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West Bend 57040 4 Cup Electric French Press, Black | 
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| Brand: West Bend
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $49.64
You Save: $0.35 (1%)
Rating:  12 reviews
Color: Black & Silver
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.4
Dimensions (in): 10 x 10 x 13
Warranty: 1
MPN: 57040
Model: 57040
UPC: 072244570403
EAN: 0072244570403
ASIN: B000BKUZTA
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Brews 4 cups of coffee or tea | | • | Excellent brewing temperature control | | • | Start switch and automatic shut off | | • | Cord free carafe | | • | Stainless steel plunger and filter |
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Product Description
For those coffee and tea drinkers who want the freshest beverage possible this unit brews 4 cups of rich, full flavored coffee or tea. You have excellent control of the brewing temperature along with a start switch and automatic shutoff. The plunger has a stainless steel filter: Features: Brews 4 cups of coffee or tea. Excellent brewing temperature control. Start switch and automatic shut off. Cord free carafe. Stainless steel plunger and filter.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Don't waste your money November 14, 2007
Kimiko
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this for my husband's birthday. It worked great for about a month, then the water wouldn't pour anymore. My husband would have to stand there and hold down the start button. If he let go, the water would stop pouring. The sprout also broke off. Don't waste your money on this piece of junk.
 West Bend Electric French Press October 19, 2007
Benjamin A. C. Facer (Seattle, WA USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am not fond of the coffee made by typical drip coffee makers and was looking for an alternative and was delighted to discover an electric french press. The West Bend 57040 Electric French Press CoffeeMaker West Bend 57040 4 Cup Electric French Press, Black makes a fine cup of coffee but it really doesn't make enough coffee. It is most ideally suited to a light coffee drinker as it makes about 2 mugs of coffee. For the price it is a good product but I would like to find something that's built a little sturdier and capable of making 2-3 times as much coffee. I am inclined to say you could do better with an electric kettle and a large Cafeteria or Bodum french press although you would be looking at spending much more money.
Fragile Pot October 15, 2007
bhbrtn (TN, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really liked this French Press but... after only using it for one week the pot cracked. I did not drop it or misuse it....it just cracked while I was brewing a cup. The glass may have cracked when the handle was attached...but quality control did not catch it. West Bend replaced the pot.
Kinda Small October 9, 2007
Georgia Vallejos (Salt Lake City, Utah)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am new to the concept of French Press, so didn't really know what I was buying. If you're like me and thinking of trying it, here is my impression. There is no way to set the coffee so that it will brew itself in the morning. You have to physically get up and turn it on. You can put the water in the night before, and put the coffee in the pot, but don't make the mistake of putting the pot on the unit, because the water will drip out into the pot even though the unit is turned off. I thought this would make enough for my son and I to each have a normal coffee cup full, but it really only makes 2 cups that are about 2/3 full. It takes a good 6 minutes for the water to fill the pot, and then another 3 to 4 for the coffee to brew, so plan on 10 minutes of waiting in the morning. The coffee is good, though, and it makes great tea from loose leaves.
It leaks from at least two places on first hookup October 5, 2007
Not Mark Twain (the northern climes US)
I really wanted to like this; was thrilled to find a product from a USA company that seemed innovative, reasonably priced, and would surely be a quality thing, I thought. But it leaked the first time I put water in the heating reservoir on a trial run before brewing anything to clean out anything that might be there from manufacturing.
I thought, well, maybe I overfilled it at the Max line, although that's what the directions say to do, so I tried again. It leaked about 3/4 of a cup to 1 cup of the 4 I put in the reservoir (4 "cups" as measured in its own carafe; definitely not overfilled).
So I tried it with just 2 cups and it leaked about a third of that while the rest heated. Leaks plugged in, unplugged, while heating, while it dumps the hot water into the carafe, whenever.
You can see the water pour out the part of the reservoir that looks seamed together and you can also see it puddle out from underneath without actually traveling down the outside of the reservoir, so presumably from the bottom of the thing.
Because I'm cheap and took the free super-saver shipping, it took somewhere around two weeks to arrive in this condition and I don't have the patience to try a replacement with a similarly turtle-esque shipping time. I'll just run down to Kitchen Collections down the road tomorrow after dropping this dud at the post office. I can get a manual carafe for about $12 there.
Very disappointing purchase. I didn't even bother trying to brew coffee in it.
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