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I always enjoy good, freshly ground coffee each morning and this Cuisinart Grind-and-brew does it right. Very easy to use and clean each day. Good product.
Evidently the basket depth has been reduced in an effort to lower the overall height of the machine, but in so doing the engineers assure overflow in about 40% of the brew cycles. It seems that if the gold mesh basket is damp, especially if you prepare things the night before, it will virtually guarantee an overflow. If your experience with this machine has been positive, it is likely so because you only brew 6 cups at a time. The overflown grounds also tend to jam up the brew-pause valve, so that if you remove the carafe before filtering is complete the machine will dribble like it has prostate problems. But. As soon as the first few grounds float over the edge of the basket, they lodge in the orifices in the top of the carafe lid and block the flow with varying degrees of efficiency, depending on the occasion. be cleaned after every use and completely dry before brewing.
The machine seems to function as an excellent resonating chamber, amplifying what is already a somewhat noisy process.I must say that when it does work this machine will brew excellent coffee, which is why I gave it two stars. Woe betide the couple who tries to make the full 10 cups of a strong-ish brew. Also, our machine's grinder is utterly unreliable and will refuse to function at it's own unfathomable whim, and when it does work it sounds like a wood chipper howling away in the kitchen. Figure on losing 10-20% percent of your brewed coffee to the countertop four or five times out of ten. More coffee lost.It is imperative that all the removable components (and there are many). Good coffee is a delicate balance of fineness of grind, water temperature and duration of contact between the two, and Cuisinart has struck a very pleasing balance indeed. well, it's a dice game with this machine.Bottom line: if you need more than 6 cups at a time, steer clear of this machine until it's been re-engineered.
And it brings with it all of the powdered coffee left in the grind cup, leaving a nasty inky substance all over the place. After looking at it for two minutes, I can spot the flaw: steam condenses in the grinder cup. This coffee maker is crap. It would almost be a good excuse, saving the quality of the brew, except.Coffee's ideal brew temperature is 195F.
A bit of QA testing on the part of cuisinart would have caught the design flaw that is responsible for this. Ah yes, the Cuisinart Grind and.Boooo. Fixing the cup would mean that cool water would leak out back into the coffee basket, reducing the quality of the coffee. 30 seconds of R&D and a better heater would have made this pile of junk at least spit out acceptable coffee. The grinder cup is poorly made, because there is a seam between two pieces of plastic.
So perhaps cuisinart decided that, instead of scrapping a flawed design and sacking the mickey mouse "engineer" responsible, ruining your counter top would be the lesser of evils. Cuisinart, you are the Yugo of the kitchen appliance.This coffee maker is craptastic. It leaks coffee all over the counter and makes a brew that barely qualifies as hot. This thing is incapable of making water that hot. This seam isn't very well formed as water can flow right through it.
Once the water collects in the cup and drains out, it goes through the coffee maker and onto the counter. I didn't do research to learn this fact, I just read the side of a bag of beans I bought from a local roaster. Caveat emptor.
and those of you who like to grind your own coffee then drop the coffee grinds in the basket and press grind off. After giving our daughter my first one due to us moving i couldn't take it back to we purchased another. So what you have to clean the chamber everytime you us it. The coffee is always hot and fresh. My only other choice the next time around would be the "coffee on demand".
The bottom is getting rusty and basically the product is unusable now. I have had my coffee maker for about 3 years and only use it a couple times a week, at most. It worked ok until recently, but now when you turn it on, most of the water leaks out the bottom making the little coffee it does make undrinkable. I am looking into returning it, but from reading other posts and reviews, this will not be easy. I would suggest buying a different brand of coffee maker altogether.
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