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Cuisinart DGB-300 Coffee Maker Automatic Grind and Brew 10-Cup, White |
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List price:
$150.00
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- Includes gold tone filter, measuring scoop, and brush
- Has automatic shut-off after four hours
- Digital clock display
- Allows removal of coffeepot mid-brew for a quick cup
- Brews up to 10 cups of coffee at once, with a 1- to 4-cup
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Best Christmas Gift of 2000!
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This is best gift I received this Christmas. The user's guide is clear and easy to understand. The machine is also very easy to program and the guide gives many helpful hints and tips. The clean-up is a bit more than with traditional brew-only machines but using a paper filter facilitates the process. The coffee is smooth and mellow. I enjoy coffee with Half & Half, and it is nice to be able to adjust the holding temperature so that I can still have a HOT cup of coffee. I highly recommend this machine. I didn't give it 5 stars due to the extra time cleaning and set-up requires...but that is only a minor drawback.
for the one-pot aficionado
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This machine makes a good pot of coffee. But I have two major complaints. It's height requires us to place it in only one spot on our counter where it doesn't bump under the top cabinets, and even there it slightly pushes under on the top lid when setting it back - I think that must be due to a flaw in the evenness of our counter. Our top cabinets are about 14 3/4" high.
But the main pain is the cleanup between pots. You have to break down the inside into the three main pieces - the grinder top, the water system, and the basket/grinder cup combo. Each piece becomes crusted with wet grounds and it's a mess to rinse off. And of course you have to make sure the parts are completely dry again before making another pot. I'm also not sure that the grounds that wash out are good for our septic system. So, if you are having company and making 2-3 pots, it's a lot more work than just dumping the filter and refilling as in conventional machines.
I also agree with the person who mentioned the grounds (and we have beans) in the water tank. Your hand won't fit in and there's an additional 4th plastic piece that goes in there which I haven't figured out what it's for.
I also read in another review that you can program the shutoff. But ours didn't come with any built-in shutoff, so there's a definite risk that you could leave with the unit still on. This also results in skanky coffee - if my wife gets up early on the weekend and I get up later, I'm often getting an aged cup of caffienated acid from the bottom of the pot. If it were a normal two-hour auto-shutoff, at least I'd be forced to make a new pot first. I'll have to see about programming a shutoff, but then of course if the power goes out or you remove it, you'd need to reset it.
OK. That's 4 things. On it's plus side, it does make a good cup of coffee, but frankly I'm not enough of an aficionado to distinguish between freshly ground beans vs. the beans I grind in the store and bring home and use up in a week +/-. I just want a good cup of coffee or three when I get up and easy cleanup.
This machine would be good if you have high top cabinets or a space to put it, make one pot of coffee per day, like to buy exotic beans, and don't mind washing several tbsps. of grounds down your drain every day.
If you want to make multiple pots, and don't want to spend 5+ minutes cleaning and drying equipment between them, and want an auto shutoff, you'd be better served getting a simpler machine (and maybe a separate grinder).
Oh yeah - the carafe does always drip as another review mentioned.
High Maintenance & Low Durability
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A good idea in theory, but you spend more time cleaning and drying the machine in order to grind & brew the coffee together than you would using a separate grinder. Also, my machine broke after a year and a half. I must confess that I had no complaints about the quality of the coffee brewed.
