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Technical Details
- Fully automatic, 12-cup coffeemaker with 24-hour programmability
- Patented brew-through lid and pour-through lid for easy serving
- Double-wall insulated, stainless-steel carafe
- Includes #4 paper-filter starter kit and instruction book
- Measures 16 by 7-1/2 by 11-1/4 inches; limited 3-year warranty
Product Description
Now you can enjoyed piping hot, full-flavored coffee in style. This handsome coffee maker from Cuisinart features a good-looking brushed stainless steel carafe that keeps coffee hot for 12 hours. The patented brew-through and pour-through lid means coffee means less mess. Totally programmable, this coffee maker can be started any time during a 24-hour cycle. Loaded with useful features like Brew Pause, automatic shutoff, brewing complete alarm and a #4 paper filter starter kit. Covered by a three-year limited warranty. Model DTC-975Similar Products
Customer Reviews
2010-08-18
By Ernie (Connecticut)
We bought this brewer 8 or 9 years ago. Over the previous 20 years, we had tried Mr. Coffee, Krups, Gevalia, Braun, and others. Most were adequate brewers with fragile glass pots. Coffee had to be decanted to avoid tasting like old rubber tires after an hour.
With the Cuisinart, there is a stainless steel pot - inside and out. This not only stops breakage. It keeps the coffee hot for many hours. We work at home, so this is important. Brewed at 7 a.m. a cup is drinkably hot in the afternoon. What's more, if there is any left in the pot overnight, that neat "gravity seal" system keeps the coffee tasting (I know you don't believe me, but it's true) pretty decent. I often dump that last bit into a mug and microwave it. It's still better than most restaurant coffee.
The brewer works great. Not fast, but the grounds are well used and the coffee if full bodied. We have indeed had "flooding" on 3-4 occasions. It was caused by either A) an individual not screwing the cover on straight or B) not pushing the filter basket all the way in. Yes, the beeping is louder than we'd like, but after nearly a decade, we often don't even hear it.
Bottom line: If you want good coffee in an indestructible unit at a decent price, you can't go wrong with this unit!
2010-08-15
By Chris May
I needed to replace my Krups 10 cup thermal coffee maker as it had some real problems, after 6 years. I purchased the 12 cup Cuisinart thermal coffee maker. I am extremely pleased with the purchase. As long as you close the top correctly (pour at the pour spout) and make sure the coffee basket is closed securely, this coffee maker is a charm. The coffee stays hot for a long time. I usually make it in the early morning and my husband will drink a cup in the late afternoon. It is always still hot. Better than the Krups.
2010-08-14
By Douglas P. Bauer (Clearwater, Fl.)
Not much I really like about it other than it's a 12 cup thermal brewer. Things I don't like. When you take the pot out after brewing the basket drips some. The pot has a very small opening. You can't get your hand inside to wash it. Not even my wife's very tiny hand. You have to have man like hands to open the pot. The top outside diameter is huge. The water level is on the back side. You can't see it from the front. The water tank isn't removable making it more difficult to fill. I have not experienced the thing peeing coffee all over the counter top as many have mentioned. It is no where close to being the complete thermal brewer my beloved Starbucks Baristta, RIP, was. I'll probably end up giving it to my daughter-in-law.
Not sure what I would buy.
2010-08-13
By Harold Paulson
If you read the manual that comes with this product, they ask you to use 2TB of coffee per cup of water. That's about a cup and a half of coffee for the full 12 cup run. That's double what any other drip machine recommends. I can't imagine that much coffee even fitting in the basket. What they know about their coffee maker is that it makes WEAK coffee. Either the water doesn't get hot enough, or the water doesn't get spread over the grounds evenly enough, but the upshot is it comes out like tea. That would be enough to recommend against this coffee maker. However, the worst part is that the coffee this machine makes also has a horrible metallic taste. This machine makes horrible, undrinkable not-coffee.
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