Brew up to 10 cups (50 ounces) of great-tasting coffee with this easy-to-use drip coffeemaker. Designed with the user in mind, the appliance offers complete frontal access to the water tank and ground-coffee filter for easy filling and cleanup. Without having to move the unit, simply open the door using the handle, pour water in the channel, and put grounds in the coffee filter. The unit also provides a 24-hour programmable digital timer with automatic shut-off, which makes it possible to have coffee ready and waiting first thing in the morning or after dinner to serve with dessert. Or for those in a hurry, its pause-and-serve function pauses the brewing cycle and allows for pouring a quick cup. The included double-walled [Read More...]
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November 20th, 2009 at 2:43 am
Here is a well-made intelligently-designed coffee maker that works well, has some outstanding features, but has some significant differences from common automatic drip machines. Brewing into a thermal carafe with no burner or warming plate below the carafe means the coffee will not get the bitter taste of being kept hot by continuing to cook it. But, it also will probably not be quite as hot as some people would find ideal. It’s a compromise and involves personal preference. For me, the coffee is plenty hot and remains at a pleasant drinking temperature for well over an hour.
The way the carafe and its lid have to be designed to keep the steam from escaping and thus keep the coffee warm means it will pour into your cup a bit more slowly than from an ordinary carafe. To me, that’s not a big deal.
Some have reported not getting the carafe properly seated, thus allowing the freshly brewed coffee to spill all over the place. I have trouble imagining how that could happen and even more trouble imagining how anyone could let it happen more than once. I would expect any rational person, after having such a mess to clean up once, would make certain to seat the carafe correctly in the future. It’s not rocket science.
There have been some comments by others that rating this as a 10-cup coffee maker is misleading. All manufacturers rate coffee maker capacity in terms of 5-ounce cups, demi tasse cups, if you will. I ordinarily use a 10-ounce mug. So being aware of this, I govern myself accordingly. No big deal, and nothing different from any other manufacturer. Frankly, I don’t know of any normal person who actually uses demi tasse cups any more. That was a standard serving 100 years ago, but not today.
The instructions provided by DeLonghi are somewhat lacking and it doesn’t help that they combine the instructions for several different models with different features into a single booklet, printed in several languages. Not as helpful as it could be. That said, most of the operation is fairly intuitive. It is a little bizarre that the clock shows the hour from midnight to 10:00 a.m. as “0.” I guess that’s a European standard, but find it strange on a clock that displays a.m. and p.m. rather than a 24-hour clock. That’s just a little wierd to me, but does not diminish my enjoyment of this coffee maker.
Operation is reasonably easy and the quality of the brewed coffee is outstanding. I am well satisfied and do recommend this machine.
November 20th, 2009 at 3:06 am
Searched high and low for a thermal carafe coffee maker with good reviews. Seemed no matter what model or price, at least 1/3 of respondents hated the thing. So, I went for the value priced one and it was a good choice. It did leak the first two times as I was running the water through it but not once since. Preheating the carafe really helps keep the coffee warm. It’s so easy to pour the water in with the front load and we all love the aroma button for a more full flavored pot of coffee. It looks great and functions beautifully, if your hand is too big to get inside the carafe to scrub the coffee residue out, get a brush. What’s the big deal? Highly recommend.
November 20th, 2009 at 3:50 am
Extremely pleased with this coffee maker. Love the design, ease of filling, cleaning, even pouring the coffee is a pleasure due to the design of the pot and it makes agreat cup of coffee!