Agree with the previous two comments. I have the Motif Essentials, and I don’t get a better cup of coffee anywhere than I do at home. I just keep half and half and turbinado sugar on hand. Best coffee maker I’ve had. As far as options the Ninja Coffee bar I had was pretty impressive and brewed great iced coffee.
@spavlis@Superllama7 In terms of the presoak delay, I press the green buttin and watch until all the grounds are soaked. Then hit the green button a second time to turn it off. I let it sit for about a minute and then press it again and it’s fine after that. I guess you’d call it “manual mode.”
If you’re going to get fancy with loose leaf teas, you might want to invest in a variable temp kettle. If you steep white/yellow/green teas too hot, you lose a lot of the flavor and it gets bitter. Black/roobios/herbals are a lot more forgiving.
@mtb002 the part that varies in tea is the temperature and steep duration. You can adjust both of these with this, so it seems alright. You’re heating your own water (I would use my varieTEA as you mentioned) to the desired temp for the color of tea, then set the timer on this device for the time for the temperature. It actually would work out pretty well. I’m always ADDed out when my 2 minute timer goes off for my green tea and I don’t reach it in time to push the plunger on my steeper. This would be great for my ADHD ass.
I gotta go, I think I see something shiny.
@mtb002@uebergod I don’t know about coffee but this seems pretty nice for tea. I do have an adjustable temperature kettle and am waiting on some genmaicha to be delivered. I only make a cup at a time though.
@stolicat@therealjrn Not to mention extended stares at the timer with repeated explanations of how the display works as your lapel mic cuts in and out.
I think I’ll have to invite this guy to the next party I attend just so that I won’t be the most awkward person at the gathering.
French Press doesn’t require batteries. So, what is the advantage of this ball bearing/magnetic gizmo? Seems like the Rube Goldberg method of coffee making award winner.
@EvilSmoo This is part of what I really like about meh. Who felt that there was a (real) market for this product? Its market is people who are tea connoisseurs but are too busy to actually monitor the tea. That’s a very tiny segment (all excellent people, I’m sure, but not many of them). Too busy? Teabag. Iconic Tea connoisseur? Spend time making the tea. End result? Dump the product on Meh (where it seems there may be enough of a market - at an unsustainable price).
lets see…I’m in kentucky so I can order Grub Hub coffee from Las Angeles and wait 3 days or use this POS…Think I’ll save time and trouble and order over grub hub/…
We seem to have started a coffee making collection. I bought 3! Not sure why, maybe an extras for a Christmas present or 2. Put one in the camper! I couldn’t decide between 2 coffee and a tea, or all coffee. Ended up with all coffee. I’m still trying to decide whether to change my order or not, to get one tea, Hmmm
It may be stupid because you still have to manually boil water and pour it over the grounds - but at least it also puts a few batteries in a landfill a couple times a year.
Seriously - boil the water in a pot, drop in the coffee, and use one of the dozen timers that’s probably on your smartphone to time it before you pour it through this. You’ll get the same points on your hipster punch card without plastic and batteries.
At the Amazon price, this coffee-brewing system was completely ridiculous. (For $80, it ought to heat its own water!) So this price makes a LOT more sense.
But, for now, Mr. Coffee keeps his job. We go back a long way.
(BTW, Sam’s Club Members Mark coffee in the big, red can is every bit as good as Dunkin Donuts.)
@radi0j0hn Woah! Tea drinkers matter.Now my filtered, perfect temperature water will grace my tea leaves for the correct duration of time and no longer. There are already a ton of options for butt mud(coffee).
Almost nothing automatic about this. It simply mashes the pour-over method with automatic drip and takes away the best things about both methods (controlled pour, clean filter, actual design, automation, etc.). Absolute meh.
@obxer Oh so true. I don’t get it. Looks like a pain in the ass to clean as well.
Did anyone actually spend $80 for one of these for coffee? I have a bridge to sell them.
