OMG the Coffee Pot just died!

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Ack - I was not ready for this.  I don't think its even a year old!!

Now I have to make a decision on what to replace it with - fast.  I have a french press for emergencies (thank goodness) but grounds are a nuisance to deal with.

I need a better coffee pot because it is a dependency/addiction for me and I can't be having an interruption to my get up & go!  I don't want to do the K-Cup kind of coffee maker, so what do you suggest?  I was thinking maybe a stainless decanter, but then you can't see how much coffee is left.

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Starbucks VIA is the only instant I like and it is waaaaay more expensive than grind/drip!  Although maybe I could make a quick trip to Latin America where they see the VIA in little tins & you scoop it out with a teeny tiny spoon.  Wish they would sell it that way here and not in individual serve packets.  

[Tiny]

My heart just stopped - no coffee!!! ARRRGGHHHH oh wait, I've already had my pot of coffee... I'm ok... I'm ok... breathe....

I use a Mr. Coffee auto drip.  Yeah, it's not 'gourmet' but it gets me my caffeine every morning.  I keep a spare one (new) in the closet incase the current one dies or I break the carafe.  Under $20 dollars - especially in August for the Back to School sales.     Black and Decker works well too.
I usually have a Starbucks VIA on hand (in case I travel or plan to stay overnight somewhere) and as a final backup I have a bottle of Excedrin (any kind) as long as it's got Caffeine in it - read the labels the pain relievers package the same pills with different 'uses' - tension headache = migraine = PMS relief = extra strength.   People want 'specific' relief even if the same pill gives relief for other things.

I'm addicted to caffeine - not really coffee - but coffee is the delivery method of choice for me so a Mr. Coffee with some Starbucks grounds (maybe cut with some big name brand) does the trick for me.

FWIW:  I had a Kcup coffee at a friend's house and wasn't really impressed - it was kinda weak and unimpressive.  It also seemed really expensive to me since I'd probably go thru 6 cups on Sat morning, 6 cups sunday morning alone and then 2 cups each weekday  morning  - at $1.00 a cup that's $22 a week - and then I gotta find someplace to store all those little containers - cause I'd be buying them in bulk and then all the extra trash...  I'll stick with my current method.


ADDED: I once bought an expensive drip coffee maker (like $150) I broke the carafe within 3 months and did buy a new one for $50.00 and then the maker itself broke in less than a year. - I now buy the 'disposable' under $30 coffee makers and just replace them as needed (usually every 2 years or so.)

[chiver78]

I have a pretty basic 4-cup (it is just me) Black & Decker or Mr Coffee, for about $20. I seem to switch back and forth between the two when they break, not sure which one I have now. no major complaints. I buy full bean, usually a darker roast Green Mountain coffee, and grind a few days' worth as I need it.

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[tloonya]

Jun 22, 2013 11:04:56 GMT -5 @rockit said:

Ack - I was not ready for this.  I don't think its even a year old!!

I don't know how one can live after THAT!

[Peace Of Mind]

<<hums Taps for Rock It's coffee pot>>

I'm moving so slow today that coffee didn't even help.  We are supposed to be leaving in about an hour or so and DH is just now getting out of the shower.  I think I need some speed or a swift kick in the behind.  Anybody want to help me out here? 

[Jaguar]

Jun 22, 2013 13:32:33 GMT -5 Peace Of Mind said:

<<hums Taps for Rock It's coffee pot>>

The other appliances appreciate this POM.

[constanz22]

I have a back up, and a back up to my back up! Lol! My worst nightmare is waking up to having a dead coffee pot! I do have a keurig I only use once in awhile, a French press in case of power outage or extreme emergency, and an old coffee maker in the basement. I have a Black and Decker programmable coffee maker (although I never program it cuz it doesn't taste fresh to me), but I paid less than $30 on Amazon and have had it probably 3-4 years now.

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Let me first say that I believe that there is no life on the moon for the simple reason that there is no coffee on the moon. If there is no coffee, there is no reason for life. Just saying...

I don't believe that the machine (for the large part) is really all that important for a good cup of coffee. We have had them all & feel that it comes down to the coffee. So we buy a medium priced Mr. Coffee & they do pretty well. Coming up they will do a lot better because one of the wonderful posters here told us where we could order our coffee of choice much cheaper, in volume, & at a much lower price.

