Gevi 10-Cup Drip Coffee Maker with Grinder review

I’m not going to string you along: If you’re looking for one of the best coffee makers, you’re not going to find it here. I’d click away and check out the Moccamaster KBGV Select, the Breville Luxe Brewer, or the Ninja Espresso and Coffee Maker Barista System.

Unfortunately, the Gevi 10-Cup has quite a few issues. Most are rooted in the poor-quality grinder. It results in an inconsistent, uneven brew, with bitter and weak notes in the same mouthful. I can’t recommend this machine in good faith.

However, if you want to find out more, keep reading this Gevi 10-Cup Drip Coffee Maker with Grinder review.

Gevi 10-Cup Drip Coffee Maker with Grinder review: Cheat sheet

• Who is it for? People who want a drip coffee maker on the cheap
• What does it do well? It’s cheap and easy to use
• What are its weaknesses? The coffee doesn’t taste great, and you can’t use dark roasted beans with this machine as the oils will destroy the already crappy grinder. Great!
• Anything else to know? You should spend a bit more on the Ninja drip coffee maker

Gevi 10-Cup Drip Coffee Maker with Grinder review: Specs

Gevi 10-Cup Drip Coffee Maker with Grinder review: Price & availability

The Gevi 10-Cup Drip Coffee Maker with Grinder is $199 on Amazon U.S., although it’s seemingly permanently discounted to $159.

This is a very reasonable price for a coffee maker and a grinder, as most grinders start from $159 minimum. Even so, there have been some serious sacrifices to keep the price down, which I’ll discuss thoroughly in the ‘Design’ and ‘Performance’ sections below.

I’ve reviewed the Breville Luxe Brewer, a premium $349 machine. It doesn’t have a grinder, but seeing as the Gevi 10-Cup uses a poor grinder, this is more of a pro than a con. I’d get better results crushing coffee beans with my car.

The Technivorm Moccamaster KBGV, which is widely considered the best drip coffee maker in the world, is a pretty eye-watering $369. The Cup-One (which is, as you guessed, a single-serving version) is a more palatable $250, but obviously only serves one. When you compare the Gevi to Breville and Moccamaster’s drip coffee maker, the price difference is bamboozling.

Ninja also makes the Espresso and Coffee Maker Barista System, which is $279 at Amazon. This machine is a drip coffee maker, Keurig machine, and a milk frother for just $80 more than the Gevi 10-Cup. I know which one I’d be buying.

There's a stark difference in quality between the Gevi and all the machines above. Personally, I would never get the Gevi 10-Cup: it’s completely plastic, takes 15 minutes to brew up, and has a low-quality grinder. I’ll get into everything now.

Gevi 10-Cup Drip Coffee Maker with Grinder review: Design

First things first: The Gevi 10-Cup is completely plastic. It’s got a plastic body, a plastic mesh filter, and a plastic filter basket. If you’re the kind of person who wants the least amount of boiling water + plastic, this isn’t the one for you.

If you’re trying to avoid plastic, your only option is the Technivorm Moccamaster KBGV, which is $369. However, the Moccamaster is widely regarded as the best drip machine in the world, and I agree. The Moccamaster looks gorgeous, with an industrial vibe, and makes delicious drip coffee. I would always recommend the Moccamaster over any other budget knockoff if you can afford it.

Admittedly, from a budget coffee maker, you can’t really ask for the world. And the Gevi 10-Cup has some redeemable features that defy its price tag, namely an easily navigable touchscreen with bright icons. I found the screen to be one of the best aspects of the machine.

The touchscreen has a vast array of functions. You can set bean roast, cup servings, keep hot time, brewing temperature, and more. The bean roast setting intrigued me: you can choose from light to dark roast. I’ll discuss this further in the ‘Grinder’ section, but Gevi advises you against using dark roast beans. So this confuses me a little.

Under the touchscreen is the filter basket: the grinder grinds beans into here, or you fill the filter with your desired amount of ground coffee. The filter is removable and easy to clean, but is made of fine, mesh plastic. I’ve reached out to Gevi for confirmation that this plastic is BPA-free, but have yet to receive a response.

You can also use the plastic filter basket with standard paper drip filters rather than the provided permanent filter.

The Gevi 10-Cup comes with a nice glass carafe: I have nothing negative to say about this. It’s really easy to clean, easy to pour from, and fits perfectly under the filter basket.

Overall, the Gevi 10-Cup Drip Coffee Maker with Grinder looks like a budget machine. Obviously, that’s because it is. I personally am not a fan of how it looks, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If you value affordability over aesthetics and functionality, it could be an option, but I wouldn’t ever buy this machine.

Gevi 10-Cup Drip Coffee Maker with Grinder review: Grinder

I would not buy the Gevi 10-Cup, and that’s mainly due to its grinder. This machine has a burr grinder, which surprised me. Usually, burr grinders are superior to blade grinders. Blade grinders are inherently terrible; they slice the beans rather than crush them, which results in an inconsistent granule size. In turn, this negatively impacts the flavor of the coffee, as some grounds will be overextracted, whereas others will be underextracted.

Even so, that doesn't mean all burr grinders are automatically good, as the Gevi's 100% is not.

For starters, Gevi literally advises you against using dark roast beans. Yep, this is a drip coffee maker you “shouldn’t” use dark roast beans with. I honestly do not understand the logic behind this.

