Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #34604 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Cuisinart
• Model: Cuisinart DGB900BCU
• Released on: 2008-09-06

Manufacturer's Description
The Cuisinart Grind and Brew Plus is designed to produce the ultimate filter coffee, with an integrated burr grinder that extracts the maximum flavour fresh coffee beans. Fully automatic, it can make up to 12 cups of coffee and is fully programmable so you can have fresh coffee waiting for you in the morning or after a dinner party. You can also choose the strength of your coffee: mild, medium or strong.

The Grind and Brew Plus benefits from a double-wall insulated carafe that not only looks good but will also keep coffee warm. A 'grind off' button allows you to use pre-ground coffee if required.

Other great features include a permanent, professional gold tone filter, which will not distort the taste of your coffee, and two charcoal filters to purify your water and stop the build-up of lime scale.

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Customer Reviews

Great coffee, sloppy jug
This machine is brilliant and makes fantastic coffee and is spoiled by just one thing - the thermos jug that comes as a selling point.

Coffee runs into the pot and is kept warm there - great.

Then you try to pour the coffee and it goes everywhere. Make just 2 cups and it is hard to pour at all, so deep is the inner lip.

It must have been possible to design a working jug.....[coffee is still great though, you just need to make more to cover the loss through pouring over the work surface, cups and saucers]

Brilliant design -- once you're used to it
I prefer coffee made from fresh-ground beans, and drink a lot of it, and this is the best machine I've found to do that without effort. Just fill the hopper with beans and it automatically measures the amount you need, grinds them, and makes the coffee to the strength you specify. You can also set it so that it makes coffee at a predetermined time. It will also work with pre-ground coffee, but if you prefer that then you'd be better off buying a simpler and cheaper machine.
It does take a bit of getting used to, however, and you really need to study the instructions thoroughly in order to get the best from it. Many of the negative comments in other reviews about the strength of the coffee, or the design of the thermos carafe, are I believe the result of people not reading the instructions properly. At first I also had problems with the carafe, but after using it for 3 weeks I now think it the most brilliant design I've come across: it really does keep the coffee fresh and hot for up to 4 hours or so, and if you use it properly it isn't difficult to pour from. I now have no problems at all with splashing, nor with pouring the last couple of cups.
At first I also thought the coffee too weak, but as the instructions point out, you need to stir the coffee before use to mix the strong brew at the bottom with the weaker coffee on top. I find I can do this just by shaking it and swirling it around -- the design means that no coffee spills out.
I agree that I use a bit more coffee for the same strength than I did with my old grinder, because the burr mill doesn't grind the coffee so finely. Also, the permanent "gold tone" filter lets through more of the finest grounds than paper filters, so there are more fine dregs at the bottom of my cup than I used to find.
When I first got the machine my son managed to inadvertently dismantle the lid of the carafe, and I reassembled it wrongly. I phoned the customer help line and got a free replacement through the post in a couple of days, though by then I'd realised what I'd done wrong and had put it right. The help line was indeed helpful, and located in the UK. I'm also impressed by the 3-year guarantee: in my experience not many coffee machines last that long.
If the instruction manual was a bit clearer I'd have given this machine 5 stars; it certainly deserves 4, and when it does finally give up the ghost I'll definitely get another of the same model.

Great cup o' coffee


I bought one of these yesterday and it is a really good machine and comes with a three year guarantee for peace of mind. It grinds the beans and brews very quickly. The timer function is very useful and I awoke to the aroma of fresh brewed coffee today.
The only slight down side, and it has been mentioned before is the coffee flask. When I went to pour my first two cups I thought 'where's the coffee'? The design of the flask means that it has to be held almost upside down when pouring a small quantity.......kind of tricky at first, but I'm used to it now and haven't had any spillage.

However, the vacuum flask idea is a good one, as when the machine has finished brewing it completely switches off, no hot-plate, not needed......Excellent!