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Originally Posted by OpusX1
I guess I don’t understand, if you put 8 or 10 cups of water in the water holder it makes that amount of coffee, there is no automatic shut off. Maybe your older model is different from ours. We have no strength setting, just the amount of grounds, more grounds more strength. We do grind more medium than fine. We love ours as much as you dislike yours. That’s why there are so many different manufacturers I guess.
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What happens when I try to make 8 or 10 cups of coffee, which it is supposed to do, is the basket fills up before the water has a chance to filter through the coffee, and eventually overflows into the holder, allowing grounds to go all over the inside of the holder plus down into the carafe. Also, the lid is very wonky to screw on and off. The threading is not properly aligned. One of them screws on a little better than the other. If you unscrew the lid just a little too far to get the coffee to pour faster, sometimes the lid falls off into your cup. I feel there should be some lever to press that would open up a hole in the lid, like most coffeemakers have. Having to unscrew the lid to pour and then pour it back on is inconvenient and lets heat out.
I would think I got a bad one, but they are both like that, and the second one actually came directly from the Netherlands. My first one has the three strength settings. The newer one doesn't have any strength settings at all, which I would find to be a minus except for the fact that the first one won't hold its medium or dark setting without being taped in place.
You are right, different strokes for different folks. The machine was top rated everywhere I looked online, which is why I bought the first one. So I'm obviously in the minority. I have tried paper filters (the mfr suggests) and gold filter, and many different brands of coffee... the coffee just tastes weird.