Customer Reviews

KitchenAid KPCM050PM Pro Line Single-Carafe Coffee Maker

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I've had the machine for a few months now. It is a very good coffee maker. The complaints about the steam and spout are out-dated as the new spout simply eliminates these issues.

I'm a very fussy coffee drinker (nut). I roast my own beans with several different blends. I have tried many electric drip coffee makers and found most to be unusable.

To extract the best flavor, coffee makers need a 1200 watt (mimimum) heating element, excellent dispersal of the water over the coffee and the water must be just below boiling as it hits the coffee. The proline does all this well.

To nit-pick: the filter basket is plastic which is inserted into a stainless steel holder. This, and the fact that the filter head is plastic, are the two design flaws of the unit. Plastic retains odors and tastes and just doesn't clean as well or easily as stainless steel. I would have hoped that for this price these parts, especially the filter holder, would be metal! One last thing, if the coffee could be held in the brew basket for about a minute before dripping into the carafe, it would extract the best of the coffee.

To be fair, I haven't seen a consumer unit with a stainless steel filter holder.

As a warning. I have tried several Kitchenaid coffee makers in the past and all, except this one, had to be returned. While Kitchenaid's non-proline consumer models were tops many years ago, they haven't been very good (an understatement) in many, many years.

The Proline is a keeper, it makes hot, excellent coffee.

I waited a long time to buy this machine, because it is quite a bit more expensive than other household machines. It doesn't have a lot of unecessary bells and whistles- but it is extemely well made, very heavy duty and attractive, and it makes great coffee. I really like it.

My wife and I have always been in search of the "perfect" coffee maker. We first started with the simple caraffe variety which involved manually pouring hot water over the grounds in a cone filter. My wife was fine with it, but it drove me insane to have to stand there and continually add water. We then moved to a Bunn. It was good at first and the "instant" brew feature (water sits in a preheated reservoir much like you see in a diner) was great. However, we moved to a town with hard water and the thing soon choked and died! Contrary to what I knew, I bought a second, more expensive Bunn. What a mistake. We are "real" coffee drinkers. This means that we grind and use a lot of coffee for each pot. The Bunn must have been designed by someone who thinks two scoops of Folgers will make 10 cups of "strong coffee". Result - the brew basket would contantly overflow all over the counter. Needless to say, I found myself - once again - waiting for water to filter through before adding more.

2 months ago, I purchased the KitchenAid Pro Brewer along with the Burr Grinder (fabulous)! To date, with 14 heaping scoops of finely-ground Kenyan beans, the brewer has NEVER overflowed. I've switched to bottled water for coffee only and the results have been astounding.

As for the comment by the reviewer regarding the steam buildup, sure it happens and it's more pronounced because the housing is constructed of all metal. The solution - simply rotate the pot so that the pour spout is to the side, allowing the steam to dissipate in the air (just like the photograph of the product shows you).

Sure, I may be partial to KitchenAid since the company is located a few miles from me in SW Michigan, but the bottom line is that I finally got what I paid for.

A package arrived for my husband and after some subtefuge about it being a computer gizmo thing; he unpacked this coffee maker. I was estatic since our Mr. Coffee bit the dust for the 3rd time and we are addicted to caffeine. He neglected to mention the price, which would have sent me into a frenzy and perhaps cost him a limb or two.

Set it up and enjoyed the first good cup of coffee at home that wasn't in a paper cup! We have been using this machine for almost a year now and I wouldn't trade it for anything. Even if Starbucks offered to move into my house with on demand coffee 24/7.

Was it worth the cost? Not sure if there is a compareable model out there for less, but I am satisfied and do not regret the cost.

I've had every different drip coffee maker under the sun, and they all fell short of my expectations in one way or the other. I finally decided to splurge on this model, and I couldn't be happier. My experience--unlike that of a previous reviewer--has been that it can make VERY strong coffee if so desired. I paired this with the Pro Line coffee grinder, and on a factory setting of 5.5, this makes as strong a coffee as I can imagine wanting. Also, it's dead simple to operate, makes a full 12 cup pot in under 10 minutes, and thanks to the design, cleanup is a breeze. I couldn't be happier. Oh, and it's built like a tank, so it will probably outlast me.

If you want a coffee maker that is built like a tank the KitchenAid Pro coffeemaker is a great choice. I have owned the coffee maker for 7 months and am very pleased with it.It brews a great cup of coffee.

Despite what some have said the coffee maker is extremely well made and built like a commerical unit--it weighs over 20 pounds.

The manual is well written and the machine is easy to program.It is very quiet and typically takes 6 to 8 minutes to brew depending on how fine you grind your coffee.

1)If you do buy this machine do get the gold basket filter--the coffee

does taste better with it.

2) Also consider buying the water filter.

My only complaint is that the warming plate that the carafe sits on keeps the coffee too hot and it will become rancid if it kept on too long.

If you can afford it this is a great machine to have.

I love this coffee maker. Coffee stays really hot and it is the way it's supposed to taste. I only have two problems...and don't know if anyone else has this....the "on" button sticks and I have to manually return it to upright position and , when pouring, the spout leaks all over. I can overlook those two things for the way the coffee tastes (the most important thing)...however....it can be annoying.

If you're like myself, the 5 a.m. pot of coffee has to be simple.

Well designed makers keep it almost idiot proof. This one does a great job.Once you learn that the spout is not "drip proof", you will be happy with this as a purchase.

I purchased this coffee maker to replace a busted Capresso. It's a bit pricey for what it does, but it does make good coffee. I was a little dissapointed with all the plastic internals, since from the pictures (and in person) it looks very expensive in a cast metal and stainless steel way.

I like the solid construction but I also like strong coffee. This machine does not "spray the entire filter basket". Instead, water dribbles out of a 2-inch diameter ring, leaving dry grounds at the end of the brew cycle. I sent the first one back. The replacement does the same thing. KitchenAid customer service confirms that, despite the discription on Amazon, the unit does not spray the entire filter basket. I'm sending the replacement back also. If you love strong coffee, don't buy this machine.