Out of all the fancy and expensive makers, the best one was still my 10 year old single cup Black and Decker brewer. This review is from: KitchenAid 12-Cup Thermal Carafe Coffee Maker, Countour Silver (Kitchen) As a coffee addict/connoisseur, I have spent hundreds of dollars on a wide variety of different coffee makers. Other coffee makers I've used have not heated. That's a negligible issue.Ĭoffee is brewed at a pleasingly hot temperature. It'd be helpful if Kitchenaid could modify the lid with a white (or molded) dot to indicate in which of the position it is set. We had placed the lid on the carafe with the arrow facing the toward the handle because it appeared to be a 'selector arrow' matching the selctable positions with words on the carafe for 'lock' 'pour' and 'open', but the arrow is actually supposed to point toward the spout 'outlet' while pouring coffee. A side note: make sure you see the small arrow indicator on the lid of the carafe, and that this arrow points toward the spout of the carafe when installed.
The carafe keeps the coffee hot for at least 2.5 hours, and reasonably warm enough after 3 hours. As another reviewer mentioned, it has one of the best pouring spouts around.
This review is from: KitchenAid 12-Cup Thermal Carafe Coffee Maker, Onyx Black (Kitchen) This replaced a Krups coffee maker (KM4065).
