The Disadvantage of Hamilton beach brewstation drip coffee maker

I love the concept of Hamilton beach's brewstation drip coffee makers. It's a brilliant idea and kind of an innovation. Especially, you can't always be careful enough to break the grass carafe of the traditional drip coffee makers. It's also a hand free design unless you put the machine at the wall and push the button to get the coffee. However, great idea with poor product! The bellowing are the customer reviews of these series of products. You know where to change, Hamilton beach.


1)The hot water runs through coffee grounds far too quickly to allow a long enough steep.
2) The highest temperature reached in the water chamber is 152 degrees and even the smallest addition of cream naturally brings it down even more.

3) The water dispensing movable spout is flimsy and will be the first item to break.

4) The coffee outlet is too close to the concave front wall and makes a thick-sided mug impossible to fill without spilling coffee.

5) The dispensing lever must be pushed hard for coffee flow to start thereby making the "one-handed" action into a two-fisted one - unless the whole contraption is pushed against the wall.

6) The clock is useless since it's not LED-lighted.
7) The lid doesn't close properly and, if lifted after water is heated, allows distillation to dribble down the back of the machine.

8) You have to lift the lid way up to pour in the water/coffee which means pulling the whole unit out from under the kitchen cupboards.

9) The heating element, which produces a warm, not hot, cup of coffee.

10) I also dislike that I can't see how much coffee is left as you would in a regular carafe model.

11) Not only does it leak from the front, but it has what appears to be a drainage hole in the rear.

12) the swinging arm catches the paper filters as it swings. You have to manually correct this each time or you'll get coffee grounds inside the water tank.

13) if your cup is tall, it may not fit under the nozzle properly.

14) it is almost impossible to pour the water into the pot from without dumping it all over the counter.

15) There is a metal plate in the middle of the body of the coffeemaker, right where you pour the water in - and almost impossible to avoid.

16)This machine is a cool idea that is poorly designed and made.

17) The coffee maker is very light weight and feels very cheaply made over all.

18) The lid didn't fit down properly and had a slight gap when closed.

19) The little arm that dispense the water over the grounds was very flimsy and had to be forced in and out of position.

20) This machine is so light that I had to use one hand to hold it in place while I pushed the mug in.

21) The 2-hour automatic shut off might be nice but if its empty that whole time that's going to be a fire hazard.

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