The hot plate is very hot

The coffee comes out piping hot, the warm plate seems to keep it fairly warm (has multiple settings as well if you don't like it too hot), there's a cleaning reminder on it, bold and regular settings

Only complaint is the hot plate

Very easy to set for bold or regular strength coffee and the temperature of the warming plate

Now adding to all this, you can even set the warming plate at the bottom to three different temps.

If you want to keep it warm, you have to keep turning it on again, because the setting for how long you want to leave the warming plate on doesn't work.

All the adjustables; water hardness, warming plate temperature, brew strength (bold is really bold), and number of cups made.4

The warming plate has three temperatures.

Two, when it shuts off, you cannot just turn the hot plate back on to keep coffee warm

We love the diversified warm plate settings!

It has your choice of regular or bold brew and a hot plate temp of low, med or high

The coffee comes out piping hot, the warm plate seems to keep it fairly warm (has multiple settings as well if you don't like it too hot), there's a cleaning reminder on it, bold and regular settings

Additional features include boldness of coffee and hot plate temperature.

I had to pull a separate buffet warming plate, and have something extra to crowd up the counter-top.

You can set a time to brew, choose regular strength or bold and whether or not you want the warming plate on (which can be set for up to 5 hours).

The pot warmer hot plate doesn't get as warm as I

I was motivated to buy this particular maker as it has the warmer plate temperature setting

Only complaint is the hot plate

We like the option to make a stronger brew & to adjust the temp of the hot plate

It was a horrible horrible one but had to put up with it until the warmer plate started to peel off only after 3 yrs of use

There is however a small drip on the warming plate when the carafe is removed

Now 2 months, the heating element has failed, water and warming plate

I always wait until the coffee is ready all the way so I don't have to worry about damaging the warming plate with coffee drips

Can't seem to turn the warming plate only back on to keep the coffee warmer than usual (i.e. on weekends & holidays

It looks nice and works, but whenever I pull the carafe out, it drips on the hot plate

But it's looking pretty ugly now on that hot plate.

Adjustable heat plate - awesome!Easy to use!

(I do not think coffee which sat on a warming plate for 5 hours would be very good).

The warming plate has three temperatures, but we only use the highest one

On the plus side, the machine does make surprisingly hot coffee, but I have a feeling this is due to the warming plate heating it up during brewing rather than the brew temperature itself