Description
The SHARDOR KM802G is a single serve brewer that handles three inputs rather than the usual two: K-Cup pods, ground coffee and loose or bagged tea, each with its own holder or basket supplied in the box. It brews five sizes from 6 to 14 ounces, offers a standard or stronger setting for both hot and iced drinks, draws from a 52 ounce removable tank and switches itself off five minutes after the last brew.
Three way compatibility is the feature that distinguishes it within the single serve brewer category, where most machines stop at pods and grounds. SHARDOR’s own KC101 covers pods and grounds in a narrower body without the tea basket.
Three Inputs and What That Means Daily
The machine ships with capsule holders and reusable basket filters covering pods, ground coffee and tea. Swapping between them is a matter of changing the insert, and the practical value is that a household does not need a separate kettle or teapot for one tea drinker. The listing names both in the plural without stating how many of each are in the box, so the exact contents are not determinable from the record.
What the listing does not address is cross contamination. Brewing tea through hardware that has held coffee gives you tea that tastes of coffee, because the oils sit in the plastic and rinsing does not remove them. Machines that take this seriously supply an entirely separate basket and a separate water path. This one supplies separate baskets, which handles the grounds contact but not the shared brew head above them. If tea purity matters, keep the tea basket exclusively for tea and expect the first cup after a coffee run to carry some carry over.
Brew Sizes and the Bold Setting
Five sizes are offered at 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 ounces. On a single serve brewer a larger size pushes more water through the same dose, so a 14 ounce cup is weaker than a 6 ounce cup from the same pod rather than simply larger. That is the most misunderstood thing about the format and no listing in this category explains it.
The bold setting is the compensation. It gives a standard or a stronger brew by slowing the water so it spends longer in contact with the coffee, and it works on both hot and iced modes. Anyone regularly filling a 12 or 14 ounce mug should treat stronger as the default rather than the exception, and anyone brewing 6 ounces will find standard sufficient.
Speed, Water Tank and Auto Off
SHARDOR states an average brew time of about one minute, which is a specific figure rather than a vague claim and is consistent with the format. The 52 ounce removable tank is large for a single serve machine, enough for roughly four 12 ounce cups between refills, and it lifts out for filling at the tap rather than being topped up through a small opening in place.
The auto off is stated precisely: five minutes after the last brew. That is short, which is the right choice on a single serve machine, since there is no carafe to keep warm and no reason for the element to sit powered all day. Five minutes also means there is no ready state to rely on, so every brew starts from a heat up. Fifty two ounces is a substantial volume to leave standing in a heated appliance between uses, and nothing in the listing suggests this tank is transparent, so unlike the SHARDOR KC101 there is no way to inspect it for deposits without lifting it out and looking inside.
The Height Figure Contradicts the Machine
The imported dimensions read 11.46 inches deep by 11.93 inches wide by 5.28 inches high. The height cannot be right, and the listing itself proves it. One of the manufacturer’s own bullet points states that the removable drip tray allows the machine to hold travel mugs up to 6.8 inches tall.
A machine 5.28 inches high cannot accept a 6.8 inch mug beneath its outlet. Those two figures come from the same listing and they contradict each other directly. The dimensions look like a package measured lying flat, and the real standing height must be somewhere above 6.8 inches plus the mechanism above it. Anyone planning a shelf should measure from the photographs or ask the seller rather than trusting the specification table. The item weight of 4.84 pounds is plausible for this class.
Other Faults in the Record
The Model Name field reads KM802G-2 while the item model number reads KM802G, and the trailing digit suggests a revision the listing does not explain. The colour is recorded as Dark Gray while the Amazon title says Gray. The Included Components field lists a single item, Filter, which cannot be the whole contents of a box that the bullets say contains capsule holders and multiple reusable baskets.
The bullet points are wrapped in full width bracket characters that belong to a listing template rather than to English typography, the same template used by several other budget brewers on this site. The Specific Uses field says Iced Coffee, which is one of several modes rather than the machine’s purpose. The record dates the listing to February 2025, making this one of the newest products covered here, with correspondingly little owner history behind it.
What the Specifications Do Not Settle
There is no brew temperature, no wattage and no explanation of how the iced mode differs mechanically from the hot mode. There is no guidance on ice quantity, which is the variable that determines whether iced coffee tastes of coffee or of water. There is no descaling guidance and no clean cycle described, on a machine that holds 52 ounces of standing water.
Nothing states the mesh grade of the reusable ground coffee basket, which on the closely related SHARDOR machine has drawn owner complaints about grounds reaching the cup. Owner feedback on this model is limited and mixed. One account describes it as a fair coffee maker that brews the sizes requested, and records that the manufacturer issued a refund and said it was continuously improving its products. A refund and that phrasing together suggest the manufacturer acknowledged a problem with that unit, and with a product this new there is not yet enough published feedback to say how common it is.
Who It Suits
This suits a small household where one person drinks pods, another grinds coffee and someone drinks tea, and where a large tank matters more than a compact footprint. The stated one minute brew, the five minute auto off and the 52 ounce tank are concrete specifications, and three way compatibility at this price is genuinely uncommon.
Look elsewhere if you need reliable published dimensions, because the ones here are wrong, or if you want a longer owner track record than a product listed in 2025 can offer. The Tastyle K320IT covers the same three inputs in a much narrower body, and the SHARDOR KM-802B is the closest sibling within the same range.
