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(opensecret) wrote:

| This may be a close-to-irrelevant post, but I can say that I haven't
| had a problem with a plastic taste with my Rowenta thermal carafes.
| But I bought mine in the 1980s, when Rowenta was marketing in the U.S.
| (they haven't sold coffeemakers here for many years -- partly because
| they had a lawsuit about coffeemakers catching fire, though mine
| lasted almost 20 years with no problems).

I think that was a recall, not a lawsuit. I think Rowenta's problem here
was just bad marketing leading to low sales. Then - at some point - they
were bought by Group SEB, who markets many competing lines and no doubt
decided that there was no point in competing against itself in the US.

Until quite recently they made an interesting tamp-free espresso machine,
with a lateral-insertion portafilter.

- David R.

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