- Sales Rank: #313550 in Kitchen & Housewares
- Brand: Alfa
- Dimensions: 15.00 pounds
Features
- Automatic temperature control
- 2-Way dripless spout
- Glass coffee cup level gauge
- Heat resistant top & side handles
- 55-110 cup capacity
- Automatic temperature control
- 2-Way dripless spout
- Glass coffee cup level gauge
- Heat resistant top & side handles
- 55-110 cup capacity
This high quality, stainless steel coffee maker is designed to withstand the daily grind of high use operations. Made from 18/8 stainless steel. Comes with full instructions and cleaning tools. Features: Automatic temperature control. 2-Way dripless spout. Glass coffee cup level gauge. Heat resistant top & side handles. Red On/Off switch & green ready light. . Specs: Capacity 55-110 cups. Ships within 2 business days.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
By Eric Hofmann
I have been extremely disappointed with other coffee urns. I have owned two DeLonghis, both were relatively unreliable and broke down in short succession. I purchased a RegalWare Aluminum Urn at a restaurant supply wholesaler and it worked well. The problem with it was that it was made entirely of aluminum. The basket and brew pipe are the biggest problems...made of aluminum, which is difficult to clean. Its always in some perpetual state of ugly coffee grounds stuck to it and lots of black-yellow accumulation in the aluminum urn body. The Regals also doesn't seem to keep the liquid as hot as I would like. Its kinda hot. Not fantastically hot.I then purchased Regal Ware's Stainless Steel Urn, and I found, much to my chagrin that although the construction was listed as "All Stainless-Steel" it indeed had an aluminum basket, but the price is ridiculous at $250 for an aluminum/stainless coffee urn. The basket and brew pipe, the most important things to be made out of stainless steel, were aluminum. Crummy.So, I started researching on-line what people liked. I found absolutely nothing helpful. I wanted something reliable, fast, quiet, made of all stainless-steel and that kept the liquid reasonably hot. So, I just bought one that had no reviews for it. I was ready to play "Urn Roulette". I used the shipping weights and the prices to pick a coffee maker. Yeah. Sounds scary and kinda reckless. My logic was that something that was made of aluminum would be lighter and cheaper than something made of stainless steel.I ordered this coffee maker, waited for it to be delivered (a week...not bad). I carefully unpacked the urn kinda sneaking a peak at it, ready for the disappointment of an aluminum basket and brew pipe.So, it's made of stainless steel. That's pretty good. The price is comparable to the Regal aluminum/stainless steel model (I did try to lean towards buying an expensive model). So, its stainless steel. Is it good otherwise?First off, the most annoying part of this maker is that it's listed as being "110 Cup" and the manual, although written well for a Taiwanese Product, is very vague and keeps talking about the maker as if it only holds 15 cups and 110 cups in different places. The gauge on the front of the maker also bears out that there are 15 or so "cups" in the entire maker, which is wrong. I can't figure out what these units correspond to in terms of mL, L, actual Cups, Cups of coffee, British Cups, Oz. Gallons, Quarts or whatever. It doesn't seem to correspond to anything. It supposedly is L, but it seems way off for Liters. Secondly, lids on other Percolator type urns twist and lock and this one does not. This worried me somewhat, however, my worries were unfounded and the lid doesn't even rattle when in operation.The first time I used it ( I use it to brew tea, by the way), I assembled it as depicted in their diagrams. In addition to the brew pipe and basket, it has a basket lid, which the expensive DeLonghis had, and I like quite a lot. It also has a mysterious something that attaches above the basket lid and the brew pipe goes through, it seems to be some sort of deflector plate, like a second basket lid. It only fits one way (although the pictures weren't clear on which direction it should go). The first time I brewed tea, it came out way too weak. I checked the brew pipe for obstructions, found none and then decided that the second basket lid was the problem. I rebrewed it with only the "standard" basket lid and viola! It worked fine. I can only assume at this point that the second lid just doesn't work OR it was an alternate lid to use INSTEAD of the other basket lid. Instead of having slits in the top of it, like a standard basket lid would, it has eight large holes (about 1"...