My intense curiosity about coffee making things pulls me toward this, but >nope<. Too much prep, too much clean up. A thrift store near by acquired a dozen vintage “Mr. Coffee Away From Home” 4 cup units from a dead motel. Better build quality than the current 20-buckers and it was $3. Also fun that it looks like you stole it.
@Fen_Star There actually was some spring operated thing (shaped like a penguin) that sat next to your cup and lifted out the tea bag after a certain time.
This is the first thing I’ve purchased from Meh and IT IS AMAZING! I was super stoked for it to arrive and had my tea picked out and waiting when it came. I gave it a nice wash, added my tea leaves and hot water, set the timer… and (as usual) I forgot about it. I heard the beep and as as I was thinking “what is that?” my tea was safely released into the carafe. Perfection! No longer will my tastebuds suffer from the bitterness of overbrewed tea because of my inability to focus. My TaC brewer has already earned a place next to my water filter and temp control kettle. I am not a coffee drinker but for my serious tea folks out there this is well worth it. My only regret is that I only purchased one. Hopefully, they’ll come back for an encore.
@vanhoogy so these have a “meh warranty”… so on your “Your orders” page click the “I need help with this” button under the order and let meh support know.
@jnicholson0619 check your spam folder… they are usually pretty quick (a day or so). They did make some changes to their support recently, try the “I need help with this” button in “your orders” if they didn’t get caught in the spam trap.
@jnicholson0619 I also opened and tested all of mine as well. One is a gift for my sister and I wanted to make sure it worked and wasn’t broken. 3 for 3!
Mine arrived not working, it won’t pour. It makes a whirrring sound and the screen flashes and it resets itself but won’t pour the water. I’m getting a replacement unit, hopefully it works!
I ordered two of the tea brewers and one coffee brewer, but I received two coffee and only one tea. Hoping that meh makes it right…I’ve never had to return anything to Meh. How is the customer support here? Never have had an issue and am always happy with what I’ve received. I suppose I need to crack open the tea brewer and one of the coffee brewers to make sure they are in good working order.
They are shipping me a second tea brewer Took a couple days to get back to me, but they did and solved the problem bing bang boom. Go meh. I have bought quite a few things recently seems like cooler stuff lately
I ordered two of these items. I put fresh batteries in both of them. One unit works great(coffee maker). The tea unit, though I can’t seem to get it to work. If I push the power button, I hear a noise, but no light or number appears like with the coffee maker. If I keep pushing power button, I get an “FA” code. Instructions say nothing about an “FA” code.
SO I opened it up to make sure it was intact, and it was.
Then I cleaned it up and played… this is a pretty cool gizmo.
I suspect had they priced it normally (msrp it at 39.99 and sell for 20) it would have sold a few… they could put them next to the french presses in stores.
I have also found that it works great with a previous meh offering… so if you bought any of these break one out and place the ring upon… just don’t fill the TaC to the top line (the line under max) since they are not as big as the included carafe.
So far my only complaint about this thing is it will occasionally pop the filter up letting ground coffee through into the finished product. The first time I figured maybe I didnt seat the metal filter or dumped water in just the wrong way, the second time 2 days later(it worked fine on saturday) I was relaxing scrolling through fb, and heard a pop, and the filter had come up and hit the top cover? Is this normal?
@Huffie86 I have made aprox. 10 jugs o’ coffee and it hasn’t happened to me… but the jars are glass and the filter is plastic… I could see a mfg defect causing it to happen. Unscrew the ball bearing mechanism from the bottom and look at the jar where the filter hits… is it circular? Is the filter circular? If not might be a defect.
Had my coffee grinds and warm room temp water sitting overnight in the top jug , filled up to the to 1000ml line…in the morning I held the power button for a sec , until the 60 second timer started up. I tried this multiple times but coffee would NOT pour.
So I tried this…I emptied out the top jog , into third empty container I had around the kitchen… With top jug now empty I cleaned the top jug and the metal+plastic filter assembly. I could see that my last night’s coffee grinds had soiled and hardened up around the bottom filter…washed it all out in the sink, put everything back, and poured my dirty coffee back into the top jug. Hit the power button waited 60 sec for the countdown, out came nice clean filtered warm brew! Putting it now in the fridge and mixing with ice cubes to make it cold brew.
