I believe the drip type coffee makers of which my Krups is one, are the hardest to clean. I still have not figured out how to clean the sight gage, the vinegar water did do some good in the area, but nothing short of wiping the inside with something would work in my opinion and it looks impossible to do that on a Krups.

I prefer this Krups drip type, since I am the only coffee drinker in the house and I am never sure if I am only going to drink one cup or two in the morning, so it nice that if I decide to drink a cup later in the day, the coffee is still fresh, since the Krups does not drip into a container sitting on a heating pad, it drips into a thermos type container, keeping the coffee hot for over half a day at minimum, thus no "burning" of the coffee from letting a pot sit on a heated coil for hours....

LOL, I remember my Mom and Dad were big coffee drinkers, and maybe because of growing up during the depression might have influenced their monetary ways, I was turned off to coffee by them since Mom would perc a pot of coffee early in the morning, then later in the day, maybe 8 hours or more later, she would pour the coffee into a small pan and reheat on the stove, OMG, it smelled terrible and sometimes looked like tar in my opinion.

To top it off, my Dad, who would eat breakfast at 5am would heat up on the stove coffee from the previous day! Yuck!

So, it took me several years as an adult to even think of trying coffee, I think I finally broke down and started drinking it as a way of warming up in the morning when I worked at McChord AFB, Wash, it seems the 33-40 degree temperatures with drizzle, fog and rain almost 80% of the time during winter, brought a big chill to my body and that cup of coffee at first break did warm me up.

I ended up not being a severe coffee addict, but my last twenty years of work, I had to have a cup in the morning as I was driving to work (5-5:30AM workcall) but I would hardly ever drink coffee at work, nor at lunch. I only started drinking coffee after dinner about 5 years ago when my DIL and son would come over, and my DIL is a coffee addict, so I always made sure I made a fresh pot for her and now I am hooked for at least one cup after dinner, but, that is my dessert 99% of the time, so that is a plus.

Jyes