Crazy coffee pot  

hi it sounds like your coffeemaker has something plugged u p in it,. run some hot wat er with lots of vinegar through the coffee making cycle, the rinse, fill it up again with mostly vinegar and a little water, go thru the cycle, then do this with the proper amount of water several times and the coffeemaker should be unclogged., then it will work as it is 'supposed to. the vinegar is a cheap cleanser of clogs in most things and will work fine. hope this helps.

I just had about the same problem with our coffeemaker. When it gets slow, I do the vinegar trick too. It does work, but sometimes you have to do it quite a few times to really get it unclogged. When I do mine, I use about 1/2 to 1 cup of clear vinegar, then fill the rest of the water resevoir up with water. Then I let it sit for about an hour before starting it and running it through. Letting it sit lets the vinegar work on the stubborn stuff to get it loose first. After that I run through clear water to get rid of the vinegar, and run enough pots of plain water through until it comes through clear. (This time it was SO clogged, and it took about 8 pots of clear water run through until it came through right again.)

In my coffeemaker, I use 3 scoops (for 12 cups) and it still comes out strong. When it's done with making the coffee, the guage only reads 10 cups inside. I figure the wet coffee grounds must hold a lot of that water or something. So now, I'll dump the 12 cups worth of water inside, the 3 scoops of coffee, and then I fill the water in the coffee pot to 2 cups worth of water. When it's done now, I actually get the 12 cups worth, and it tastes better and not as strong.

How are is the coffee maker loosing so much water? I don't understand this. Does it have a leak? Is it evaporating that much? Is some of the water staying in some part of the coffee maker? Strange.

I have not ever heard of that happening, but it seems like the strength might be connected to the amount of time it is taking to brew. If it takes 30 minutes, that's a lot of time with the water absorbing the coffee flavor. Maybe check the types of filters. It should NEVER take that long to make a pot of coffee.