Product Features

• Contemporary reservoir-style home brewer with stainless accents specially designed for use in HIGH ALTITUDE markets.
• Brews ten cups (50-oz.) of perfect, café quality coffee in 3 minutes
• Commercial-grade exterior materials with stainless steel internal water tank
• Patented sprayhead design improves coffee flavor extraction and internal thermostat keeps water at optimal brewing temperature
• Porcelain-coated warming plate with lighted On/Off switch

From the Editors

This unit offers BUNN brewing perfection with a sleek, stainless steel accented, Contemporary design --- and is optimized for brewing in high altitude locations. Patterned after BUNN's commercial & restaurant brewing systems, this home brewer puts high quality materials and classic brewing technology into one great package. The stainless-steel tank holds the brew water at approximately 200˚F, the temperature required to extract the maximum flavor from coffee. The patented BUNN brewing system showers the water over the ground coffee using a specially designed sprayhead to create optimum turbulence in the funnel for just the right amount of time. As a result, BUNN home brewers produce 10 cups of perfect coffee in about 3 minutes --- less than half the time of most regular coffee makers. This combination of "time, temperature & turbulence" is the hallmark of BUNN's home brewing system --- and something unavailable in any other home brewer.
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Customer Response

Coffee maker
If you like to drink good coffee and life in a high altitude this is the best way to make a very good coffee. We use it at home and it is just delicious. Very well spend money for a great coffee maker.

Had to return this one
I had to return this coffee maker.
I liked the design and function but the water wasn't hot enough.
I had to use twice as much coffee to get a good cup of coffee.
I started checking the temp of the water and the water at the spray head was 140.
I contacted Bunn, and the support person told me the engineer said the temp should be 175 to 185 at the spray head.
So ..... I returned this one as a defective item, and am not replacing it.
I bought a Tecnivorm KBG-741

Good product
Makes the best coffee. We use de-caf and it handles the fine grind great. I am going to add a warmer plate and another carafe for guests. I would like it a little better if the carafe was a little more stable on the warmer plate. It moves easily, although not a problem, it is a little annoying.

This is a commercial unit so it keeps the water hot all the time for an instant update. The high altitude feature is the faster boiling point, a problem for us at 5K feet but this one does it just as fast.

High Altitude Bunn impressions
Sep 20, 2009: I've owned this product for two days now. So far so good. Amazon packaged this item well and I got free delivery in 4 days. Thanks Amazon! I'm very pleased with your service.

This coffee maker is replacing a Braun unit, which gave me nothing but grief with its numerous problems. I did quite a bit of research on Consumer Reports (CR) and Amazon and decided on the Bunn. I respect CR, but sometimes their recommendations don't match owners' experiences, who use a particular product for a much longer time than CR's testers do. Because of this, I value the owner reviews on Amazon.

This coffee maker has a nice look to it--at least for my taste. The funnel and a decanter's handle seem a bit flimsy. I have a preference for sturdier things. Still, I don't expect them to give me trouble in the future. If they do, I can get replacements from Bunn or a reseller.

You *really* have to pay attention to the setup instructions, which are good. I failed to write down the serial number ("date code") on the bottom of the unit, so I had to go through a lengthy step to drain the reservoir in order to get at the info necessary to register my coffee maker. (The extra time was needed to cool the hot water in the reservoir. Bunn's FAQ has the exact steps.)

In any case, one should take the time to read the instructions carefully--especially, since this coffee maker operates differently than most others. For example, adding water and closing the top lid starts the hot water to flow immediately (ie. starts the coffee making process). There's no switch to push. So you'd better have the funnel and the decanter in place, otherwise you'll have a major mess to clean up. I've made some pots of coffee by now and got a hang of it. It's not tricky at all--just different.

As one reviewer already suggested for the non-high altitude model, you can save on energy by using a timer. I use an X10 3-prong Appliance Module for the coffee maker along with a programmable Mini Timer. (You can get these from x10.com. Despite their weird web site, their gadgets work. Radio Shack used to re-sell their stuff.) The Mini Timer turns power on to the coffee maker via the Appliance Module at 5am and shuts it off at 5pm. So the water is heated 12 hours per day, when I'm likely to want to make coffee. I still must be physically present to make a pot of coffee and don't believe that any automation is possible. This is fine by me, since brewing is so quick.

I don't use the warmer plate at all. Instead, I pour the hot coffee into the thermal carafe from my decommissioned Braun coffee maker. This keeps the coffee acceptably hot for hours. Similar thermal carafes are available for $20-30 from Amazon.

Some people complained that the glass carafe makes a mess when pouring coffee from it. I didn't encounter this problem. I'm sure it's related to pouring "technique."

On CR's recommendation I ordered a new and inexpensive coffee grinder from Amazon (Mr. Coffee IDS77), which should give me control over grind quantity and level of coarseness. I haven't yet received this grinder and therefore can't comment on its efficiency.

Again, on CR's recommendation I bought Eight O'Clock Coffee 100% Colombian caffeinated coffee, which was their top choice and it's not very expensive. I used this coffee today. It was fine and not bitter.

As other people already pointed out, you can get Bunn filters inexpensively. I found sites that sell them in bulk for $14/1,000.

In summary: I like my new Bunn. The coffee it made came out tasting great and the brewing process is very fast. If anything changes, I'll post an update.

Bunn NHVX-B(D) Generation High Altitude 10 cup coffee brewer
I bought this coffeemaker after reading many reviews (like this one I'm writing!). It really helped that someone had mentioned the need to get the high altitude model, since we live near Denver, over a mile high. The review I read said that the warming plate will get too hot on most models (boiling point related to altitude, and all that science info...) on most models.
Someone else wrote about the carafe not pouring well. I have not had even one problem with pouring.
I love my new Bunn coffeemaker. It truly brews 10 cups of delicious, silky coffee in mere minutes. I'm enjoying some right now! Cleanup is a breeze.
The warming plate still seems to get too hot if the coffee is left for some time, so that is something that is better than usual on this model, but not perfect.
Nowadays, you can easily spend around $100 for a good coffeemaker. My Bunn should be an investment that will last for years.

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