Very happy with this purchase. Likes... stainless steel, no plastic, glass perk knob... GREAT tasting coffee.It takes some experimenting to get it just the way you want it but you can do that easily.I use the little round filters that came with it, and regular store bought folgers half caff coffee.I use 3 slightly rounded scoops of coffee, and fill it up to the 9 cup mark. On our glass top electric stove I heat it on HIGH until it perks (11 minutes when filled to the 9 cup mark) and then I turn it down to med/low (2-3) and let it perk for 8-9 minutes. The coffee produced is much bolder than our old drip coffee maker, smells great while perking and drinking, wonderful flavor. If you ground your own fresh coffee beans, no doubt it would be even more wonderful.I am VERY happy with this purchase. Actually came back to Amazon to see if they made a 12 cup version which would be nice for when my kids come home to visit - but sad to say I could not find it in a 12 cup.Ps... the cup size I think must be 5 oz cups, because when we fill it to the "9 cup" mark, we only get 5 or so cups of coffee (8-10 oz regular coffee mug type cups).Clean up is easy. I hand wash mine, mostly just rinse it out with hot water and then wipe it dry with towel. Use a little soap now and then.The only thing I don't like is the time it takes to get to perk with our older electric cook top.Considering purchasing one of those fancy induction cook tops to speed that up.Buy it, you will like it !*UPDATE* 9/13/2018 - I purchased a NuWave PIC Platnum (latest model as of this date) - this is an induction cooktop.It WORKS with this Percolator just fine. (there was some question of that) but glad to report that it does work.With the NuWave you can program it to do Stage Cooking... Stage 1, some temp, for some time, State 2, some temp, for some time, etc... then save that as a program number that you can run, and it will auto go thru the different stages.I fill the Percolator up to the first hole in the spout (you can see that when you look inside the pot)... this is close to the 9 cup mark.I programmed the NuWave to run at 575 degrees for 7 minutes (that gets me to the first few perks)... and then at 210 degrees for the next 9 minutes (that is how long I want it to perk)... and it does perk at 210, but will not at 205. At 215 it perks a little strong, so I set it to use 210 degrees for the next 9 minutes (stage 2), and then for the last stage... I set it to keep the coffee nice and hot 180 degrees, for the next 20 minutes and then to shut off.That lets me come back for a nice HOT second cup...Worked like a champ this morning. Just filled my pot up to the first hole, put my 3 scoops of coffee in, and told it to run program 99 (where I had saved those 3 stages of cooking). It ran the 7 minutes at 575 degrees and just started perking... then stage 2 kicked in, 210 degrees for the next 9 minutes, and then stage 3, 180 degrees for the next 20 minutes... then it shut off.COOL !