I follow the directions to first heat the carafe with hot water, which renders the automatic / timer feature obsolete

We've been putting hot water in the carafe to warm it before starting the coffee.

And you are supposed to use cold water in the machine-

Does not keep coffee hot for more than an hour even when hot water in it before brewing coffee.

One hint: if you use the pot to add fresh water, make sure the lid is on or it not all go into the reservoir

It does not keep the coffee warm, even if you follow the directions to pre-heat it by filling it with hot water.

seems to disperse the water all over the grounds instead of just dumping it straight down, does not put out a bunch of steam out the back like my previous Mr. Coffee did, and I love how the coffee will stay nice and hot for several hours before it starts to cool down very slightly

With the first one we noticed that sometimes water would pool in the filter area and not drain occasionally

Wasted water every morning

Only downside is you need to rinse the carafe in hot water before brewing to keep the coffee hot.

Unfortunately you are advised to heat the carafe with hot water before brewing....which I can’t do while asleep

Even if it is pre-warmed with hot tap water as instructed, a half hour later it's time to use the microwave

You also need to pre-fill it will hot water if you actually want it to keep the coffee really hot to start

We have well water that is pretty hard with minerals so the machine will shut off indicating that it is time to clean it

If you like super strong coffee Use less water to make it stronger

Dump out the hot water

I was a little disappointed to find there wasn’t a heating element under the pot and annoyed at the suggestion that I should fill the canister with hot water prior to brewing it if I wanted the coffee to stay hot

Perhaps the basket is the wrong size as the water over flows the grounds.

The water in the basket doesn't drain very good either which lets the grounds over flow

Sure enough, the water was leaking from the reservoir

Preheat the carafe with hot water from the tap, let that sit while you prep the machine

There is a suggestion, in the manual, to prefill the pot with hot water from the tap and let it sit while you are getting the filters and the grounds, and filling with cold water.

Maybe the water is not as hot

Yes, I stood at the sink running scalding hot water in the carafe before brewing it and then ran at the speed of light (hi, Albert) to start the brewing

I didn’t understand the recommendation of filling the carafe with hot water before

The instructions state to fill the carafe with hot water first, but once brewed is still lukewarm at best

All of the above was true until I moved and, unfortunately, ended up with rather hard water

We followed all the directions, including the part where they want you to rinse the carafe with hot water to "warm" it up

The instructions recommend that the pot be rinsed with hot water before brewing but that is not feasible when the timer is set to have coffee ready when we wake up.

every time I use it it spills water and ground coffee out and so much grounds inside

Does not keep coffee hotHave to heat up water and warm the pot first to keep it hot.

You literally have to waste hot water to heat up the carafe before brewing but that does not guarantee hot coffee.

If you heat up the kraft with just sink hot water let it sit until you fill up your coffee grounds

Disappointing product the coffee was always just warm even if you filled the carafe with hot water before making the coffee

I pour the boiling hot water into the carafe4

The instructions on the carafe call for filling it with hot water prior to making the coffee in order to keep the thermos warm longer and discarding the water.

Sure they recommend filling the carafe first with hot water to help keep brewed coffee hot but that doesn’t do you any good it you’re programming to automatically brew each morning

Instructions say to warm the carafe with hot water

there is no heating pad under carafe and one is instructed to warm up carafe by filling with hot water before starting the coffee making.

Possibly some kind of clogging issue, or the water is going to fast in to the ground and not pouring it out as quickly

Took it out of the box and large sticker on the carafe saying "must fill with hot water to heat

I can tell you I wish I had a movie of myself standing there pouring hot water in the carafe so that I’d have some hot coffee for more than a half hour

This one has served me well, though I probably should have replaced it about 6 months ago when it became clear that it wasn't heating the water as hot as it used to, and therefore the carafe wasn't keeping it hot for as long as it used to

The water gets so hot that it burns the beans and makes a nasty, bitter brew of boot leather that quickly gets more bitter as it sits

I do not fill it up with hot water like it suggests

They want you to preheat the carafe with hot water... might as well get a pour over if you have to heat water anyway!

You will need to steep the carafe with hot water before making coffee.

We have very hard water at our

After 10 days of struggling since receipt of this coffee maker, I have yet to get the "carafe" to stay hot by following instructions to heat the thing up with hot water prior to brewing as it has no bottom heating element

Despite heating the carafe with hot water it still doesn’t maintain a decent temp for very long

Im left with with semi warm coffee and water in the water holder.

