Mr. Coffee Mr. Coffee 12 Cup Coffeemaker CG13 Review

The Mr. Coffee 12 Cup Coffeemaker CG13 is about as basic as it gets. I admit, I am not much of a coffee drinker and when I do drink coffee I usually like the flavored ones, heavy on the cream and sugar (ok milk and sugar substitute now). Anyway, recently I needed the extra morning jolt of caffeine that coffee can bring and pulled out this coffee maker.  I only wanted to make about 5 cups or so, thinking that my husband would want to drink some too since I was actually making it. 

Using the Mr. Coffee 12 Cup Coffeemaker CG13 is easy and I do like that there is only one lid I need to flip to fill both the coffee and water filters.  The coffee was ok, once I turned it into something that most coffee drinkers would scoff at.  It was easy to clean out the pot afterwards and there was no spilling over during brewing. There is a side measure to double check the water amount and an extension cord with storage room in the back when not in use. 

But what I didn't like about the Mr. Coffee 12 Cup Coffeemaker CG13 is that the pot is shaped oddly, and while I thought I had filled to about 6 cups I ended up with about 4 brewed.  And these were SMALL cups of coffee.  Hardly enough to even qualify.  I didn't like the arm that was in the way of placing the coffee filter and coffee ground in the machine either. It's not to noisy to use, but overall unimpressive. 

There is only one button, for on and off, so needless to say several hours later (with a little coffee left in the pot) my husband pointed out to me that it hadn't been turned off. That is a big feature for me, it has to have a timed auto shut off or my coffee maker would never get turned off. 

The Mr. Coffee 12 Cup Coffeemaker CG13 is not something I would search out to buy again. It's ok, for now, a temporary use and I guess making 12 cups would come in handy if there was a party or something. Overall, I think there are probably coffee makers out there that would actually cost the same but have more features and not have the problems that this one has.