Question:
What is this flavorizer dial? What does it control (restrict)? The flow of water? The instruction book, rather cryptically, says something like it controls the the taste -- milder or stronger -- but "always with the same full flavor." Also implies that it controls after taste. Am I opening myself to chatisement from a coffee purest? I am so confused!

Answer: Kevin Sinnott's Coffee Companion did a review on this machine, the same that I have. This is what he wrote: "According to a Braun Canada press release, Ram's team of engineers developed a new drip process called multipath brewing. "This process separates the water flow into two paths, so that not all the water flows directly through the center of the coffee filter. Instead, some of it circulates outside the paper filter. The outside water works to wet the filter cone and the outside edges of coffee, so the grounds are more equally saturated than before. And because the water on the outside meets less resistance from dense coffee grounds, it flows more quickly, which not only accelerates the brewing time and reduces the time that the water spends in contact with the coffee, but creates a siphoning effect, causing the water in the center to flow more quickly." ... Conclusion: "The Braun Flavor Select attempts to overcome some of electric drip's limitations. Even if it used traditional bypass, it would outdo most of what I've tried in European electric dripmakers. ...