This coffee maker and filter work well enough, although I highly recommend using a disposable filter IN ADDITION to the reusable one. If you just use the reusable one, some of the grounds still get in your coffee and the filter gets clogged up, and if you use just a disposable filter, it will break and ALL of the grounds will be in your coffee. It sort of defeats the purpose of purchasing something with a reusable filter but it does the job otherwise.