Anyone else have a spastic coffee pot?
Has anyone ever paid good money for a coffee pot only to find out that everytime you go to pour yourself a cup of coffee in the morning and you’re in a rush, it spills out everywhere because the spouts are almost always stupidly constructed?
Why does the main function of an item go against it’s own purpose for existing in the first place?
Mr Coffee has some splainin to do!
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Yeah!
One reason I want a Keurig. But I can’t justify spending over $100 on a coffee pot.
@Seek_Kolinahr One more burn while Im trying to get out the door and $100.00 is worth every penny I’m thinking. It doesn’t matter how careful I am, it never fails. I just spent $45.00 on this one and I’m getting mad… Coffee is vital to people not getting hurt in my universe!
I’ve heard the Hamilton Beach brand is pretty good. I own one myself and it never fails.
You should try doing some regular maintenance on it. I didn’t clean mine for a while and it started leaking on its own. I took out all the parts and scrubbed them clean from buildup, and now it works like new. Try that before you go out and spend $100.
It’s not the machine – it’s the damned water spout on the carafe! I just made a pot of coffee and now my countertop is DRENCHED
I agree…they all spill all over when you are in desperate need for that first cup of Joe! That is why I have a Mr. Coffee IV!
@Seek_Kolinahr Yup! Exactly! I have to comet cleanse my sink everyday!
Yes. But worse, my coffee machine has been on the fritz lately. Half of the time, if I pour 8 cups of water in it, it gives me about 6 cups of coffee. So when I make coffee, I have to try to predict whether it’s going to work correctly or not so I don’t end up with either really weak or really strong coffee.
I somehow own 3 coffee pots and I don’t even drink the stuff. One of them is a Bunn which was a pretty expensive pot that my brother uses when he is here twice a year. Apparently it is a nice pot.
@chyna Yes it is a nice one, too rich for my blood! If that one leaked or dripped, I would be royally PISSED!
@martianspringtime Sometimes it helps to run a water only cycle with a little bit of decalcification product through the machine, once using the product and a few more times just water only to thouroughly clean it out. You might have calcium build up through the works?
Check the package and make sure that something like CLR is safe however, I am not positive?
Infuriating. “As useless as a chocolate teapot” is the phrase that comes to mind.
Yes. I have the world’s most evil coffee pot. It leaks from the bottom, as you mentioned, the spout was most certainly designed by someone who hates people who drink coffee and enjoys thinking about them spilling on themselves and all over floor and… it has this stupid “sneak a sip” feature that is supposed to allow you to removed the pot halfway through and pour yourself a cup without it dripping on the burner plate… and unless you get the plastic cone thing and the pot in there just right, or it may just be that the thing is evil, the feature either doesn’t work and a stream of coffee continues to flow onto the burner or, it stops up the whole process and water collects in the cone and never goes into the pot.
That may be the longest sentence I have ever written on fluther.
…...not sure whether you’re just venting or also looking for a solution. But just in case it’s the 2nd option:
Make taste, not waste…
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