The insulated pot is far better than an afterburner heaterupperer. Them afterburners often turn the coffee to brown water in a trice, as the nice parts of the liquid evaporate.simonineaston wrote: ↑6 Dec 2022, 9:52amBlimey - that's an old chestnut! Haven't heard that one for nigh on a decade... this from a 2014 Sky News web page:The EU tried to ban coffee machines that kept things hot...My emboldening - but of course the fab. thing is now we can make our own coffee machines that can stay on forever and keep our coffee perfectly stewed all day long!New rules designed to make domestic appliances more efficient came in on January 1. Last year, they were interpreted in some parts of the media as a death sentence for the humble coffee machine. Not so, says the European Commission – it's just that any coffee machine made after 1 January 2015 must have an energy efficiency option allowing the hotplate or element to go into standby after a certain period. Older machines are unaffected.
CUgel, ex coffee-gubbins tester.