~25mm each). I can only conclude that the regular old basket lid works and the second lid is pointless. I might play around with the second basket lid and see what it does. So, I have brewed 8 urns of tea, in varying amounts and it brews fine.Edit: The second mysterious lid works fine for a basket lid, but what we found it probably is supposed to do is act as a stabilizing base for the basket. Its not necessary, it brews fine without the plate under the basket, the basket holds level and fine. I'm not really sure, but it works fine.It keeps tea HOT. I mean really hot. Its awesome. Much better than the Regals or Delonghis. Aluminum conducts heat better than stainless steel, so perhaps the stainless steel keeps it hotter. Although the DeLonghis were all stainless steel and didn't keep the liquid terribly hot either. Whatever. It works great. So far, it has worked perfectly...much better than any of the other half dozen coffee/tea urns I have tried and the materials of construction are great. The stainless steel isn't exactly thick, but its not too thin on the other hand, its not as thick as the stainless steel on the DeLonghis.Is it fast? Its about 15% faster than the Regal, 30% faster than the Delonghis.Is it quiet? Its quieter than the Regal by about 20%, about as loud as the DeLonghi...maybe a smidge quieter, but its been 5 years since I bought a DeLonghi. The Regal sounded like an old steam boiler; the Regal is much louder. The Regals rattle, shudder, and make "steam" sounds. Much better than the Regal.The price? I think its more than competitive...its almost the same price as the Regal with the aluminum basket/stainless body.I can't answer to its reliability, I've only owned it for three weeks now. However, if it keeps going, its the best coffee urn far and away that I've ever tried.As a side point, I found that the liquid indicator lines and numbers, although not corresponding to any volume measurement I know of and having no units, is perfect for making tea. The number exactly corresponds to the amount of shot glasses of loose leaf tea to add to the basket for that amount of water in the urn...which is weird...likely a coincidence, but works perfectly for me. I'd always be dividing the number of cups of tea by 9 (9 cups per shot glass of loose leaf tea). If you're making coffee...I'm afraid you're out of luck. The measurements doesn't correspond to anything for coffee making. If you like percolating tea, you're in luck. Making coffee? Experiment a couple of times or do it by fractions...I guess.I had serious reservations about buying Chinese/Taiwanese products. I'd like to support US industry as much as possible, North American after that, European after that, and I try to avoid buying something made in the Pacific Rim. Too unreliable. Too crummy, too many scandals. However, if American Industry can't produce a decent product at a good price...Regal and Waring can't seem to make a decent coffee urn...then I'm open to anything that works. It worked. I'm happy...so far. I talked to the buyer for the wholesaler I purchase from and he told me all the brands he can get have either aluminum or plastic innards now...which encouraged me even more to find a good stainless steel maker and not worry about what country it came from. American Industry...take notes here. You have to get on the ball. Make a good product for a good price...not make a product thats equivalently priced with crummy aluminum parts in. You know very well stainless steel is superior to aluminum. That's why you tried to charge us more for them...and then con us with aluminum parts.I use this for a lounge, for making hot tea and brewed Iced Tea. I'm sure it would work well for a church, meeting hall, coffee room, break room or just about anything. Special note: if you were thinking about using this for your home, check your electrical circuit before purchase. This sucker uses 1520 Watts which corresponds to 12.6 Amps at 120V and 13.8 Amps at 110 V (US Electricity is about 110-120V). You need to plug this maker into an outlet connected to a 15A or higher circuit, with not very much else in operation on the circuit. If you plug this coffee maker in an older 10A household circuit, it'll probably blow the circuit. This might be the secret of why this maker works so fast...other makers could be made to work on 10A circuits. The DeLonghis worked on a 10A circuit (IF nothing else was on). Most commercial and industrial buildings as well as newer dwellings have 15A circuits, but check the circuit breaker/fuse on the circuit for the outlet you want to plug it into so you won't calling out an expensive electrician to get it to work if you are going to use this coffee maker in an older building. If you are interested in making 7-15L of coffee/tea (the maker's instruction booklet range for operation), I would guess you are using it for a commercial or industrial application...so forget I said anything.Great. Good construction, good performance. 5 Stars. Pretty much perfect. Except for the quirky remaining liquid indicator and the weird second lid that doesn't seem to work.Update: The weird second lid is a base for the basket. I've never seen something like this before in an urn. So, it goes weird lid with round holes on the bottom, basket, and then lid on the top.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
By D. Witt
Well made. Heats up fast, less than an hour. I used it to make a large samovar of tea. I didn't want residual coffee flavor in my teas water so I couldn't rent one for my party.
