Customer Rating: 



Summary: Best coffee maker I've ever owned!
Comment: It's been almost 3 years now (Christmas) and I am so happy with this coffeemaker I made a point of coming here to leave a review. It brews FAST, the coffee is hot (if you preheat the thermal carafe) and you have great-tasting coffee for several hours. Plus, we are a two-coffee household (decaf) so we just got an extra carafe and it's ridiculously easy now for us both to enjoy our "own" coffee right away and together.
I do make a point of using and changing the recommended filters, so I've never had a slowdown in brew time.
The one thing that took some getting used to is the way that the carafe lid fits into the carafe -- it's a "twist and seat" connection that locks in the lid, and once you get it it's easy, but at first it can be frustrating.
I HIGHLY recommend this coffee maker -- you don't even need as much "clearance" to pour the water as some others where the entire top lifts (this one has a relatively small water chamber lid). I probably sound like a commercial, but when you make coffee every single morning, you care about your coffee maker... then again, maybe it's the Bustelo coffee we use!