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As a result, if you forget to turn the heating element off before you leave the house, your best possible scenario is a house filled with the odor of burnt coffee when you return - the worst is returning to your house burning. While this coffee maker makes a good cup of coffee, it has no automatic turnoff. This is inexcusable in this day and age.
The first lasted nearly three years before the switch failed, more than acceptable for this inexpensive and reliable little unit.It makes coffee fast and strong and just the right amount for a quick big mug to wake up and another after my morning dog walk. This one has the glass carafe and a warmer; MUCH Better. The effect is to raise the lid just enough for the coffee to pour out all around the lip of the carafe and the result is spilled coffee while pouring. The first had the dewar flask carafe and no warmer and the coffee wasn't really hot enough. Do not do that either.I would recommend it to tho others (I have) and I would buy it again (I did). It has the permanent filter but I put in a paper filter anyway.
Do not do that.Like all makers with the steal-a-cup feature, if one only partially inserts the carafe then the valve will not open and coffee and grounds will overflow. This fine looking little device is the second Delonghi 4-cup coffee maker that I have owned. Lots of microwave action for second cups with that one. Later mid-morning coffee is managed by making a fresh pot of great tasting coffee (I prefer Community Club Dark Roast).One has a tendency to grip the carafe handle with ones fingers and rest ones thumb above on the flip-up lid lever (This is similar in sprit to riding the brake in your vehicle).
Getting the water into the reservoir is a clumsy feat at best. I wish I could have gotten another Krups 4-cup but they've stopped making them. I would not recommend buying this coffee maker. But worse, when pouring the last third of the hot coffee out of the pot, the lid falls open allowing the steam to scald your knuckles.
this coffeemaker makes very good coffee but i wish the design was better - the gadget that makes the coffee stop and release just hangs in the back and if you hit it the wrong way it could fall and the opening of the pot is so small to fit your hand in to wash - also you have to hold the pot just right when you pour or it spills
This is my second DeLonghi and I'm completely satisfied with this product. Only replaced the original to satisfy my wife.warming plate was a little burned from coffee drips over the years.
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