I mean, I know why. It’s because the Gevi 10-Cup uses a low-quality grinder that can’t handle oily beans. Dark-roasted beans are oilier than light-roasted beans. If you grind dark roast beans on the Gevi 10-Cup, you’ll destroy the grinder. I’m not speculating: that’s taken straight from Gevi’s website.

It’s actually quite laughable. What’s the point in buying a machine that you can’t use for the most common type of bean? This is a major con and one of the prevailing reasons why I gave this machine a low rating.

The grinder is also majorly inconsistent. Here’s a photo to show you what I mean: on the left are all the grounds bigger than 800upm; on the right are all the grounds smaller than 800upm. Ideally, you’d want the grounds to fit through one sifter, not both.

As you can see, there’s a 50/50 split between the two grind sizes. This means the grind is really inconsistent, as half is below 800upm and half is above 800upm.

The grinder operates at 81dB, which is considerably loud, but you kind of expect noise on a grinder.

Gevi 10-Cup Drip Coffee Maker with Grinder review: Performance

I was flabbergasted when the Gevi 10-Cup took a massive sixteen minutes to brew a full 10-cup carafe of coffee. It took sixteen minutes to brew an 8-cup carafe, too.

In comparison, the Breville Luxe Brewer takes three minutes, and the Moccamaster KGBV takes six minutes. Sixteen is utterly ridiculous. I had to check the clock twice just to make sure I wasn’t imagining things.

You can alter the intensity of flavor by using less coffee or more water, but I tested with Gevi’s default settings as it’s the closest way to follow the brand’s “recipe”. You can also alter the intensity of flavor on the touchscreen (‘Classic’, ‘Rich’, and ‘Intense’ in ascending order): I brewed on ‘Classic’, and it was still way too bitter.

First, I ground 8 cups worth of beans and poured 8 cups worth of water into the water tank. I then set the machine to brew.

After sixteen minutes (...) I had a steaming hot carafe of coffee. Unfortunately, though, it tasted really, really bad. I’m not exaggerating when I say it tasted like the bitter nail polish I wore as a child to stop me from biting my nails.

I wasn’t just me — my colleagues said it tasted bitter and overbrewed, too. This is likely due to the inconsistent grind size.

I was able to make the coffee taste more palatable by grinding the beans more coarsely and using half the amount of coffee, but then the drink was watery. Not bitter, sure, but watery. So it’s kind of a lose-lose situation. Choose your fighter: bitter, or watery?

I’ll also say that I used the same artisan specialty beans I use for most of my coffee testing. I can say with full confidence that it was not the beans.

I used pre-ground coffee for my next test, and the brew tasted much, much better. There were fewer bitter notes, and I could taste the coffee's richness. However, I still wouldn’t say it tasted good. I think this is because the machine takes so long to brew: the grounds are overextracted and underextracted at the same time. The too-small grounds become overextracted, and the too-big grinds get underextracted. There’s no in between, and there certainly isn’t enough dispersion from the showerhead.

Overall, the performance of the Gevi 10-Cup was really disappointing. I can’t recommend this as a good coffee maker. The grinder is incredibly poor, and the taste is either too intense or too weak. There’s no in between, so unfortunately, it’s a no from me.

Gevi 10-Cup Drip Coffee Maker with Grinder review: Storage & maintenance

As the Gevi 10-Cup is 17 inches tall, it will not fit underneath a kitchen cupboard. It fits nicely on our office countertop, but only because there’s no cupboard above it. I’d recommend getting a coffee unit to store this machine adequately, although I don’t recommend buying it in the first place — problem solved.

Cleaning the machine is very easy: simply wash the water tank, reusable filter, carafe, and filter basket after each use, and you’re good to go again. There’s also a cleaning setting on the touchscreen, which cycles water through the machine.

As standard, Gevi offers a 1-year warranty, which is less than Technivorm’s 5-year warranty for the Moccamaster and less than Breville’s 2-year warranty.

Gevi 10-Cup Drip Coffee Maker with Grinder review: How does it compare?

I’ve reviewed the Breville Luxe Brewer and the Technivorm Moccamaster, and loved both of them. The Breville Luxe Brewer makes a full serving in just three minutes, so that takes the gold medal for speed. However, it is $349, so obviously a touch more expensive than the Gevi.

The Moccamaster is also widely regarded as the best coffee maker in the world, and for good reason. Honestly? I agree. I love love love the Moccamaster. Although it’s $369, it comes with a promise of lifetime repairs, so you’d likely be paying less in the long run.

Ninja also makes a drip machine: the Espresso and Coffee Maker Barista System, $279 on Amazon. While I haven’t used this machine, online discourse holds it as ideal for beginners and making milk drinks on top of drip coffee. It’s also Keurig-compatible. For just $80 more than the Gevi 10-Cup, you get a whole range of premium features. I know which one I’d go for.

Gevi 10-Cup Drip Coffee Maker with Grinder review: Verdict

I was majorly disappointed by the Gevi 10-Cup. I wanted it to be a great budget-friendly option in the wildly oversaturated, overpriced drip coffee maker market, but alas, it was not.

As it uses a low-quality grinder, the coffee is either bitter or watery — there’s no in between. When I used pre-ground coffee to negate this issue, the coffee tasted better. But… that defeats the whole purpose of buying a coffee machine with a grinder.

I recommend spending a little more for the Ninja Espresso and Coffee Maker Barista System. This machine can steam milk, make drip coffee, and make Keurig coffee. Alternatively, I recommend either the Breville Luxe Brewer or the Moccamaster KBGV Select if you can spend a little more.