- Steeps ground coffee nearly 2 minutes during brewing for full flavor
- Coffee stays hot in 10-cup, insulated, stainless-steel carafe
- Drip free pour spout; swing-out filter basket; water filter system
- 24-hour clock/timer for programmable brewing
- Measures 14-1/2 by 7-1/2 by 9-3/4 inches; 1-year limited warranty
Product Features |
Product Details
Would you like to give feedback on images?
|
Product Description
Amazon.com Review
By steeping ground coffee for nearly 2 minutes to begin the brewing process, this coffee maker delivers up to 10 cups of full-flavored coffee and then keeps it warm in an insulated thermos-carafe for hours. The thermos-carafe seals in heat during the brewing process and afterward to lock in flavor. This eliminates the need for a warming plate, which can turn coffee bitter. For making wake-up coffee, the machine's programmable clock-timer can be set up to 24 hours in advance. There's also an automatic interrupter that halts coffee flow for 20 seconds during the brewing cycle if the carafe is removed for a quick pour. The filter holder swings out for easy filling, and there's a filter for removing the taste and odor of chlorine as well as minerals from tap water. For best results, remove the carafe from the base when the brewing process is complete, sealing off the carafe and insuring hot coffee. This sleek coffee maker measures 14-1/2 inches high by 7-1/2 inches wide by 9-3/4 inches deep. --Fred Brack
Product Description
Krups 229-45 Aroma Control Thermal Carafe Coffee Maker - Wake up and smell the coffee! You can do it. This coffeemaker has a built-in timer that lets you do just that. And if you choose to sleep later, the insulated carafe keeps the brew hot and fresh.
By steeping ground coffee for nearly 2 minutes to begin the brewing process, this coffee maker delivers up to 10 cups of full-flavored coffee and then keeps it warm in an insulated thermos-carafe for hours. The thermos-carafe seals in heat during the brewing process and afterward to lock in flavor. This eliminates the need for a warming plate, which can turn coffee bitter. For making wake-up coffee, the machine's programmable clock-timer can be set up to 24 hours in advance. There's also an automatic interrupter that halts coffee flow for 20 seconds during the brewing cycle if the carafe is removed for a quick pour. The filter holder swings out for easy filling, and there's a filter for removing the taste and odor of chlorine as well as minerals from tap water. For best results, remove the carafe from the base when the brewing process is complete, sealing off the carafe and insuring hot coffee.
Features
By steeping ground coffee for nearly 2 minutes to begin the brewing process, this coffee maker delivers up to 10 cups of full-flavored coffee and then keeps it warm in an insulated thermos-carafe for hours. The thermos-carafe seals in heat during the brewing process and afterward to lock in flavor. This eliminates the need for a warming plate, which can turn coffee bitter. For making wake-up coffee, the machine's programmable clock-timer can be set up to 24 hours in advance. There's also an automatic interrupter that halts coffee flow for 20 seconds during the brewing cycle if the carafe is removed for a quick pour. The filter holder swings out for easy filling, and there's a filter for removing the taste and odor of chlorine as well as minerals from tap water. For best results, remove the carafe from the base when the brewing process is complete, sealing off the carafe and insuring hot coffee.
Features
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
128 of 129 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Looks - Good coffee,
By
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Krups 229-45 Aroma Control 10-Cup Coffeemaker with Thermal Carafe, Black and Stainless Steel (Kitchen)
I'm mystified by some reviews I've read here - "Tepid coffee" - "Great Coffee" - "Lousy Coffee" - "Best Coffee Maker Ever Made." None of them reflects my experience.With an appropriate coffee grinder setting, the Krups delivers a good cup of coffee. Preheat the carafe before you use it with scalding water and the subsequent coffee is hot. If you try to make coffee without preheating the carafe, you're going to get cooler coffee. That's true of any thermal carafe. Of course, that process makes coffee timers pointless but that's another story. The coffee maker needs a lot of ground coffee to make a good cup - about 1/3 more than the Proctor Silex thermal carafe I replaced. To get a strong cup of coffee, I'll make 6 cups in the Krups with the same amount of coffee that would yield 8 cups in the Proctor. The Proctor has a flat bottom drip basket as opposed to the Krups' conical basket. Also, the water flows faster through the Krups so the grounds aren't immersed as long. The key feature that keeps me from returning the Krups and buying another Proctor is the stainless steel carafe. The Proctor has a glass thermos inside a plastic shroud. To clean it, you have to disassemble the shroud - all 7 pieces. Since there are seven pieces involved, eventually the Proctor carafe leaks. The Krups on the other hand has two pieces - the carafe itself and the lid. Someone else has commented that the handles come loose over time and that may be true - time will tell. In the interim, I've got a carafe that doesn't leak. The Krups has the additional feature of a non-stick lining that makes getting rid of residual coffee oil very easy. Plus the opening is wide enough to allow a man's hand to reach inside with a soapy sponge. Given the wide opening on the carafe, I still transfer the hot coffee to my thermos to keep it hot for hours. The carafe can't manage more than a couple of hours before the coffee cools too much to suit my taste. So why bother with a thermal carafe if the coffee is just going into a thermos anyway? Taste. Coffee made in a glass carafe is either getting cooked by the warmer or is too cold if the warmer is turned off while brewing. Now if Nissan ever gets its act together and mates their absolutely terrific thermos with a coffee maker built around it, (Note to Nissan - Don't change the quart thermos-it's a keeper!), we may finally see the ultimate coffee maker. When I first bought the Krups, I rated it at 3 stars. After living with it for a couple of months, I realized that the Krups could deliver better than average coffee by tweaking the grind to a finer setting. I've also come to appreciate the cleaning features designed into the unit. As a result, I'm bumping my rating up a star.