Specs
What’s in the Box?
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Tea Brewer Complete Set: 1x Tea Brewer with 34oz/1000ml brew capacity and includes: glass carafe with lid, brewer, battery-operated timer, stand, and underneath glass carafe
Price Comparison
$79.99 at Amazon for Coffee Set
Video Review & Content
ExtractionHacker Review (16:07)
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Tuesday, Jan 28 - Monday, Feb 3
I thought Victor & Victoria had stronger drinks than tea and coffee, not to mention all the singing and dancing.
@hchavers - That extra nice punch can be added at one’s convenience, and preference. So, load the carafe with your favorite Vodka, Tiquila, Rum, or whatever Whiskey you fkn desire & ENJOY!! If you’re on the wagon, please, don’t fall off the wagon, just step to the side, climb on that beer horse & ride till you can’t no more!! Ride that Old Town Rode with a few ice cold Bud Lites & be happy you made it through one more day of fkn sobriety, of living & living fkn sober!¡! Life’s Just Not Worth Ruining Even One Moment, But Life IS Worth Living!! My PTSD, At Least, Taught Me That Much!!
I’m hoping that the complete set can do tea or coffee, that the only thing different is the carafe on top.
@paulg1982, I think you can buy either Brewer Set & brew either Coffee, or Tea outta the same Brewer!! The Fuckn Brewer doesn’t know the fkn difference does it? Am I right, or wrong¿? Someone, please, let me know, so’s I can buy 1 of these damn brewers!!
This seems kinda pointless since you have to boil the water first.
I’m going to buy both and stack them all so my tea is released into the coffee grounds which then goes into my cup
@hafner that’s pretty metal
omg wait. It has a metal filter!
I think your idea is too metal to be filtered though.
Uhh what? What part of this is automatic? I’m the one putting in the grounds, water AND batteries! And I have to wash the top part after every brew? Sheesh! I’ll stick to my beloved cone and my #4 filters, thanks.
@dcm714 I think they’re speaking from the carafe’s perspective.
I would prefer this to the $20 POS drip brewers out there. Honestly, it’s probably pretty good. There are so many options that it’s hard to keep track. I’ve been using an aeropress with a microwave and an electric grinder for a couple of years, but geez, am I really getting better coffee than pour-over/stove-kettle/manual-grinder guy? Almost anything is better than K-cups or drip folgers, just pick something different and go with it if you care about your coffee.
@Superllama7 Keep an eye out for the Motif machines that come up on here occasionally. Works basically like a pour over. Makes a great pot of coffee or a cup if that’s all you want.
@Superllama7 @tweezak I picked up the motif last month and am very happy with the Brew. It’s not just the pour over I suspect, but a combination of that and the precise temperature control.
Great value, very happy. I just wish they’d make them so the presoak could be set by timer.
@spavlis @Superllama7 @tweezak Agree with the previous two comments. I have the Motif Essentials, and I don’t get a better cup of coffee anywhere than I do at home. I just keep half and half and turbinado sugar on hand. Best coffee maker I’ve had. As far as options the Ninja Coffee bar I had was pretty impressive and brewed great iced coffee.
@spavlis @Superllama7 In terms of the presoak delay, I press the green buttin and watch until all the grounds are soaked. Then hit the green button a second time to turn it off. I let it sit for about a minute and then press it again and it’s fine after that. I guess you’d call it “manual mode.”
@j37hr0 @spavlis @Superllama7 @tweezak Guess what the daily special is on Morningsave today- the motif elements thing. $59
If you’re going to get fancy with loose leaf teas, you might want to invest in a variable temp kettle. If you steep white/yellow/green teas too hot, you lose a lot of the flavor and it gets bitter. Black/roobios/herbals are a lot more forgiving.
