What a pleasure to find the smell of coffee in the kitchen !!!!!! The machine grinds the coffee beans (but you can also use pre-ground coffee) and then she made coffee. You can choose the degree of grinding (thus the force.) The water level is placed on the top and horizontally, not too easy to see why innovate if it is to do less readable than before ??? Its operation is quite simple because the instructions are thankfully quite obscure. To sum up: - Put coffee beans into the tank - Select fineness of grinding with the wheel - Put water in the tank for the number of cups required (not too easy to dose-see above) - Select the number of cups, it only determines the amount of coffee but absolutely not the volume of coffee! - The machine grinds the grain needed and then passes the coffee automatically. - The machine will cease to make coffee when there is no more water in the tank, keep warm and then a moment will power alone. This machine can do the good filter coffee (not espresso) and as it uses from the coffee beans, and all the smells and flavors are present. Disadvantages: It is not programmable and it makes a lot of noise when it grinds the coffee, so be careful in the morning not to awaken all those who would sleep again.