Mike Hartigan wrote:

Hopefully, you've not been discouraged by all the non-answers to your
question and you're still here. Assuming that to be true, I can make
a couple of broad generalizations.

First, feel free to 'warm up' your carafe with anything you want.
190F should be fine. That should help.

If you fill the reservoir with hot water,
it's likely that the process will occur faster, but the resulting
temperature will be the same, since you wouldn't be changing the
physics involved.


Mike,

One thing that continues to amaze me about newsgroups, is that if I ask a question, I am obviously,
looking for an answer, However, the concept that I have, is "if you don't know the answer" then
you don't "need to reply", otherwise, any helpful information is very appreciated. In addition,
some readers (I don't think, look at the entire message", because for myself, being an avid
newsgroup reader, I have learned to put in as much "info on what I have done" before asking the
newsgroup questions.

In addition, for some reason, there are sometimes a few people, who respond in a nasty way. I don't
know why.

Anyway, your info, and that of the other very nice people on this group, got me thinking.

So here is what I did. I created an experiment. I have bought coffee beans to grind and make coffee.
However, since I was just looking for ways to make the temperature to be as hot as possible, I
created a test.

Using only water, here are the tests that validated your response.

1st Experiment:

I put cold water into the Coffee Resovoir and just ran the Coffee maker without coffee. Water
tasted cold.


2nd Experiment:

I then put cold water into the Coffee Resovoir and rinsed out Caraffe with 190 degree hot water.
Water tasted passibly hot.

3rd Experiment:

I put cold water into the Coffee Resovoir and just ran the Coffee maker without coffee. I put 190
degree water into Caraffe and let stand for 3 minutes. Water tasted somewhat hotter.


4th Experiement:

I then put hot water from faucet into Coffee Resovoir and just ran the Coffee maker without coffee.
I put 190 degree water into Caraffe and let stand for 3 minutes. Water tasted somewhat hotter.

Note: on th Experiment with placing hot water into Coffee Resovoir, Coffe maker, finished cycle
much quicker, like you stated.

5th Experiment:

I put cold water into the Coffee Resovoir and just ran the Coffee maker without coffee. I put 190
degree water into Caraffe and let stand for 20 minutes. Water tasted a little colder.

So in conclusion, I will use Cold water to put in Coffee Resovoir and use 190 degree water into
Carafe and let stand a few minutes.

I would like to thank all of the people who responsed with feedback.

Much appreciated.




Lawrence M. Seldin, CMC, CPC
Author of POWER TIPS FOR THE APPLE NEWTON and INTRODUCTION TO CSP
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