Excellent coffee maker! Has all the features I wanted and works great. The beep when the coffee is ready sounds very similar to a smoke alarm - but you can silence it. My one big complaint is a very poorly designed carafe. I’ve used many coffee makers over many years and this carafe is the worst design ever! By putting the plastic around the top of the glass it creates a lip so you can never get all the liquid out. That lip also makes it harder to clean. The handle is hollow and open on the bottom so when you wash it the dirty water gets down inside. The coffee maker itself is great but as for the carafe - I expected better from Cuisinart. I truly hope they will design a better and more practical carafe that will work with this model of coffeemaker. Until then I guess I’m stuck. Love the coffee maker - hate the carafe!
This is my second Cuisinart coffeemaker. I bought it to replace another brand that started leaking. In researching recommended coffeemakers, this one came up several times. I remembered liking it and so bought it. It works great, is easy to operate and, most importantly, makes delicious coffee!
I have purchased Cuisinart products over the years and absolutely loved each and every one of them. I had a short term problem programming the timer at first. No matter what I did the time would jump 2-3 hours in advance. I gave it a few more days to see if it would self- correct and it did. Love this new model.