Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2255 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: CUISINART
• Model: DGB600BCU

Features

• ROBUST & DURABLE, UNIQUE GRIND AND BREW SYSTEM
• Fresh Brewed coffee for hours, fully programmable & user friendly, convenient & flexible. Commercial quality brewing.

Manufacturer's Description
The Cuisinart Grind and Brew is a filter coffee machine that can grind fresh coffee beans and is fully automatic. It can make up to ten cups of coffee in just eight minutes and is fully programmable, perfect to wake up to or to have after dinner. There is a 'Grind Off' button so you can use pre-ground coffee. Other great features include a permanent professional gold-tone filter, which will not distort the taste of your coffee and a double-wall insulated carafe which not only looks great but will keep your coffee warm for up to 12 hours!

About Cuisinart
Originally a French company, Cuisinart became the leading exclusive merchandise brand in the US and is now in the UK. In 1973 Cuisinart's legendary food processor became the definitive food preparation machine for American chefs. Continuous development since then has broadened the Cuisinart range of kitchen equipment to include innovative and state of the art products.

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Customer Reviews

Convenient and practical coffee maker
The Cusinart machine is great. I live in the US and have had one for a year now and just purchased one for my father in the UK. It makes consistent coffee and does it well. The timer feature works nicely and the noise the thing makes will certainly wake you up. Downside - it really does need cleaning after every use and the coffee grinder must be dried if you plan on reusing it immediately. Never place anything (carafe excluded) in a dishwasher - you won't kill it, but you will notice a difference.

Things you NEED to know :)
OK - you'll read some bad reviews of the Cuisinart 'grind and brew' range - but it is actually a good coffee maker. Firstly people moan about having to clean it, but it is honestly not a problem. You run the grinder under the tap, empty the filter and bowl and run them under the tap, and then give them a wipe and leave them to dry. I supppose it is a lot if you're used to instant coffee and rinsing out a mug, and it can be a pain if you want to make a second brew immediately.

Secondly - and this is a legitimate gripe - it makes weak coffee. Yes. It does if you follow the instruction manual. This is mainly because the grind is very coarse. Its a blade (not a burr) grinder and has no coarseness setting.

TIPS: If you're using mild/medium beans (such as Starbucks house blend for a ubiquitous reference) you need at least two scoops per cup - not one as the manual states. You can also use stronger beans of course. The maximum capacity of the grinder is 10 scoops of beans - so you can only use 2 scoops per cup for up to 5 cups. When making 10 cups - I use 8 scoops of beans, and 4 scoops of fine-ground filter coffee (its ok to mix the two). This makes a good hearty brew - the pre ground adds a bit of extra zing and the beans give the fresh ground flavour. Some of my friends (who drink coffee like bitumen) also add a few scoops of pre-ground directly into the filter before closing the main door).

It is very nice walking into the kitchen in a morning to be greeted by the smell of freshly ground beans and with a pot of coffee ready and waiting. And the jug really does keep it hot for ages.

My only gripe - the "revolutionary" and "totally non-drip" spout, that cuisinart ramble on about endlessly in their literature, always drips the first time you take the coffee pot out after brewing. Hardly a major issue though!

air raid warning level of noise
Had much coffee this weekend following purchase of this machine. Delighted with coffee and it keeps the coffee hot without further cooking, so the delayed coffee is not stewed.
The thought of setting the timer to awake to freshly brewed coffee was a draw but this won't happen. The grinding proceess noise would mean that the whole house would have the same alarm call and the unit is so well sealed that the aroma doesn't really esacpe either.
A tad fiddly to clean, but not a reason not to buy. Our reservations before buying still stand - if this is a self contained unit where does the steam go?? It collects in the bean grinder unit - which is supposed to be dry at all times!!
This is the first review I've ever written and I may be being picky but the noise was a shock.
I would still buy as the stored coffee is good but I can see us reverting to ground coffee when the whole idea was to buy beans.