Cuisinart 10 Cup Coffee Maker with Grinder, Automatic Grind & Brew, Black/Silver, DGB-450NAS

A Real Treasurer for Coffee Lovers
This Cuisinart grind and brew is the best for making coffee with just ground beans or already ground. I prefer the stainless-steel carafe. I have been utilizing this model–(don’t like the fancy new grinder)–with this simple grinder for over 15 years. Can’t beat it and I am a long-time coffee lover and drinker. The machine is easy to use and maintain. Reasonably priced and last a good while. You can set it up and forget it until the timed brew kicks in. Wonderful to wake up in the morning with the smell of freshly brew coffee.

Works as advertised
Pros:The unit is reliable and works as advertisedReasonable priceNice insulated carafe (Reviews I read prefer insulated carafe over lower model with glass carafe)Cons:Have to clean and refill the unit every dayNoisy during bean grindMy wife wanted to wakeup to fresh ground coffee every morning, with the smell wafting through the house as she lay in bed. But within a week she stopped loading it the night before and just runs it manually in the morning. I knew that would happen, but I still got the full husband points for the gift so that’s what matters! For ongoing husband points you can clean/load the unit yourself the night before.With these ‘grind and brew’ combo units, there is one big differentiator – whether the unit can grind and brew across multiple days or has to be cleaned/reloaded every day. This is a ‘reload every day’ solution, which I selected due to being less complicated. The reviews for ‘multiple day’ units pointed to problems managing beans/grounds/water reservoir/moisture existing in the unit together across multiple days.Overall happy with the purchase and would recommend. But I’d say if you’re buying it to use the scheduling feature, be sure you’ll have the discipline and memory to setup the unit the night before. Otherwise the price and complexity is probably not worth it. Having a separate grinder and brewer is a cheaper, quieter and more reliable solution.

Not worth it
Two down……..Before this we tried the kurig duo which was a disaster……This Cuisinart is not much better.Our typical use – 2-6 Cups of a typical coffee maker (translates to 2-2.5 Travel Mugs worth of coffee.)The 1-4 c brew function is not nearly as hot as the normal brew. But the normal brew itself is not very hot and the directions recommend pre-warming the thermal carafe with hot water. (The carafe resting place also warms during brew but shuts off after.)The whole reason to get a thermal carafe is to avoid a lot of these things……The bean grinder does work well but doesn’t fit enough for the whole coffee maker (not if you’re doing a medium to strong bean weight to water weight.) It is incredibly loud and we don’t use it because it will wake the whole house up.The only time the brew basket doesn’t over fill with grinds is when using the grinder or when doing less than 4 cups. Our typical 6 cup demand leaves grinds all over the basket and carafe (and in our coffee.)The carafe design is horrible, you pretty much have to turn it upside down to get the coffee all the way out. Often we take the lid off to pour.We now only use this when we’ve forgotten to clean out the french press (our back up coffee maker).

Good coffee maker with excellent bean grinder.
Our second one and this is much improved. Works great and makes perfect coffee. We primarily use whole beans.

item came late and had electrical problemsAm still waiting for return label although accepted over a week laterpossibly steer clear of this supplier

Es la segunda cafetera. El sabor es mejor del café recién molido.La recomiendo al 100%