Chefman’s 12-cup programmable maker is built around one selling point: a permanent reusable filter, so you never buy paper filters for it. It’s a straightforward budget drip machine in most other respects, except for a wattage figure that Chefman itself can’t seem to settle on.
The reusable filter is the real feature
Chefman’s product pages list a 24-hour programmable delay brew, classic and strong brew-strength settings, a Keep Warm function holding coffee hot for up to an hour, pause-and-serve so you can pour mid-cycle, an anti-drip system, a digital display, boil-dry protection, and a dishwasher-safe reusable filter in place of paper ones. That last point is the practical difference from most machines at this price: no ongoing filter cost, and no scramble when you run out of paper filters.
Two Chefman pages, two different wattages
Chefman sells this design under at least two product pages on its own site. One, for model RJ14-12-SQ-V2, lists 900W at 120V and $34.99. The other, for model RJ14-12-SQ, lists 1000W at 120V, at $39.99 for a round carafe version and $49.99 for the square one, with dimensions of 6.6in wide, 9.7in deep and 12.9in tall and a weight of 3.3lb. Both pages describe the same feature set — reusable filter, 24-hour delay brew, pause-and-serve, Keep Warm, cETL certification — down to nearly identical wording. The wattage is the one number that doesn’t match between them, and Chefman’s site doesn’t explain why. It’s possible the two model numbers really do draw different power, or that one page simply has a typo; there’s no way to tell which from the outside.
Why the number matters here
Wattage on a drip machine is a rough proxy for how fast it heats water, so a 900W-versus-1000W gap could mean a genuinely different brew time between what look like the same machine. It’s also the kind of detail that matters for circuit loading if you’re running it alongside other kitchen appliances. Neither model page was in stock at the time we checked, so we couldn’t cross-check the physical unit’s rating label against either listing.
Before you buy
- Check the wattage printed on the unit itself or on the box, rather than trusting either Chefman product page.
- Confirm which carafe shape (round or square) your specific listing ships with — Chefman prices them differently.
- Ask the seller to confirm the model number (RJ14-12-SQ vs. RJ14-12-SQ-V2) against the ASIN you’re buying.
- If you plan to rely on the reusable filter exclusively, check it’s included in the box and not sold as an add-on for your specific listing.
Specifications compared directly from Chefman’s own product pages for models RJ14-12-SQ and RJ14-12-SQ-V2. CoffeeLogik has not tested this machine in person.
