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Love, having the double whammy of being able to have almost instant perfectly brewed coffee and later in the day and evening the great perfectly hot water feature to brew my tea and herbal teas immediately and deliciously with no wait time! Best ever purchase for my coffee and tea affinity! Great price and excellent performance!
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Refurbished
I like the idea to use two sections in one machine. But I don't like two things. The first one - there's not very easy to fill the coffee side water reservoir. Not a big deal, but still... The second thing is the coffeemaker reservoir cover. In my machine it has an arch profile. For this reason the lid seats in the wrong position so the bottom valve doesn't open completely.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Refurbished
Relatively compact and efficient. Excellent programming, easy to use and inc safety feature to prevent scalding from "tea" side. Great capacity for tea or coffee and runs concurrently if desired. REGARDLESS of minor inefficiency, this is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!! Only negative is that like MOST coffee makers, the water refill lid drains directly into the clean water chamber so over time some coffee residue may affect flavor if not cleaned. (Paper towel wrapped around a chopstick is decent remedy for rare need to clean) I don't know why these company's can't change that design feature.
Verified purchase: No
This coffee pot is exactly what you need if you miss hot coffee! We have gone through every brand and find that the coffee is never hot enough to melt the powdered coffee creamer. We even resorted to grabbing our camping percolator we use over the open fire to make hot coffee in our kitchen on our electric stovetop! When that became inconvenient we went to the big box store and spent $39.99 on an electric percolator. What a disappointment, the coffee was more like a luke warm beverage than it was coffee! The price point on this model was spot on and worth taking a chance on since all the reviews show it has the hottest coffee around and the store put it out of our price point. We have had great success with other factory reconditioned products and this one does not disappoint! Lots of other features make this model function better than other models. The lid on the carafe stays closed when pouring, only allowing coffee to exit the spout; just another nice feature this model has. The hot water dispenser is great when we just want a cup of tea or cocoa and isn't something we needed in a coffee maker; but now we wouldn't want to live without it! Best value and hot coffee around!Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Refurbished
This is the fourth Cuisinart coffeemaker I've purchased over my coffee career. The others had been Grind and Brew models, and I was used to the many pieces and parts required to get them humming. This one is deceptively simple to use, to clean and to enjoy well-balanced coffee. It has the ability for the user to choose the carafe temperature, as well as a 1-4 cup brew feature that heats more rapidly, although it slows the brewing a little. The time between brew and automatic shutoff is also programmable to between 1 and 4 hours. The programming automatic brew feature is intuitively easy to use, and it can be overridden by turning the "auto on" setting to "brew". The indirect blue light feature which indicates which features are on and active is helpful. The machine brews 12 5 oz cups. Because the brew time for a full carafe is approximately 8 minutes, when serving to a group, I brew a 10 cup pot prior to serving and pour it into a spare Cuisinart 10 cup thermal carafe and then brew a full pot. I haven't explored whether that thermal carafe would work with this model, but visually it appears to fit and trigger the unit to drip into it. Caveat emptor on that. The hot water feature is also very easy to use. Both the coffee and hot water sides have easy pour in reservoirs with clearly visible max fill marks. Both reservoirs also have easy to insert filter pods. I use those and filtered water, and I do not find any off flavors in the coffee or hot water. The water brews just slightly longer than a keurig style machine, and it is consistently hot. There is a removable drip plate so that tall travel cups fit. The press down lever is large and easy to use (especially helpful in a pre-caffeinated fog). I purchased a refurbished machine, and to my eye and taste, it is well worth the value. I like this machine so much that I finally relinquished my older Grind and Brew machine as well as a lovely tea maker machine since this one performs so well. I recommend this model without reservation.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Refurbished
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