Tiny Speck......I never saw the value of the Kureg (I'm to lazy to check the spelling) & thought that it made a horrible cup of coffee but my wife wanted one so we have one. Your right in that when they first came out they were insanely expensive (the kcups) & even after the price drop they are still expensive (for a bad cup of coffee). BUT I wouldn't do without 1 of them now. That's because I was staying up with sick animals & being able to have a cup of coffee randomly within a couple of minutes made them worthwhile. Also now another company has come out with a fake kcup that you can put your own brand of coffee in it & even filter it. (the generic fake cup is MUCH better than the one the company puts out btw). I find that it also comes in handy for an after dinner cup of coffee (when you don't want to make a whole pot).

Oh & I've heard that some people have had problems with them breaking or not working. I "think" that some of the problem "might" be the water they use. Our water is so bad (minerals) that we wouldn't even think of using it. Even then we turn it off before it refills after making a cup of coffee. I don't even want our filtered water to set in the maker for a long time. We have had ours for 2.5 years & never had a problem but I wouldn't want it for a main coffee pot. Only after dinner do I ever "just" drink 1 cup of coffee.

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We have two of the Mr. Coffee type coffee makers here at the cabin. They are pretty idiot proof and are probably 5 years old.

At home I think we have a cuisinart programable coffee maker with the carafe. It's very nice and while it's true you can't see how much coffee is left you can tell by how heavy it is. It will get coffee warm for about 5 hours. That's so much better than leaving the burner on which will burn the coffee after about an hour. Yuck!
  I'm pretty sure we bought this coffee pot for < $100 at Target.

We've also had one of those coffee bean grinding coffee pots. I don't like them because they are one of those chopping coffee grinders rather than the Burr grinders.

[Happy prose]

I love my Cuisanart Grind and Brew. You also can turn the grinder off and use regular canned coffee. www.amazon.com/Cuisinart-DGB-550BK-Automatic-Coffeemaker-Brushed/dp/B000VTP45Q/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1371929875&sr=8-3&keywords=Cuisanart+grind+and+brew 

[NastyWoman]

Jun 22, 2013 14:01:16 GMT -5 @oldtex said:

Let me first say that I believe that there is no life on the moon for the simple reason that there is no coffee on the moon. If there is no coffee, there is no reason for life. Just saying...

I don't believe that the machine (for the large part) is really all that important for a good cup of coffee. We have had them all & feel that it comes down to the coffee. So we buy a medium priced Mr. Coffee & they do pretty well. Coming up they will do a lot better because one of the wonderful posters here told us where we could order our coffee of choice much cheaper, in volume, & at a much lower price.


Tex if you are talking about DE coffee -and I think you are- I am back from a family visit and stuffed as much as I could in my suitcase on my way back.  It was on sale for ~$7/kg. My suitcase was only 4oz. below the max weight allowed. But I am sitting here enjoying some really good coffee while I type this up 

ETA I agree with you, it's not the coffeemaker that determines whether you get a good cuppa, it's the coffee.

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Jun 22, 2013 15:37:23 GMT -5 NastyWoman said:

Jun 22, 2013 14:01:16 GMT -5 @oldtex said:

Let me first say that I believe that there is no life on the moon for the simple reason that there is no coffee on the moon. If there is no coffee, there is no reason for life. Just saying...

I don't believe that the machine (for the large part) is really all that important for a good cup of coffee. We have had them all & feel that it comes down to the coffee. So we buy a medium priced Mr. Coffee & they do pretty well. Coming up they will do a lot better because one of the wonderful posters here told us where we could order our coffee of choice much cheaper, in volume, & at a much lower price.


Tex if you are talking about DE coffee -and I think you are- I am back from a family visit and stuffed as much as I could in my suitcase on my way back.  It was on sale for ~$7/kg. My suitcase was only 4oz. below the max weight allowed. But I am sitting here enjoying some really good coffee while I type this up 

ETA I agree with you, it's not the coffeemaker that determines whether you get a good cuppa, it's the coffee.

Yes Joss I was talking about DE. I'm going to place an order soon.

