Okay. I admit it. I bought this Mr. Coffee TCX83 Thermal Gourmet Coffee Maker because it looked cool. There it was, sitting on the display shelf at Target, with its stylish black base and its shiny, chromed carafe…I wanted it, and I wanted ...

My husband and I love a good cup of coffee. So it was no easy task to select our next coffee maker, which, trust me, will have to work very hard over the next few years. The last coffee maker we had was a programmable one with a glass carafe and I had...