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This is an excellent coffee maker. It gets the water hot enough for excellent extraction & it’s a really good alternative for those who use k-cups. You can easily brew a single cup of coffee & it will taste better than a k-cup coffee. This is a simple coffee maker for those who just want a good hot cup of coffee with no timers, etc.
-I used my Thermapen to check the temperature at the shower head & it came out at 200 F – the perfect temperature for brewing coffee IMO. I always heat my water to 200-201 when I make a pour over coffee. It seems to be the sweet spot for my taste buds.
-Very easy to use. You hit the power button & push the button for 2-4 cups or 5-8 cups. It’s intuitive & easy.
-The machine will automatically brew all the water in the tank so if you are making a single cup, make sure to measure the water for the cup or you will have overflow or not enough water. There is a small reservoir under the carafe/cup area to catch overflow.
-If you are making a single cup of coffee, use your CLEAN coffee cup to measure the water in to the tank. Make sure the cup is CLEAN. You will ruin your tank with coffee oils, etc. if your cup is not clean. The same thing applies if you use the carafe to measure your water – it needs to be clean. You will just end up making the reservoir funky & get funky coffee. Use a clean measuring carafe/cup or a Brita filter pitcher.
-The carafe pours neatly with no dribbles. It is stainless inside & out. It looks good on the table & keeps coffee hot. The handle is typical good OXO design – meaning it’s easy & comfortable to grasp & pour.
-There is no clock or timer so NO, you can’t set it to brew coffee for when you wake up.
-Use a Large basket filter for brewing a carafe of coffee.
-Use a Kalita Wave #185 for single serve coffee. You could probably just cut down a small basket filter if you don’t want to purchase the Kalita filters. The Kalita are excellent Japanese filters.
-I clean/descale my coffee machine once a month with a mixture of water & 1 tsp of citric acid. Citric acid is inexpensive & does a really good job of descaling. It’s the ingredient used in commercial coffee machine descaling cleaners. Run plain water thru the machine after the descaling to clear it out. If you have very hard water, you may need to do this more often. Lime will build up & ANY coffeemaker will not work properly. And your coffee will not taste as good.
-I wash my carafe/carafe lid & brew cone with soap & hot water EVERY DAY after making coffee. If you want good tasting coffee, you need to keep your equipment clean. Coffee oils build up over time & get rancid, making your coffee taste funky. You can also get a buildup of oils in the carafe lid, making it plug, overflow & not pour clean.
-Has a 2 year warranty.
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