Hamilton Beach 12 Cup Programmable Coffee Maker FrontFill Drip Coffee Maker

I was buying very expensive coffee makers that kept breaking leaking or grounds in my coffee so i bought this one after many others in a short period and I LOVE IT!!! easy to use and makes a great cup of coffee (I am buying another one as my back up-I never want to be without my morning coffee) Read more

Wow this is a great coffee maker. Looks awesome on my counter.. It is 12 cups but I generally only brew 8 cups. Its fast quiet and its a hot cup of coffee. Didn't realize my old one wasn't making coffee that hot. I have it set on a timer so when I wake up in the am its already made and I don't even hear it making coffee. It doesn't take much time for it to brew a pot. Read more

I had a quite old Mr. Coffee coffee maker with a square reusable basket that gave me many years of good service. It brewed very good coffee. The square basket, due to being used only serveral thousand times, was wore out and tore at one of the seams. I went to find a new basket for it and they are nowhere to be found. Bummer as that is a really good design. Yes, it is odd, but it brews really well. Anyway I did some research and decided on this coffee maker. The first one I received had something rattling around inside and I didn't want to take a chance and power it up only to find it was a loose screw that shorts out inside and burns down my house. It was quickly replaced with no hassle other than having to take the old one to a drop off point. It works well, but, and has a couple features I like. I like the top lid fill. It is designed well and when filling it doesn't splatter water all over. Whoever designed it figured out the right curves for water to pour and drain into the maker. The brim on the pot is plastic. I like this as I have a tendency to be clumsy and smack the spout on something breaking it off; however, this is a double edge sword. The plastic brim doesn't allow all the liquid to be poured out easily. It wastes a good couple teaspoons of coffee each time. The only way I know how to get those last two teaspoons is to shake the bejesus out of the coffee pot, but that would result in maybe one drop making into the cup and the rest spattered all over the counter. It also wants cleaning all the time. My water is very soft and doesn't build up like most other areas, but the maker only seams to track pots brewed, and not the actual build up in the machine. I am OK with that, but the fix to reset it is to unplug the maker, let it sit about ten minutes and plug it back in. Sounds easy, but then I got to reprogram the clock and make sure to set the maker on "BOLD" as that is the only way to make coffee. It really needs a reset button. Last thing I don't like is the water level is on the left side. The place I have my coffee maker is in an area where the left side is obfuscated. I am not going to change that as it would require a complete redesign of cooking area to include my microwave and other stuff I have near the coffee pot. Would really be nice to have levels on both sides. I have been using it several months and it brews good coffee. I wish somebody would come back with the square basket. That worked so well and brewed really good coffee. :( Read more

First one I ordered was smashed, but the deliver box was not damaged, so it had to have been broken before it was shipped. The actual coffee maker box was crushed and the coffee maker was broken. I got a refund and ordered another, the coffee maker looks nice, takes little space, and brews quickly, it is easy to clean and use. The clock display is blue, it is bright and easy to set, does not have military time that I can see, but has am and pm on it and you can set 1 pre set time for it to brew at a later time. The carafe is the same as the old maker I had in this same brand that I got about 6 years ago, so I'm going to save my old one in case I accidentally break this one. The cord is very short. I always set my coffee maker on a wooden cutting board to protect my laminate counters just in case it gets hot on the bottom. The plastic body does not have a shiny finish, it is matte. But the handle on the actual pot has a shiny finish. Read more

Great coffee maker, still working after a year. Programmer is easy to set up and makes my mornings go smoothly. The water reservoir has 2 accesses, one thin in the front and a large in the back. It even reminds you too clean it after 30 brews. Standard carafe size, glass seems a little thin but it's doing its job Read more