Ozark
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Today was a red letter day for us - the Bi-Annual Coffeemaker Exchange.
We don't need a fancy coffeemaker that tells the time or sets alarms, just one that makes our morning coffee reliably. Over the years I've found that NONE of them last very long, including a $120 CuisineArt rig that at least did go 13 months once.
In 2008, four coffeemakers ago, I hit upon the solution. I bought the El Cheapo Mr. Coffee 12-cup model at Lowe's for $19.95 AND I got the extended full-replacement 12-month warranty for $2.97 extra. Today we got our FOURTH new coffeemaker on that warranty, 'cause they won't go 12 months (we bought this last one in September, '09).
The only way I can lose on this deal is if a coffeemaker actually lasts 12 months, and I think that's very, very unlikely. Anyway, if one ever goes 11 months I'm gonna be scrutinizing it very carefully and it better still be perfect in every way - or back it goes.
I got the EXTENDED WARRANTY again today, and this is still on the same $24-something, including tax, I spent in 2008. I'm telling ya, fellas, this the way to go - the Coffeemaker for Life Program.
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HAUS
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good stuff.
I gave up on the electric models and went with the truly foolproof model.... The "boil the water yourself and pour it over the grounds" model.
Our coffeemaker wasn't getting the water hot enough to extract the flavors, so I looked online and bought a manual model from Melitta. Best tasting coffee I ever made.
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Ozark
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Yeah, I like deals like that.
A good friend still has his 1968 Dodge Charger muscle car from college - he bought it in 1973 and he keeps it in the garage and seldom drives it now. When he first got the car it needed a battery, so he bought a battery at Sears with a "free replacement as long as you own the car" warranty. Ha!
He still has his tattered 37-year-old warranty papers, and he just got another new battery for free - about the 13th or 14th one, he thinks. Sears hates him.
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griffin
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Coffee makers, huh?
Here's the way me and my Berkely, Ca. born, godless heathen, crazy azzed liberal, redheaded wife enjoy our coffee:
She buys whole beans and we grind them as we get ready to make coffee....then we boil 8 cups of water and pour the water over the ground beans in some contraption called a "french press"......let the coffee and the water mix for 4 minutes....press the coffee to the bottom of the deal....and drink.
Fair warning.......I have seen people not used to the strength of the coffee we drink to damn near have a stroke upon drinking a cup.
If my hair on the back of my neck ain't tingling after two cups......I start over.
We have a coffee maker at work.....NOBODY will drink the coffee I make in it.
griffin
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halfasmuch
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Daughter #2 has some kind o f "expresso" machine? has to have some special coffee and after she makes it, she puts ice in it! that logic escapes me....
ANd I was sent to the store one day to get vanilla something ...I brought home coffeemate instead of "Steward".. you would have thought I had just chit in her machine...
100% COlumbian whatever and add an extra scoop...
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Paul Dallas
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French press coffee is the best, but we can't bring ourselves to go to all that trouble and waiting. He11, don't even like grinding the beans, just an extra step that my impatience won't tolerate in the morning.
Got an old cuisinart with the gold filter and the charcoal water filter. Had it at least 6 or 7 years and its going strong.
Oz - how are you killing all these coffeemakers? Got some wiring issues or you leave them on all day or waht?
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HAUS
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'68 charger?? damn!! get a lil chub thinkin about that beauty...
i like some strong coffee, but i can't hack the caffeine. More than two cups back to back and i'm about to freak out. chew the damn trim off the counters...
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H2ODOG
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I can't take the noise of the bean grinding that early in the am. I've had a Hamilton Beach for like 5 years now. Stainless steel caref deal. It has no heating element but will stay hot for hours in the deal. Its like a thermos that coffee can go into but can't pour out until you unscrew the lid. Sucker has a filter on a dipstick. Pull it out and throw it away for a new one. I'm still on the filter I put in 2 years ago. I make coffee daily when I'm home. Brother in law has the same one. They make coffee 7 days a week 365 days a year. Its got him 3 years now without breakin.
I think if ya quit runnin the ENTIRE coffee makin in the dish washer Ozark it will last ya long. Just wash the pot. Although I'm still laughin like hell at all the work you go through just for a pot of coffee.
And for the record......paramedics should carry around The Redheads coffee. It will rise the dead. Its Michelle Obama coffee. Extrememly black, very bitter......the Coffee is hot, but not Michelle hot.
