Moisture from brewing gets up into the grinder every time you brew coffee, so it has to be cleaned EVERY TIME! That may not seem like a big deal now, but you WILL quickly get tired of having to do this. I quit using the grinder in this coffee maker and just use my Braun grinder instead.Also, the timer on mine never worked. Once the coffee brews the electronics go into la-la land, and the thing has to be unplugged and replugged back in (basically re-booted) to get any of the buttons to work.Look at how many "remanufactured" versions of this coffee maker there are out there. Thats a good indicator of a real problem with the quality control on this product.An expensive piece of JUNK!