Cuisinart Brew Central DCC-1200 Coffee Maker

User Rating Product Experience
20 Days

Strengths: Coffee is hot, Excellent flavor, easy to operate

Weaknesses: Charcoal filter holder is easily breakable

Summary: We love our coffee maker. The coffee is nice and hot, with excellent flavor. In general we don't love drip style because they tend not to be as hot as perked, but this one is preety close. It is easy to use and clean and the autmatic timer is easy to set.

Minor negatives are that the charcoal filter container has a flimsey opening area, which can break. A back up battery to the clock in case the power goes out you don't have to reset the time would be nice. We were very happy with the company also.

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I agree that the charcoal filter holder is a bit flimsy, but then you aren't changing the charcoal filter often. Our water is filtered with several filters long before it comes from the tap, so perhaps your mileage will vary, but we have found that we change the filter only twice a year and it is more than enough. Further, when changing the filter, we heat the filter holder under fairly hot water to cause it to be more malleable while replacing the filter element. The poster makes a good point about a back up battery to preserve clock settings. I'm unaware of any machine which has this feature, but I wish they all did. Having said that, we have found this machine to be able to withstand short power "blips" without loosing its settings. It's the first one I've ever seen that could do that. I assume the circuitry has a small capacitor which discharges slowly enough to keep the settings in all but a complete power failure. We're very impressed with that.

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