Oooooh, Hotty Hunny, you're trolling the boards!
Well ya caught me! Rrrrawr!
Yeah, first was the awesome Cuisinart grind n brew, I loved that old noisy beast, but it only lasted three or so years, then a procession of nameless plastic hordes of short lived coffee ground torturers until we got that lovely Krupp off the free market website and I did a ground-up rebuild.
Wow that thing made a good cuppa joe, but alas the well water here at The Point was rather hard.
Well, EXTREMELY hard. I'm talking pick it up out of the cup and chuck it at my brother Tofu's head it was so hard.
(insert rimshot here)
Croaked ol' Kruppy pretty good, so we got Mr Coffee and hated him from the get-go. Miserable sod would piss all over the hot plate when you took the pot out to pour. It didn't matter that the cycle was finished, it would still take a giant leak all over the hissing complaining hotplate.
Seems it were designed with a ginormous lid that trapped all the condensation and channels to direct it down the OUTSIDE of the filter basket and bypass the 'interrupt' feature.
AND it would never pour without dripping and running down it's side. Horrendous!
I waited FOREVER for the hard water to kill that damn lying Mr Coffee!
Then we got my much loved Black and Decker. That thing had a little separate lid for the filter basket that prevented pissing (me off) and just did it's job.
It had to have its carafe put back JUST SO tho.
I wish they still made that maker.
Tho now we have the Hamilton Beach Michael Graves design automatic drip coffeemaker from Target, and it is totally awesome! Removable water reservoir, a filter basket under a separate door, which locks into place, and a very nice interrupt feature that doesn't drip, and a wide open design that isn't picky about how you put back the carafe, and it pours right where you want it (into the cup) and not where you DON'T want it (my lap, my nuts, the controls for the electric range, The dog...)
All in all a good bit of buying on your part, Mrs. Super shopper!
Luv ya,
RD
