☕ Hamilton Beach 12 Cup Programmable Coffee Maker with Glass Carafe in Black (Model 46895) Review

This is my third. The first pot was eaten up by the coffee and I couldn't clean it. I usually just wash the pans, but over time the pan has become unusable. The second pot warmer is rusty, which could cause a fire. So I bought the 3rd because I really like the heated pot with no burner. All coffee shops have crappy alcohol that spills, but the coffee brews quickly. Black and Decker is better and I will buy it next time.

Lasted 10 months and my Assurant Extended Protection Plan won't work until the HB warranty expires. HB will ask me to pay shipping both ways, which is almost certainly pretty close to the original $29 purchase price. I wish it was two more months so I didn't have to deal with HB, but at the same time I'm glad he's gone. The glowing screen blocks out the entire kitchen at night, and from the side, the TV in the room seems to be on. When I finally started turning it on the wall at night, it lit…

We like it. There are flaws, but for us they are not critical. The carafe keeps coffee hot for hours and we love the strength settings. Our only complaint, and this has been commented on in other reviews, is the clock. We never used the timer on our 4 cup kettle. Cooked up pretty quickly. We bought it because we knew the clock could be an issue. That. The watch takes into account that there are only 49 seconds in a minute, I think in China time passes unnoticed. With a longer 10-cup brew time…

Read reviews about the clock not showing the correct time on this coffee maker. They were a year old so I thought the problem was already solved. I felt like an idiot when the time was wrong an hour after turning it on. This company knowingly supplies a defective product. I had an old version of this coffee maker when it was called the Melitta. It was a great coffee maker. I would like to try to fix the clock issue, but there is a bigger problem with this product. When I first opened the lid to

I think it's time to write a review as my pan is dead. I would give 3.5 stars if I could. I loved having a thermal carafe. The coffee was hot. It could have been a little hotter. The decanter kept it hot for 2-3 hours. Our watch was losing time as other reviews said so we were unable to program coffee for the next morning. Somewhere the carafe drew water, so that after pouring there were always a few unsightly blackish drops on the table. What proved to be the ultimate downfall was that the pot

Bought at the end of 2018 but did not test it right away as I wanted to see how it works over time. So, my review after a few years. This coffee maker does what it is supposed to do. It makes delicious coffee. Here the pluses end. Cons: 1 - The clock stopped working after about 6 months, so the program function is useless. I try to reinstall it from time to time and it works for a couple of weeks and then crashes again. 2 - The auto pause function does not work. Take out the pot while it's…

I spent a week looking for coffee makers before settling on this one. Before that we exclusively used Keurig makers, but I know the quality of Keurig has really gone down since our first pair of makers. When our last Keurig broke, I decided to go back to the "plain old" coffee maker and buy a separate thermos to store anything we don't drink right away. This turned out to be a great idea. The reason I haven't bought a coffee maker that brews in a carafe is because in my experience with carafes…

Let me start with a little observation/snark. All filter coffee machines are essentially the same. I've tried about a dozen over the years, ranging from expensive to cheap, and it finally dawned on me that all of these things heat water to over 200 degrees and then drip it onto the coffee grounds. That's all. There is nothing more to see here. The only potential problem may be that the water pressure isn't evenly distributing the water over the coffee grounds. Once that minimum requirement is…

Just got this yesterday and made about 6 cups of coffee. I have another Hamilton Beach coffee maker that we use for my wife's decaf and I was given it to make either semi-caffeinated or caffeinated French Roast coffee. This one brews about 10 degrees colder (185 versus 195 degrees) but if you use the Strong setting the coffee is really tasty. The first cup of coffee from the thermos is relatively hot, the others "very warm". It's not a problem for me because I just blow it up afterwards. But as