Jim, i watched last night the recommendations of coffee pots that American Test Kitchen had on their program of yesterday morning. Interestingly enough I can answer your question. First, I've always heard that cream will naturally cool off the coffee when you pour it in, but with cream in the coffee, it will maintain the temperature (the temperature that the cream brought it to) longer than if there were no cream at all. But be that as it may, I brewed a pot of coffee (eyes shut early a.m.) and as after I poured my cream in it, it tasted a little too cool after I poured a little too much cream in it. So I stuck a thermometer in the coffee pot and it was 170. My cup was 140. The second cup the pot was still 170, and the proper amount of cream registered 143 and was just right.
Coffee makerbrewer 7754Perhaps a little more info would help; are you a coffee "fanatic" or just want a coffeemaker that doesn't die in a few months? The reason I ask...
The ATK tests were as I recall 3 different "Types" of coffee makers, but the only type that they recommended were two of the vacuum ones. The top recommendation was the Black & Decker Infuse (abt $70.) The temperature came out at 203; their recommendation for coffee coming out was 195-205. And the time to brew it was recommended at 4-6 minutes. Which is what they said was the length that coffee should be brewed for.
Quickly looking on the Black & Decker site, their coffee makers don't show the B&D Infuse. It looked like it had a greyish plastic top instead of glbutt. I wonder if the ATK program was an old one and B&D doesn't sell it anymore. I will look forther.
Coffee makerbrewer 7755Thank you for pointing out the need for clarification. I consider myself a "middle of the road" coffee drinker. I grind my own beans but am not obsess over types of beans or...
The other recommendation was a Bodum or Bodun brand of the same vacuum type. I'll have to look at it again to get the model. But the B&D was recommended over the Bodum-Bodun.
23 taste testers tasted 8 brands of supermarket coffee (1 brand included a Starbucks), Maxwell was least liked, Chock-a-Nuts they most liked and they didn't like Starbucks. But Mr. Willy-Nilly liked best the store-bought Starbucks. I don't know if it was beans, but I think it was. Also they said in the storebought coffee, it made no difference whether the coffee was alread ground or beans. Dee Dee
