This coffee maker is really great in our household. We were previously using a coffee maker with pods and even the stronger pods weren’t strong enough for me. My husband prefers weaker coffee so we can make our own cups to taste. I like that the beans are freshly ground but you can also use pre-ground coffee and over ice with this machine. The grounds dump into a container that make this super easy to put in compost or use to make coffee scrubs as an added bonus. The only downside is that once you pour the beans in the hopper we both need to use the same beans which isn’t the case when you use individualized pods. I will say the flexibility of all of the beans we can now try outweighs that minor inconvenience though. The machine is a little louder than my previous grinder but that will be easy to get used to for the trade off in taste. Also, the machine doesn’t take as much space as I expected which is an added bonus.