Cuisinart Premium Single Serve Brewer

Arrived timely. Was well packaged. I set it up for use carefully following instructions. When closing the lid to the brew chamber the ready light would not come on. After 45 minutes of fiddling and reviewing instructions I could finally get the ready light to come on by flipping the lid up and down several times. This the only way the ready light will come on. The brew chamber lid catches, binds is stiff and makes ratcheting noises. It will fail or break in near future. Water filter holder makes no contact with the orifice pulling the water through; in fact there is about 1/4 inch or more of space between them. Hence the filter is useless. The prongs guiding the filter holder are too close together to allow the filter to make contact. The filter holder catch failed after opening and closing 5 times, also one of the plastic bars to hold the filter in place would rest on the water intake even if the filter holder could reach the water intake it would not seal because of the space the plastic bar creates. Coffee has terrible plastic taste that won't go away. Can't fit regular mugs under brew chamber even with the drip pan removed like my Keurig. No blue water level light in water reservoir. Extra hot water setting not very hot. Have to reheat in microwave after brewing. It heats water instantaneously but dribbles out so slowly that its no faster than a regular coffee maker. No blue water level light. It is a cheaply made, poorly designed plastic Chinese product. I would be ashamed to sell such a piece of junk under the Kitchen Aid name. This will be the last Kitchen Aid product I buy. In fact this is the last coffee maker of this type I will ever buy. Even Keurig has gone too cheap.