Beef with My Coffee Pot

[Therios Pendragon]

I agree... coffee pots seem to be lacking in technology. They all talk about it yet they all burn coffee or you have to set two cups side by side and put a napkin under it. I TOTALLY agree!

However... I finally found my holy grail. We bought us a new Cuisinart. It brews the coffee and keeps it in an upper tank that keeps hot for hours. It does not burn. You put your cup under the unit and press a front mounted lever and the coffee drains from the internal tank into the cup... No drips... no hassle...

I, too, have owned everything conceivable. We are most happy with this new device.

Here is a link to see it ...

Amazon.com: Cuisinart DCC-2000 Coffee-on-Demand 12-cup Programmable Coffeemaker: Kitchen & Dining

I always read the reviews everywhere prior to buying anything. Before I filled it for the first time, I tightened the inner screws in the tank and have never had a leak of any kind.

 

[jinman]

I have this Mr. Coffee with the thermal carafe. It was about $55 at Walmart and the last one they had in the store. It has worked flawlessly for over 3 years. The thermal carafe works very well. I make a pot of coffee and drink 1/2 of it. The next morning, the coffee in the carafe is still warm, so I just pour it into my big mug and heat it in the microwave for 2-1/2 minutes. It's a big mug that holds 5 cups. I use a fine screen reusable filter because my water is so soft it does not work well with paper filters. Paper filters clog and overflow often, but the fine screen permanent filter works great. I like strong coffee anyhow. It's my US Navy heritage.

 

[LBrown59]

I'm not so sure but what Mr. Brown has the right idea. Our situation might be a little different from most folks.
1*I've been married to my wife over 44 years, and of course knew her for 6 or 7 months before I married her. But as long as I've known her, she keeps a cup of coffee within reach from the time she gets out of bed in the morning until she goes to bed at night.
2* She only wants it luke warm. If it's as hot as most folks prefer, she puts an ice cube in it. So our coffee pot carafe always has coffee in it unless she's cleaning it or making another pot. Of course, I sip coffee from the time I get up in the morning until around noon, when I change to cold drinks; mostly iced tea, but some ice water, or even the "adult beverages" we've talked about in other threads. So when I get up in the morning, there's coffee in the carafe, barely warm from last night, so first thing, I pour myself a cup and put it in the microwave for 40 seconds.
Unlike Mr. Brown, I don't use 44 seconds.
3*I want to use increments of 10 seconds because the carousel in our microwave makes one complete revolution every 10 seconds, so the coffee cup handle stops in the same position I left it.

1*My wife an I have been married for over 44 years also .
She hasn't been able to drink coffee for over 6 years so my one cup at a time is the perfect solution for me.
2*I got tired of the frequent burnt sore tongue syndrome is why I went to the 44 second mike setting.
3*Intriguing: I never thought about this .
I'll have to see how many seconds it takes ours to make a round.

Instant coffee might be instant but it's not coffee more like emergency caffeine.

To each his own.

I agree... coffee pots seem to be lacking in technology. They all talk about it yet
4*they all burn coffee or you have to set two cups side by side and put a napkin under it. I TOTALLY agree!


However... I finally found my holy grail. We bought us a new Cuisinart. It brews the coffee and keeps it in an upper tank that keeps hot for hours. It does not burn. You put your cup under the unit and press a front mounted lever and the coffee drains from the internal tank into the cup... No drips... no hassle...

I, too, have owned everything conceivable. We are most happy with this new device.

5*Here is a link to see it ...

Amazon.com: Cuisinart DCC-2000 Coffee-on-Demand 12-cup Programmable Coffeemaker: Kitchen & Dining

I always read the reviews everywhere prior to buying anything. Before I filled it for the first time, I tightened the inner screws in the tank and have never had a leak of any kind.

4*I like the taste of unburnt instant over burned perked .
5*Sounds interesting.

 

[Bird]

Jim, I've never seen one of those Mr. Coffee makers, although we've used their cheaper models. That looks good. I guess this Cuisinart is the one we're currently using. It came with permanent reusable filter, but we've never tried it. My wife wanted to just use paper filters as she's been accustomed to using. There's another odd difference, too. We had been using a "12 cup" Mr. Coffee machine, and you'll notice the Cuisinart says it's a "10 cup" machine. We still have the old glass "12 cup" carafe and I found if you fill it with water exactly to the 12 cup mark, then pour it into the Cuisinart, it comes exactly to the 10 cup mark. Obviously, Cuisinart must have bigger cups than Mr. Coffee.

