KitchenAid KCM1208DG Spiral Showerhead 12 Cup Drip Coffee Maker, Matte Charcoal Grey

Pros: great taste, programmation is easy, permanent filter is nice, everything is quality. The removable water tank is more than nice! Cons: its quite big, its the size of smaller espresso machines. The beep sound when it begins and ends. I’d rather have a silent machine In my opinion the pro largely overcome the cons.

I literally was about to write a long term (5 year) review on how great my last coffee maker was when it started leaking! It still worked great and brewed good coffee but there was a hose split way up in the top of the machine where it went into the lid/drip head and isn't easy, if even possible, to fix. So I was on the hunt for a new pot and found this one. Had it for 4 months now so not a great deal of time to go on but figured I'd write a review on my current thoughts. First, I avoided buying it initially due to the fact that I look for consistent complaints on a product and the number of them when making a decision on a purchase and this one was the carafe cracking or shattering. Incidentally, after reading reviews on the last coffee maker I had, the leaking was a consistent complaint! Anyway...I had my selection down to about 3 different machines but my first pick didn't have the color I wanted available and the other 2 had issues with either the readout getting condensation in it or not working at all after a short time or the machine itself quit working too soon. Kept coming back to the KitchenAid despite the carafe concerns and decided to take the chance as I'm always super careful with them anyway since I'm already concerned about breaking the glass. So far 4 months in and alls well in that area! I really like how the reservoir is separate and can be pulled out for filling/cleaning even though I just fill it from a jug. It's easy to fill from a container and separates the coffee/filter from any chance of splash. I do wish it was a different color since we have a teal accent theme for the kitchen but the last coffee maker was black and stainless steel so not a huge deal. I do like the design-looks like their mixer which we also have- although it is bigger front to back than your average machine. The features are nice, especially the cleaning feature which I just recently used. It lets you know when it's time to run a clean cycle and it does take a while-at least 20-30 minutes for a pot not just a regular brew cycle! It has a beep when you turn it on and 3 beeps when its done brewing that you can't turn off unfortunately but it's fairly muted so not that bad. My last one was thankfully able to be turned off because it was obnoxiously loud! It uses cone paper filters (#4 I believe?) or reusable mesh which is what I use. The basket is easily removable for cleaning as well. Now for my biggest complaint/warning-the design of the lid allows for a good amount of condensation retention and nowhere for it to go so it will leak down the side or sides when you open it, be ready! I always have a dishrag in hand to shove under the lid behind the brew basket when I open it and leave it there for a few minutes opening it halfway and fully open to catch the runoff, then wipe the inside of the lid down. Personally not a deal breaker but it is annoying and I've noticed others had the same complaint. So far I'm very happy with this coffee maker, has some pluses over my last one and a couple minuses but overall I think the only thing that would make the choice of this one over the last one tough is that the last one could brew 14 cups where most only brew 12, this one included.

Solo por la marac, sabes que es un excelente equipo, funciona bien, y mantiene el café caliente por 2 hrs.

Olvidate de los filtros de papel. El detalle es que al comprar el café, debe ser molido medio para que no pase café molido al recipiente y terminen muchos polvos en el fondo de tu taza. Pero nada del otro mundo, cualquier molino de café tiene la opción de molido medio. Queda sabroso el café.

All great, just writing this review because the Amazon analytics are recommending the charcoal filters to be purchased with the coffee maker. This model does not use any water pre-filtering. 3 months in and these are my thoughts. Great coffee makes great coffee, but two snags have popped up. 1) the water tank can be a little tricky to place back on if you remove it to fill it. 2) the bottom of the until can get pretty hot (from the warmer plate) didn’t damage the counter, but enough of a threat that we mitigated the risk.