On the left is a Cuisinart go-cup. Under the black lid is a yellow gizmo that is supposed to unscrew for cleaning. I can't get the yellow gizmo off. Between it and the black lid really yucky stuff has probably accumulated. When a person drinks from it liquid (usually coffee with cream) dribbles onto her shirt front. Out it goes.
On the right is a four-cup Cuisinart coffee maker. The stainless steel carafe had to be forcefully jammed in place under the pause valve, which has now broken. No one seems to be able to pour coffee from the carafe without dribbles falling all around the cup. The warming plate finish has bubbled up and charred and the warmer no longer functions. An inexpensive Mr. Coffee has this sleek-looking thing beat on all counts.
Maybe Cuisinart should have stuck with making food processors.
3 comments:
Amen, sista!
Here's my coffee pot rant. The 1980 Krups coffee maker was perfect. It had a very pourable insulated pot, a slow drip and made wonderful coffee and it lasted 25 years. The 2005 Krups coffee pot needs to be turned upside down to pour coffee. It makes coffee too fast. It is chrome and 50% bigger and, I think, ugly.
I, too, switched to a cheap four cup Black and Decker which is not perfect but better than the Krups.
I arrived home from Galveston to discover that our 5-month-old GE 5-cup coffeemaker had died. Fortunately it had a two-year warranty and I had saved the receipt, so we have another one. It makes great coffee and shuts off automatically, but the carafe curved handle is difficult to hold.
This calls to mind the Onion headline, "Virtually everything in apartment is broken."
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