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561 of 573 people found the following review helpful: By This review is from: Braun KF600 Impressions 10-Cup Thermal Coffeemaker, Brushed Stainless Steel (Kitchen) First of all, I am a well-informed coffee fanatic. I only use cold distilled water, freshly roasted and grinded beans, and now a thermal carafe!!! So please keep that in mind when you read and weigh the details in my review.
I am glad I ignored the--small number of--negative reviews on this model...I found them to be wrong. It works well, and does hold up to 10 cups without overflowing or causing any problems. Each brew is excellent, amazingly good coffee...forget the Mr. Coffee's or Cuisinarts. Braun is the real deal. Very very happy that I got this one. Excellent thermal carafe. Prewarmed, it keeps the coffee hot for 4-5 hours and drinkably warm for about 2 more hours at least. No burnt coffee smell. Very attractive package, has heft and is solid, yet svelt and attractive on the counter. Go no further if you want an attractive and excellent thermal carafe performer. Some may want one with a timer, since I grind my beans right on the...Read more 252 of 254 people found the following review helpful: By Art "Art" (Mo.) - See all my reviews This review is from: Braun KF600 Impressions 10-Cup Thermal Coffeemaker, Brushed Stainless Steel (Kitchen) I was tired of burnt coffee so decided to buy one with a thermo carafe. I've been partial to Braun for several years so I selected this one. So far it's done everything it advertised and the coffee is excellent.
The instructions are explicit about facing the handle to point out over the switch, don't know why but since they included a separate instruction for this thought it might be important. It has the typical 40 to 44 ounce capacity of a ten cup coffee maker, but if you go any over the 44 ounces, which is dead on the bottom of 10 cup line limit, it will spill out on your counter. They say a cup is 4.4 oz. which I guess is kind of standard. Other features I like are that the carafe is not glass lined and has a vacuum between the walls. When you make a pot of coffee the outside of the carafe stays at the same temperature it started so very little heat escapes through the wall. Also there is a water filter that you place in a depression at the bottom of the...Read more 131 of 134 people found the following review helpful: By This review is from: Braun KF600 Impressions 10-Cup Thermal Coffeemaker, Brushed Stainless Steel (Kitchen) A few months ago i broke the carafe on my old melitta coffee maker. This machine was about 15 years old so no replacement carafe available which gave me the excuse to buy a new machine.
I'm a research fanatic so after much on-line research I decided to get the cuisinart 10 cup machine (not the grind and brew). My experience with the cuisinart was disappointing. To be fair i'm usually making small amounts of coffee (4-5 cups max) and the cuisinart just didn't come through for me (it has a small pot setting but that made the coffee worse). Generally the Cuize coffee was weak and bitter at the same time. Also their fill level indicator was very difficult to read for small pots. One nod i do have to give to cuisinart is the honesty of their user manual. They describe how to work the timer function and then essentially tell you that you shouldn't use it because leaving ground coffee exposed to the air overnight while you sleep will hurt the flavour. Then they describe...Read more |