@mtb002 the part that varies in tea is the temperature and steep duration. You can adjust both of these with this, so it seems alright. You’re heating your own water (I would use my varieTEA as you mentioned) to the desired temp for the color of tea, then set the timer on this device for the time for the temperature. It actually would work out pretty well. I’m always ADDed out when my 2 minute timer goes off for my green tea and I don’t reach it in time to push the plunger on my steeper. This would be great for my ADHD ass.
I gotta go, I think I see something shiny.
@mtb002 @uebergod I don’t know about coffee but this seems pretty nice for tea. I do have an adjustable temperature kettle and am waiting on some genmaicha to be delivered. I only make a cup at a time though.
@uebergod
I didn’t said this wouldn’t work. That’s why I recommended the variable temp kettle.
After watching “ExtractionHacker” up there fussily brew a pot of coffee, I’m convinced I’ll just stick with my Motif pour-over brewer I bought here.
@therealjrn but you can have friends over and everyone counts down to hear the little magnet click!
@stolicat @therealjrn Excellent! Like Extraction Hacker I am looking for a way to get friends… In for 1!
@stolicat @therealjrn Not to mention extended stares at the timer with repeated explanations of how the display works as your lapel mic cuts in and out.
I think I’ll have to invite this guy to the next party I attend just so that I won’t be the most awkward person at the gathering.
French Press doesn’t require batteries. So, what is the advantage of this ball bearing/magnetic gizmo? Seems like the Rube Goldberg method of coffee making award winner.
Anyone see/know what cleanup is like on these? That is the main reason I switched to pour over from French press.
Which one would I get if I wanted to put butter in to infuse with my ‘tea’ or ‘coffee’? The coffee set or the tea set?
I have to buy this to use with my Motif Mentor coffee brewing scale.
Question: Why would someone buy only the brewer (top part) and not the ‘set’? Is it a replacement or can the top part be used alone? Thx.
@ElieC The top part can be used alone…although one owner of the top part on Amazon said it fell off their carafe and burned their hands.
So… double the cleanup, a battery operated valve on a timer.
I’d need a thermal carafe for it not to cool before I finished the first cup, likely.
I guess people made teabags for very good reasons.
@EvilSmoo This is part of what I really like about meh. Who felt that there was a (real) market for this product? Its market is people who are tea connoisseurs but are too busy to actually monitor the tea. That’s a very tiny segment (all excellent people, I’m sure, but not many of them). Too busy? Teabag. Iconic Tea connoisseur? Spend time making the tea. End result? Dump the product on Meh (where it seems there may be enough of a market - at an unsustainable price).
What happens if I put tea in the coffee brewer? Or coffee in the tea brewer?
I hope my sauce pan doesn’t need new batteries.
@brennyn You get toffee.
@olsmeister :o
Where do the tea bags go? No, Not on your forehead…
lets see…I’m in kentucky so I can order Grub Hub coffee from Las Angeles and wait 3 days or use this POS…Think I’ll save time and trouble and order over grub hub/…
/giphy Harmless-present-stove
/giphy harmless-present-stove
/image harmless-present-stove
In for one. This is perfect for my extensive tea making collection. Adagio for the win!
We seem to have started a coffee making collection. I bought 3! Not sure why, maybe an extras for a Christmas present or 2. Put one in the camper! I couldn’t decide between 2 coffee and a tea, or all coffee. Ended up with all coffee. I’m still trying to decide whether to change my order or not, to get one tea, Hmmm
Bummer - I was expecting Nick Bolton to run over it with a Hummer and then show how it reveals a hidden American eagle while it brews coffee…
There’s just nothing like it on the market today
What is the max amount of time you can steep or brew for? It’s a 2 digit display so the max is 99 minutes? My guess is no but could someone verify.
It may be stupid because you still have to manually boil water and pour it over the grounds - but at least it also puts a few batteries in a landfill a couple times a year.
Seriously - boil the water in a pot, drop in the coffee, and use one of the dozen timers that’s probably on your smartphone to time it before you pour it through this. You’ll get the same points on your hipster punch card without plastic and batteries.
