The new drive-up ones are popping up all over.
I bought the other half a new Black & Decker Coffee Pot for Christmas at J.C. Penneys, well it worked kind of sort of.
I made a lot of noise and if you put in 8 cups of water you would get 4 cups of coffee unless you dickered around turing it off and on and off and on.
I gave HOT coffee but always acted like it was on the last few ounces of water, darn near from the get-go.
She suggested getting a new one but I decided to see if she had not got coffee grounds in the tubes and blocked them as she had done with the old one more than once.
Taking it apart should be easy -- a few screws and pop the bottom off BUT with crap coming from any where but the U.S., the one screw was a standard Phillips type, the other two.
had a slot with a hump in the middle, so unless you have a small engine set of special screw drivers, you have a problem.
Now I have such a set but the Lord only knows where I put it, so I jammed a small flat blade in and managed to get the two bastard screws out.
Now the tubes were free of crap; I pulled both off any way and adjusted how they set so they did not pinch, but the one with a one-way valve I moved the vavle farther in so it prevented a pinch.
Put it back together and it is a LOT quieter, and for most of the brewing process sounds normal but it is still a lot lounder and quicker than the old one.
Finding dedicated coffee pot cleaner is getting to be oddly difficult, places that used to have it, A: do not seem to know what it is any more; B: say just use vinegar.
Vinegar works, but not as well as the dedicated stuff as I found out seven or eight years ago.
Unless you have HIGH percentage acid white vinegar, the acids in the dedicated stuff are different and lot stronger.
Bought two bottles and will run one through eventually as we have very high calcium in out water here, and I do not always have distilled water on hand.