110 Cup Stainless Steel Coffee Maker
In Stock! Go to STORE Now !Taiwanese Coffee Maker? Does it work?By Eric Hofmann
I have been extremely disappointed with other coffee urns. I have owned two DeLonghis, both were relatively unreliable and broke down in short succession. I purchased a RegalWare Aluminum Urn at a restaurant supply wholesaler and it worked well. The problem with it was that it was made entirely of aluminum. The basket and brew pipe are the biggest problems...made of aluminum, which is difficult to clean. Its always in some perpetual state of ugly coffee grounds stuck to it and lots of black-yellow accumulation in the aluminum urn body. The Regals also doesn't seem to keep the liquid as hot as I would like. Its kinda hot. Not fantastically hot.I then purchased Regal Ware's Stainless Steel Urn, and I found, much to my chagrin that although the construction was listed as "All Stainless-Steel" it indeed had an aluminum basket, but the price is ridiculous at $250 for an aluminum/stainless coffee urn. The basket and brew pipe, the most important things to be made out of stainless steel, were aluminum. Crummy.So, I started researching on-line what people liked. I found absolutely nothing helpful. I wanted something reliable, fast, quiet, made of all stainless-steel and that kept the liquid reasonably hot. So, I just bought one that had no reviews for it. I was ready to play "Urn Roulette". I used the shipping weights and the prices to pick a coffee maker. Yeah. Sounds scary and kinda reckless. My logic was that something that was made of aluminum would be lighter and cheaper than something made of stainless steel.I ordered this coffee maker, waited for it to be delivered (a week...not bad). I carefully unpacked the urn kinda sneaking a peak at it, ready for the disappointment of an aluminum basket and brew pipe.So, it's made of stainless steel. That's pretty good. The price is comparable to the Regal aluminum/stainless steel model (I did try to lean towards buying an expensive model). So, its stainless steel. Is it good otherwise?First off, the most annoying part of this maker is that it's listed as being "110 Cup" and the manual, although written well for a Taiwanese Product, is very vague and keeps talking about the maker as if it only holds 15 cups and 110 cups in different places. The gauge on the front of the maker also bears out that there are 15 or so "cups" in the entire maker, which is wrong. I can't figure out what these units correspond to in terms of mL, L, actual Cups, Cups of coffee, British Cups, Oz. Gallons, Quarts or whatever. It doesn't seem to correspond to anything. It supposedly is L, but it seems way off for Liters. Secondly, lids on other Percolator type urns twist and lock and this one does not. This worried me somewhat, however, my worries were unfounded and the lid doesn't even rattle when in operation.The first time I used it ( I use it to brew tea, by the way), I assembled it as depicted in their diagrams. In addition to the brew pipe and basket, it has a basket lid, which the expensive DeLonghis had, and I like quite a lot. It also has a mysterious something that attaches above the basket lid and the brew pipe goes through, it seems to be some sort of deflector plate, like a second basket lid. It only fits one way (although the pictures weren't clear on which direction it should go). The first time I brewed tea, it came out way too weak. I checked the brew pipe for obstructions, found none and then decided that the second basket lid was the problem. I rebrewed it with only the "standard" basket lid and viola! It worked fine. I can only assume at this point that the second lid just doesn't work OR it was an alternate lid to use INSTEAD of the other basket lid. Instead of having slits in the top of it, like a standard basket lid would, it has eight large holes (about 1"...~25mm each). I can only conclude that the regular old basket lid works and the second lid is pointless. I might play around with the second basket lid and see what it does. So, I have brewed 8 urns of tea, in varying amounts and it brews fine.Edit: The second mysterious lid works fine for a basket lid, but what we found it probably is supposed to do is act as a stabilizing base for the basket. Its not necessary, it brews fine without the plate under the basket, the basket holds level and fine. I'm not really sure, but it works fine.It keeps tea HOT. I mean really hot. Its awesome. Much better than the Regals or Delonghis. Aluminum conducts heat better than stainless steel, so perhaps the stainless steel keeps it hotter. Although the DeLonghis were all stainless steel and didn't keep the liquid terribly hot either. Whatever. It works great. So far, it has worked perfectly...much better than any of the other half dozen coffee/tea urns I have tried and