I've had a lot of drip coffee makers - and I'm like you, Japus, I want to be able to clean it as best I can...You should try one where the water chamber is totally separate from the unit itself, like my Kitchenaid. After having this I won't buy one unless the water chamber is separate. Coffee scum isn't able to get in there. The only thing that goes in there is filtered fridge water. I'm able to take it off and wash it top to bottom. Also, the way this is designed, during brewing, you don't get any coffee splatter during brewing on the machine except for the area where the dripping occurs - the way it's designed, the rest of the coffee maker is sort of sealed. The only thing I cannot get to is the line that runs internally, so I'm hoping vinegar and hot water and frequent use are keeping bacteria low in that line....I might try baking soda

Egg in coffee? That brings me back 50 years. We had a friend that entertained a lot, she's still around but not in great health. She put out a "perfect" cup of coffee. One day I asked her secret and she said it was the egg shells she put in the coffee pot. She used a stove top percolator, she said it didn't matter what you use. She threw in the egg shells with the coffee grounds and percolated away until the color was right. She did it camping in a pot or kettle and it all turned out the same. She didn't strain the coffee, grounds settled on the bottom, I don't remember any sludge. And, she always had a pot of coffee on the stove that tasted like she just got through making it. I never did try it, DH and I always had it at work and I could always take it or leave it. I wised up when I started having extreme headaches on weekends when I was skipping the coffee, jeeze.

Bodum santos (pebo) vacuum pot. EASY and makes the best, rounded, smooth coffee IF you buy quality coffee beans. Grind the beans fine (careful not to let the beans at the bottom of the grinder get warm -- I stop, invert/shake, then start the grinding again. Preheat you mug! I just put a kitchen tea towel around my carafe to keep it warm. No coffee likes to be kept "warm" for long. Good, well-brewed coffee has lots of delicious volatiles. So keep the cover on the little carafe; keep it cozied. Don't wait to long to enjoy it ;) As Chas pointed out, most coffee makers sold for the USA market, do not get the brew water hot enough for long enough during the brew . They pathetically try to play catch-up on the hot plate. I've made coffee with Chemex, drips and various other techniques. One electric brewer that we had YEARS ago was made by some company (Senaec?) and that worked very well. But that is no longer made. Then we kludged a technique, using a drip method and manually heating the water with a separate electric kettle, then pouring it (manually) over grounds in a basket filter. We used a cheapy, dime store coffee maker to hold the basket of grounds over the glass carafe. Then we'd transfer it into an old-fashioned stainless, narrow, tall Stanley thermos. Even so, no coffee wants to be hanging around at a warm/warm-hot temperature for more than 15 or 20 minutes. There is a way to COLD brew a pound of coffee....

I'm a big fan of percolated coffee. That's coffee, in my book, not this foo-foo flavored things that people pass off as coffee these days. Never had a decent cup of coffee from a Keurig yet. If someone offers me "coffee" from a Keurig, I decline. Besides being poor taste to start with, Keurig is nothing but a glorified fad of a drip coffeemaker. And what's the #1 problem with drip coffeemakers? The owners. Few clean them. I haven't met anyone yet who cleans their Keurig either. Percolators? Great. Sitting at the cabin on a chilly morning listening to the bloop, bloop, the hypnotic smell, looking at the lake and wildlife. Percolated coffee doesn't need the pollutants to make it drinkable. My favorite was a Proctor Silex glass electric percolator my mother had. I really believe the glass ones make better tasting coffee. It just made so much better coffee that even when it quit warming the brew (tho it still perked fine) I'd make the coffee and put it in a vacuum bottle to keep it hot. Got used to doing that so I'd do that afterward and the benefit of doing that was I'd never head out and leave the coffeemaker on. Well, usually wouldn't. Yes, everyone has different tastes but I can honestly say that I can't name anyone I know who didn't prefer the perked coffee to drip. That doesn't mean they don't still use the current fad but that's a personal issue with them. As I was thinking about people not cleaning the coffeemakers it occurred to me that part of the benefit of a percolator is that it's easier to clean. A clean pot makes better coffee, no matter the method. There's a number of elements to good coffee: First is a clean pot. Next is good water, Then good coffee and properly measured. Temperature and time weigh in. There's actually a lot more to it than putting a piece of plastic into the pet rock and pushing a button. Which, come to think of it, probably is another reason I don't like Keurig. I don't like food cooked in plastic containers and making the "coffee" from a plastic pod is asking for trouble.