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This isn't about cooking, exactly. It's about my love/hate relationship with my Krupps coffee maker. Now, it should be understood that Krupps manufactured the ovens that killed my ancestors... and they make a damn fine coffee maker...
Now, I KNOW my coffee maker knows that I'm a Jew. It has been burning me ever since I got it... but it makes a damn fine cup of coffee. Did I mention that I live in Seattle? We take our coffee very seriously here. I guess cause there's nothing to do when it rains except drink coffee.
But, back to my Jew hating coffee maker... Sometimes it'll stop keeping the coffee warm. It does this especially when it knows that I want another cup. I think I mentioned what a fine cup of coffee it produces, when it isn't screwing with me...
Should I get rid of it? I kinda like whacking it. Makes me feel like I'm whacking some of those German a-holes...
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Obviously the heater element for the burner plate went kaput or the wiring went. If you can still get it to produce piping hot coffee, buy yourself a nice Thermos and put your freshly brewed java in that. I do that myself as I hate to waste electricity keeping the coffee warm. Also, keeping it in a thermos (preferably a Stanley steel guts model) keeps it from getting stale as coffee has a tendency to get old real quick if exposed to the air. My Stanley keeps my coffee piping hot for many happy hours after being brewed. Don't bother with the pre-heating of the thermos. I tried both ways - no preheating and preheating and I found that if I pour the freshly brewed coffee within the first few minutes of being run through the unit the coffee stays just as hot as if I preheated the thermos.
Yeah, keep the naughty machine until it totally stops brewing. If I was closer to Seattle I would volunteer my fixit sonny to take it apart and do a proper diagnostic of the innards of your Krupp to see just what went kaput. He's successfully repaired our Mr. Coffee machines that usually go tits-up in the first year. He has all the proper special screwdrivers, etc. to open them. So you could say he's a seasoned expert coffee machine repairdude.
I have a Krups. I've never bought anything but Krups. My mother is a survivor and she's the one who told me to buy Krups.
My love/hate relationship with my machine is because of the cup indicator on the side. It's a clear plastic tube with numbers marked on the inside. If you pour the water in too fast (more than a trickle) it'll develop a bubble and you don't know exactly how much water you have in there unless you start tapping the tube to get the bubbles out. The problem is that if you tap it too hard you dislodge the tube a bit and you find a little puddle of water under the machine when the coffee is done. ggrrrr
As for your problem...my machine has an automatic shutoff that can be set for 1 to 4 hours. Is it possible that you have an auto shutoff and it's set to shut off too soon?
Excon: Dahlia has it right! A cuisinart Automatic with the bean grinder , filter in the water tank, and stailess steel thermal pot. Keeps coffee hot and fresh all day. Maybe Krupps has one with those features. Go shopping online and see. I got mine at penny'si
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