I love this coffee maker. There was one drawback. They include a charcoal filter to provide the purest water for your coffee. If you have well water as I do, you will want to remove it, as you can literally taste it. But after removing it now makes outstanding coffee!
This is our second Cuisinart coffee maker; they are great with 2 exceptions; the fill line is on the side and hard to view, and when our last one quit working, it was a simple fix my husband could do (repairing a small water hose) except that he would have had to cut through the plastic back to reach it. Makes great coffee, easy to set up, program and use.
The coffee is VERY HOT. It is an easily programmed system. The cover for the carafe snaps on so the coffee can’t be stirred prior to serving so it’s a bit of an inconvenience.Time will tell if the “snap” can endure over the long haul.