Description
The CAM51025MB is De’Longhi’s TrueBrew, and it is an unusual machine: a single serve drip brewer with a built in conical burr grinder, six brew sizes from 3 to 24 ounces, and five brew styles including one called Espresso Style and one called Over Ice. Beans go in a hopper, water goes in a 60 ounce tank, and what De’Longhi calls Bean Extract Technology grinds, doses and brews each cup without any measuring on your part.
The proposition sits between two categories this site covers separately. It is not a carafe machine, because it brews into a cup. It is not a pod machine, because it grinds whole beans. It is closest to the grind and brew single serve idea used by the Cuisinart DGB-2, but with a far wider size range and a much higher price.
Six Brew Sizes and a Title That Understates Them
The product title says 8 oz to 24 oz. The marketing bullets list six sizes: 8, 12, 16, 20 and 24 ounces, plus a 3 ounce espresso style cup. So the actual range starts at 3 ounces, not 8, and the title has simply left the smallest size out.
That range is genuinely wide. Most single serve machines cover three or four sizes between 6 and 14 ounces, and almost none reach 24. A 24 ounce brew is a large travel mug or two normal cups from a single cycle, and the 3 ounce setting at the other end gives you something short and concentrated. Being able to cover both from one machine, from whole beans, without changing anything but a setting, is the reason this exists.
What Espresso Style Actually Means
This needs stating plainly because the name will mislead people. There is no pump, no portafilter, no pressurised brew group and no espresso extraction anywhere on this machine. It is a drip brewer.
Espresso Style is a brew style setting: a small volume brewed with a fine dose and a slow flow, which produces a short, concentrated, dark cup that can stand in for espresso in a milk drink. It will not produce crema and it will not taste like a pulled shot, because those come from pressure and this machine has none. If you want real espresso, our espresso machine section is where to look. If what you actually want is a strong 3 ounce base for a latte without owning a second appliance, the setting does that job honestly enough.
The Grinder and Bean Extract Technology
The grinder is a conical burr unit, which is the right choice: burrs crush to a set gap and produce a consistent particle size, where blades chop randomly and give you dust and boulders in the same dose. Grinding at the moment of brewing is also the single largest quality improvement available to any drip machine, because ground coffee loses its aromatics within days while whole beans hold them for weeks.
Bean Extract Technology is De’Longhi’s name for the machine handling grind, dose and brew together, adjusting each to the size and style you selected rather than using one recipe for everything. That is more sophisticated than a machine that simply grinds a fixed amount, and it is what makes a 3 ounce cup and a 24 ounce cup from the same hopper plausible. The listing does not state the number of grind settings, the burr material, the hopper capacity in grams, or whether there is a bypass for pre ground coffee. That last one matters for decaf in the evening and is a real omission.
Brew Styles and Over Ice
The five styles are Light, Gold, Bold, Over Ice and Espresso Style. Light, Gold and Bold are a strength ladder, and Gold is a reference to the Golden Cup extraction standard rather than a colour.
Over Ice is the more interesting one. Brewing normally and pouring over ice gives a watery drink, because the melt dilutes a cup already at full strength. An iced mode has to compensate by brewing a smaller, more concentrated volume, and on a machine that controls its own dose it can adjust the coffee as well as the water rather than just shortening the brew. That is a better implementation than the iced buttons on machines with a fixed dose, and it is one of the few places where a built in grinder pays off in a way you can taste.
Footprint, Tank and Weight
Recorded dimensions are 15 inches deep, 12 inches wide and 15.8 inches high. That is a large appliance, and the height means it will not fit under a standard wall cabinet with the hopper lid opening above it. The stored specification also records a capacity of 60 fluid ounces and a weight of 19 pounds, both in malformed fields where the label and the value are identical, which is an import fault rather than information.
Sixty ounces is a genuine multi cup tank. At the 8 ounce setting that is seven cups between refills, at 24 ounces it is two and a half. Nineteen pounds is heavy, which on a machine with a grinder is a good sign: motor and burr assemblies have real mass and weight keeps the machine still while it grinds.
What the Specifications Do Not Settle
There is no wattage, no brew temperature, no brew time for any size, no hopper capacity and no model number recorded in the data at all beyond the one in the product title. The listing does not say whether a carafe is available or included, whether the drip tray adjusts for travel mugs, or how tall a vessel the machine clears, which is a strange omission on a machine offering a 24 ounce brew.
It is also worth being clear about the evidence base. This listing carries a single published rating, so there is effectively no owner feedback and no reliability record. Grind and brew machines have more moving parts than any other drip design, and the grinder is the part that fails, so buying at this price without a service history is a real risk. Read recent feedback across De’Longhi’s TrueBrew range rather than relying on this page.
Who It Suits and Who Should Look Elsewhere
This suits a household that drinks single cups rather than pots, buys whole beans, wants sizes from a short concentrate to a large travel mug, and wants iced coffee done properly rather than as an afterthought. Nothing else on this site covers that combination.
Look elsewhere if you brew a full carafe, because this machine does not, or if you want real espresso. Households wanting a grinder aimed at a pot should compare the Cuisinart DGB-800 or the Cuisinart DGB-400. Anyone who would rather keep the grinder separate from the brewer, which is the more durable arrangement, should look at a standalone unit in our burr grinder section.
