I've had two of these units and they have both suffered from broken knobs. Looking around the 'net, I've see others complain of this flaw as well. The replacement is twenty bucks plus shipping, so figure on ordering one of these as well. As long as the knob holds up the pot itself is nice and brews a great, hot cup of coffee.

This percolator makes the best tasting coffee we've ever had.
We've been through many pots including professional makers designed for hotels and altho an old fashioned stove top pot makes good coffee, it takes too long and it's not as wonderful as what comes out of this maker. we use it everyday at least once or twice, and it's held up for quite awhile. There is one snafu, you MUST load the basket very carefully, because if you don't grounds find their way into the center tube and wind up in the brew. My husband is always getting grounds in the coffee, but it still tastes fabulous! I've had to replace the lid, that's been my only complaint. The knob is plastic, but after roughly 1500 pots of coffee, I can't gripe too loudly, because the pot has outlasted every other pot we've ever owned! ...Not to mention that if you truly love REAL coffee (not the drip crapola) this is the only pot there is!

Bought our Dualit percolator before I read all the negative reviews; Have to disagree: our works perfectly, seems to be very well made; makes good strong coffee and keeps it very hot like we like it; easy to clean also. We also purchased one for a friend as a gift and they are pleased as well.

Since Dualit makes a great toaster, I assumed their percolator would be good. I was wrong. There is an excess amount of coffee grinds in the coffee even with coarse ground coffee. In addition, the coffee continues to boil and after a while smells like it is burning. Very disappointing. The only nice thing is that it is cordless.

I really like the cordless feature of this product. Coffee perks in a reasonable amount of time and the coffee is very palable. The good features of this product is the reason I bought a second pot after about one year of use of the first one. I was disappointed in the short time it took the first pot to wear out. I had two main problems with it. One, it leaked water out of the bottom and two, the glass part on the top broke away from the main part of the lid. This was the only cordless percolator I could find or I would have brought another brand.