Hi. My 4 cup coffee maker suddenly won't perk properly. The coffee comes out very weak and not hot enough. I have the other 2 sizes and use the same cord, and they work fine. Can you help? Thanks! M. Schalick
Basing on personal experience (you can find more on Google probably), solutions are:
On percolated (filter) coffee machines:
Check water temp, if water temp is insufficient , most common is scale heating element , faulty element, faulty thermostat.
Check
if water is dripping right at the center of the filter, if it is
dripping on one side because the orifice is clogged, that can result in
weak coffee.
Coffee blend not well distributed on filter basket.
On Espresso machines:
Check water temp, same as filter coffee machines (thermostat element, scale on heating chamber).
Ensure that coffee is filled correctly in the filter cup (fill at level), and well pressed.
Ensure that the coffee mixture that you are using is not too coarse, buy the apposite one for espresso.
Ensure
that you are not leaving the machine brewing for a time that is too
long, and Italian coffee cup is very small, approximately one regular
shot.
On the hob moka pots (espresso, Moka and Bialetti type):
This
are the trickiest ones, you need art and practice to get a good
espresso with a Moka, but when you learn, the result is better than
what you may get with an home electrical espresso maker.
The frame
on the hob must be not too strong, and the mixture coarse but well
pressed, with water at level tag, or you will get a weak coffee.
On Mokas a good strategy is keeping hob at minimum, and turning up the flame at top when coffee starts coming out.
French and turkish cafetieres:
Ensure that you put enough coffee, water hot enough, and that you left the infusion enough time to get a strong coffee.
Note: insufficient pressure and clogged lines on electric machines never give you a weak coffee, exactly the opposite.
Not pressed mixture always gives weak coffee, but too much pressed mixture may give you coffee with bad taste.
Water Level Amount of Ground Coffee
Water Level Amount of Ground Coffee
42 Cups 2 ½ Cups
36 Cups 2 Cups
30 Cups 1 ¾ Cups
28 Cups 1 2/3 Cups
24 Cups 1 ½ Cups
22 Cups 1 ½ Cups
18 Cups 1 ¼ Cups
12 Cups 1 Cup
Use electric perk grind coffeeror coofee ground for all coffeemakers. Do not use drip or finely ground coffee.
Water Level Measure of Ground Coffee
100 cups 6 ¼ cups
80 cups 5 cups
60 cups 4 cups
40 cups 2½ cups
Do not make less than 40 or more than 100 cups of coffee at one time. Use electric perk or regular grind coffee; a filter liner is not necessary.
Hi,
Here is a tip that I wrote
that will give you some things to try that will help you get your
Keurig coffee brewer working again.
Keurig
Coffee Brewer not making a full cup of Coffee
heatman101
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My Percolator is not yet 4 years old. It percs a short time and the coffee comes out weak. My pot is an 8-cup pot.
I have a 4-12 cup Farberware stainless steel pot fairly new and the water does not perculate far enough up the center pipe for the water to reach the coffee basket, causing very weak coffee if coffee at all.
Church has a West Bend Model 13500 coffee pot that gets WARM, but not HOT.
The sump area has been cleaned using CLR, so a build-up in this area is NOT the problem.
Possibly a thermostat is involved.
Wanting to correct the problem with a Replacement Part vs.purchasing a new coffee pot.
Any suggestions on which PART may be needing replaced.
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