If you want it to stay like warm you have to first fill the carafe with hot water

well, this is our 4th one of these in less than 3 years, great coffee pot and works good except when you have hard water, we are lucky to get thru 7 months with one, even cleaning often won't help, then after 5 months the carafe quits keeping the coffee hot as well, but in our rv they work great since we drink about a pot in the am and another at nite, they take up less power since after it is done brewing it shuts off and metal carafe keeps it warm, just sad they don't last longer and price keeps going up

The carafe does not keep coffee warm for even hour, even when preconditioned with very hot water.

If you preheat the carafe with hot water it keeps the coffee hot for about an hour

It doesn't boil the water.

Simple, put in clean water, add grinds, and push button

Keeps it hot for at least 3 hours, especially if you swirl hot water in the carafe before starting coffee

You literally have to waste hot water to heat up the carafe before brewing but that does not guarantee hot coffee.

If you heat up the kraft with just sink hot water let it sit until you fill up your coffee grounds

It ran, I dumped the water, filled again to rinse & it never worked again.

Makes very weak coffee.taste like hot water even when brewed on strongest setting.

Use cold water to make the coffee

The instructions DO say to heat the stainless steel by filling it with hot water and dumping it, but who has time for that

I pour out hot water into coffee cups to warm them8

The second problem is to keep the carafe warm, as there is no warming plate, you have to fill and dump an entire carafe of hot water out every day to warm it up.

Instructions say to warm up the carafe with hot water first

so I don't waste water or have to fill pot twice to get it to the right number of cups.

The last two were ruined by our hard water

Fresh grinds, cool filtered water, fill and go - great coffee in minutes!A hot tip: once the coffee is done brewing, remove it from the brewing position.

With an empty carafe, put the lid on the carafe and run cold water onto the top of the carafe.

so it can leak trailing water or coffee down the side of the pot

I heat up the pot ahead of time with hot water, but I still find the coffee doesn't stay long more than an hour.

Not to mention having to spend time "heating" the pot with hot water before you even can make the coffee

you warm it yourself with hot water before the coffee is brewed from the tap.and the only way to empty the carafe is to take the lid completely off to pour our all the coffee

I gave this 3 stars just because of having to fill the pot with hot water and then empty to keep your coffee warm

You are suppose to run hot water in it before you start it

There is a suggestion, in the manual, to prefill the pot with hot water from the tap and let it sit while you are getting the filters and the grounds, and filling with cold water.

In order to keep my coffee hot, I have to fill it with hot water first

With that said, I LIKE that you can choose 3 brewing strengths, I like that it is simple to operate, puts out very hot water, is a tad slow, but works

The water doesn’t get hot enough

Two rinses with a vinegar/water mix (1 cup vinegar to a full carafe) and then a couple of cycles with fresh water and it is as good as new.

Same exact issue with both of them, only 1/3 of the pot brews when there’s enough water for a full pot

Not convenient, you have to heat the carafe with hot water before using the machine

At first I thought it was carelessness in pouring the water into the chamber, but I finally figured out that water is somehow leaking from the chamber during the brewing process

Heating the container with hot water prior does not really help

there is no sense having a programmable coffee pot if you have to add hot water because by the morning time to brew, it’s cold.

Dump out the hot water

Even filling pot with hot water and emptying before brewing does not help make coffee hot.

Keeps the coffee hot for a few hours even without warming the carafe with hot water prior to brewing coffee

You should heat up the inside of the pot with hot water before brewing, if you want it to stay hot.

If you have time to run hot water in the pot and add hot water when your ready to use it great

Giving it 4 stars because the carafe keeps the coffee warm all day if you warm it up with hot water right before brewing.

Rinse pot with hot water prior to brewing for an even longer hot time

Need to heat up the carafe with some hot water to keep the coffee really hot

If you use hot water to heat carafe prior to brewing, the coffee or tea stays hot for several hours without a heated plate!!

They even include a sticker on the carafe instructing the user to fill it with HOT water immediately before brewing to warm it up so the brewed coffee would stay hotter for a longer period.

Waste of hot water.

Just be sure to fill the pot with very hot water before brewing to keep the pot hot.

water leaked out the bottom of pot after 3 uses.

Wasting water and electricity trying to get hot coffee

I place water in (STRONG) microwave to boil for 5 mins2

The lid traps the water.

it does suggest running hot water in the carafe to pre warm, this helps keep it hot.

That seems awfully wasteful of fresh water.

The instructions say to fill carafe with hot water first to help keep warm

You can demonstrate both of these easily with cold water.

