Gevi 4 Cups Small Coffee Maker, Compact Coffee Machine with Reusable Filter, Warming Plate and Coffee Pot for Home and Office

I’ve had mine for about a year now. I’ve never had any problems with it. It is just the right amount of coffee. Easy to use and just as easy to clean. What a great product!

Great product and easy to use

Wanted a smaller maker for my camper as space is tight and I’m the only one who drinks. It works fine. The built in filter is not the easiest to clean, but does a decent job at stopping grounds from going in to the pot.
Overall it’s decent enough for a non-enthusiast.

I was pleasantly surprised by my everyday usage of this small wonder. Great Coffee flavor and all the features of a full size coffee maker. My daily coffee consists of a 12 oz cup and using my full size coffee maker was overkill. This does the job just as good if not better since the efficiency makes up for the excess in replacement filters and cleaning. I use this maker with a #2 unbleached cone paper filter vs the #4 of my full size maker. The heating plate turns off in 2 hours and it does stay very hot during that time. I am extremely happy with this purchase and I only hope that it endures the ravages of time, that’s not to imply that the manufacturing is in any way defective. I sincerely and highly recommend this gem of a mini Coffee Maker.

This is a basic coffee maker, as the price suggests. There’s no issue with that.

However, the brewing mechanism is not consistent. Specifically the drip mechanics can get stuck, causing one of two issues, or both at the same time.

* Using 4-cup paper cone filter…

First the drip will stop while there is still coffee in the filter, not filling the pot as expected. When you remove the pot to see what’s going on the coffee then begins to flow onto the warmer. Not drip but flow as there can be a lot of liquid in the filter depending on when you caught the issue.

Second, your coffee may have grounds in it because the coffee overflowed the filter, spilling into the filter basket.

What’s interesting is that you can experience one of the two above without the other, as well as both at the same time.

*Paperless filter…
I did not experience this exact issue with the included paperless filter, but it was slow to brew and threatened spillage. This filter can also be tedious to clean if you’re a person who likes a ‘clean looking’ filter for every brew. I did not use this filter much for these reasons.

I am rating the Gevi 4 cup maker three stars because the machine does work as expected about 90% of the time; full pot brewed with no grounds or spillage. I’ve also not given the paperless filter a fair chance. That said, the coffee making process can be a pain when the Gevi does not work; creating a decent mess and a delayed cup of coffee.

A few tricks I’ve learned for a more consistently positive experience:
– wet filter before adding grounds
– carefully position filter, reducing gaps
– don’t pack in the grounds
– place the bottom of the cone filter off center to avoid it sitting directly on the drip mechanism
– clean the drip basket regularly; once/week at least

This is a bit more work than I expect, given my over 30 years of brewing coffee. Never had to be this careful brewing coffee.

There is a small print entry away from the specification saying that a USA import may have a different specification but I expected that if a USA import was supplied it would be a dual voltage version complete with a USA to UK adaptor, I thought this was a requirement for selling in the UK. What arrived only had a USA plug and stated on it that 120V 60Hz is required. I had bought this for and had it delivered directly to my parents in their 90’s fortunately I spoke to them before they got the adaptor they planned and tried to run it of the UK mains 240V 50Hz I shudder to think of what may have been the result. We now have to get this to a UPS pickup point to return it so I suspect I will be going from Gloucestershire to Leicestershire to do this. I expect far better from Amazon UK.