shinzen wrote: Sat Nov 10, 2018 7:22 am
Gods man, are you grinding a pound a day? We go through a pound a week and have had our Capresso Burr Grinder for going on 10 years- outside of some basic maintenance, hasn't hiccuped.
Not quite. But we have a 14 cup pot and we usually drink that down plus another 10-12 cups.
I did kill one once 10-15 or more years ago when I ground 2 full pounds, one for us, one for a friend.
Cuisinart 14 cup drip coffee pots barely last 2 years, and I clean it with white vinegar every month, plus we keep it plugged into an appliance surge suppressor (yes there are SOME kinds of suppressors that are legal in NJ!
) which not only protects against surges, but brown-outs as well. If the voltage drops more than a little, it cuts power and won't come on until it's at a safe level for at least 3 minutes. And they STILL die! I now keep a spare in its box I haven't even opened! As long as CostCo stocks them, I'm OK.
As a backup, I have an old bullet-proof Hamilton-Beach that uses a mechanical clock (like an old fashioned clock radio), is 35 years old and still works...but doesn't make especially good coffee and never did--but it's drinkable. It's almond-colored--and yellowed even more over the years. It did die once, but that was a simple internal fuse I replaced, a $4 fix.
I have had several Braun coffee pots die on me over the years, at least 4 of them! Had a Mr. Coffee that the internal hoses just disintegrated after 3 or 4 years (back to the Hamilton Beach!)
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