Hamilton Beach 45 Cup Coffee Urn and Hot Beverage Dispenser, Silver

Great machine
Perfect machine for small to large gatherings. We do meets at the beach and I am able to make coffee at home and bring it down in this. Works great and stays hot for a good amount of time after being unolugged

Hot Coffee for an Outdoor October Day
Every year we have a “liquid lunch” or soup party to end the Summer. We have over 70 people attend and never enough coffee. At the last minute I came to Amazon, did the research and chose this Hamilton Beach for two reasons – first, the price was right and secondly, it qualified for Prime and could be here by Friday (party was Saturday). It arrived on Friday as promised, we set it up and would make coffee Saturday. Takes approx. 1 minute per cup of coffee so you know when to start it. When done, remove the basket so it does not continue to perk and it keeps the coffee hot.Friday afternoon my daughter decided she wanted to make a huge pot of hot chocolate as an alternative to coffee. She went to a local store and purchased this same item. Believe it or not, it was only $1 cheaper at this local store BUT you should calculate the time and gas to get there, looking for it and coming back home. As far as I’m concerned, this item is a great buy through Amazon Prime.Both pots worked very well for the party. The reason for one less star is because the inside discolored above the fill line and I have no clue why. It happened on both. The pot with coffee did not scorch nor did it burn the coffee. The hot chocolate pot, however, had settlement on the bottom and that kept getting thicker and thicker. Of course we didn’t know this until we emptied it to clean it. I managed to get it clean but it’s something you should keep in mind if you’re using for hot chocolate.Over all I’m completely satisfied and we had great hot coffee and hot cocoa for a cold October day. We will use this item for parties only so if that’s what you need it for (a few parties a year) then the price is right and the item seems to be just the ticket. If you have a break room that it would be used constantly or church dinners more often than a few a year, I would suggest investing in a commercial grade pot just for the sake of a more heavy duty product.

Coffee is Good ALL Day Long – Not Burned Tasting
I bought this percolator because, when we have company, we normally go through 2 – 14 cup carafes of drip coffee per day. The second carafe of coffee ends up with a burned taste and is never drank. With this percolator, I put in a gallon of water (we use distilled … water in our area is horrible) which equals about 25 cups, my coffee and turn it on. I do remove the filter and grounds after percolation is finished. The coffee stays at the perfect temperature from 5 am until I turn it off at 5 pm with absolutely no burned or old taste at all. Our guests kept saying how much better the coffee was when using this percolator.One hint … I hate getting up to turn it on so I hooked it up to an Alexa plug so have it to turn on automatically itself. I allow 30 minutes to percolate the 25 cups then get up and remove the filter. From there it’s good to go all day.Cleanup was easy.

Works great – made good coffee.
Made a batch of coffee and it was good. Let it brew 1 minute per cup. Once brew time is complete you will need to remove the basket and stem to stop the percolation. Use a heat pad when removing to protect your fingers! It held the heat well for several hours. Great price and would highly recommend. We used our freshly ground coffee beans (coarse) which I think made the coffee full bodied.

こちらはアメリカの事務所などで定番的に置いてあるコーヒーメーカーです。よく見かけるもので、最大４５カップが作れるという信じられないくらいの大容量仕組みは至って簡単でサイフォン方式に近いものです。容器に作りたい容量の水を入れてコーヒー豆をカゴに入れてセットするだけ。さすがはアメリカ製という事で、日本人の感覚とは少し違い、スイッチがないのでコンセントを入れるとドリップが始まります。ドリップは説明書には１カップの容量で１分かかるという記載がありますが25カップ作った時に30分かかったのでもう少し時間がかかるという印象です。出来上がりは、注入口の上にあるランプが赤く点灯する事で確認出来ます。コチラで淹れたコーヒーは味がいいと思いますし、知り合いの方もそのような感想でした。長所と短所をコメントしたいと思います。長所1 価格が安い。2 味がいい。3 メンテナンスが楽短所1 少量では作れない。（１５杯以上から）2 付属のザルは目が荒いので日本で売られている挽いたコーヒー豆 では落ちてしまうので工夫が必要（荒く挽けば大丈夫）3 本体が熱くなるので触らないように注意が必要短所を理解した上で使うのであればこんなに当たりなコーヒーメーカーはないと思います。何と言っても価格が安く、頑丈な作りは他に候補がありません。

８年前にアメリカで同じものを購入しましたが、今回Amazonで購入した方が安価で驚きました。中の金属の棒の故障だったのですが！容量が大きく、簡単に作れるので助かっています。