Before brewing the first pot of coffee, I followed the instructions and ran a couple of cycles with just clean water, but the taste was still so terrible, the first pot was undrinkable

pour hot water into the carafe3

This product was poorly described and no mention of not having hot plate to keep coffee warm and needing to preheat thermos with hot water prior to making coffee

On cooler mornings pre-heating with hot water helps coffee stay hotter longer.

If you pour very hot water into the carafe, to preheat it, it keeps it hotterI would not buy this again

However after using the clean cycle using 1st vinegar and water, then lemon juice and water and then clear water, this morning the coffee was good.

Again, put the lid on the carafe and run cold water over the lid to simulate filling the pot.

How ridiculous to become a French Coffee Press as you can run that hot water at the sink over grounds into a filter and have coffee just as easily

I have hard water, and I go through coffee makers quite often

However, you really need to run hot water in the carafe before hand to pre-warm it, otherwise the coffee loses some of its heat after 45 minutes.

empty hot water out of carafe WITHIN 20 SECONDS of starting coffee maker6

Warming the carafe with hot water before brewing helps

Someone suggested putting hot water in the carafe before brewing, but if you are using the scheduled brewing you are not going to get up to prep your coffee pot before it brews

The thermos looks impressive, however even when I put hot water in the thermos to warm it up before brewing the coffee gets luke warm too quickly for my taste

The instructions say to run hot water through it first, which I

my coffee makers as suggested; and have relatively soft mineral free water.

Use hot water for most days

Ever since I have had to clean up water

I have tried pre-warming the carafe with hot tap water and even tried boiling water.

You WILL WASTE COFFEE with this device IF you do as is suggested in the manual by filling the carafe with hot water PRIOR to starting the coffee maker

Even when taking the time to fill the carafe with hot water in preparation for keeping the coffee warm just like the instruction manual states) this "insulated" carafe only managed to keep my coffee warm for an hour or so

The instructions suggest that you preheat the pot by first filling it with hot water.

As in, you pushed the button to start, but no hot water comes out.

I am so tired of making coffee by hand: Nuke the water for 4 minutes, place a filter in a Merita holder, dump in some ground coffee, set it all on an open flask

When you run hot tap water in the carafe before brewing, the coffee stays hot for a reasonable period of time.

I realize I'm told that by putting hot water into the carafe before brewing, the carafe will keep the coffee warmer longer but who is realistically going to go that trouble?

It has all sorts of internal areas that fill up with coffee and about all you can do is soak it in dishwashing liquid and run very hot water all through it, until you no longer see coffee colored water rinsing out

Rinsing with hot water first helps keep coffee hot longer.

After less than three weeks,the coffee is not working; the hot water is not going through the plastic tubes.

so you have to add hot water.

I just didn’t realize you had to put hot water in the pot and let it sit while you fill the coffeemaker up so the coffee will stay hot

The carafe really keeps the coffee warm for a very long time (you do have to remember to rinse it first with warm water)

But if you fill the Carafe with Hot water before you make the coffee, and rinse it out the coffee will stay hot longer

so you have to fill the carafe with hot water, put the lid on, & let the carafe sit for at least 10 to 15 minutes before pouring water into the machine

You are expected to pre-heat the carafe by filling the carafe with hot water

I find warming the carafe with hot water, after filling the reservoir, makes a difference in keeping the coffee warm longer, but still not for nearly as long as my glass lined coffee carafe.

The trick is to fill the carafe with HOT water (and empty it) before placing it under the drip mechanism.

Even heating the pot with hot water the coffee doesn't stay hot for long.

However after using the clean cycle using 1st vinegar and water, then lemon juice and water and then clear water, this morning the coffee was good.

The reservoir is cracked all the way down the front and water went everywhere when running the water through to clean it

Instructions said to wash with soap and water before use, which I did, as well as multiple plain water rinses.

I'm returning it, though, because: the water is a pain to fill

Even when you soak the thermal carafe in hot water the coffee doesn’t stay hot

Maybe a heat tank up top that drips hot water without it having to be brought to boiling

but even though we heat our cups with water from our 'instant hot' water before pouring the coffe..., the coffee did not stay hot

My critiques would be: difficulty adding water from the craffee

I should have known that when the carafe came with a sticker that said to heat the carafe with hot water before brewing that it was a bad sign.

I love the steel carafe as it will not break if you accidentally bump something.

Coffee flavor was not as good as with my old pot, but more coffee helps

Terrible leaking from the carafe evry time you pour as well as from the maker itself whenever you remove the pot

n’t overcook the coffee for a burnt taste but the pot leaks around the lid when you pour it

n’t say enough how much I love it