Proctor Silex FrontFill Drip Coffee Maker, 12 Cup Glass Carafe, Black and Silver (43680PS)

We have a travel trailer with a cabinet that is not big but is perfect for storing a coffee maker. This coffee maker is compact and makes a full 12 cups of coffee. It looks nice and appears to be durable. It brews great tasting coffee quickly and is easy to clean. The only thing that is a little fussy is that when filling it with water, one needs to pour water slowly to not splash on the counter.

Last machine of this particular brand finally just up and died after around 12 or 14 years of faithful service so I purchased the same brand again with only one complaint to speak of. Filler port is inadequate, doesn’t accept water at moderate speeds and can cause spillover. Other than that it delivers a piping hot pot of excellent coffee just as did the older model.. For my needs & purposes I give this machine a 9.9 of 10

PRO: 1: feels sturdy. door snap in well. 2: works well 3: the area where you fill the coffee grains open and close tight. you can remove it to wash it. 4: the the coffee pot and coffee grain area is dishwasher safe. you can pull out to put in dishwasher. CONS: 1: the area you fill the water is real shallow. it it easy to overflow and spill the water. 2: the coffee container pour spout is terrible. you have to poor the coffee real slow. easy to overflow the spout and get coffee everywhere. 3: the area of the coffee filter is too short. the coffee filter when closing the container will bend the filter over and it becomes ineffective. it this happens you get grains in your cup. it needs to be a little taller to prevent the filter from collapsing. CONCLUSION: The coffee machine has some issues but overall i like it. for its price range it feel more sturdy than other coffee machines in that price range. and it makes of good cup of coffee.

I cant find enough negative things to say about this junk coffee maker. 1) First, the "space saving/fits under cabinet" thing is a gimmick and a joke. Yes, it fits under the cabinet, but you still have to move it out from under the cabinet, to fill it. At least with a full size pot sitting in front of the cabinet, you can use the space behind for things, and still be able to reach them. With this, when its under the cabinet, you cant put anything in front of it, as you constantly have to keep pulling it out to fill it, or just leave it out. So it actually uses MORE counter space. 2) The swing away filter basket drips coffee/condensation all over your counter, when you open it. 3) The filter basket is shallow, due to the ridiculous "space saving design". You cant use a taller than average filter, or it bends over and you get grounds in your coffee. So youre stuck with standard size filters which are flush with the top of the filter basket. But, it dumps water into the filter so fast, it over flows the filter, and you end up with grounds. 4) The lid of the carafe (the entire maker, actually) must have been designed by someone who never drinks coffee. The lid holds condensation on the top, that runs off and onto the counter, when you tip the carafe to pour coffee. 5) The spout on the carafe is like so many others, that allows coffee to run back down the side and onto the counter, when you are pouring coffee. So plan on pouring every cup of coffee over the sink. 6) As if this maker wasnt junky enough and poor quality, now, after 2 months.... the carafe has cracked. The maker is now in the trash. I would buy anything from this company, if this is the best they can do. You have been warned

This is the second one I have purchased. This is a great basic coffee maker. I don't drink expresso so this is all that is really needed. For the money, you can't go wrong. I highly recommend.

For a couple dollars more, we could have gotten the coffee maker (sounds like “Fister Toffee” 😉) of the same brand to replace the one that just died—the button stopped working. My husband and I did a lot of back-and-forth about trying another coffee maker… He makes the coffee! This one seemed like a good thing because the water front-loads, and it makes 12 cups of coffee. The coffee is hot though we found we needed to put a little extra coffee in because it wasn’t strong enough. There are so many downsides to this coffee maker: first, the handle on the carafe is lightweight. It does not feel like it will last very long. This is a problem, of course, because it is holding really hot liquid. Second, half of the time when pouring coffee, it drips. I don’t know why, but my other coffee maker did not. The front loading area for the water is not real big, so you can’t just pour the water in all at once, but have to pour it in more slowly. This is an issue if you’re in a hurry. There is a spot at the top of the handle on the carafe, where we usually would hold the other carafe: but in this Proctor Silex model, there is steam coming out at the top of the handle where the lid joins the carafe and so I burned my thumb. Next, the coffee maker itself is lightweight and cheap: so when you try to return the carafe onto the “hot plate,” it pushes the whole coffee maker back on the counter and you need two hands to secure the carafe onto the hot plate. For some, that may not seem like a big deal, but I have never needed a second hand to complete this simple task… Finally, we are used to loading both our water and our coffee filter (with coffee) at the top. No mess and no fuss. This brand requires that you pull the coffee basket that holds the filter out to the side. I did this because there were a lot of little grounds in my coffee today, and I wanted to see if the filter had collapsed. The filter had not fallen, but the coffee maker commenced to drip coffee all over my countertop. To save a few bucks, I feel that we disrupted our happy coffee morning ritual. This puppy is going back!

This coffee maker is great! It's portable and super simple, so there's not much to go wrong with it. It's exactly what I was looking for! The hard toggle switch makes it easy to setup with a smart plug and on the plus side, the pot stores with the handle stored inside the coffee machine which helps it store in a shelf. The only thing that is disappointing is the cord storage doesn't have door so you have to stuff the cord into a compartment underneath and hope it says inside.

Great coffee maker. Holds up for a long time.