Hamilton Beach 12 Cup Programmable Coffee Maker, FrontFill Drip Coffee Maker

Excellent coffee maker. This is a simple, purpose built, coffee brewing device. It does not connect with your phone via Bluetooth, play music, nor dance a jig. It simply makes coffee and it does the job very well! I recommend this product.

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.

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. :(

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.

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)

I used this machine daily for 17 months. Then, quite suddenly, it died: it wouldn't pump water or heat coffee. 17 months is a very short lifespan for a coffee machine. (Another of my Hamilton Beach machines also lasted a little less than 18 months. Perhaps the entire brand suffers from durability issues.) This machine's coffee is as good as the coffee I've had from $50 Hamilton Beach machines. But I regret buying this machine, and indeed, I am never going to buy another Hamilton Beach product. In so many ways, this machine's features are limited or poorly implemented: 1) Extremely prone to spilling coffee all over your countertop. This is not a problem with the carafe; instead, it's a problem with the spring-loaded nozzle that transmits coffee from the machine to the carafe. About once every three months, this Hamilton Beach machine (and others that I've had) floods my countertop. Many other reviewers have detailed this problem: see "Hamilton Beach strikes out again" (which has the best detail), "flow cutoff sucks, leaks", "Coffee Goes All Over the Counter", and more. See also the picture at the bottom of this review. A recommended solution is to use a little less ground coffee than you normally would, and then to use the machine's "bold" setting. But this hasn't stopped my machine from flooding on occasion. This alone is a fatal or near-fatal flaw. But there is more... 2) Water reservoir: not removable (and thus difficult to wash). Also, the water gauge, which lets you see how much water is in the reservoir, appears on only one side of the reservoir -- rather than both sides, as with many other machines. Depending on how you position this machine on your countertop, you may need to bend at an odd angle to see the gauge. 3) Carafe: before making coffee, you push it into the machine so that it sits atop the holder, just as with most other coffee machines. But if you push it in as far as it can go, you have gone too far; the carafe won't be well positioned, and your coffee will spill outside the carafe. (But the carafe itself is better than the carafes from Hamilton Beach machines of a few years ago, because it's less likely to spill when pouring.) 4) LED indicator lights: they're white, which makes it a little more difficult to see whether they're on during the daytime. Any other color would have been better. 5) Power cord: not retractable, as it is on other low-cost coffee machines. As a result, the power cord will spill out over your countertop at least a little. 6) Buttons: they are very shallow and stiff; they require too much force to press. Again, it's not a huge problem. But to press the power button or any other button when the carafe is less than half-full, you need to firmly hold the machine itself with one hand, while pressing the button with a finger of your other hand. If you just attempt to press a button without holding the machine in place or otherwise anchoring it, you'll simply tip the machine over onto its side. 7) Battery backup: there is none. If you lose power for a second, or unplug your machine just for a moment, you will need to reset the current time, the time at which you want coffee-making to start (if you use that feature), and any special settings that you have. This isn't easy, as Hamilton Beach doesn't make it simple for you to set the time or, especially, the time at which you want coffee-making to start. The lack of a backup battery for these features seems like great cheapness on the part of Hamilton Beach, given that ordinary consumers can buy 3V lithium batteries for less than $1. 8) Coffee-filter holder: it has no handle, and to use it, you must slide it into the machine just so. All of this makes it a little difficult to manipulate. 9) As mentioned at the top of this review, the machine died in less than 18 months. This machine is worse than you would hope, even given the low price. And the flooding problem, while it happens to me only once every three months or so, is terrible when it does happen. Avoid Hamilton Beach.

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Muy buen producto, calidad y precio

Makes great coffee. Unlike our previous model, the coffee is hot. Easy to load, program, and clean. Nice looking. Very happy.

I love the simplicity of using this machine. Does all I need . keeps coffee warm.

Tiene un tamaño que se ajusto a mi cocina. Su funcionamiento es muy fácil así como la manera de limpiar.