Smells of plastic.The coffee tastes of plastic.Even after running fresh water through the machine 10 times, it still tastes like plastic.The machine has some nice features (timer, heat controls, brew settings), but the quality of the brewed coffee is not acceptable...we had to pour out several pots because they were undrinkable.It's no better than a much less costly Black and Decker that also brews terrible plastic-tasting coffee!We are going back to the simple, old machine we were using before.Our advice is to skip this product.