Let me first tell you that I am an extremely picky person who is not prone to gushing over anything. I can always seem to find something to fuss about. I give this machine a triple 10!! I was suspicious of everything. My husband and I are both coffee drinkers. I don't always drink reg coffee. Sometimes half caf. You can make a cup of whatever kind you are wanting with absolutely no fuss whatsoever. And quickly & quietly. And there are 2 scoops so that if I make a cup of whatever kind I'm wanting that day, I can rinse out the scooper and then use the other scooper to make the kind he wants without putting a wet scoop in the container of coffee. I tend towards a regular size mug, but he likes a bigger man size mug. And sometimes one of us wants to use one of our travel mugs to take a taller cup with us when we have errands to run. No problem there either! In the blink of an eye you can flip over the silver plate that the cup/mug sits on and it becomes shorter so that you can use it for a shorter container.
I tend to get frustrated with all the different machines in the house. It seems like a person needs a college degree and a 5 pound instruction manual to learn how to operate them. This one is as easy as it gets. You do need to learn how much coffee to put in the scooper to make your coffee the way that you like it, but that's about it. After you put your scooper with the appropriate amount of coffee in it, you fill your mug with water and pour the water in. Push the button. I always push bold. And by the time you do your next little morning chore. Feed the dog, open the blinds, etc. there's your coffee.
I have read many of the reviews of this item and usually I will decide to purchase or not based on reviews. Glad I didn't let the reviews make my decision this time. The things that people are complaining about I don't see what they are seeing. I am very temperature sensitive and the coffee comes out quite hot. And someone wrote about a plastic taste?? Huh?? And there were several complaints about weak coffee. Now I will tell you that you will need to use a different grind of coffee for this machine. You will need to use one that grinds the coffee very finely. Like powder. Because of how quickly the coffee is made the water and the coffee spend very little time "together". Maybe that is their problem. You can't use the grind type that we are all used to using. The automatic drip grind. You won't get the flavor out of the coffee that you are used to. Take a few minutes. Go on a few of the sites that sell the different brands like Caribou, Green Mountain, Paul Newman, etc. and learn about the different grinds. It's no different that having to learn about the auto-drip versus the old percolator coffee grind that Grandma used to use in her old coffee pot. Remember those?
I asked quite a few of my friends and no one has one of these so I went ahead and took the chance and bought one. I couldn't be happier. I just got done cleaing up our Cuisinart coffeemaker and putting it in the cabinet. We will save it for when we need to make more than a couple of cups of coffee. Maybe if company comes over.
This wonderful machine is about 60% smaller than the machine it replaces so it takes up a ton less counter space. It also doesn't have a water resevoir that uses electricity constantly to keep the water warm 24/7. Why is that necessary? So you can save like 10 seconds cause the water is already hot? That sure doesn't help the electric bill. And frankly. I like my coffee to be made with fresh water. Not water that has been sitting around for days. My husband has been bugging me for about a year that he wanted a Keurig, but I refused to succumb to all the hype and get locked into having to use the ridiculously expensive per cup cost K cups. Even on sale, the cheapest I could find K cups were about 55-60 cents. And that was extremely rare. Now yes. That is much cheaper than going to your neighborhood _______ (you fill in the blank) but I just wasn't going to do it. I did find that there are now some companies that make reusable plastic cups that look like the K cups and you fill them with your own coffee, so that would have been okay. I guess. Those refillable cups were $9-10 each so I don't know what you save there. But somehow I just knew that if I kept looking I would find what I wanted and I did. An inexpensive machine to buy. Easy to clean and use. No stupid K cups. Doesn't take up a lot of space on the counter. Simple to use. Inexpensive to buy and use daily. Made by a company that has been around for decades so if heaven forbid there is a problem, my guess would be that you could call them and get it solved quickly and to the satisfaction of the customer. All in all, a rare thing. Good value for your money & a machine that is totally geared towards the customer's satisfaction. Go get one!
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This Item  Hamilton Beach Single Serve Scoop Coffee Maker, 14oz, Stainless Steel (49981) (Discontinued) | Recommendations  |  |  |  |  | |
| Price | — | $64.99 | -32% $40.94 List: $59.99 | $45.99 | $79.99 | $25.99 |
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| Sold By | — | Amazon.com | SRYLDZ | Amazon.com | Amazon.com | Mixpresso coffee |
| capacity | 14 ounces | 40 fluid ounces | 16 ounces | 14 ounces | 56 ounces | 14 ounces |
| material | Stainless Steel | Stainless Steel | Plastic | Plastic | Plastic | Plastic, Stainless Steel |
| input interface | buttons | buttons | buttons | buttons | buttons | buttons |
| voltage | 120 volts | — | — | — | 120 volts | 110 volts |
| wattage | 1300 watts | 1200 watts | 900 watts | 650 watts | 1500 watts | 700 watts |
| model name | Hamilton Beach Scoop Single-Serve Coffee Maker | Hamilton Beach The Scoop | Iced + Hot | Simply Brew To Go | Ninja PB041ST | 2-In-1 Single Cup Coffee Maker & 14oz Travel Mug Combo |
Better cup of Java than Keurig makes!
