Mr Coffee Coffee Maker Programmable Coffee Machine for Single Serve or Carafe Coffee 10 Cups Black

I waited to give my review because I really wanted to know I had used it fully and could answer honestly. It's a smaller footprint than my old Hamilton Beach Flex Brew and makes better coffee. TIP: If you like your coffee even stronger than the strong brew button makes? Use a Columbian blend or dark roast blend. Fill the grounds basket for a 10 cup pot but fill reservoir to only make 8 cups/strong. That will give you that stout cup of Joe. I love the steel carafe that keeps it drinkably warm without getting that burnt stale taste from sitting on burner plate all morning. TIP: To make your carafe keep warmer do as you do with all thermos/ carafes - the night before? Or a couple of hours before? Fill with your hottest tap water and close. It will - the thermal and your coffee will stay hot all day! Empty it out just before you make your coffee. If you are using the single k-cup style? Use the strong setting or the coffee will be weak. These are all the pros. The only con is the water filter in the reservoir... most of us already have water filters (either on our cold water from our refrigerators or from our taps) However..twice filtered water is not really that. bad now is it? All in all ? I LOVE this coffee maker and feel it makes great coffee and offers flexibility and is therefore a great buy. Had to come here and update my review - here I am a more 7 months from purchase and the coffee maker leaks water all over the counter and the carafe leaks and does not keep coffee warm. VERY DISAPPOINTING.CAN NO LONGER RECOMMEND. UPDATE: Contacted Mr.Coffee ..corresponded with a very nice and concerned customer service rep named Rhegie , who listened to my grievances and made it right. So A + Customer service and I really loved this coffee brew system when it worked right have me changing my review back to 5 star. Read more

First, the good. 1. It's easy to program. 2. I love the carafe. 3. It saves space and looks nice on my counter top. Now, the bad. 1. The coffee tastes bad compared to my old Keurig, but I learned to live with it by adding more coffee. 2. The K-cup part is a big pain to use. If you CAN get it to work properly, the coffee/tea/hot chocolate/whatever tastes watered down and has no flavor. 3. Yesterday - the day before I submitted a return/refund request for the coffee maker - it stopped brewing after only about 2 cups. I cleaned it, ran clear water and vinegar through it, but it still took 3 tries (and a lot of wasted coffee) for me to get a full, 10-cup pot of coffee. Even then, it was super weak. 4. Today - the day I submitted the return/refund request - it started pouring water all over the place during the brewing process. This wasn't a simple leak. It POURED all over my counter top and would've ended up all over my floor had I not been standing there watching it. By the time I got it cleaned up, there was nothing in the carafe but lukewarm brown water. I won't even call it weak coffee because it was simply what I stated - lukewarm brown water. 5. If the manufacturer has to add instructions on what to do with regard to certain situations (re: water leaking and/or ‘add water’ notifications when it has water, I think? I didn’t get any instructions), there’s probably a defect. I’m basing this last one on reviews I’ve read today. The only good thing about all this is that if it was going to screw up, it happened before the return window disappeared, but barely. Had I waited even 24 hours I would've been stuck with a useless coffee maker I spent $100-plus on. So, now I'm stuck waiting on UPS to pick it up, then I'll be waiting for the refund from Amazon before I can purchase a new one - NOT like this one. I'm a big coffee drinker so it looks like I'll be digging out my old stovetop percolator until this is straightened out and I can (most likely) just go ahead and buy another Keurig Duo. I don't recommend this to anybody. There are too many reviews mentioning how it leaks - reviews I wish I would have paid more attention to before ordering it. Don't waste your money. Seriously. When I buy something, I expect it to last longer than 3 to 4 weeks. Read more

I read all the recent reviews and was a little hesitant to reorder the same model from Mr. Coffee but I did. I replaced the same model of coffee maker that I had purchased 6 years ago. I make coffee at least once a day so that is a lot of usage over the 6 years. It started to leak water and also stop in the middle of brewing saying to add water. I have had this one for almost a month and so far, absolutely no issue. It is a space saver on the counter, the slot for coffee is front loaded so I don't have to pull it away from the cabinet to be able to lift the lid to load the coffee. Admittedly I do not use the single serve option. The carafe keeps the coffee very hot and it doesn't have that burnt taste from when you have a glass pot on the hotplate. If this lasts as long as the last one did I'll purchase it again! Read more

Update 11/28/21. My brew stopped working. Pree brew. Nada. Tried all recommended troubleshooting tips. Then I took the filter insert out of water reservoir and cleaned around the intake hole. Left the filter insert out completely and it worked again for about two weeks. Dead again and NO RESPONSE from manufacturer regarding the warrantee. This coffee maker makes coffee which is exactly what I wanted it to do. You can make a full pot, partial pot or various size cups of coffee which is nice. What is somewhat inconvenient (not horrible, just worth a mention) is the lid to the water reservoir has to lift off completely and placed down whereas my previous maker just lifted and stayed connected till you filled the reservoir. You can also lift off the reservoir but it seems easier to me to just fill it using the pot. The coffee pot lid also has to come off to fill it rather than just pop up or to the side. I also find you get a better pour by removing it completely rather than wait for the sloooowwww pour to fill your cup. The thermal carafe is rather small, barely filling maybe 5 large mugs with a full 10 cups of water which is ok for day to day, but having company will require making several pots to serve more than a few guests. Overall, I am now used to doing these extra steps and it is a good basic coffee machine to simply make a pot or cup of coffee. Read more