 

[tallyho8]

Unlike Mr. Brown, I don't use 44 seconds. I want to use increments of 10 seconds because the carousel in our microwave makes one complete revolution every 10 seconds, so the coffee cup handle stops in the same position I left it.

Now that's planning ahead!

 

[ronjhall]

We have a 8 cup Thermal Mr Coffee maker. It works great except for 3 items.
Do not try to pour to fast. It will drip.
To keep from having coffee grounds in you coffee you must use a Mr Coffee filter. The other brand are not high enough up in the basket. Causing the filter to fold over and let coffee grounds in to coffee.
If you over fill water reservoir it pours all over the counter.
But it does make great coffee and keeps it warm for a long time.

 

[Western]

I've used instant but not a preferred method.

We have raised the lid from the beginning, it does help, but you still have to pour slow and careful, and make sure your on level ground.

Bird, I can relate 110%

I am kinda like the "crackheads" that ask you for a dollar so they can get gas to go somewhere, you know the ones, shak'n so bad you'd think they just got off a 747 that landed on the side of a cliff with no wheels, after sliding through a hay field.

Got to have a good cup when the day starts, may switch to decaf in the noon, but that's another story.

I may have to re-look at the Cuisinart, we liked the one we had, but the quality didn't seem like the Cuisinart brand I've seen over the years.

 

[jinman]

We still have the old glass "12 cup" carafe and I found if you fill it with water exactly to the 12 cup mark, then pour it into the Cuisinart, it comes exactly to the 10 cup mark. Obviously, Cuisinart must have bigger cups than Mr. Coffee.

Have you ever noticed how about a cup of water stays in the grounds? It's probably not a cup, but the grounds do hold a significant amount of water until you dump them. I always make a pot and a half of coffee. I start with my coffee maker full and then pour off a big thermal mug of coffee after it brews about 8 cups. I then add enough water to bring the water level back to within two cups of the top. I always use enough grounds for 16 cups of coffee. So, I guess you could say I have a 16-cup coffee maker.

I've seen your Cuisinart machine. I think it was at Best Buy. I was tempted to buy it, but stumbled across the Mr. Coffee at Walmart and bought it instead. In the store, it was the only one and way up on top of a stack of coffee makers on the top shelf. I had to get a clerk to go up a ladder and get it for me. She didn't know or understand why I wanted that thermal carafe or what made it different from other coffee makers. I'm sure she was a non-coffee drinker like my wife. There was no price marked on it or anywhere on the shelf, so she had to do a price check. She thought it was a mistake at $55 until I told her that was a good price. Perhaps I should have let her think it was a mistake and mark it down to the price of non-thermal carafe model, but I just couldn't do that.

I had a Black & Decker thermal carafe machine for almost 10 years. The valve that lets you interrupt the coffee maker and pour a cup disintegrated. It was the fastest coffee maker I ever had, so that didn't make me wait much longer to get the first cup. I'd buy another just like it if I could find one.

 

[Bird]

Jim, I'm so far behind the times I didn't even know there were coffee makers with the thermal carafe until me wife told me about a friend of hers having one the first of this year. We have a stainless steel thermal pitcher and she had been making the coffee in the old Mr. Coffee maker, then pouring it into that pitcher to keep it hot. And speaking of seeing the Cuisinart at Best Buy, in Denton, we have a Best Buy next door to Bed, Bath and Beyond. For the products they both sell, the prices aren't much different. However, Bed, Bath and Beyond is always sending 20% off coupons in the mail. They have expiration dates on them, but the store manager told me they don't pay any attention to that, and I've found he was right. They accept "expired" ones without blinking an eye. I bought my computer, a couple of TVs, VCR, telephones, etc. from Best Buy, but for kitchen stuff, it's always been cheaper to go next door.

 

[Sigarms]

We bought a Keurig coffee maker that uses single serving K cups seveal years ago and have not looked back. A freshly brewed cup every time with no fuss or muss. They also make tea and hot chocolate.

The first time I saw one was some years ago at my wifes office in Vermont (water hard piped in). I remember being perplexed looking at it

Picked one up a couple years ago and never looked back.

It's nice to be able to pick one flavor for one cup only. Only problem is it has increased my coffee drinking.