First world problems - overflowing water into my damn coffee

WTF is going on. Just about every new coffeemaker can't regulate the waterflow/filter properly.

We just got a new mr. coffee after returning a cuisinart to costco b/c of the same issue. We got the costco coffeemaker because the kitchenaid before it had the same DAMN PROBLEM.

I looked on youtube and there's all kind of 'hacks' like using BUNN filters or poking holes in your paper filters with a thumbtack but this is bullshite.

Apparently the issue is so widespread that Consumer Reports recently had to add a 'overflow likely' category when ranking coffeemakers.

The manufacturers responses are pretty much "check how fine your grounds are, make sure your basket is clean..." yada yada word salad bullshite.

At the moment I can avoid the issue by buying whole beans and grinding them 'medium-coarse' but it sucks not to be able to grab a Peets or Lavazza off the shelf without the grounds dumping into the coffee.

The strange thing is, it doesn't happen all the time but maybe one out of 5 brews so I'm having to add grinding to the mix now because I'm not ready to sit and baby the water flow every time I brew coffee or risk the 20% odds its going to end up in the carafe.

Anyone else able to solve this issue? I see something about new designs w/ the little regulator to 'improve the oils coming through' but it sounds like a bullshite cop-out to what has become an issue in the last couple of years.

Before this, we had an old mr. coffee for probably 10 years that literally never had this problem. Glad I threw away a perfectly good coffeemaker to chase after 'new and improved'.


ETA wiping the spit off my computer screen now.