BraunKF6050WH BrewSense Drip Coffee Maker, White

Great unit for the money. I'm very pleased with it.The only very minor complaint I have is the on/off LED begins a slow flashing sequence when pressed to indicated the coffee making cycle is active. On several occasions I've pressed the start button, and noticing the LED was not lit (it had begun its slow flashing sequence) I thought it hadn't started, so I pressed it a second time (inadvertently turning it off), walked away and came back to no coffee.

I bought this Braun coffee maker in September 2018. I use it every day and it's still working perfectly. It makes good coffee which stays hot for a long time. I've gone through a number of coffee makers over the years, all makes and models, and this has been the best one by far. My only quibble is, after 5 years, the letters on some of the buttons had worn off so I had to dig out the manual to change the time, and the water can dribble if you don't pour it in slowly at first, but these are minor issues.

Best coffeemaker I’ve had in every respect, except that, like every one I’ve ever had, it has a coated or painted warming plate that will soon start to shed its finish and rust. I bought the one shown in my photos from Amazon just over two years ago. (The black flecks lying around the plate in one of the photos are bits of coating that came off when I last wiped it.) And the municipal tapwater I use both to brew with and to clean it is soft, lake water, and home-filtered for extra purity to boot.Over the years I’ve owned several Braun coffeemakers (and several of other brands), all bought new, and seen the warming plate coating on every single one begin to flake off within a year, allowing the plate to start rusting. In fact, that seems to be so of every drip coffeemaker I’ve ever seen; if it’s been in use for a while, its warming plate will be discolored with rust, no matter how clean it’s kept. Presumably, underneath the plates’ coating on all these machines there has been plain carbon steel.Yet, Braun uses stainless steel for much of this machine’s exterior—so far as I can tell, ferritic stainless for the sides and austenitic for the top. Why doesn’t it make the warming plate out of austenitic stainless too? Presumably, the plate is cut and formed from a sheet and doesn’t undergo much fabrication, and austenitic steel, after all, is freely available in sheet form. With its high chrome content, such a warming plate would probably stay free of rust under most conditions a home kitchen coffeemaker faces, at only a slightly higher total build cost.If it wished, Braun could still coat stainless warming plates the same as it does plain steel ones. Better, though, that it not do so, since that coating inevitably peels off in time, and in many cases it wouldn’t even have to bother, since this and many of its other coffeemaker models have stainless steel exteriors anyway. The same goes for other manufacturers’ coffeemakers. And, if austenitic steel won’t do the job, then duplex or, better, super duplex stainless are also sold in sheets, and they resist corrosion exceptionally well. Using either of them would still probably raise the whole machine’s marginal cost only modestly. But Braun and the other companies don’t do it. Haven’t they learned their lesson yet?I have long wondered about this, especially since stainless steel has become so common on household appliances and kitchen goods. After all, pots and pans, cooling racks, baking sheets, the liners of clothes washing and dishwashing machines, and the bodies of refrigerators, stoves, dishwashers, microwave ovens, range hoods, and so forth are today many or most of them made of stainless. Broil King, known for its gas grills, even makes a 300-watt food warming tray with a stainless surface. But coffeemaker warming plates languish in carbon steel instead, and they rust.Again, I don’t want to single Braun out for this shortcoming, which seems to be universal. It’s not just a matter of looks, either, for a rusty warming plate is said to transfer heat inefficiently. It’s unlikely that making the plate out of stainless instead of carbon steel would cause that same problem of reduced heat transfer, since there are many stainless teakettles. At least commercial coffeemakers, like Bunn’s, seem to have warming plates that are replaceable, but why should anyone have to replace the plate in the first place unless its electric coil fails? It’s as if the manufacturers are all trying to drive their customers to buy a new coffeemaker every couple of years, rather than accept one with unsightly patches of rust on its base.So, Braun, a market leader in quality coffeemaker design, ought to follow the model of, say, Apple, where Steve Jobs set the industry standard for smartphone manufacture at its outset when, knowing how easily plastic scuffs and scratches, he defied his subordinates to demand that Apple’s phone screens be made of glass. Other manufacturers followed suit with their own phones, and we’re all better off for it.Appliances, after all, ought to be built to last, and Braun knows that, because it’s designed this otherwise-excellent machine to signal the user for periodic cleaning cycles. Let Braun take the lead here and build their coffeemakers with an eye to durability in all respects. I love this one otherwise and expect to use it for many years. But the warming plate should not rust!

I was looking for a basic old school coffee pot and chose this one after much research. I love it! I am a former barista who both loves drinking and making coffee. This means I also have just about every method for brewing coffee at home. Drip coffee isn’t my favorite method of brewing coffee, at least not if I’m going for the best flavor and brew. However, I drink a few cups each morning and I got tired of the time consuming rituals of some brew methods. I decided to get a coffee pot so that I could have a full pot of coffee without too much fuss. The taste from this pot is good, never burnt. I like the simplicity of the operation of it, while also having a programmable option. If you are looking for a dependable coffee pot that makes good coffee and reminds you of coffee brewing in the morning when you were a kid, then this is the best me for you. I love it.