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HAUS
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dude, that last line is wrong....
but i still like it
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hillbilly
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I have 5-6 year old Bunn that went to the duck camp this year. Wife brings home a cuisinart with gold filter crap. To much work and it shot craps after about two months. Back to a Bunn. I like my 3 minute coffee.
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H2ODOG
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Hillybilly.......we used a Bunn deal at the duck camp in Arkansas. 3 min coffee literally. That helped when there were 9 dudes drinkin it. Its an ugly bastard, but makes coffee in a hurry. It will be my next coffee pot when the Hamilton Biatch goes out.
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Ozark
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Quote:
Paul Dallas said:
Oz - how are you killing all these coffeemakers? Got some wiring issues or you leave them on all day or waht?
Well, yeah, we leave it on all day. Every fire/police station I ever worked at had coffee on 24/7 and so do we. Well, not between bedtime and getting-up time, so maybe 12-14 hours a day. You're not supposed to do that? 
Then they oughta build coffeemakers so I CAN do that - otherwise I'm just gonna keep getting new ones for free.
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H2ODOG
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Ozark....buy ya one of the high dollar Commercial Bunn coffee makers, like the restaurants use. Considerin they make up to 4 gallons of coffee an hour and get CONTINUOUS USE and they last for years.
just a thought.
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Whackattack
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My parents got a Bunn back in the 80's, they are still using it.
They gave me one for a weddin present in 99, still using it. Gotta clean the calcium buildup out of it about twice a year, but it still makes a pot a coffee and I use it for Ice Tea every day.
You won't go wrong with a Bunn.
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Ozark
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Nah, I kinda like the idea of the Chinese making me a new one, for free, for life, every 6 months.
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Mel
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Spaking of extended warrenties, anyone remember the old Mr. McReedy commercials for Midas Mufflers where he was driving a Model T? Those were funny. "See you again, Boys".
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cook
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Dang,the beer making/drinking threads get a lot of traffic,do I see a coffee brewers section being started?
Just throw a cup of Folgers in the maker and drink the stuff,it gets things working in the morning.
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Forsythian
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Electric perk is the way to go boys. Gone over 2 years now with a fairly cheap Wally World electric perk (maybe $40?). Makes a good cup of mud. I would have calcified the lines in half a dozen drip makers by now.
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last_stand
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I figure most you goofs who drink canned ground coffee at home are the same ones who drink Natty Lite. Ozark and Haus you dudes need to walk the walk and get with it! bwaaaaaaaaa
As for coffee makers...fork that hot plate and get yerselves a carafe pot...coffee stays fresh and hot and you won't burn your house down.
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DjF
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funny thing about coffee, I don't drink it during the summer, on weekends...walk into school, I'm like Palov's dog, I gotta have coffee...dark and stout!!!
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MB2
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My husband has a coffee maker for life. Me. He doesn't give a crap how it gets there, just as long as it's there each and every morning.
BTW, I'm hooked on Southern Butter Pecan coffee now. But then a new survey out says more and more Canadians are giving up their beer for wine too.
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griffin
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Quote:
MissBudweiser said:
a new survey out says more and more Canadians are giving up their beer for wine too.
Well.................yeah...... where's the surprise?
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Mac
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Nah, I kinda like the idea of the Chinese making me a new one, for free, for life, every 6 months.
Yer flat killin' me!!!
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MB2
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Quote:
griffin said:
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MissBudweiser said:
a new survey out says more and more Canadians are giving up their beer for wine too.
Well.................yeah...... where's the surprise?
griffin
I smoked all their asses. I've been hooked on good wine for 15 years.
My coffee room in my office is like Timmy Ho's without the drive-thru.
Get your own damn ice cappuccino!!!
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Ozark
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An update - we just got back from Lowe's with Mr. Coffee coffeemaker NUMBER FIVE, still on the original $24 from 2008. Yes, I got the one-year free replacement warranty again - that's included in the $24.
The problem isn't hard water, we've been using filtered water from our 'fridge to make coffee. No, these things are just made cheap and they're counting on most people to buy a new one every time they conk out.
#4 screwed up in a new way. I think it was overheating, 'cause we'd put in 12 cups of water and end up with the water gone and 8 cups of coffee - lots of steam. Also, the little chingadera valve that cuts off the flow when you remove the coffeepot quit working - coffee on the countertop.
Mr. Coffee #4: 4/7/10 to 9/18/10, R.I.P. You'll be missed.
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