145 of 151 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
For flavour and aroma, this model is tops!,
By philiciono (Mountain View, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Krups 229-45 Aroma Control 10-Cup Coffeemaker with Thermal Carafe, Black and Stainless Steel (Kitchen)
Having owned and used a wide variety of drip filter type coffee makers, there's little doubt this little wonder from Krups makes the best tasting cup of coffee I've ever tasted from this genre. And it looks stylish too, to boot.The much-touted aroma control feature, in which the grounds are first steeped for a period before gradually releasing the brew, works as promised. This is especially useful if, like me, you frequently make small batches. Making a single cup of coffee that tastes better than tepid tap water is finally a reality. The stainless steels thermal carafe also contributes greatly to preventing the aroma loss and flavour degeneration that typically occurs in the glass carafe models that rest atop a hot plate. The blurb proclaims that the carafe will maintain adequate temperature for around 5 hours, but in practice I found that 3.5 to 4 hours is maximum for small batches. Larger batches do last slightly better. One gripe (and this is why it gets 4 stars instead of 5), the freshly brewed coffee comes out virtually at the ideal drinking temperature. Which means either drink fast or use a thermal mug. And don't think of adding cold milk or cold cream, unless you actually like your coffee cool. But if you take it straight and black like me, you won't find a more flavourful drip filtered coffee out there. Couple of other points: 1) There's no built-in water filter. Which is probably good, because you probably already have a good brand installed on your tap, or you are using your favourite brand of drinking water. 2) The gold-tone filter is not included in the package. It's a useful add-on to buy. Who wants paper chemical residues in their coffee? 3) Like with most drip filter type coffee makers, the best way to increase the strength is not to add more granules, but to grind them them finer. If you like it strong, grind to a consistency that is typically considered at the coarse end of the espresso scale. 4) I guess the timer feature could be neat, but does anyone actually use that? This is too much like programming a VCR, which I never do, as a matter of principal. But if you don't mind the rocket science, have fun fiddling with it!
44 of 45 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Simply Great Coffee,
By Tax Lawyer (Little Rock, AR) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Krups 229-45 Aroma Control 10-Cup Coffeemaker with Thermal Carafe, Black and Stainless Steel (Kitchen)
We have owned quite a number of coffee makers over the years. This is the finest. I have read the reviews below and have never experienced a broken handle (we have had the coffee maker for nine months now) nor cold coffee. It is important to realize that this is a thermal caraffe. When the coffee is fully brewed, you need to take the caraffe out of the coffee maker. When it is in the coffee maker, the lid is slightly depressed to let the coffee drip in. If you leave it fully brewed in the maker, that means that the heat will escape back out of the lid. With the lid closed, the coffee stays hot for at least 4 hours. This is the process I use every morning, and have hot coffee for hours. Oh, one other important thing. This is a thermal caraffe, as said before. If you are using the caraffe to put water in the coffee maker, you are likely using cold water. You need to put hot water into the caraffe after you put cold water into the coffee maker, because you have now "conditioned" the caraffe for cold water. It will take "extra" hot coffee to warm the caraffe back up. Do it yourself with a spritz of hot water. This is a well designed coffee maker, with an easy to use timer if you like to use them. It is also easy to clean. I just use soap and water in the caraffe.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
