Consider upgrading your coffeemaker
This replacement carafe is exactly what you need if you have a working Braun KF400 coffee maker. The coffee maker makes a great cup of coffee but you'l notice that you can buy a new KF400 coffee maker for less than the cost of this carafe.
Over the past 15 years (we really like the coffee maker!) we have gone through three of these carafes - only to have them fail or break. They dribble coffee - have a cheap plastic hinge, and are the most fragile item we have to wash in our sink every day. As some reviews state, you just have to be careful - but then most of us are usually half asleep when we make our coffee.
We recently upgraded to the KF600 and love it. It has a sturdy metal thermal carafe, pours easily, and makes the same great cup of coffee. Paying a few extra bucks should prevent us from replacing anymore carafes.
Not strong enough for long term durability
I completly agree with the first reviewer - the coffee maker itself is great. Its simple, inexpensive, long lasting, and makes good coffee. But the carafe is too weak. It should be made of strong pyrex glass, but instead it seems to cracks too easily. My first carafe cracked after about a year and I ordered this replacement. I was always very careful with the second one, but after about a year, it cracked also. Now I am ordering my third one. I am also like one of the other reviewers who said he refuses to buy another coffee maker out of principle. I don't like metal carafes because you cant see how much coffee you have left. I feel like I'm buying a new coffee maker each year. Its almost like the business models with ink-jet printers - sell the printers cheap and kill them with the recurring cost of ink. Here, its the recurring cost of the carafes.
Perfect Braun Replacement for older coffee makers
In search of a replacement carafe I went to all the usual stores, BB&BY, LNT, TARGET, WAL*MART...no one carried this style for my older unit. Replacement makers were high priced versions of the same so I'm happy to have found this carafe(which has a slight improvement)to keep my older maker going strong.
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