Customer Ratings & Reviews

Works great and makes good coffee. Timer feature for the burner is really nice.

Good coffee maker. Easy to use. Coffee is temperature is comfortably hot.

Makes great coffee, nice design and easy to use and keep clean!

Love this coffee maker! We are very picky about our coffee... grind our beans, use filtered water... our last maker pooped out on us. Not exactly a compact machine but the coffee is fabulous!

I love this coffee maker. Very smooth coffee and the different program settings are super nice especially the 4 hour hot plate.

KitchenAid - 12-Cup Coffee Maker - Onyx Black The KitchenAid 12 cup coffee maker is just a bit on the larger size compared to other 12 cup coffee makers. It has features that most others don’t have. Like dual timers, they can be used in the same day, or set to different times of the morning for week days or weekends, you pick the timer you want to use at any given time. Dual temperatures for the warming pad, as well as dual temperatures for the brewing cycle. The best feature I see is the time allowed on the warming plate. It is adjustable between 1 and 4 hours. The buttons seem to crunch a little if you don’t press them straight on, they still work, just make a crunching noise. Must be something to do with the mechanism behind the button itself. The water reservoir is removable and easily filled with your sink or the carafe. Replacement is straight forward and it slides in place. I must add here, my wife filled it once and placed it back in place. In a matter of about 15 seconds, while she wasn’t looking, it dumped 8 cups of water all over the counter. I have not been able to replicate this event no matter how badly I tried to mess it up. It just slides in place and seals correctly. Just keep that in mind. I can’t recreate it, but it happened. The temperatures of the coffee on the warming plate after 1 hour (I am using 1 hour because that’s the time between my first and second cup of coffee) are as follows. Warming plate on low, coffee 153 degrees. Warming plate on high, coffee 160 degrees. Coffee being brewed temperatures are as follows (coffee being brewed are measured immediately after brewing stops, and measured in the carafe). Brewing on normal, coffee 170 degrees. Brewing on bold, coffee 163 degrees. It also takes longer to brew on bold. I have found that the sweet spot for me is brewing on bold with the warming plate on high. Also note that all temperatures were taken with a standard kitchen digital thermometer. It can use a #4 paper filter, but comes with “gold” screen permanent filter. For me the paper filter was the only real option. The screen permanent filter allows a kind of coffee mud to pass through and end up in the coffee. This has nothing to do with the coffee maker or filter, it is a by product of the coffee I use. A paper filter removes the mud. It has a built in timer to let you know when it’s time to be cleaned. And here’s the very best part. The carafe pours coffee without any dribbling down the side. Just pour your coffee without any cleanup after. I have probably used 20 coffee makers in my life. Maybe 2 of them have been able to do this correctly. Please read the spec sheet to see if this coffee maker has the desired functions for you. For me this is a big win.

This coffee maker tastes great, full-bodied and rich, not bitter. The ability to program two different start times for brewing is fantastic. The only hiccup in the function is - when placing the water container on the back, it must be placed exactly right or it will leak. I avoid this by filling the carafe and pouring that into the container, instead of taking it off the back. It's not enough of an issue to reduce the rating, though. We've had KitchenAid coffee makers in the past. This is the best thus far!

Really high quality compared to past coffee makers I've purchased for more money. Looks great with all of our Kitchenaid appliances.

The water reservoir make it easy to fill to the level you want without spilling any water. It's easy to setup and program, the 2 auto setup times are ideal as I have two different morning times that I need my coffee ready in the mornings during the week. I wish the warmer timer was greater than 4 hours. the drip system brews great tasting coffee. over all I'm very pleased with our new Kitchen Aid coffee maker.

Makes an excellent cup of coffee in a timely fashion It looks nice on counter also

Coffee maker works as advertised. No complaints so far. I like the removable water reservoir.

Coffeemaker works great. We use it everyday. Good coffee. Has all the timer features.

Top quality coffee maker. Coffee tastes wonderful. Easy to program and use.

Excellent coffee maker. Would recommend. Looks awesome, makes very good coffee.

This KitchenAid 12 cup coffee maker has a beautiful design. It is fairly large though when you turn it where you can see the clock. We just happen to have enough counter space so that doesn’t matter. I really like the detachable water reservoir that allows me to fill it from my filtered water on my fridge and also to easily clean it. The whole thing is well made including the carafe. You don’t have to wait to put the carafe under it until you’ve filled the coffee filter since the filter housing sits on its own and doesn’t push against the top of the carafe. It still has the pause and pour feature, though. The other features are hot plate timer selection of 2 hours or 4 hours and a bold or normal brew setting which basically drops the water in slower, auto brew programming and a 29 hole spiral shower head to full saturate the coffee when brewing. The only negatives are the coffee temp is only about 170 degrees which should probably be closer to 190 for the best brew and that the permanent filter that is included leaves residue in your coffee cup. Using a regular coffee filter does not. Overall it makes a good cup of coffee.

PROs: Makes good coffee. Brews quickly enough. Warmer works well, Appearance; looks nice. Does not take up an overabundance of space. CON'S: Water container needs small holes in top to reduce condensation. I put a long spoon under lid when cleaning coffee maker so inside will dry.

Easy to use. Very nice design. I recommend to my friends.

Coffee comes out very good.. very easy to use. Recommend

Great coffee maker easy to use and easy to clean..

This coffee pot is a good coffee pot. Very easy to setup and use with a long keep warm function. My only complaint is if you don't line up the water reservoir then you will have a flooded kitchen.