Cuisinart DTC-975TC12BSS 12-Cup Stainless Thermal Carafe with lid, Black
by Cuisinart
Our Price: $42.99
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Category: Kitchen
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: CuisinartBrand: Cuisinart
Product features:
- For use with Brew & Serve model #s DTC-976
Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Cuisinart DTC-975TC12BSS 12-Cup Stainless Thermal Carafe with lid, Black
Customer Review: Rube Goldberg Would Have Loved It
Summary: 1 Stars
Only in today's society can we over-engineer something that should be so simple, and get it to the point where it doesn't work.
This is a nice-looking carafe, out of which you should be able to pour coffee and relax with your cup of brew. Instead, the moron who designed this thing has made it impossible to pour the coffee without spilling it. This carafe comes with what is touted as a 'no drip lid,' and its only purpose is to drip. This Rube Goldberg device has a cap with a wheel that looks like it should turn, but doesn't. No matter what position you put the cap in, when you pour coffee, nearly as much of it comes out of a purposeless hole in the top of the lid as out the spout.
To make things more frustrating, Cuisinart considers this carafe to be a replacement part, not a product. It comes in a white box with "Cuisinart" plastered all over it, but no helpful information. Inside - no instructions on how to use the contraption they call a lid. Of course, you also can't find any instructions on the Cuisinart website.
If you own one of these devices, you have two choices. First, you could go to a local Starbucks, where they sell coffee brewers containing these carafes. Over-caffienate yourself until you work up the courage to pull off a full-blown Dog-Day-Afternoon style hostage situation and force them to open one of the brewers and give you the instructions, which MAY be able to help.
The second, and recommended, course of action would be to go to your local hardware store, purchase a can of industrial spray foam and spray it into the carafe lid until it is impossible for liquid to go through it. This will stop the rigged-up doodad on top from leaking when you pour coffee. Unfortunately, you still will not be able to close the lid. That's right, you NEVER can close this lid completely.
Oh, I guess there is a third option and that would be not to buy this fools' thingamjig in the first place.
Description of Cuisinart DTC-975TC12BSS 12-Cup Stainless Thermal Carafe with lid, Black
Brushed stainless steel & white thermal carafe w/ dripless pour spout and brew-through lid seals out the air, retaining heat and fresh brewed flavor for up to 6 hours. Dishwasher safe for easy cleaning.Kitchen & Housewares
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