Braun KF6050WH BrewSense Drip Coffee Maker, White

Makes a nice hot pot of coffee. You can program the warmer for up to 5 hours which is great at our home as we get up at different times. Easy to set up. Easy to clean. No drips of coffee from the pot and an easy to clean pot lid. Looks nice on the counter and fits under cabinet. Very pleased so far.

Originally purchased in 2020 and it finally bit the dust after nearly five years of daily use (twice a day as we work remotely). Quickly repurchased as we’ve never had a coffeemaker last that long! Was always dependable. Easy to use and clean. Compact and minimalist aesthetic. Brewed great cups of coffee. If you’re comparing this to other machines, this is THE one ☕️

Makes hot coffee fast! Looks nice on the counter. Comes with golden coffee filter, nice addition. It has a cord hider in the back. The clock light doesn't light up, that's dissapointing, and no signal for when coffee finished. These are two things I usually like. But all in all a nice coffee maker, so far.

First off: the flavour of coffee is amazing from this maker and just as good as a pour-over. The mouth-feel of the coffee is completely different using the gold toned filter: smooth and rich. One slight negative is that the gold tone filter makes a mess in the sink after cleaning. After shaking the used grounds into the compost, there is still a lot of residue that ends up in the sink after washing out. Also the lid of the pot is a little delicate; it comes off accidentally sometimes and needs to be snapped back in. One design oversight: the led clock display is not backlit which makes it impossible to read if you're looking down on it, i.e. most of the time.

Best coffeemaker I’ve had in every respect, except that, like every one I’ve ever had, it has a coated or painted warming plate that will soon start to shed its finish and rust. I bought the one shown in my photos from Amazon just over two years ago. (The black flecks lying around the plate in one of the photos are bits of coating that came off when I last wiped it.) And the municipal tapwater I use both to brew with and to clean it is soft, lake water, and home-filtered for extra purity to boot. Over the years I’ve owned several Braun coffeemakers (and several of other brands), all bought new, and seen the warming plate coating on every single one begin to flake off within a year, allowing the plate to start rusting. In fact, that seems to be so of every drip coffeemaker I’ve ever seen; if it’s been in use for a while, its warming plate will be discolored with rust, no matter how clean it’s kept. Presumably, underneath the plates’ coating on all these machines there has been plain carbon steel. Yet, Braun uses stainless steel for much of this machine’s exterior—so far as I can tell, ferritic stainless for the sides and austenitic for the top. Why doesn’t it make the warming plate out of austenitic stainless too? Presumably, the plate is cut and formed from a sheet and doesn’t undergo much fabrication, and austenitic steel, after all, is freely available in sheet form. With its high chrome content, such a warming plate would probably stay free of rust under most conditions a home kitchen coffeemaker faces, at only a slightly higher total build cost. If it wished, Braun could still coat stainless warming plates the same as it does plain steel ones. Better, though, that it not do so, since that coating inevitably peels off in time, and in many cases it wouldn’t even have to bother, since this and many of its other coffeemaker models have stainless steel exteriors anyway. The same goes for other manufacturers’ coffeemakers. And, if austenitic steel won’t do the job, then duplex or, better, super duplex stainless are also sold in sheets, and they resist corrosion exceptionally well. Using either of them would still probably raise the whole machine’s marginal cost only modestly. But Braun and the other companies don’t do it. Haven’t they learned their lesson yet? I have long wondered about this, especially since stainless steel has become so common on household appliances and kitchen goods. After all, pots and pans, cooling racks, baking sheets, the liners of clothes washing and dishwashing machines, and the bodies of refrigerators, stoves, dishwashers, microwave ovens, range hoods, and so forth are today many or most of them made of stainless. Broil King, known for its gas grills, even makes a 300-watt food warming tray with a stainless surface. But coffeemaker warming plates languish in carbon steel instead, and they rust. Again, I don’t want to single Braun out for this shortcoming, which seems to be universal. It’s not just a matter of looks, either, for a rusty warming plate is said to transfer heat inefficiently. It’s unlikely that making the plate out of stainless instead of carbon steel would cause that same problem of reduced heat transfer, since there are many stainless teakettles. At least commercial coffeemakers, like Bunn’s, seem to have warming plates that are replaceable, but why should anyone have to replace the plate in the first place unless its electric coil fails? It’s as if the manufacturers are all trying to drive their customers to buy a new coffeemaker every couple of years, rather than accept one with unsightly patches of rust on its base. So, Braun, a market leader in quality coffeemaker design, ought to follow the model of, say, Apple, where Steve Jobs set the industry standard for smartphone manufacture at its outset when, knowing how easily plastic scuffs and scratches, he defied his subordinates to demand that Apple’s phone screens be made of glass. Other manufacturers followed suit with their own phones, and we’re all better off for it. Appliances, after all, ought to be built to last, and Braun knows that, because it’s designed this otherwise-excellent machine to signal the user for periodic cleaning cycles. Let Braun take the lead here and build their coffeemakers with an eye to durability in all respects. I love this one otherwise and expect to use it for many years. But the warming plate should not rust!