DeLonghi Silver 12 Cup Programmable Front Fill Drip Coffee Maker
The Delonghi Silver is a 12-cup programmable drip coffee maker for those who like drinking coffee. This is a great appliance for a small office or personal use. The Delonghi brews into a 12-cup glass carafe on a non-stick hot plate. In keeping with its role as a home-appliance, its power output is 900 watts, quite a far cry from commercial coffee makers, which often have at least 1,400 watts of power output. With 900 watts of power output, brew time takes a little longer in comparison with commercial coffee makers, but it does make the coffee hot enough. It has a strength setting, which considerably slows the brew process because it slowly saturates coffee grounds at 30-second intervals to maximize the brewing process and extract the most flavor and aroma from the coffee.
Price: $45.81 / 54% Off
DeLonghi Silver 12 Cup Programmable Front Fill Drip Coffee Maker does not have a water filter, which means that bottled water will result in better coffee, depending on your location and the quality of your tap water. Absence of a water filter also means that, in areas with hard water, it will be important to descale hard water deposits about once every 300 brew cycles to maintain functionality. The Delonghi 12-cup Drip Coffee Maker comes with a permanent, metal mesh, gold-tone filter, instead of paper filters. Metal mesh filters are not necessarily better than paper filters. Metal mesh filters save the cost of paper filters, but many people find better flavor in coffee brewed through paper filters.
The front-loading design means that it is convenient to keep it under low kitchen cabinets. The Delonghi 12-cup Drip Coffee Maker can stay under a cabinet without having to be moved because access to the coffee filter and reservoir swings out of the unit. It has all of the convenience features that have become de rigueur for drip coffee makers: 24-hour programmable digital timer to control brew start, brew pause to enable filling a cup in the middle of a brew cycle without spilling, audible beep when brewing is complete, and automatic shut down after two hours. Cord storage and a storage tray that warms cups are also convenient features.
