Cuisinart Brew Central Filter Coffee Machine DCC2400U
from Cuisinart
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 Category: Kitchen & Home
Model No: DCC2400U
Availability: dispatched within 24 hours
Index: Kitchen & Housewares
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Kitchen Shopper Price: £86.53
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Product Description Brew Central automatic filter coffee machine. Fully programmable and user friendly, brew time setting and cup quantity selector, commercial quality brewing, gold tone coffee filter, robust and durable, brushed stainless steel housing, fresh brewed flavour for hours, 12 cup double walled insulated carafe with vacuum sealed lid, unique self-clean feature, automatically cleans itself to reduce build up of lime scale. 3 year guarantee. Please Note: All electrical products sold by cookinstyle (InStyle Products Limited) are supplied with a UK 3 pin plug.
Disappointing  Sent: 24 August 2008
This is an expensive item in the UK (about double the US price!) and it should not have been difficult to design in an external window to judge how much water you are pouring in to the machine. Instead, if you keep the machine on a normal height surface, it is necessary to get a set of step ladders and a torch to peer into the bowels of the beast and try to get the right ammount of water for the ammount of coffer you want out. Crazy! If I had known I would not have bought it. Oh, it does actually make reasonable coffee in my view but only keeps it warm enough for 2/3 hours. Comes with a rediculously posh "manual" but does not live up to the hype - Full UK prices for Cuisinart stuff in general appear to me to be on the opportunistic side!
OK but poor value for money Sent: 09 February 2008
This product looks good and gives good attention to the aesthetic aspects of design, but little effort seems to have been applied to practicality. Apart from the difficulty of getting water in and judging the quantity, the worst thing is that the jug dribbles as it pours and you have to unscrew the hermetically sealed lid to get out the last cup of coffee. Even more irritating, the (dishwasher proof) jug traps water in the insulation, which can be heard sloshing around, apparently sealed for the duration, until it leaks onto the tablecloth as you pour. On the plus side, the machine makes good coffee at a reasonable temperature, and the Thermos jug keeps it hot without stewing it. Overall, not bad but not worth the money I paid for it.
Solid and elegant but not a good coffee maker Sent: 14 January 2008
Cuisinart make elegant and wellmade appliances and this is no exception. It has a thoughtful timer facility and you get the impression that a lot of thought has gone into its design, at least from reading the instructions.
But the problem here is that the design is cosmetic only. When it comes to practical coffee making there are many shortcomings.
I did a direct comparison between this unit and our old Bosch coffee maker, here are the results: Filling the chamber is tricky because the lid does not fold back very far. It is very difficult with the bulky insulated flask provided. It is hard to see how much water you have added to the reservoir as there is no external see-through wall. It takes its time in producing the coffee. The coffee is not particularly hot despite the insulated flask when compared to the old Bosch.
And now the big one - IT MAKES DREADFUL COFFEE. The direct comparison with the Bosch (and I mean exactly the same amount of water, coffee grounds, milk etc) produced a great cup from the Bosch and a tasteless pale brown nasty brew from the Cuisinart.
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Associated kitchen categories: Coffee Makers Small Appliances, Coffee Machines, Cuisinart, Coffee maker |
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