Love Cuisinart coffee makers. Over the years I have tried less expensive coffee makers and this year I tried a very expensive, fancy one. NOPE. I went back to my tried and true Cuisinart coffee maker. It has the right temperature, the most easy to set and makes a perfect cup.
Brews coffee fine, and end signal is way too piercing, main complaint being, when i lift lid to remove old wet filter and grounds and replace with new, the moisture from lid leaks out on countertop everyday! That is a fault of the product.
Good coffee and I like the filter but it is very noisy and beeps loudly
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Response from cuisinart.comBy Cuisinart, November 8, 2024
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This is a nice- looking, mostly good 12 cup coffee brewer. On the good side, it has a sleek modern exterior design, and very easy to use controls. It’s fast and makes a more than decent cup of coffee. On the negative side, I dislike the carafe that comes with it. It opens only after you pry it open from the back hinge which is awkward and impossible if your hands are wet. Second, it does not empty completely when you turn it over for washing. Residual water stays in the carafe no matter how hard you try to remove it. You have to towel it dry each time or you get stale water in your newly brewed coffee. Sound like small potatoes? No. The carafe is just not well designed. But I still give this a very good rating for its other good attributes.
This is my third comparable Cuisinart coffeemaker. It does the job and I like the controls. What I don’t like is how LOUD it is while brewing, and how opening the lid after brewing, to remove and clean the filter basket, sends water cascading down the back of the machine, straight onto the power cord. I cannot believe Cuisinart still has not corrected this design flaw after all these years.
The coffee pot drips. The plastic snap-on top is a bad design. Send it back to the test engineer. The top is not suppose to retain coffee after the brew cycle. Coffee must be in the pot, not in the snap-on top. It drips as you pour making a mess.