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Title: Poor performance plus bad design
Review: I tried for a month to like this coffee maker, pre-heating the pot, etc. But the brutal truth is that the water just isn't as hot as it should be from the start. The cup you pour right after brewing is just barely hot enough, and it's downhill from there.Then, just as I was getting ready to give up anyway, the carafe started leaking at the seam between the stainless part and the plastic upper part that supports the handle and lid. I investigated and discovered a piece of really poor engineering, where a sharp rim of the stainless is forced against a very thin soft gasket in a way pretty much guaranteed to cut through it, after which you get little leaks that create stains on the side of the pot and, on especially good days, manage to dump enough of your freshly-brewing coffee on the counter to make a real mess.Forget it. This is a piece of junk. (Sad too, since some other Mr. Coffee makers have been favorites of mine.)
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