Braun BrewSense with Thermal Carafe: Although this brewer solves the above complaint about the standard Braun BrewSense by switching to a thermal carafe, it still took too long to brew.Braun BrewSense: This was the winner of the budget-friendly category in our 2018 coffee maker testing, but the glass carafe and hot plate baked the coffee and it took over eight minutes to brew.Serious Eats / Ashley Rodriguez The Competition Preset Functions: When necessary, try the preset functions these models offer.Ease of Cleaning: After each test, clean the coffee maker’s carafe and brew basket by hand, looking for any factors that make one machine easier to clean than another.User-Experience Evaluation: Determine how easy each coffee maker and carafe is to set up, use, and pour from.Heat Retention: Using an instant-read thermometer, check the temperature of the coffee right after brewing and again 30 minutes and an hour later, to see how hot the carafe keeps it.
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Using a pipette to transfer coffee to a refractometer to measure total dissolved solids (TDS).