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I've owned various Mr. Coffee coffee makers through the years and never have I had the problems I had with this. Let me start off by saying that I purchased 2 of these. One for coffee & the other for tea. My family drinks a large amount of tea and it's just so much easier to run the water through a coffee pot that will keep the tea water hot for a longer period of time then having use the teapot every time you want a cup. The pots arrived on Friday (it's Sunday when I'm writing this review & the pots are already boxed for return). I was excited and I unboxed the first pot right away. When I set it up I noticed a funny plastic smell when I opened the unit up to pour in the water. I've had pots with this problem before, so I ran a water/vinegar mixture through the pot twice, dumped that out and then ran two pots of just plain water to get rid of the vinegar taste/smell. I'm sad to say that it did absolutely nothing. The unit still stunk and the water that came out of the pot had a foul disgusting plastic taste to it. Figuring that since I was using a pot for water only the taste would be more prominate, so I redid the vinegar/water mixture three more times (each time using more and more vinegar). Unfortunately, it did nothing to make the taste better. I then switched and tried a water/lemon juice mixture I found after some research on line. Still no change. The unit still reaked and the water tasted foul. I boxed up that unit and figured, ok, let me try the second unit. That unit was just as bad. It had the same foul odor and funky water taste. (And no, it's got nothing to do with the water as my house water tastes fine & I drink it all the time). To anyone who chooses to disregard the 1 star reviews (I did the same figuring that the problems the others had were ones that wouldn't really bother me and things I could work around), I implore you, test the pot out with plain water first. Coffee may mask the funky taste, but I can't imagine that anything that would produce a plastic taste like this could be healthy for you in any way shape or form. For shame on you Mr. Coffee, for shame.