It’s a good coffee machine however it seems cuisinart made some changes to this specific machine. I had bought the same one 5 years ago but this one has 2 major flaws. The basket for filter no longer clicks into place and the heat plate where coffee pots sits on used to be a very smooth surface. Now it’s a rough surface and every time you pull coffee pots out or place it back on heat plate you can hear it literally scratching and then see the scratches on the heat plate. Wish the would have left things alone as the older one was much much better.
We purchased this coffee maker because we have had one like it for many years and wanted a new one. No other makers we could find were as capable as this model.
I have owned two of these. The bottom heating element reliably fails after two years. Almost like it has a timer on it. Up until then, it makes great coffee.
Written by a customer while visiting cuisinart.com