For the most part, I am satisfied with the OXO 8-cup coffee maker. It looks nice and it works great. But there is one thing about it that annoys me: trying to empty the last bit of liquid (coffee or water) from the carafe. It's not just difficult, it's almost impossible. The only solution I've come up with is to try to cram my hand and dishtowel into it in order to sop up the liquid. That strikes me as an embarrassing oversight on OXO's part — one that damages their reputation.

If OXO couldn't come up with a way to empty the carafe easily, they could at least have made it easy to wipe dry!

We have many OXO products in our kitchen, and love most of them. How this issue made it past usability testing and quality assurance without being addressed is hard to understand. Am I being picky? Maybe. But isn't that what separates OXO from the competition — being able to solve issues like this? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