I just received my Hamilton Beach, The Scoop, single cup coffee maker today, Feb 14, 2025. It works great! And it makes a better tasting cup of coffee than my Keurig. I did a taste test using a Folgers K-cup with Keurig and then Folgers coffee grounds with the Scoop. The Scoop does make a better cup of Java! Now... to get rid of my Keurig... the beastly old thing! My 6.5" Yeti cup fits just fine in my new Scoop. I tried two diff. filters... both fit below the brew basket. The Melita #1 filter and the Aeropress rounds in XL size. Both worked great to remove extra sediment if that is a concern of yours. It was for me as I sometimes drink my coffee after being refrigerated (on ice) with a straw. Honestly, I can't tell the difference in taste using bleached vs natural. Of course, you don't have to use a filter at all with the Scoop. But I prefer it... it is a personal preference. As far as filters go, the Melita is a bit easier to pull out of the basket because of the high sides of the filter. But not a big deal with the Aeropress filter either. One thing I was a bit disappointed with, with the Scoop (and reason for 4 stars) was that the Brew basket for this model shown on Amazon and the reviews I looked at, showed that it has a stainless base. Part of the reason I switched from my Keurig was because I wanted less plastic. Well, it appears, Hamilton Beach has cut back on their stainless (cutting back on budget, I'm assuming), and the brew basket is now 100% plastic. Darn it! So much for cutting back on even just a little bit of plastic. I will use The Scoop for a while and quite possibly in the future, I may look into a more expensive coffee maker with more stainless inside... if I can find one. I'm willing to spend more money to get away from plastic, plastic, plastic!
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- Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2022Color: Stainless SteelVerified Purchase
I had been looking for a single cup coffee maker that DIDN'T use pods for a while, but none really impressed me very much. Then I came across "The Scoop" by Hamilton Beach and I pushed the button and made the purchase. The coffee maker arrived on time and in pristine condition. I had read the reviews beforehand so when I placed my order, I also purchased 1 box of #1 coffee filters (seen in the photo) along with a new 16 oz THERMOS Stainless King Vacuum-Insulated Travel Tumbler. After running 3 cycles of clean water through the system, I made my first mug of coffee following the directions exactly. I did NOT use a paper filter and to be honest, I didn't run into an issue of sludge being in the bottom of the mug, nor did I encounter any grounds floating in my coffee. Lastly, there was NO sputtering during the brewing and NO splattered coffee escaped outside the travel mug... not a drop. That said, I was using the travel mug pictured which almost goes completely to the bottom of the filter well so there was very little room for anything to escape. All in all, the first mug wasn't bad. It had a slight acidic taste to it but was within my boundaries of being called "decent." After I finished the first mug of coffee, I rinsed both filters and the filter well out thoroughly and prepared to make my second mug; this time with a paper filter. As seen in the photo, I placed a #1 paper filter between the brew basket and secondary filter. The grounds were placed inside the brew basket. Almost an entire bottle of Dasani water was poured in (which was surprising since the well is only supposed to hold a maximum of 14 oz and a bottle of Dasani is 16.9 oz) and the bold brew cycle was again started. A few minutes later the second mug was ready, and it DID actually taste better than the first. The slight acidic taste I experienced with the first mug was not present in the second mug. This improved the taste from being decent to being fantastic! So, in summary, I do not believe that paper filters are necessary when using "The Scoop" coffee maker but IMO the paper filters do cut down on the oil and acidic taste turning a decent cup of coffee into an even better cup.
I would easily recommend this coffee machine to friends and family who are looking for something other than a "pod machine." The price is extremely reasonable, it's well made, looks nice, cleans up easily, doesn't take up a bunch of space and most importantly, it makes very good coffee. Oh... almost forgot... when brewing a cup or mug do NOT remove the cup when the coffee stops pouring into the cup. I discovered rather quickly that the coffee will stop pouring several times while filling my travel mug but would then start up again a second or two later. The mug/cup is ready to be removed once the green light goes out.
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Luis GuerreroReviewed in Mexico on July 27, 2024
Gran producto, Cafetera de una dosis.
Color: Stainless SteelVerified Purchase - dhruvReviewed in India on January 14, 2021
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Color: Stainless SteelVerified Purchase - Laurel TomlinsonReviewed in Canada on December 22, 2018
Money well spent!
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