I've been very pleased with this maker--this is from someone who has had coffee every morning for the last 25 years, and I was way ahead of the trend in preferring better and darker coffees.
The steel carafe rather than glass and a hotplate is the winner here. The carafe can't break, and keeps coffee perfectly hot for hours without slowly producing that burn't taste a hot plate creates. And best of all, I never have to wonder if I left the coffee machine on or deal with a burnt carafe again.
The filter: this machine takes a standard #4 filter. Calling for a #3 (which doesn't exist) has to be a typo, which must have cost a lot of sales lost--because I went looking for a #3 before ordering, didn't find it, and decided to 'deal with it' because otherwise this was the best machine for the price. I was surprised the filter wasn't a problem.
Lastly, if you want excellent coffee, this maker is only half the equation--the grind is as important as the maker, and by using a burr grinder you won't get that slightly burnt taste that I thought was just how home brewed coffee tastes. What produces that taste is burning the beans at a thousand miles an hour in a blade grinder. I found a perfectly capable burr grinder for around eighty dollars, and even my girlfriend (who's not a coffee purist in the least) noticed the better difference with this new combination of maker and grinder.
Simply put, we actually get compliments now on how smooth the coffee is; "This is like Peets or Starbucks!"Get more detail about Zojirushi EC-BD15 Fresh Brew Thermal Carafe Coffee Maker.
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