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Originally Posted by boar_d_laze  Abe,
DeLonghi, Krups, Braun, KitchenAid, Mr. Coffee, Bunn, etc., all make excellent pots. To be quite honest it doesn't matter a heck of a lot which brand you get. They all brew in very much the same way at the same temperatures. Largely, you're shopping for programming features. |
We've got a cuisinart (not one of the ones with a built in grinder) that's just awful. It makes very good coffee, most of the time. It gets the water hot enough, which is a major shortcoming of most of them. But this particular one was designed by a moron who clearly doesn't drink coffee. It's got a tiny little opening to pour water into, so when you're trying to make coffee first thing in the morning, you inevitably make a mess. And the filter basket has a knob sticking out of the bottom (it's the shut off valve so you can take the pot out and pour a cup while it's still brewing) that keeps it from sitting flat. So you can't put coffee in the filter unless the filter is in the machine, or you put the filter in something else to keep it from falling over. And when something goes wrong (like a coffee deprived moron forgets to put the pot under the filter....), and the filter overflows, all that mess finds its way into the water resevoir. And because it's got a tiny little opening, you can't get the blasted mess out, so you have to brew about a dozen pots of just water, to get the grounds out, or else it clogs up, and vaporizes all the water in the resevoir, instead of making coffee with it. It does make good coffee, though. Most of the time.