Title: Good idea, poorly executed
Product review: A thermal carafe is a nice idea because it keeps the coffee hot without scorching it. But...(1) As others have reported, the handle does indeed come loose over time (about six months) and there seems to be no way to fix it. This is just inexcusable.(2) The timer feature would be a lot more useful if the clock did not reset itself randomly. It seems to be highly sensitive to power spikes, which cause the time *and* the programmed start time to reset. Too often this makes the coffeemaker start itself in the middle of the night instead of the morning, so you get a pot of 8-hour old coffee the next day.(3) The coffee drains through a complicated lid that you cannot really clean. I doubt the carafe will last much longer (the handle seems about ready to fall off completely) but if it did, accumulated gunk inside the lid would get pretty nasty over time.
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