Product Description

Goundbreaking brews! This compact coffee maker, clad in an elegant stainless steel housing, brews up to 14 cups of hot, rich and flavorful coffee anytime you need that extra boost. The extra-wide JavaSpa® showerhead soaks the filter basket evenly, ensuring uniform coffee extraction and outstanding flavor every time. One-year total replacement warranty.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8128 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Color: Onyx Black
• Brand: KitchenAid
• Model: KCM534OB
• Dimensions: 16.25" h x 14.38" w x 11.13" l, 7.60 pounds

Features

• Capacity: 14-c.
• Width: 8.25-in.
• Height: 13.75-in.
• Material: Stainless Steel
• Warranty: One Year

Customer Reviews

Fantastic Coffeemaker
All I can say is that this coffeemaker lives up to the fantastic reputation of KitchenAid. Works perfectly and makes the best coffee I have ever had. I have had quite a few different brands in the past and most of them high-end coffeemakers, but this one is, without a doubt, the best. The amount of coffee you can make is great, either a small amount or large amount. We have a carafe and when we entertain an extra large group of coffee drinkers we just make a pot of coffee and put it into the carafe and then make another pot and leave in on the KitchenAid and there is plenty of great coffe for everyone.

Kitchenaid
This coffee maker worked & looked great the 1st few months. Several times we got up to coffee all over the counter. After 1 year the error code came up that you had to call Kichenaid (Whirlpool). They quickly sent another - it worked for about 3 days, the same error code came up & they quickly sent another. It worked for about 2 months, spilled twice so quit using the programmer - Whirlpool actually called us to see how things were going. Told them about the spills and they sent a new lid for the pot that had been designed. It did work better but again the error code came up. Called them again & they sent yet another replacement. Same problems with the coffee all over the counter & the newer lid. Gave up, dumped it and bought a really nice 14 cup Cuisinart - about 1 year now & it's working fine with no spills. I will say Kitchenaid/Whirlpool customer service agents were extremely nice & helpful.

Excellent coffee but design improvements would help
This is a very good coffee maker. It programs easily, looks great and like most coffee makers, makes a good pot of coffee. There are however, some minor design flaws. The lid to the carafe needed to be designed with more than a single slot for the brewed coffee to flow. Either users must position the handle to face directly in front (and not to either side) or during brewing, some coffee will flow over the lid. However, if a user positions the handle directly to face forward, coffee will not flow over the lid. Reading the water level on the reservoir is difficult to use. It is not clearly marked and users must rely on the carafe or the "filter rod" to measure the water level. A clearly marked resevoir would have helped a lot. Last, the lid to the carafe is not removable and a fixed lid is cumbersome to clean. A better system would have allowed for a removable lid where users could easily place the carafe along with the separate lid into the dishwasher.

The positives do out number the negatives. The coffee maker turns off automatically after two hours and a clear display of how long the pot has been sitting is prominent. The filter basket (the basket that holds the removable coffee filter) is also removable. That makes for easy cleaning. This is a big improvement over most manufactures who attach the filter basket as one unit, to the coffee maker.