Customer Ratings & Reviews

Machine is very good makes your coffee taste better than ever especially with it grinding fresh beans for every brew

The coffee maker works fine, but the wifi system gave out after two years. I have to have my router sitting on top of the coffee maker to get a good connection. I have another Smart device sitting a few feet away and it has a great connection.

This coffee maker has absolutely changed my morning routine! It’s so convenient and makes THE BEST at home coffee I’ve ever had!

Love the ease of use, but doesn’t keep coffee hot enough

I really enjoy make the coffee in this coffee machine

This coffe maker is a great buy. It makes some of the best coffee I've ever tasted.

This is the best coffee maker ... So easy to use and so cute

Excellent machine. Good quality coffee and easy setup and use.

This machine is perfect!! Is the best of the best gift...

I’m a big Cafe fan and this made a beautiful addition to our pantry.

This coffee pot is less than a year old & has been lightly used, since I mostly do single cup pour overs. It made very good coffee at the beginning but there are worsening problems with the way it moves water into the grounds. It is leaking & the necessary water quantity doesn't get to the beans, making coffee that is twice as strong as ut should be. I plan to return it tomorrow!

This is the best coffee machine hands down, I read the reviews about how it leaks so much. I haven’t had that problem yet. But other than that coffee at home is great

Very good combination of a grinder and coffee maker.

Very cheaply made. I expected the water reservoir to at least be made of glass, and filter holder barely closes. If it were to cost $60, rhen maybe a decent deal but not for the price it's sold as. I returned it

Bought this as a supplement to our Cuisinart grind and brew when I just wanted a single cup of coffee. Works great, love the granular settings like being able to change temps etc of the water. Overall, I enjoy this unit. Easy cleanup for the next cup

well made and makes the best drip coffee ever, it has a lot of great features i never see on a drip coffee machine

I’m really disappointed with this coffee maker. When I brew using the carafe, the coffee tastes totally different from the single-cup option—and not in a good way. The flavor is weak and inconsistent. On top of that, it splashes coffee everywhere during brewing, which makes a mess every time. For the price, I expected much better. There are far better options on the market.

Purchased to replace a Krups Grind & Brew and so-far-so-good. There are some really great features on this machine: the app, the ability to change the water temperature, being able to use whole beans or pre ground coffee, being able to adjust from single use to a full carafe…….. Also, the quality made me want to research more products by this brand

This is purely a splurge item and nothing more. I found out I really didnt need this, aside from my habit of spending and buying new stuff. It has a lot of cool features, built in grinder and you can use an app to brew and setup brew times. But... at the end of the day, it doesnt make coffee better than a 20 dollar drip coffee maker. Buying an expensive machine wont make coffee better. I would argue that its the illusion of a 200 dollar machine and you convincing yourself it does. The reality is that the amount of grams you use for the grounds and ounces of water you use are more important. Save yourself the money and dont buy this.

Coffee making in our house has been almost exclusively handled by one of those pod coffee makers, except when we have guests and need a pot of coffee, when we have to get our traditional machine out of the closet. The new Café Grind and Brew coffee maker brings those two together, allowing you to make either a single cup or a pot of coffee with the same machine. Yes, there are other machines that do this, but the Grind and Brew adds the ability to freshly grind your coffee beans just seconds before brewing, giving you the freshest coffee possible. I received the stainless-steel model. All of the available options include copper accents, and it’s a good-looking machine, very well built. A clear plastic water reservoir sits next to the grinding/brewing station. It’s fairly large, but looks good sitting on a countertop. Beans are placed in the top of the machine, and ground coffee ends up in the included filter(s) in the basket area just under the grinder. Included are filters for single-cup and coffee pot mode. Both of these are made of plastic with metal mesh, so they should last a long time, but are not dishwasher safe. Paper filters may also be used as an alternative that doesn’t require cleanup. You’ll notice immediately that the design of this one is different. GE moved away from the traditional single-tower design, and I’m glad they did. Traditional coffee makers often have an internal reservoir for the water, with a flip-up lid where you pour the water in. With many designs, this is annoying and sometimes makes it hard to pour the water in without making a mess on your countertop. The Café Grind and Brew features a completely separate water reservoir with a built-in replaceable charcoal water filter. The reservoir can be lifted off and taken to the sink to fill, eliminating spills. It is also clearly marked for different capacities, so you’re sure you have enough water for the size you want. For me, I just make sure it’s full all the time, so I don’t have to worry about that. Setup is fairly intuitive, although I recommend reading the included manual. Getting ready to brew is as simple as filling the hopper with your beans, putting the appropriate filter in the basket (single-cup or pot), setting the switch for cup or carafe, filling the water reservoir, and placing the cup or carafe under the basket. From there, you use the touch controls to select your settings, and touch the brew button to begin. A countdown timer shows how long before your brew is ready to drink. Interestingly, it also keeps track of how much time has elapsed after your brew is finished, and reminds you to empty the grounds from the basket. This felt like the machine was nagging me, but at least you can’t blame GE if you come back and find mold growing in your basket! Let’s talk about the settings for a moment. The Café Grind and Brew puts you in complete control of the brewing process, allowing you to select the brew size, temperature, strength and bloom time. I haven’t seen the bloom setting on many other coffee makers, and I think it may be called other things, but the idea is that by exposing the fresh grounds to hot water, it allows the carbon dioxide to escape and the remaining water to fully absorb the flavor in the beans. This helps to counteract the slightly sour taste that can result from the carbon dioxide. It’s a nice touch. As you might expect, being able to brew coffee immediately after grinding results in the freshest coffee. This machine features a removeable burr grinder, and you can turn off the grinder if you happen to have some coffee that’s already ground. When we first loaded up the bean hopper, we realized that our beans were pretty old, and therefore not very tasty. Unfortunately, there’s no easy way to get the beans out if you want to switch to another flavor. We vacuumed out as many as we could and then made some throwaway coffee to grind up the rest. It would have been nice to have a way to completely empty the hopper, but that’s probably not something you’d need very often. You can choose how coarse you want your grind, and it’s impressive that the machine grinds just enough for whatever size cup you’ve chosen, but it does not sense when the beans are gone, in which case it’ll grind up some air for you. The included carafe is insulated, and kept coffee as hot as when it was brewed for almost 2 hours. The Café Grind and Brew works with GE’s Smart Home app, and it works well. The app quickly recognized the coffee maker and immediately paired. The app allows you to control the coffee maker remotely, choosing all the same settings you can choose on the machine itself. If you get in the habit of filling the machine with beans, water, and a ready cup or carafe, you can use the app to start the brew from your phone before you get out of bed. You can also program it to start at a particular time, but that kind of thing has been available for years, so the app is more fun. We had the machine ready to go when guests arrived. We met them outside and offered to brew a cup of coffee for them, which we then started from the app. By the time we went inside, the coffee was almost ready. Overall, this is a great machine, and we’re looking forward to trying different kinds of beans to really see what works best. It produces coffee that tastes fresher than what we’ve been accustomed to with pods or grounds, and it gives you the ability to tweak the brew settings as much as you like. There are many competitors on the market, at a variety of price points, so if you’re in the market, compare the flexibility, design and build quality of the Café Grind and Brew with those others, and I think you’ll find this to be a worthy competitor.