Ninja Coffee Bar

Our coffee maker just quit this morning, and poor Bobby has been having to make his coffee one cup at a time in my little coffeemaker instead of a whole carafe at once like he usually doies.
He has been grinding his coffee fresh each morning and he said he likes that a whole lot better than he does just the regular coffee which we have been buying at Sam's Club.
I have been looking online this morning to see what is the best deal I can find on a new replacement coffee maker, and maybe get one with a built in grinder.
Of course, I came across the Ninja Coffee Bar in my search.
That is still way out of our price range, unless I can find a used/refurbished one cheap enough; but I was wondering how you are liking your Ninja , @Ken Anderson , now that you have been using it for a few months ?
Have you tried making any of the specialty coffees or iced coffee, cappuchinos, and such as that with the Ninja machine ?

 

The next step in coffee snobbishness is when you realize that it's better yet if you use a hand grinder because the automatic ones burn the beans just a bit. Yeah, we use a hand grinder. If I'm lazy, I might use the electric one but I do think it makes a difference.

We use it every day but no, we've never even tried making anything fancy. Now that temperatures are creeping up on 70 degrees sometimes, maybe we will before the summer is over.

 

This morning, the decanter for our Ninja coffeemaker cracked. It wasn't dropped or anything. I think it cracked when the hot coffee began flowing into it. We bought it about eleven months ago so it's still under warranty. That wouldn't have really mattered because they never asked for any of that information. They are sending out another decanter, so I was left only with cleaning up the mess that it made when all of the coffee flowed out of the cracks at the bottom of the glass decanter. For the next couple of days, I'll be using a regular $10 coffeemaker that will probably work as well as the $100 one we have. By the way, I still haven't tried to do anything fancy with it. I guess I'm just not a fancy kind of guy.

 

Well, let me borrow it and test it out ! I just love all of that flavored stuff, fluffed up coffee latte with whip cream, and caramel, and .......well, you get the idea, I am sure .
Bobby only likes plain black coffee, and he usually drinks at least one large coffee pot full before he wakes me up in the morning to come and have coffee with him.
I have my little one-cup coffee maker, so if I want flavored coffee, or decaf later in the day, then I use that. I still think that the Ninja Coffeemaker would be the Ultimate in coffee makers though.

 

Was he cracked?

 

I had a Cuisinart once. It made good coffee but it wouldn't keep it hot enough long enough.

 

One thing you don't want to do is break the carafe. I broke ours this morning and the replacement carafe is $30, a bit high in my opinion. Probably, there are cheaper ones that would fit but I don't have any others around to try.

 

I'm thinking of getting another coffeemaker, but I'll probably give it a few days before I order anything because it seems kind of nuts to buy a new coffeemaker when the old one is working just fine. It's working perfectly okay, but it's six years old and I'm bored with it. That doesn't make any sense so I guess I'll think on it a bit. Six years, and I still haven't bothered to learn how to use any of the fancy stuff. I just make regular coffee with it.

Once in a while, I'll make a half cup, and I have used the one-cup thing to make tea instead of coffee, but I've never even set the clock, let alone brewing coffee on a timer, or trying to make any specialty brews.

If I spent more time upstairs, where our kitchen is, I'd use the manual percolator pot more often, because I like that.

 

I am thinking of getting this coffeemaker. It's an electric percolator coffeemaker available for $45.99 from Amazon.com. Originally, I began considering replacing the Ninja just because I was bored with it, and that didn't make a lot of sense to me at other times but, since then, the Ninja has made less than half a pot a couple of times when it was supposed to make a whole pot, so there's something going on with it.

I like percolator coffee and have a manual percolator coffeemaker of the sort that has to be heated on a stovetop. But our stove is upstairs and my office is downstairs. Since I don't have a stove downstairs, I was thinking of getting a hot plate but this might be a better idea.

The Ninja did a pretty good job for six years, so it was a good buy. But the same coffeemaker wouldn't do anything for the boredom factor and the same machine would probably cost me a lot more than it did six years ago. This one is considerably less than I paid for the Ninja six years ago, so I can't go far wrong.