Cuisinart DCC-450BK 4-Cup Coffeemaker with Stainless-Steel Carafe, Black
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Cuisinart DCC-450BK 4-Cup Coffeemaker with Stainless-Steel Carafe, Black
Customer Review: Anyone else tasted plastic?
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this coffee maker, like others have, because of the stainless steel carafe and previous breakages. Also I am the only one at home drinking the coffee so I need a small one.
Everything works fine with mine, absolutely no problem with pouring as others have mentioned.
I do kind of miss seeing the coffee dripping into the carafe, but I am glad it can't break!
Where I live there is not much choice in 4-cup brewers (unless I order online), so previously I had a Hamilton Beach Aroma Express. This time the Cuisinart was the only 4-cup available, so I bought it.
Only problem - I find it tastes funny, sort of platic. I made another cup with my old brewer (with the broken carafe)using the same coffee, water etc, to check, and yes, the old one tasted better.
Has anyone else noticed this? And does it improve with time?
Customer Review: Wish I'd Read the Reviews
Summary: 2 Stars
I've loved every Cuisinart appliance I've owned until now. This coffeemaker is very attractive, but that's about it.
I have yet to be able to pour water for brewing or coffee into my cup without spilling. I'm not careless and I've tried every which way, but it just doesn't work. The coffee is never hot enough. Also, it doesn't brew nearly as quickly as my 4-cup Mr Coffee did. And I could overlook those problems if it brewed a good tasting coffee, but it doesn't. Tried different coffees and varied amount of coffee used. Let's not forget to mention how inconvenient the on/off button is. Need 2 hands to manipulate.
Oh yeah, the auto off works, but that just isn't enough to make me happy. Sorry I bought it. Would return it if I had kept the box, so looks like Goodwill has a Cuisinart 4-cup coffeemaker coming.
Customer Review: Gets the job done, but poor ergonomics
Summary: 3 Stars
It's not a bad coffee maker, and has a nice, small footprint, making a good office desktop choice (for a convenient out-of-the-way part of a desk, anyway.)
But there are lots of little irritants. The carafe simply cannot pour without dripping, and filling the reservoir is a lot more annoying than it should be as a result.
I find "4-cup" to be a slight misnomer, working out to more like 3 or so by normal coffee-mug usage.
EDITED TO ADD, several months later: I'd downgrade this thing to 1 or 2 stars, in retrospect. The built-in constant "dribble glass" functionality is a huge annoyance, one that I didn't fully appreciate until finally ditching the Cuisinart and replacing it with a cheap Mr. Coffee machine. It's great no longer having to deal with spillage every single time I use the carafe!
Customer Review: Take it or leave it
Summary: 3 Stars
I selected this item because the black base and stainless steel carafe matched nicely with my other kitchen appliances. I also figured the stainless steel carafe would be more durable than a glass one. Now that I've got it though, its a bit bothersome not to be able to see the amount of coffee in the carafe without removing the lid. Although its less likely to dribble when pouring than my previous coffee maker, you can't pour out the last spoonful or so of coffee without holding it upside down and shaking it. Its also more awkward to fill the reservoir and to see how full it is than with my previous maker. Its too bad they don't make that model anymore. I've been using it for about a month now and other than the nuisances I've already described, its worked fine and appears to be solidly built. Still, I can take it or leave it.Customer Review: Carafe needs to be redesigned
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought this $29 coffee maker after first buying and returning a $10 Mr. Coffee 4 cup coffee maker simply because they (Mr. Coffee) changed the filter basket. I went to 4 stores and couldn't find filters for a 4 cup maker (the supermarkets and CVC only carried the larger size).
Basically, you are paying 3 times as much for the Cuisinart marque because they both do a fine job of making decent coffee. My beef with the item is that while the carafe is nice in stainless since one can not break it, it does a horrible job of pouring the coffee, i.e., expect to pour 8 oz. in your cup and an ounce on the counter. I wrote to Cuisinart and they never responded. I would rather go back to a glass carafe then constantly have to clean up the counter after trying to pour my coffee. This is the reason I only gave two stars.