@Pufferfishy But then you still have to babysit the coffee, instead of pouring the water and walking away
@Pufferfishy The auto dispense is what won me over. I have had to punish myself with bitter over-brewed green and white tea many a time. BUT NO MORE!
@cansparkle @Pufferfishy Sometimes I think I’ve set a timer but Alexa didn’t hear me. Sometimes I think she does it on purpose.
@cansparkle @Pufferfishy @sammydog01 Alexa is such a precocious trollop.
I guess I could see that, if you really can’t stand there for the 3 to 5 minutes it takes to brew…
I’m still using the refurb Saeco Vienna Plus I got on W00t! in 2012… so I have no point of reference
@cansparkle @Pufferfishy @sammydog01 Alexa can be a real bitch sometimes.
As long as it’s hot and brown, who gives a shit how?
@cranky1950 what if it is actually shit?
At the Amazon price, this coffee-brewing system was completely ridiculous. (For $80, it ought to heat its own water!) So this price makes a LOT more sense.
But, for now, Mr. Coffee keeps his job. We go back a long way.
(BTW, Sam’s Club Members Mark coffee in the big, red can is every bit as good as Dunkin Donuts.)
So “barista pouring” is no longer cool? Darn. I was just getting good at it.
After you pour in the water, don’t you have to stir it a bit, as with a French Press?
Sounds like a flop product designed in a country of tea drinkers.
@radi0j0hn Woah! Tea drinkers matter.Now my filtered, perfect temperature water will grace my tea leaves for the correct duration of time and no longer. There are already a ton of options for butt mud(coffee).
@radi0j0hn I like Serious Eats method for FrenchPress coffee which requires no stirring at all.
30 second bloom of the ground coffee with some of the boiled water. Then slowly pour in the rest of the water and let it sit 5-10 minutes (I like 10).
@cansparkle The tea one makes some sense. Not sure about the coffee one.
Almost nothing automatic about this. It simply mashes the pour-over method with automatic drip and takes away the best things about both methods (controlled pour, clean filter, actual design, automation, etc.). Absolute meh.
@obxer Oh so true. I don’t get it. Looks like a pain in the ass to clean as well.
Did anyone actually spend $80 for one of these for coffee? I have a bridge to sell them.
ohhhh…fancy
Glorified Melita
My intense curiosity about coffee making things pulls me toward this, but >nope<. Too much prep, too much clean up. A thrift store near by acquired a dozen vintage “Mr. Coffee Away From Home” 4 cup units from a dead motel. Better build quality than the current 20-buckers and it was $3. Also fun that it looks like you stole it.
attach a servo to your tea bag.
@Fen_Star There actually was some spring operated thing (shaped like a penguin) that sat next to your cup and lifted out the tea bag after a certain time.
Literally what does this do?
I just had to plunge my coffee grounds manually in a french press, like some caveman or something.
@thismyusername I am sorry to hear that.
@thismyusername lol
This is the first thing I’ve purchased from Meh and IT IS AMAZING! I was super stoked for it to arrive and had my tea picked out and waiting when it came. I gave it a nice wash, added my tea leaves and hot water, set the timer… and (as usual) I forgot about it. I heard the beep and as as I was thinking “what is that?” my tea was safely released into the carafe. Perfection! No longer will my tastebuds suffer from the bitterness of overbrewed tea because of my inability to focus. My TaC brewer has already earned a place next to my water filter and temp control kettle. I am not a coffee drinker but for my serious tea folks out there this is well worth it. My only regret is that I only purchased one. Hopefully, they’ll come back for an encore.
@cansparkle Ta da. Sister site morningsave.com to the rescue. Click on the picture for the sale.
@therealjrn Thank you! 2 more purchased and regret alleviated.
Mines not working. Won’t release after timer. Won’t screw in right. Defective. Dumb buy
@vanhoogy Nothing screws in. There are instruction to make sure the bearings are properly installed.
