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Anyone have Cuisinart Coffee on Demand 12 Cup Coffee Maker?

17 years ago

I saw it advertised on HSN and wonder if it is a good idea. It has an inside removable 12 cup reservoir so no carafe to break. And it "is double-walled, so your coffee stays hot and ready to sip for hours", if you can believe the speel. You press a button and get one cup at a time. You can also program it ahead of time. And has a gold tone filter so no more paper filters to buy.

Clare

Here is a link that might be useful: Cuisinart Coffee on Demand

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graywings123
17 years ago
We have had one for almost two years. It is OK, but the tradeoff for a glass carafe is a bulky square of plastic. It takes up a lot of room in the dishwasher.

My husband insists on using the gold tone filter, which just means another thing to clean - I prefer the ease of throwing out a paper filter.

We have noticed that the coffee is drinkable right as you pour a cup. That seems like a good thing, but it means that the holding temp is kind of low. Hence this Christmas present to the husband:

Here is a link that might be useful: Coffee Cup Warmer
monica_pa Grieves
17 years ago
No way would I drink a cup of coffee that had been kept hot for over an hour, much less 12 hours. As coffee sits, it builds up acid and gets stronger, no matter if it's kept in a sealed chamber or a carafe.
I do have a Cuisinart programmable grind and brew, which I love.
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I bought the Cuisinart with the burr grinder about 3 weeks ago and am hoping Bed Bath and Beyond will take it back because it is a PITA. I resisted buying a grind & brew before because I heard they were hard to clean. I was attracted to this one because it advertised that it was easy to clean and that it held 1/2 lb of beans, eliminating one step each day. After about 1 week of use, I got a pot of plain water. I reset everything thinking I had pushed the "bypass grind" button by mistake. It did it again. I took the machine apart and found that the chute the ground coffee goes through was jammed and no coffee could get through to brew. I spent about 1/2 hour unclogging the jam and tried to figure out what I had done wrong. Apparently this happens occasionally. To avoid it,you have to dry all the pieces after washing. I guess the residual moisture from replacing the parts just after washing was enough to solidify the grounds remaining in the chute, and after several days of this, the chute completely closed up. I bought this machine so I would have less work than grinding coffee and then brewing it in my Braun, but frankly, the old system was actually much work overall.
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socks
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Is this the same item linked below, to Amazon? If so, you can read some reviews there also.

Here is a link that might be useful: amazon
caflowerluver
Original Author
17 years ago
Thanks everyone for getting back to me. It sounded interesting because sometimes DH gets up an hour before me and makes the coffee so that when I get up it is cold. And I have broken my share of carafes. Plus just today DH didn't have the coffee pot put together right and coffee went everywhere! Thought it might be time for a change.
Clare
whidbeykathy
17 years ago
We have one, and to me the coffee stays hot until the time goes off.

I deliberately bought it for 2 reasons, just like you DH gets up earler than I do. We make coffee with the auto timer so it is ready 15 minutes before he gets up.

The second was I got so tired of the mess of a carafe. they always seemed to drip on the counter.

We just use regular filters, the gold one came with it but I like to just toss the filter. Kathy

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