Drip Coffee Makers

This 7 cup aluminum coffee pot is topped with a cylinder that has a perforated bottom disk and a separate perforated top disk. Regular grind coffee is measured into the bottom of the cylinder and boiling water is poured through the perforated top disk, dispersing the water over the grinds. The brew then drips into the serving pot. This method produces a strong, tasty brew. This is not a percolating pot!

User Reviews

I bought this coffee pot because my ancient aluminum pot had finally, after decades, spring a wee-tiny leak. More like an ooze if you left coffee in it for hours.

Within 24 hours, this pot had holes, the handle had come off, and I had scalded my hand simply putting the top on it. It is shoddy, thin aluminum with poor or missing welds, and frankly I would not trust what leaches from it. It is the worst product I think I've purchased since getting past Sky King rings and Cracker Jacks.

First, the handle came off. By hook and crook, I managed to get it back on "temporarily."

Next, when I attempted to put the top on, after pouring boiling water into the water section, the radiant heat must have mis-shaped the top, for it went straight through the opening into the boiling water----with my hand still attached. My entire right hand. The top was entirely warped---presumably by the heat. My hand had first- and second-degree burns and required a doctor's visit.

I had thrown away my own good solid pot when I purchased this one, and so the next day I tried again, thinking nothing else could happen and intending to get a better pot that day. I was wrong about nothing else could happen. I mistakenly turned on the gas burner under the coffee pot rather than under the intended teapot. In fewer than--considerably fewer than 15 seconds, the smell of melting aluminum alerted me to the error. Potholder on hand, I immediately transferred the pot to the nearby sink and a stream of warm (not hot) water to gradually cool it down. The bottom was gone by then, the heat had roasted the coffee in the strainer anew, so thin was the metal, and my kitchen smelled like a toxic aluminum factory.

I am a Louisianian and have dripped coffee manually my entire life. Everyone I know has done the same thing. We've used good solid aluminum pots and never thought of such problems as this pot presented. I'm not a novice, and I'm not accident prone.

I called the best sources I know for things coffee in Louisiana. Like me, they had been unable to find a manual drip pot that was not "MADE IN CHINA" ---by THIS company, distributed under various brands, but the same dangerous product. What a shame.

I've reluctantly turned to a small electric drip pot for my morning coffee while looking for one of my old favorites on eBay. Good pots with bakelite handles can be had for around $15 or less there. They have been previously owned, but some look unused.

No matter, whatever could leach from them would not, I am confident, be so toxic as what leaches from this product, which should be banned from market. It is at times like these that I am aware why I buy "made in America."

I've written the Consumer Protection agencies in my state and at the federal level because I think this product is dangerous. With visible welds, thin metal that is not strong and will not even hold its handle, and who-knows-what-construction contamination, it's worth one thing: tossing into some already contaminated dump.

Don't buy this thing. It's dangerous.

I'd award it no stars if that were possible. -- DANGEROUS!

Just like the one my father preferred for his coffee.
Would really like to find one in stainless steel. -- Drip Coffee Maker

product great; received with minor damage but distributor graciouly refunded half my $$ for the problem. -- product excellent for its purpose

I purchased this item for my mother who wanted to make coffee in an easy to clean pot. She NEVER put this item in the dishwasher...she only hand washed it.
She made a pot the first time and when pouring the coffee from the pot into cups, coffee leaked everywhere. Upon closer inspection we realized the spout had been welded onto the pot unevenly causing dripping unless you tilt the whole pot while pouring. It made good coffee...but despite the filter in the spout, some grounds still wound up in your cup. Then after two weeks, she told me while pouring hot water in and replacing the lid...the lid handle broke off. -- Bad quality...Leaking when bought... lid top broke off in 2 weeks

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