MUELLER HOME 12-Cup Pink Coffee Maker - Borosilicate Carafe, Auto-Off, Pink Kitchen Accessories, Reusable Filter, Anti-Drip, Kitchen Appliances, Keep-Warm Function, Kitchen Décor

All I wanted was a simple coffee maker that I can still use the paper filters and just make a simple pot of coffee without all the confusing settings or some over expensive coffee maker that I don't even need. I had no idea how hard it is to find a regular coffee pot these days. Everything is digital and has the reusable filters and all expensive. I finally found this one after searching through a lot of listings and while it does come with a reusable filter, you can still take that out and just put the regular paper filters in the basket. It has a simple on/off button and will auto turn off after 2 hours and if you need it to still keep the pot hot then all you have to do is turn it back on. I have already made several pots of coffee with this inexpensive coffee maker and I have had no problems at all. It is exactly what I needed and I didn't have to pay for an expensive one that I don't even need or want with all the extra features. If you want a simple coffee maker at a reasonable price and are like me and don't need or want all the digital programming and the high price then this is the one for you. Works great and I got exactly what I needed without having to pay a lot of money for extra features that I won't even use.

This coffee maker is replacing a much more expensive Cuisinart model. There really is no comparison. Since I broke the carafe of the Cuisinart, and I didn't feel like spending $35 for a replacement, I found this. It's plastic, compact, and light, but it does exactly what it claims to do. It makes up to 12 cups of hot, good tasting coffee. Granted, the coffee maker is slow in brewing, but not too painful. Unlike the Cuisinart, it doesn't look like a real, stainless steel appliance, but it does the job. I like the reusable filter basket, instead of paper filters, and the 2 hour auto shut off. Hopefully this coffee maker lasts a while, but time will tell. Can't go wrong for the price, as long as your expectations are appropriate.

I bought this coffee maker after my previous one finally broke. I was specifically looking for a few key features which this coffee maker had. I wanted a coffee maker that had a mechanical On/Off switch, and I wanted a coffee maker that did NOT automatically shut off after a period of time. The reason I wanted these features is because I am slowly but surely turning my home into a “smart home” and I have been wanting to automate as many things as I can. Surprisingly at the time I was looking at this coffee maker I don’t believe there was a coffee maker with native Apple HomeKit compatibility. To my knowledge as of October, 2023 there still isn’t. That wasn’t a big deal, because I have a smart outlet that I plugged the coffee maker into. Now I can have the coffee maker turn on and start brewing coffee at whatever time I set up the automation for, so that when I finally get out of bed the coffee is already brewing. Yes, I could have done that with an automatic coffee maker that has a built-in timer, but this is great because I can program the outlet to turn on/off at various times or set up stipulations that someone has to be home in order for it work (preventing the coffee maker from doing its thing when we are away from home and forgot to turn off the auto feature on other coffee pots that we have had.)I also really appreciate the fact that it doesn’t auto shutoff after 2 or 4 hours. I know that is meant to be a safety feature, but with my smart home it is an unnecessary feature. I have an automation set up that when the last person leaves home it shuts the outlet off. Normally I don’t assume that the automation will work, but in case I forget it will take care of it for me.Another feature, and I am not sure if this was a deliberate feature or not, but I have noticed that when it is brewing, occasionally it will pause brewing for a short time (maybe 30-45 seconds??) and that is good, because it allows me to pick up the coffee pot when it is still brewing and pour myself a cup if I am too impatient to wait for it to finish. It DOES have “pause and pour” meaning that there is a check valve that shuts off the flow to the carafe so that the coffee doesn’t just continue to keep pouring out on to the burner, but with this pause there is typically ZERO drips. May sound like a little thing (and truthfully it is), but that little drip gets on to the burner and the water quickly evaporates leaving coffee residue which I would have to clean up later. If I wait until the brewing temporarily pauses on its own then I prevent even a single drip. Like I said it is a small thing, but it is just one more small little thing that makes me really like this coffee pot even more.It is so ironic in a day and age when things are getting more technical and more sophisticated that I would willingly choose a coffee pot that is as simple as it can possibly get. I have had coffee makers that were far more sophisticated, but in the end I want to be able to control the coffee maker via my smart home and not have the coffee maker control itself.Lastly, I wanted to mention that the coffee pot is very reasonably priced at just under $30. The fact that I got a good quality coffee maker that is exactly what I was looking for and it also was among the lowest price that Amazon had to offer is a win-win for me! I have zero regrets buying this coffee maker. Actually, that’s not true — I wish I would have bought it sooner! If you’re on the fence, go ahead and get it — it’s a beautifully simple coffee pot which is exactly what I was looking for!

It's near impossible to get a simple and well-made coffee maker. "Well-made"? Sure, with 35 buttons that allow you to program it remotely from the international space station. I honestly don't see the great benefit of programming your coffee maker to brew at a specific time. Are people that fragile and needy that they simply can't wait the ten minutes it takes to brew coffee? It *has* to be ready to drink the moment they arrive in the kitchen? As soon as you grind your coffee, it slowly loses flavor. And for that reason, it's important to me to grind the coffee right before I brew it. I can taste the difference. (Ok, rant over.)The other coffee maker alternative is "simple". But in almost all examples I've found, this means cheaply-made as well. I'm amazed at how manufacturers have been able to make devices so thinly and keep them standing upright.This is one of those coffee makers. One button (nice), but flimsy as all get out. This won't be a coffee maker that I'll hand down to my children. If it survives 5 years, I'll be amazed. But it *does* make coffee with little muss or fuss.One thing I noticed immediately is that the coffee was quite a bit weaker than in previous coffee makers I've used, but I think I've solved that. The "permanent filter" that they supply to you (again, incredibly flimsy) can drain at the bottom. Filters that I've used in the past are solid on the bottom and coffee drains out around the sides. I think that the water is filtering through too quickly and doesn't have a chance to absorb the coffee. If it has to spend a little extra time making its way across the bottom to the side, it gets a little more saturated.I replaced the Mueller filter with a Gold Tone filter that I had with my previous maker and the coffee came out quite a bit stronger.