Patent ID: 8829398

Claim:
A method of controlling a hot beverage making device having a boiler for supplying heated water to a brew chamber through a conduit, the method comprising acts of: indicating when the boiler is filled and not filled; supplying heating power to the boiler to heat the water within the boiler in accordance with a secondary schedule of at least one of power and time when the boiler is not filled; and supplying heating power to the boiler to heat the water within the boiler in accordance with primary schedule of at least one of power and time when the boiler is filled or an end of the secondary schedule is reached before the water within the boiler has reached a predetermined temperature, wherein the act of supplying heating power to the boiler in accordance with the secondary schedule comprises an act of supplying a level of the heating power in accordance with the secondary schedule that is smaller than a level of the heating power supplied in accordance with the primary schedule over at least a portion of the time covered by the secondary schedule.