Happiness is a new coffee maker!

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For a very long period in my life I had some kind of jinx or curse hangin' over me when it came to coffee makers. I could buy the cheapest or the most expensive one around or anything in between. Never could get more than 6 or 7 months out of any of them. Five years ago I bought a Krupps and I decided to try an idea I had.

I decided to start using only distilled water for making coffee. Our city water is awful and also very "hard". It was about middle of the spectrum in cost and I liked it a lot...until yesterday morning. It gave up it's ghost. I hated to see it go but it did give me good service for a long time and nothing, after all, lasts forever.

After breakfast I headed out on my quest to find a new coffee maker. I was totally blown away by all things they do with coffee makers now a days. I really have no need for all the bells and whistles that are available on some of them. I don't need a timer or programmable temp or brew features etc. I went to Walmart, Target, Bed Bath and Beyond and finally found what I wanted at Best Buy. It's a Ninja. About $100.00. Great features including a detachable water reservoir. Simple clock and NO DRIP SPOUT on the carafe. Most of the ones I've had didn't have that feature and I never understood why anyone would make a carafe that dribbled coffee everywhere. :eek: :confused:

So this morning me and my new Ninja began our journey down the (hopefully) long road of great coffee service. And I must say we are off to a great start! :cool:
 
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At my house, coffee is a major food group! My quest for the ultimate coffee maker led me to the Moccamaster. It's way expensive, but if coffee is as important to a person as it is to me, it earns it's keep.

Ninja seems to make good appliances if my Ninja blender is any indicator.
 
Bro. Dave said:
At my house, coffee is a major food group! My quest for the ultimate coffee maker led me to the Moccamaster. It's way expensive, but if coffee is as important to a person as it is to me, it earns it's keep.

Ninja seems to make good appliances if my Ninja blender is any indicator.
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I agree that coffee is it's own food group...and a major one at that. This Ninja makes coffee that tastes as good as the coffee in places like IHOP and Cracker Barrel. Coffee at home never quite seemed to measure up. Well, that's just not true any more.

On most days when we are both home for the day we will go through a 12 cup pot. But on really cold and nasty days we may go through 2 12 cup pots.

1st day of a new coffee maker is now also a 2-pot day and we just started on pot #2. :D

Who needs cocaine....:eek: :D
 
At home we use a Bunn that runs about $125 and with filtered water they last us about 7 to 9 years. For camping, I still like drip coffee, and pick up stove top dripulators for around $5 at yard sales (best deal was 25 cents). We usually give one or two away a year. We go ahead and use a Bunn filter for ease of cleaning. Same formula as at home. Never too weak, never scorched!

When the power is out long enough to get out a Coleman Stove, there is a pot of coffee on it for when, "The neighbors stop by to find out what's going on!"

Ivan
 
I think our old Black & Decker coffee machine holds the world's longevity record, not to mention the value for money record. We got it for about $15 somewhere circa 1988. It lasted at least 25 years. To my knowledge, we never cleaned it and always put plain old tap water in it. It was a really basic machine: no clock, no timer. The indicator that it was on wasn't even an LED, just a piece of red plastic!

When it finally died, we naturally bought another B&D. I don't know what it cost (my wife bought it). This one had lights, a timer, a clock, really a fancy one. It never really worked all that great and died in about a year.

Now we have a no-frills Proctor Silex much like our original B&D. I hope it is as good.
 
Goldstar225 said:
I'm a 4-5 pot a day coffee drinker (brew 8 cups at a time). My pots last me about a year. I always have a spare pot on hand so there is no interruption in the flow of coffee.
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That's a great idea. I wish I had a dollar for every time I had to run up to the corner McDonalds to get a few coffees to go cause our coffee maker gave it up.
 
Our pod using coffee maker died, we still had over 1/2 case of pods so we bought another pod coffee maker. The new one came with a plastic device resembling a plumbers helper which was to be used "when and if" the coffee maker clogged, a straightened paper clip (none provided) was to be used as well. There was a caution regarding using the paper clip which stated hot water under pressure would cause burns, unplug the device and let it cool overnight.

The coffee maker didn't last six weeks, it made a lot of noise, hissed, thumped and banged but nothing more. We tried the plunger and paper clip, nada. I called "customer service" and was told to use bottled water, I asked how bottled water was going to get past the clog. The answer: "Buy a new machine".

The warranty was useless, no more brand "K" items will ever cross our threshold again.

We bought the cheapest bare bones coffee maker for around $19.99 and no problems for years now.
 
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No question that having a back up is a great idea. We have a French Press that we use occasionally and that could be ... pressed into service if the need arises. We even went so far as to get a manual coffee grinder if our electric grinder is ever inoperable.
 
I make a pot of decaf every morning for my wife .
It's a B&D that has a clock and can be programed when to start I set it to start at 4:20 am as she get's up at 4:30 to get ready for work.
I very rarely have any as I hate decaf.
But I go out almost every morning for real coffee and a BLT or a full breakfast .
 
Once I was in a feisty mood and decided to play a trick on Miss Pam. I made our morning coffee using decaf. I had accidentally bought a can previously.

Miss Pam is one of those people that NEED REAL COFFEE in the morning.

Doing that was my first mistake. My second mistake was telling her why she still felt so groggy after 2 cups of coffee.

I think that is the closest I ever came to getting a divorce. Don't expect I'll ever do it again, neither.
 
For us there's been only one brand. BUNN.

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I have a relatively new Keurig that serves me well. I sit at the coffee kiddie table as I only have one 12 oz cup of Victor Allen's 'Donut Shop Blend' to begin my day. After that it is water followed by liquid bread.

My mom, at 87, has succumbed. She been fully assimilated as she now much prefers coffee to tea. She does, however, drink it from teacups as to not feel like such a turncoat.
 
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My dad gave me a Cuisenart YEARS ago for Christmas. It has a built-in bean grinder and it has given me tremendous service. I have a water softerner in the house and I only use filtered water from the refrigerator. It's probably another of the few things they would find if my house got hit by a missile, besides the Griswold cast iron skillets and Pfaltzgraf dishes.
 
I have been using the same old school Presto percolator for about ten years. No need for filters, coffee is really hot, can make it as strong or as weak as you want, easy to keep clean and shiny, was cheap, looks cool on the counter and is "retro" and "vintage" like me. I bought a back-up one on Amazon because I didn't think it would last this long. It won't die. It also sounds really neat and smells like coffee while percolating.
 
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