Hamilton Beach 12-Cup Coffee Maker

The only thing this unit does successfully is aggravate it's user. Pros: - it can make water warm enough to eventually spew over grounds to make what can be considered a cup of "coffee" - the engineers who designed this have really nailed it when it comes to annoyance and inconvenience. Cons: - water is heated to just barely hot enough to brew coffee making for a somewhat kind of sort of hot coffee. - pot warmer .. well.. it sucks. It gets about two degrees colder than the sun which effectively burns the coffee to the bottom of the pot and then after that turns off in about 10 mins leaving a lovely warm/cold slurry that is just delightfully nauseating. - the grounds compartment lid only opens to about 89° perpendicular to the top which allows for the nice feature of knocking the coffee out of your hands when you fill the machine if not balanced just perfectly when loading grounds. If you have evolved to have three hands, this shouldn't be a problem for you. - the scale does not measure accurately. Jumps from 0 to 6 to 0 to 16 during fill. If you like guessing games and games of skill, you would consider this a plus. - water fill slot on the back is just wide enough to allow for expert level filling. If you don't aim just right, your counter will get a nice puddle on it. Maybe a pro if you like wet living conditions. I could go on but, seriously, just find another machine. I would return it but honestly, it would be more trouble to do so, I'll just take it out back and put it out of it's misery. Obviously this unit is suffering and should not be allowed to continue to live in such pain. UPDATE: Display faded to black. No longer useful.