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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Coffee Consumption Around Asian Countries

                                 Country    Consumption(tone)   Productivity(tone)

                                    China       80000           30000

                                    Indian      86000           26000

                                    Vietnam     62000           1,000,000

                                    Philippines 65000           50000

                                    Thailand    40000           50000

                                    Indonesia   200000          520000

                                    Japan       450000

                                    Korea       110000

                                    Taiwan      20000

                                    Singapore   12000

Among all the countries around China, Japan is the biggest coffee consumption country, also the 4th coffee consumption country in the world, up to 450,000 tones, that's 3.5 kilos/person.
The following are Indonesia & Korea: 200,000 and 110,000 tones. Vietnam produces 1 million tones of coffee/ year, ranked No.2 .
And Indonesia produced 520,000, ranked No.4. in the world. Finally India ranked 7,produeced 260,000.

The conclusion is the countries around China produce and consume large amount of coffee of the world. Can you find a better atmosphere and circumstance in somewhere else except China?

coffee machine culture in German

This is the first article of this blog on coffee machine.It's a pity that it's not about those of China, but about German. During the presentation of Midea's coffee machine,Thomas from Russell Hobbs told me that some knowledge about the coffee machine culture as following:

1.About the design.Most German like the designs of conservative,some special and personalized designs may be found strange or weird.
2.They like the color to be matte,not sharp,which seems to be unfriendly to them.I personally don't know why,guess it's about culture differences.
3.E.S.E is not so easy to find in German market.Other coffee pod or capsules are more popular,such as the Nespresso coffee capsule.(E.S.E. which stands for Easy Serving Espresso) is the technology being used to simplify the preparation of a good espresso using just a few simple actions, thanks to the adoption of the “serving” (individual pre-packed doses containing 7 grams of ground coffee that has been pressed and hermetically sealed between two fine layers of filter paper).

Something interesting I heard from my manager is that in Germany people has a fashion culture of buying high-class coffee machine,though they don't drink too much coffee like Italian do.Why are people doing such things? You know high-class coffee machines can represent people's personal taste and status just like BMW and Benz in their country. That can explain why the sales performance of high-class coffee machines in Germany is better than that in Italy. You may already know that Italy is a traditional coffee-drink country as China is a big tea-drinking country.

-------written by Alex Wooh (please add my blog to your RSS reader, http://alexwooh.blogspot.com ,欢迎把以上地址添加订阅到您的阅读器！)