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Neither my wife nor I are big coffee drinkers. A relative is expressing need of a new coffee maker and we are considering one for her Christmas gift.
Target has Mr Coffee for $49.99 minus another $10.00 with coupon.
Is it a good brand?
Do you have to buy a certain type of coffee? I remember DRIP and PERCOLATER types when Mom would send me to the store for coffee.
Please pardon my ignorance on this subject and thanks for your help.
 
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Bunn,still made America

I have many fire investigation photos of "Mr. Coffee" meltdowns.
A good coffee maker will heat and deliver the water over the coffee grounds quickly.Mr.Coffee makers are slow and make bitter coffee.Hamilton Beach are decent makers.Black and Decker are not unlike Mr. Coffee.
 
I have a Cuisinart I use every day. It does good. I'm not too big on Mr. Coffee either.
 
I have a Krups and truly enjoy it. Uses the Euro style cone filters, and with them I use less grounds to make just as much really good tasting coffee. Only give the Mr. Coffee if you don't like them very much.
 
I have to go with the Bunn. The model I have has the Stainless Steel pot which wont break which is a plus and it brews in just a couple minutes. I almost guarantee I bought it at Lowes. Costs a few bucks more than most but well worth it in my opinion.
 
I use this carafe style Zojirushi....doesn't cook the coffee.....just keeps it nice and hot for hours....had this one since 2005 and it's still going strong...judging from the name, I don't think it's made in the USA. Around 70 bucks on line.....

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The wife and I are coffeeholics, we have used about every brand of coffee makers over the years. The best and most durable has been a Cuisinart for us so far.
 
My Wife and I are also Coffee addicts. We've tried many different systems over the years but our current one makes the best brew. It is the Hamilton Beach perk pot, available at Wally World or on-line, ($49.00). We have two of them. I set them up every night before I go to bed, three scoops in hers for "Girl Coffee" and four big ones in mine for "Hairy Chested Coffee". I prefer the perked Coffee over the drip ground. Sometimes the old ways are just best.:)
 
I've tossed out any number of failed drip and percolator style coffeemakers, most of which are now mostly plastic junk, and as has been said, suspiciously hazardous, in favor of a Boodum vacuum walled french press, a Krupp burr grinder, and an Oster electric kettle. For slightly more bother than the other alternatives, you can grind beans (fresh!), boil water, and brew, in four minutes, coffee vastly superior to the perked or dripped variety. I once had regarded these procedures as somewhat "snobbish", until I tried it, and now am given to carrying my own equipment, even in motel rooms, where, even if no microwave is available, a compact camp stove will boil enough water for coffee, without contributing dangerous quantities of CO to the interior atmosphere...
 
We're not big coffee drinkers, but have visiting family that are. We bought a stainless Cuisinart; it does a good job, and looks great on the counter... I forget how much it cost, around $60, or $70, I think...

If I knew that Bunn was still made in USA, I would have bought one of those. I really didn't think you could still buy a coffee maker that is made in the USA... ;(
 
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Don't like that a Bunn is heating water at all time it is plugged in.They also seem to get mineral clogged fairly quick and the fast brew cycle tends to need more coffee than a conventional drip machine.I base this opinion on seeing the life and death of many coffee makers at fire stations for many years.
 
Had a Cuisinart that ground the coffee and then brewed it.
Really liked the coffee that it made, but the grinder crapped out after about a year or so. At around $100.00 for another one, we decided that our old Mr. Coffee was good enough.
(It's been working for at least 10 years so far.
 
Both my wife and I are Coffee FANATICS and we have used a Cuisinart electric percolator for about 12 years now. It consistently makes great HOT coffee and it will keep it hot long after perking (forget the Mr. Coffee types - after a few months they only make luke warm wimpy coffee). You can buy them in the stores for about $120.00 or get the same exact model on Amazon for under $70.00.

Once in a blue moon I get in a nostalgic mood and I break out my old Coleman 12 cup porcelain stove top percolator. It takes a bit longer then the Cuisinart, but it does make great coffee! That can be had to under $35.00.

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chief38
 
Coffee is truly my last addiction. Quit drinking, quit smoking, never cheated on the Missus but I do bow down to that $15 a pound caffeinated fix from exotic African, Indian and South American locales.
I used a Bunn for years, wearing out 3 of them and the poster who complained about mineral build up is right - they took a lot of maintenance. After a few failed alternatives I settled on the Capresso MT600 ($120). The key is to have a thermal carafe instead of a heated plate. This keeps the coffee from slowly burning away.

I grind every pot fresh to the tune of a pound a week, and have wasted several grinders, including the Krupps. Over time the motor mounts crack allowing the grinding wheels to wander. The final answer was the Kitchenaid Pro KPCG100 at a whopping $200! Huge up front cost but I don't have to replace it every other year like I was the others.

Then again the stuff off of the Roach Coach warms the innards on a cold winter day just fine! :D
 
Pick a brand of coffee maker and do a review on it on the internet. Virtually everything has been reviewed. I bought a Black n Decker and did a review on it and it said the pot design makes it impossible to pour without spilling. First pot I made, I poured a cup and got a leak around the pot rim. Took it back and got a Mr. Coffee. I'm pretty anal about leaving electric appliances like coffee makers and toasters plugged in when I leave the house. Everything like that is plugged into a surge strip will a night light plugged into it. When I leave I always go out the back and if the night light's on I turn off the surge strip. Pretty weird huh?
 
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