Excellent Machine, Solid App, Missing One Crucial Feature
I’ve recommended xbloom to all my friends and family who drink coffee. The standalone grinder is a great feature, the app is clean and easy to use. The pods and coffee taste wonderful. Love that we can now buy in bulk (souther weather!)
HOWEVER, I still use my kettle half of the time because this machine will not let you just pour hot water. Sometimes I have a morning where I want my dang cheap flavored beans/grounds so I can be my best white girl self and drink pumpkin flavored coffee every October.
I really don’t want to run oily “fake” beans through this beautiful machine. Which leaves me with no choice but to just pour the old fashioned way. I might as well just move out to a log cabin in the Wild West, heat my water over a fire, pour my coffee, and eventually get tuberculosis or something. (Kidding. Mostly).
I understand that blueberry buttered moist croissant flavored beans is an affront to connoisseurs. We all have bad habits. And I refuse to give mine up.
I still love this company and what they are doing. Just PLEASE let me just use the spiral pour for my tacky coffee habits.
HOWEVER, I still use my kettle half of the time because this machine will not let you just pour hot water. Sometimes I have a morning where I want my dang cheap flavored beans/grounds so I can be my best white girl self and drink pumpkin flavored coffee every October.
I really don’t want to run oily “fake” beans through this beautiful machine. Which leaves me with no choice but to just pour the old fashioned way. I might as well just move out to a log cabin in the Wild West, heat my water over a fire, pour my coffee, and eventually get tuberculosis or something. (Kidding. Mostly).
I understand that blueberry buttered moist croissant flavored beans is an affront to connoisseurs. We all have bad habits. And I refuse to give mine up.
I still love this company and what they are doing. Just PLEASE let me just use the spiral pour for my tacky coffee habits.
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Wow. Just wow
I have had a bunch of different automatic coffee machines in the last, just as many pour overs, and this xBloom is admittedly extremely impressive. I just tap the tag and push the pod holder and in a few minutes I have a delicious cup of coffee. It’s absolutely a game changer. The fact I can use my own coffee too and not have to buy into any proprietary pods is also an amazing bonus!
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Software is less friendly than expected
There is no manual, there are features talked about that no one can help the end user how to achieve them. Customer service is non existant.
