Someone Please tell me how to make a perfect cup of coffee Using an automatic drip 12 cup coffee maker? And oh its got its own lifetime built in filter, and is a GE machine! Mine are always too strong and I only do what the can tells me LOL

Back off on the amount of coffee and see if there are brew settings on that machine .Maybe lighten up a little .Maybe change brands too.I like Folgers myself

Try using a regular paper filter anyway and periodically run vinegar through the coffee maker followed by 2 cycles with plain water.

I believe yr supposed to use cone filters with machines that have a built in filter anyway!

How many scoops of coffee do you use?

its usually 3 level scoops... i have a basket filter and dont have any problems... honestly im thinking its the coffee! to me maxwell house is horrible coffee! try folgers

Chock-full-o Nuts!!!!

or Dunken Donuts!!!!!

Dunkin Donuts all the way

Dunkin Donuts coffee & me=

You betcha! I always use Dunkin Donuts coffee now. I'm addicted.

Thank you I think that's what I'm gonna try coffes and back off on the amount

I'm using a small scoop about one and a half of them. But wow talk about strong coffee the can says 1/2 cup for 10 cups. Found out that was Way too much! I was up for a week on one cup of coffee!!!! LOL

I will take and try your suggestions and evan try putting a filter along with the built in filter thank you! I just want a freah, good tasting, cup of coffee rite? LOL thanks for your imput

That's what everyone else is saying. I believe I'm in a coffee house of folger drinkers ;) thanks next time I buy coffee it Will be folgers thanks a bunch!! :)

The perfect cup of coffee depends on the process you use to make it, the kind of coffee you use, the water you make it with and the temperature of the water.

Drip type coffee makers are the most convenient but probably make the worst coffee. A French press coffee maker is probably the best followed by an old fashioned percolator.

You can get a good French press at you local coffee house for about
$15.00. Then use some good coarse ground coffee. If your water sucks filter it. It should be almost but not quite boiling temp. Start out with about one heaping teaspoon per cup and work your way up or down from there.

If you use a percolator you'll have to time it to get the strength you want.

If I am in the mood, I will grind my own beans and use the French Press.
I have two of them, a single cup, and a 4 cup.

Very smooth.

Would you be willing to bring me a cup don't have any duncan donuts around here darn :( Lol

I just made a pot of Dunkins-it may be cold by the time I get there from Syracuse!!

You can stop here on the way we'll warm it up !

One of my fovorites is half Michigan Maple coffee and half Kroger brand french roast And sometimes a little french vanila.

Another one is 1/3 Traverse City Cherry and 2/3 French Vanilla.