My family is exhausting. My kid dropped the coffee maker and "broke" it. My wife said to trash it behind my son's back so he doesn't feel bad about it.

I took it instead and tested it out...that plastic dome piece seems to have broken which prevents water from brewing directly into the carafe.

However, the carafe lid is such that a "misalignment" is caught by additional openings. So if you're just brewing hot water, there's no issues.

Also, the k-pop side seems to work fine too. Just made myself hot-chocolate to test.

All she had to do was say, "Kid dropped it, please check it out", but no...had to say, "Trash it".

I bought this for her as a gift a few years back. 😔

(...forgot the pics...)