Absolutely love this coffee pot - I researched and found that most had said it would provide you a hot cup of coffee and sure enough it does and it stays hot without burning the coffee. Love it
Got a great deal of the coffeemaker. Like its looks and it functions well. Only negative is it takes cone shaped filters which are more expensive and difficult to find.
Looks great, makes good coffee, but it is VERY loud - one of the noisiest coffeemakers I've ever owned. Would have chosen a different Cuisinart Coffeemaker had I known.
At this time, our only complaint is that moisture drips down the back of the coffeemaker when we open the lid to pull the basket out. The coffee is great. Read your instructions (ie-how much coffee you put in and how fine the grind is). 4 stars is because we haven’t had the coffeemaker for very long to give it any higher or lower.
I always thought Cuisinart branded items were top notch, unfortunately this does not fully live up to that expectation. We have always been a Mr Coffee household but tried this because it looks nice and was a good deal. But I'm not sure I would buy it again. I mean, it works, the coffee is fine but the unut itself just doesn't impress me. Pouring tgw water into the reserve is significantly more challenging than it needs to be (or should be). The location of the relatively small opening is precarious and to make it worse the civer doesn't fully open so its a challenge to get all the water poured into it. Thats really the "biggest " negative I have. But the brewing cycle is much noisier than any other one I've owned, unnecessarily noisy. And the "done brewing" alarm has two settings, its either "wake up the whole house " or "silent", there really needs to be an in between.
I am surprised that there is a 14 cup water amount, yet one can only really make 8 cups- I fill the coffee and put 8 cups of water...How can there be a 14 cups capacity?????