Followed instructions exactly. Still won’t open up and pour.
@vanhoogy so these have a “meh warranty”… so on your “Your orders” page click the “I need help with this” button under the order and let meh support know.
Anyone else’s arrive broken? Just opened it, and the bottom carafe’s handle is busted off and the side around it all smashed.
@jnicholson0619 You just made me decide I need to open the box soon… thanks
Also, i immediately emailed meh, and they still have not reached out…
@jnicholson0619 check your spam folder… they are usually pretty quick (a day or so). They did make some changes to their support recently, try the “I need help with this” button in “your orders” if they didn’t get caught in the spam trap.
@jnicholson0619 I also opened and tested all of mine as well. One is a gift for my sister and I wanted to make sure it worked and wasn’t broken. 3 for 3!
@jnicholson0619 I also had one of my two bottom carafes broken, sent I need help message and have not heard back
Mine arrived not working, it won’t pour. It makes a whirrring sound and the screen flashes and it resets itself but won’t pour the water. I’m getting a replacement unit, hopefully it works!
I ordered two of the tea brewers and one coffee brewer, but I received two coffee and only one tea. Hoping that meh makes it right…I’ve never had to return anything to Meh. How is the customer support here? Never have had an issue and am always happy with what I’ve received. I suppose I need to crack open the tea brewer and one of the coffee brewers to make sure they are in good working order.
@CPeezy9000 just contact support they will fix ya up.
They are shipping me a second tea brewer Took a couple days to get back to me, but they did and solved the problem bing bang boom. Go meh. I have bought quite a few things recently seems like cooler stuff lately
/giphy aye carumba
guess i need to open mine too
was saving it for when i bought it for
@Cerridwyn my tea brewer worked great! These things are awesome
LEGOS! EGGOS! STRATEGO! AWESOME!
I ordered two of these items. I put fresh batteries in both of them. One unit works great(coffee maker). The tea unit, though I can’t seem to get it to work. If I push the power button, I hear a noise, but no light or number appears like with the coffee maker. If I keep pushing power button, I get an “FA” code. Instructions say nothing about an “FA” code.
@misobrilliant I would contact support, my guess is it’s short for “FAULT”.
My order is lost in the postal system and I am getting no response from MEH to help me.
SO I opened it up to make sure it was intact, and it was.
Then I cleaned it up and played… this is a pretty cool gizmo.
I suspect had they priced it normally (msrp it at 39.99 and sell for 20) it would have sold a few… they could put them next to the french presses in stores.
I have also found that it works great with a previous meh offering… so if you bought any of these break one out and place the ring upon… just don’t fill the TaC to the top line (the line under max) since they are not as big as the included carafe.
So far my only complaint about this thing is it will occasionally pop the filter up letting ground coffee through into the finished product. The first time I figured maybe I didnt seat the metal filter or dumped water in just the wrong way, the second time 2 days later(it worked fine on saturday) I was relaxing scrolling through fb, and heard a pop, and the filter had come up and hit the top cover? Is this normal?
@Huffie86 I have made aprox. 10 jugs o’ coffee and it hasn’t happened to me… but the jars are glass and the filter is plastic… I could see a mfg defect causing it to happen. Unscrew the ball bearing mechanism from the bottom and look at the jar where the filter hits… is it circular? Is the filter circular? If not might be a defect.
Had my coffee grinds and warm room temp water sitting overnight in the top jug , filled up to the to 1000ml line…in the morning I held the power button for a sec , until the 60 second timer started up. I tried this multiple times but coffee would NOT pour.
So I tried this…I emptied out the top jog , into third empty container I had around the kitchen… With top jug now empty I cleaned the top jug and the metal+plastic filter assembly. I could see that my last night’s coffee grinds had soiled and hardened up around the bottom filter…washed it all out in the sink, put everything back, and poured my dirty coffee back into the top jug. Hit the power button waited 60 sec for the countdown, out came nice clean filtered warm brew! Putting it now in the fridge and mixing with ice cubes to make it cold brew.