Maybe I got a bad one, who knows, but this is one of the worst coffee makers I've ever used. First it is loud - like you can hear it in the next room loud, which is odd for a coffee maker. Second, it takes forever for it to make a cup of coffee. It has this feature that auto grinds the beans, makes a pod of coffee grounds and then makes the coffer. But the mechanism that compresses the coffee and then removes it locks up and you can't get it to unstick - so you can't clean it, you can't make coffee, you just have to listen to it click and click. Hard pass