Review on Ninja CM407 Specialty Fold-Away Single Serve To 10 Cup (50 Oz.) Coffee Maker Frother by Jake Larson

The thermal carafe version does not have any active heating. If your household drinks all its coffee within an hour or so, or doesn't use any cold milk/cream, then you're probably ok. At my house, we sip the pot for hours, then make more and keep sipping. The coffee gets cooler than I'd like to drink after about 90 minutes (although still hot enough if you take it black).The other problem with the thermal carafe is that there is no way by just looking at it to know if it's empty or not. and since it's easier in my house to pop the reservoir off to fill, rather than using the carafe to fill with water (as with most other coffee makers), I have wound up setting the thing to make a full pot, with a carafe that already has 1/3 of a pot in it. The thing overflows and makes a huge mess. It's happened several times (I know, I'm dumb), but it's an easy mistake to make when you just woke up, you're nearly late for work, and the kids are screaming. You have to consciously remember to dump any residual coffee from before.As for the flavor of the coffee: I use the rich setting with a paper filter (remember to fold down the pressed seam edges to get a better fit in the basket to prevent grounds from spilling over and getting in your coffee.) It is at least as good on this setting as my old coffee maker that cost several hundred dollars and billed itself as a "pour over" brewer. Very bold and well-steeped.Haven't really used the specialty drink features. Seems like a lot of work.I have brewed single cups with this, and it works well. The included scoop correlates with 2 cups worth of grounds on my coffee maker exactly, so I can pretty easily grind just the right amount of coffee. Depending on your grinder, though, it might not be easy to use the scoop to measure.I'm gonna be honest. the manufacturer touts the "off switch" on the side of the filter basket, and it would be good, with some improvement. The idea is that, if you want to take the carafe out before brewing is done, you flip the switch, and it seals off the filter basket flow so you don't spill. The additional cool feature is that it stops the whole brewing process so no more water is boiled over. That's kind of a neat feature to prevent filter basket overflows if you get distracted in such a situation and forget to put it back and flip the switch back.Only problem is that there isn't any indicator of which position the switch is in other than a pictographic sticker over the switch that honestly could be interpreted differently by different people. Obviously there is an electronic switch that gets flipped because the brewing process is electronically halted. There should be a light that indicates "brewing" or "not brewing" or something like that. If you forget to turn it back, your wife will go to make a pot the next morning, and the thing will light up, but nothing will happen. Unless she is an awesome gadget troubleshooter before her first cup of coffee in the morning while the kids are screaming, she's not gonna figure it out, and she's gonna get really mad at you, and you're getting divorced. Say goodbye to half your stuff.