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Is that Douwe Egbert coffee?  We used to get that for the Senseo, but the filter packs fizzled out a while back (coffee maker was not very popular, but I liked it).  What's your source?

Mr Coffee - yeah, their coffee maker is fine, but without exception, every pot i have ever had drips when i pour!  It must be the pot, can't be me! I think I'm done with then.

[GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl]

We are diehard percolator folks.  I have 2 -- the one in current use, and the emergency backup.  

I also have a camping percolator that I can use on my gas stove top if that became necessary.

Put me in the camp of people who can't function without their morning cups of caffeine.

[NastyWoman]

Jun 22, 2013 18:31:23 GMT -5 @rockit said:

Is that Douwe Egbert coffee?  We used to get that for the Senseo, but the filter packs fizzled out a while back (coffee maker was not very popular, but I liked it).  What's your source?

Mr Coffee - yeah, their coffee maker is fine, but without exception, every pot i have ever had drips when i pour!  It must be the pot, can't be me! I think I'm done with then.

Yes that is Douwe Egbert coffee. A couple of moths ago there was a thread about buying coffee on line and pepperdoo provided her go to place (www.enjoybettercoffee.com).  I think that is the place Oldtex now uses.  As I said, I just stuff it in my suitcase when I come back from visiting my family 

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Jun 22, 2013 18:31:23 GMT -5 @rockit said:

Is that Douwe Egbert coffee?  We used to get that for the Senseo, but the filter packs fizzled out a while back (coffee maker was not very popular, but I liked it).  What's your source?

Mr Coffee - yeah, their coffee maker is fine, but without exception, every pot i have ever had drips when i pour!  It must be the pot, can't be me! I think I'm done with then.

Yes Douwe Egbert & it's for sale at www.enjoybettercoffee.com . We got addicted to it when we were stationed in Holland. As a matter of fact we drank so much of it that we saved the coupons on the packs & redeemed them for a lot of Douwe Egberts stuff (they are in a little display in our bedroom). Great coffee but back when the dollar was so far down it cost an arm & a leg to buy. This place starts out with a lower cost than the other place we bought it & if you buy a lot of it you get a discount. I love that.

I've had several "premium" coffee's & to be honest none of them were as good as DE.

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Oh & long ago I posted about the fact that when I pour coffee I always spill it. Well we broke the coffee pot (glass cravat) that came with that Mr Coffee & had to replace it. Turns out that the replacement was a non spill (basically a better designed pour spout) & no more spills. If you have the same problem (spilling coffee) buy a replacement cravat (if that's the word, I'm blank tonight).

[Deleted]

 K-cup coffee to me seems a bit two-dimensional... like instant coffee. I don't care much for either.
 For morning use, we use an old Farberware "SuperFast" percolator. We do use a paper filter to line the basket and we use tap water filtered through a Brita pitcher. The filtration eliminates the chlorine from the water and, to me, makes a BIG difference in the finished product.

 For Special coffee (Sunday afternoon with the NYT crossword puzzle) I use freshly roasted whole beans which I grind at home (in a burr grinder) and brew using a vintage Cory Vaculator. It looks and functions like chemlab apparatus... 


 It gets the best out of every bean!

[Sam_2.0]

Gevalia runs deals all the time where you can get a "free" maker with 3 boxes of coffee for $20 or so. Then just cancel the auto-subscription and enjoy your new coffee pot + coffee. I've done it before. There's no hassle with cancelling.

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I might have spent some time in the Netherlands & gotten a taste for DE 
But their cups of espresso are  teeny tiny - they don't get the whole American 'fill up a big cup' and wander around with it!
Thanks for the link!

[marvholly]

I had the coffee pot emergency aboiut a year ago. Went out the same day & bought a Mr. Coffee. I had replaced the Black & Decker several times over the previous few years & felt that they just died WAAAAY too quickly for someone who makes 2 pots/week AND doies the vinegar clean out quarterly.

I just had my microwave die in March. Now that is a KILLER for me. I batch cook, freeze & nuke entrees a LOT!!! I have a borrowed unit since I have not found one at the right price yet. The old one was a GE and the shortest lived on I have EVER had. It was a GE. Note: got my first micro in 1972 and this was my 3rd or 4th in ALL that time.

Both Black & Decker and GE are OFF my acceptabe brands to buy list.

