This is a great little coffee pot and gives me the best coffee I have ever had. I use it with great delight every morning. It is easy to use, easy to take apart for washing, and does well on the small ring of my gas hob. The wide base is a good design for this purpose and for stability. For many years we used a similar, but far inferior pot made in aluminium, in our holiday caravan, but disposed of this because of the aluminium scare. We missed it greatly and longed to find a stainless steel model. Now at last we can again go back to wonderful coffee and without that aluminium taste.
I do have one small grumble - it should not be called a 6 Cup maker. Perhaps this is OK for very tiny doll's house sized cups. I find that this size model makes only one and a half mugs of coffee. With hot water and milk added I can make it do for two mugs. I couldn't use it when I have three or four friends for coffee. A very much bigger model would be needed. Therefore I have to say, do buy this wonderful little coffee maker if you are making coffee for one or possibly two every morning. Certainly do not buy the smaller model.
I have only given it 4 stars because of the confusing size-name