What if I want to make an occasional cup of decaf but there are regular beans in the bean hopper?
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If your decaf is already ground, just scoop however much ground coffee you need into the filter basket, then under the strength selection choose "pre-ground". If your decaf is whole bean, you can either grind it off-line and follow the steps above, or you can remove the hopper, empty it, replace it, and then drop the decaf beans in - a little more involved.
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The machine takes preground coffee which will bypass the beans in the hopper.
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Or you could order an additional hopper and lid just for your decaf and switch them out:Hopper: http://www.brevilleusa.com/bean-hopper-bdc600xl.html - $5.99Lid: http://www.brevilleusa.com/bean-hopper-lid-bdc600xl.html - $13.99
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It's been working fine for us with dark roasts. If you buy it you will want to take out the small plastic insert in the bean hopper. I'm not sure while it's even there. It unscrews easily and if you leave it in it the beans tend to get stuck.
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I use a cup of whole beans at a time, don't think a whole pound would fit, plus the hopper wouldn't hold a pound of ground coffee.
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I top off the hopper every time before I brew a pot and rarely get low. I make full strength coffee and I can get two full pots and still have a few beans left in the hopper.
1580000
Adam Kruger's answer is precisely correct. Additionally, the hopper holds enough beans for a 12 cup drip coffemaker - and maybe just a little bit more.
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First use the cup as a measuring cup for the beans. Use just enough beans to refill that same cup. Also clean the plastic cupholder after use as ground coffee accumulates at the top.
620065
It's very easy to use either whole bean or ground. Just push one simple button on the front to turn the grind off and put your ground coffee right in the basket.
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Decaf needs to be pre ground or vice versa, grounds only one type a bean at a time, holds about a cup of beans.
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Absolutely, if by "regular" you mean an American coffee. You have the option to do American, expresso, cappucino, long coffee, machiato, and latte. It doesn't do drip coffee. It works better with whole beans and -- of course -- the better quality the brand of coffee, the better the taste. If you're going to invest in a machine like this, it makes sense to buy good coffee beans. We use Dallmayr. We bought this machine for Christmas and it's more than paid for itself. We love it!
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Can you? Sure, with a refillable basket. But...the coffee might be the color of dirty dish soap and have no coffee flavor.It's a question of water contacting the maximum surface area of the coffee. Whole bean (grain) coffee should only be long steeped, if you choose to use it. Which means: not the machine for you.Or, Handyman Corner time: zip lock baggy and a hard sole shoe. Shoes: not just for opening wine bottles.
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This would not work with coffee beans or as a coffee grinder, it is to small to fill with coffee beans, stick with a regular coffee grinder .
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My guess would be No, as it looks like regular ground coffee. But I don't know for sure.
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Yes but you sould use another bag make sure to pastries it with boiling water and make sure you pastries your coffee grounds then you need to make the mycelium run agian and basically repeat what you have already done. Good luck
2054349
No. This takes pre filled k cups or you can buy a filter cup and use regular coffee grounds in it.
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No...don't use whole beans. Use regular ground coffee. I use Dukin Donuts original blend. Follow directions that come with pot. Makes the best coffee I have ever had.
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Presumably if you place regular coffee grounds in the basket it would brew one cup of regular coffee, perhaps a bit stronger than a conventional brewer
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It works a little if you leave the coffee in the bag it comes in. I only use ground coffee but assume it would be better with beans.