[chiver78]

Jun 22, 2013 22:28:52 GMT -5 @oldtex said:

Oh & long ago I posted about the fact that when I pour coffee I always spill it. Well we broke the coffee pot (glass cravat) that came with that Mr Coffee & had to replace it. Turns out that the replacement was a non spill (basically a better designed pour spout) & no more spills. If you have the same problem (spilling coffee) buy a replacement cravat (if that's the word, I'm blank tonight).

the word you're looking for is "carafe" there, a "cravat" is a type of necktie.

thanks for the tip on replacements. do they come in all sizes? my pot is a tiny little 4-cup, I can't say I've ever seen replacements for that size (in stores anyway)

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Jun 23, 2013 7:43:02 GMT -5 chiver78 said:

Jun 22, 2013 22:28:52 GMT -5 @oldtex said:

Oh & long ago I posted about the fact that when I pour coffee I always spill it. Well we broke the coffee pot (glass cravat) that came with that Mr Coffee & had to replace it. Turns out that the replacement was a non spill (basically a better designed pour spout) & no more spills. If you have the same problem (spilling coffee) buy a replacement cravat (if that's the word, I'm blank tonight).

the word you're looking for is "carafe" there, a "cravat" is a type of necktie.

thanks for the tip on replacements. do they come in all sizes? my pot is a tiny little 4-cup, I can't say I've ever seen replacements for that size (in stores anyway)

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Thanks for the correction Chiver. It came to me about 20 minutes after I posted. I "assume" that they come in all sizes but don't know. I found it interesting that the one that came with the coffee maker sucked but the new one was great. I wish that I had broken the old one years before.

[Cookies Galore]

DF only uses a French press for his coffee. The coffee shop I go to on my way into work for my iced coffee (yes, I'm a bad YMer!), also French presses their coffee. It really is the superior way to go! We have a crappy grinder at home, so I can't wait until after the wedding so we can buy the burr grinder on our registry.

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Jun 23, 2013 0:23:29 GMT -5 @rockit said:

I might have spent some time in the Netherlands & gotten a taste for DE 
But their cups of espresso are  teeny tiny - they don't get the whole American 'fill up a big cup' and wander around with it!
Thanks for the link!

I got roped into a dinner get together with my wife's shop once. After dinner we of course had to have some espresso to talk over so I ordered some....4 cups (just for me ). You would have thought by the actions of one of the wives that I had just killed someone in front of her. I got a long lecture about the perceived dangers of caffeine, blah blah. I was "good" & didn't say anything because they weren't my group of friends. My wife thanked me later because I restrained myself (I'm not known for that).

[deantrip]

I drink a lot of coffee each day, I use a 10 cup Bunn, had it for 7 years, my folks have had 2 bunns over the past 30, it seems like they have a usage life of about 15 - 20 years.  It keeps a hot water reservoir and will brew however much you add to it in about 3 min.  Clear carafe on most so you can see how much is in them.  Easy to clean, a bit pricier at just over $100 but they last so long and are so quick it is worth it!

[mmhmm]

Jun 23, 2013 7:43:02 GMT -5 chiver78 said:

Jun 22, 2013 22:28:52 GMT -5 @oldtex said:

Oh & long ago I posted about the fact that when I pour coffee I always spill it. Well we broke the coffee pot (glass cravat) that came with that Mr Coffee & had to replace it. Turns out that the replacement was a non spill (basically a better designed pour spout) & no more spills. If you have the same problem (spilling coffee) buy a replacement cravat (if that's the word, I'm blank tonight).

the word you're looking for is "carafe" there, a "cravat" is a type of necktie.

thanks for the tip on replacements. do they come in all sizes? my pot is a tiny little 4-cup, I can't say I've ever seen replacements for that size (in stores anyway)

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Both Target and (the dreaded) Walmart advertise having 4-cup replacement carafes, Chiver.

[chiver78]

thanks, mmhmm! the last time I got a new one, it was because I forgot to clear the wet grounds out of the filter basket for a few days.

too bad, too - there wasn't anything wrong with it otherwise!

[constanz22]

Thanks for jinxing me y'all. Guess what died here this morning? Not cool...luckily I have my keurig. That'll do til I find a deal/can get somewhere to buy a new coffee maker.