the materials of construction are great. The stainless steel isn't exactly thick, but its not too thin on the other hand, its not as thick as the stainless steel on the DeLonghis.Is it fast? Its about 15% faster than the Regal, 30% faster than the Delonghis.Is it quiet? Its quieter than the Regal by about 20%, about as loud as the DeLonghi...maybe a smidge quieter, but its been 5 years since I bought a DeLonghi. The Regal sounded like an old steam boiler; the Regal is much louder. The Regals rattle, shudder, and make "steam" sounds. Much better than the Regal.The price? I think its more than competitive...its almost the same price as the Regal with the aluminum basket/stainless body.I can't answer to its reliability, I've only owned it for three weeks now. However, if it keeps going, its the best coffee urn far and away that I've ever tried.As a side point, I found that the liquid indicator lines and numbers, although not corresponding to any volume measurement I know of and having no units, is perfect for making tea. The number exactly corresponds to the amount of shot glasses of loose leaf tea to add to the basket for that amount of water in the urn...which is weird...likely a coincidence, but works perfectly for me. I'd always be dividing the number of cups of tea by 9 (9 cups per shot glass of loose leaf tea). If you're making coffee...I'm afraid you're out of luck. The measurements doesn't correspond to anything for coffee making. If you like percolating tea, you're in luck. Making coffee? Experiment a couple of times or do it by fractions...I guess.I had serious reservations about buying Chinese/Taiwanese products. I'd like to support US industry as much as possible, North American after that, European after that, and I try to avoid buying something made in the Pacific Rim. Too unreliable. Too crummy, too many scandals. However, if American Industry can't produce a decent product at a good price...Regal and Waring can't seem to make a decent coffee urn...then I'm open to anything that works. It worked. I'm happy...so far. I talked to the buyer for the wholesaler I purchase from and he told me all the brands he can get have either aluminum or plastic innards now...which encouraged me even more to find a good stainless steel maker and not worry about what country it came from. American Industry...take notes here. You have to get on the ball. Make a good product for a good price...not make a product thats equivalently priced with crummy aluminum parts in. You know very well stainless steel is superior to aluminum. That's why you tried to charge us more for them...and then con us with aluminum parts.I use this for a lounge, for making hot tea and brewed Iced Tea. I'm sure it would work well for a church, meeting hall, coffee room, break room or just about anything. Special note: if you were thinking about using this for your home, check your electrical circuit before purchase. This sucker uses 1520 Watts which corresponds to 12.6 Amps at 120V and 13.8 Amps at 110 V (US Electricity is about 110-120V). You need to plug this maker into an outlet connected to a 15A or higher circuit, with not very much else in operation on the circuit. If you plug this coffee maker in an older 10A household circuit, it'll probably blow the circuit. This might be the secret of why this maker works so fast...other makers could be made to work on 10A circuits. The DeLonghis worked on a 10A circuit (IF nothing else was on). Most commercial and industrial buildings as well as newer dwellings have 15A circuits, but check the circuit breaker/fuse on the circuit for the outlet you want to plug it into so you won't calling out an expensive electrician to get it to work if you are going to use this coffee maker in an older building. If you are interested in making 7-15L of coffee/tea (the maker's instruction booklet range for operation), I would guess you are using it for a commercial or industrial application...so forget I said anything.Great. Good construction, good performance. 5 Stars. Pretty much perfect. Except for the quirky remaining liquid indicator and the weird second lid that doesn't seem to work.Update: The weird second lid is a base for the basket. I've never seen something like this before in an urn. So, it goes weird lid with round holes on the bottom, basket, and then lid on the top.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
By D. Witt
Well made. Heats up fast, less than an hour. I used it to make a large samovar of tea. I didn't want residual coffee flavor in my teas water so I couldn't rent one for my party.
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- Automatic temperature control
- 2-Way dripless spout
- Glass coffee cup level gauge
- Heat resistant top & side handles
- 55-110 cup capacity
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