I researched the rest. This was the best.
This pot doesn't dribble. Push down on the tab that says "Press to Pour" and fill your cup. My wife not being one who either reads the manuals or what it says on the pot, unscrewed the top to pour her first cup from this. Yeah, the top fell off and made a mess.
This insulated carafe keeps the coffee hot for a long time. Much better than our previous one. It is stainless steel inside and out. The temperature of the coffee (8 cups) into a cold carafe is a little more than 180 degrees F. That's the upper limit without burning your lips. The water temp while the coffee is being made ranges from 175 to slightly over 200 at the end. Preheating the carafe would produce a hotter coffee and keep it hot longer but this works well as is.
It comes with 2 travel mugs and an undersized 1 tablespoon long handled coffee scoop. The 2 mugs are black plastic on the inside which some xperts claim gives off harmful chemicals when filled with hot liquids.
The water level inside are clearly...
Coffee on your way out
This coffee maker does a great job at making coffee (as it should), it's well built and attractive to the eye. It will go well with all of the other stainless steel items in your kitchen. It's easy to make coffee, and it's easy to program so that you can grab the cup on your way out of the house (which is what I usually do). The lcd clock is a very bright blue, which could be good or bad depending on whether or not you like a bright blue light in your kitchen. The travel mugs are great, you'd probably spend around $8 on each of them at retail. The carafe is nice, but I haven't used it (and probably won't).
I'm a bit of a coffee snob, so I do have a few minor qualms as well. The permanent filter basket does a good job, but it's just not as good as a paper filter- fine grains do get through and settle to the bottom of the cup. If this doesn't bother you, then don't worry about it. The permanent filter is also kind of a bummer to clean. It's easier to just pick up a...
Not sure what others are doing but I've yet to have mentioned issues?
I received this coffeemaker as a gift about a month ago and it's miles ahead of the Mr. Coffee I used to use (was also a good machine, just stopped working). I make Dunkin Donuts coffee in it and it tastes just like the real thing (meaning it is certainly capable of making great coffee). One of the mugs was missing when i opened it, but a quick call to Hamilton Beach resulted in a replacement one in about a week.
Now maybe I'm just odd or pouring different than some of the people complaining about the carafe dripping, but I have yet to encounter such a problem. In fact, I did it over the sink first due reading reviews on here. I have yet to spill any coffee with this setup so I'm not sure what others are doing. However, the travel mugs leaking water when washed thing is true, I don't use them too often though (use my own travel mug) so they're usually all dried out when I need them, but still its something to consider if you plan on using them daily etc...
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