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The coffee pot died. The element burned out or something

I am SO not surprised.

The $8.88 Walmart Special as it's known that Steph bought when she broke the pot on my other coffee maker. Two months ago.

Okay, so I've said this before...my coffee maker is not top of the line...but it was a decent coffee pot. When she said shed replace the one she broke, I thought she meant she'd buy a new pot for it. I'm sorry, but if you are replacing something of someone else's that you broke, you should try to replace it with something comparable unless another arrangement is discussed. If I'd have broken her coffee pot, I'd have tried to get the identical thing, or the closest thing to it.

No, I'm not aorry.

I'm going to contact the manufacture tomorrow and see what sort of warranty it has. We stil have the original packaging so maybe I can get it fixed or something. Eitehr way, I found the part number for a replacement pot for the Mr. Coffee. Yay! I love that coffee pot, and it uses basket filters (which we have enough to last a few years) not cone filters (We'vwe been using basket filters with the W.M.S. cause there are soooo many of them.

Oh the angst, oh the drama.

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[needa.livejournal.com]

This is a tragedy. I admit, my coffee pot is in sad shape - it started leaking water from the reservoir recently, I need to replace it. But not to have any coffee pot at all! Oh, the humanity!

Now, if I can just remember to roast coffee tonight for tomorrow....

[fuego.livejournal.com]

we have a french press and a percolator..if i were to get REALLY desperate between now and tomorrow, something could be done. worst case scenario, i could run around the corner to XS...hehe...but I'm not a caffeine addict, so its not THAT big a deal. I'm just pissed off about a 2-month-old coffee pot going 'splody

[mmc327.livejournal.com]

You know where I work, so therefore you can assume my opinion of Wal Mart. Anyhow, no matter where you shop, there are great deals and then there are bad deals. I personally think spending less than $30 for a coffee pot is asking for trouble. I think a $9 coffee pot is cheap. Not inexpensive, cheap. The fact that it lasted 2 months proves that point. We sell cofee pots for that price too and I wonder why people buy them. Coffee's not all that cheap and if you're drinking it every day, why not fork over a few more dollars for something you know is more likely to last for years?

[fuego.livejournal.com]

the Mr. Coffee is a good one and is in perfect working order, it just needs a pot.. and it was like 50 or 60 dollars when my stepfather bought it for my mom, she gave it to me when I moved to MD. It's not fancy, no bels or whistes, but damn, I really like that coffee pot. a replacement pot for the machine will be about $12. no biggie. but it was my ex-roommate who bought the Wal Mart Wonder when she broke Mr Coffee. I wouldn't have been nearly as upset if mine had been one of those to begin with

[mmc327.livejournal.com]

Oh. The infamous ex roommate.

[fuego.livejournal.com]

yes...her...she who still owes us for electric bills.

[tomatoe333.livejournal.com]

If it's a standard 12-cup Mr. Coffee, you can get a replacement carafe at WalMart or Target. They're a fairly standard size, and there are ever aftermarket carafes that'll fit.

I've got a spare around here somewhere from Kari's old coffeepot that bit the dust at her old apartment. I think I paid more for that carafe when I broke her old one than I paid for the coffeemaker ($3 at a garage sale!).

[fuego.livejournal.com]

yeah...it is. i double-checked the mr. coffee website for the part number to be sure. my roommate says shes going to try to pick one up tmorrow when she has to do some shopping

[needa.livejournal.com]

Actually... I'd have to disagree. I'm with Scotty: The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain. The most troublesome coffee maker I ever owned was the most expensive by far - more than double the cost of any other. The best was one of the cheapest, about $10. It lost a foot along the way so I prop it with a couple of pennies, but it never has a problem, and there's nothing to go wrong.

My only complaint is that I hate heating plates for coffee. Once it's brewed, get it off the damn plate so the flavor doesn't erode! I've debated spending the money for another good one that has no heating plate and just uses better insulation on the carafe.

I'm sure other people's mileages vary.

[mmc327.livejournal.com]

Granted, I don't drink coffee but the less expensive ones have to work well for someone or they wouldn't sell them.
Then again, I don't always go with more expensive stuff. I sleep on the least expensive sheets I could find. But they matched the bedspread I bought so that's why I chose those.
With appliances, it just depends on how many functions you want. My parents have this really fancy coffee maker because they like to buy the whole bean packages, so they have a coffee maker that can grind the beans before making the coffee. Plus they don't like to wait for their coffee after they wake up, so they have a coffee maker with a timer so it's ready for them when they wake up, provided they fill it before going to bed.

[needa.livejournal.com]

That's exactly the sort of one I meant, with the expensive coffee maker. The problem is, the grinder would clog, or fail to grind all the beans because they'd lodge on the way down. I had cases where the water would back up in the filter hopper and overflow into the grinder. It had a tiimer option, but I never dared to use it for fear it would screw up! I only dared to run it while watching everything it did. Finally, the tubes for the water were so small that they rapidly clogged with mineral deposits. I needed to run vinegar through that pot more than all others I've ever owned combined.

To sum up: too many points of failure. In a $100+ coffee maker, the performance was just unacceptable.

Now, I don't object to quality components, of course. But I've learned my lesson. Simpler is always better. However, in a simple coffee maker, I've never had any problems. There just isn't enough to go wrong, even in a cheap one! My Wal*Mart special is still running after 2 years with nary a hiccup; the small one I use for my solo morning brew is finally leaking a bit after 10 years. Maybe I've just never been bitten, eh?

[mmc327.livejournal.com]

Hey, if it works for you, then that's fine. My parents haven't had problems with theirs so it works for them. They have to clean it like you described, but they feel it's worth it. Simpler may always be better for you, but it's not always better for everyone.

[fuego.livejournal.com]

i have a separate coffee grinder.

[fuego.livejournal.com]

Mr. Coffee is not more fancy han the Wal-Mart Wonder...it's just obviously much better made- you can see it to look at the two, the plastic on the Mr. Coffee is much sturdier...and it's been working for um...5 years now? As opposed to 2 months. And it's MUCH less noisy. Also, Mumsie gave it to me, so I'd rather use that one.