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

Our second one and this is much improved. Works great and makes perfect coffee. We primarily use whole beans.

Highly recommended. I decided years ago to be loyal to Cuisinart appliances due to a great customer service experience so, if they're reading this, CS does make a difference. This is my 3rd similar Cuisinart but each provided good service for a long time. I stepped back from 12 cup to 10 cup this time. I almost always only brew 6 cups but sometimes have company. I wanted the insulated pot for energy savings: the coffee brews and then the heater shuts off, but the pot keeps the coffee nice and warm. The clear pot with my old one was easier to be accurate with my 6-cup daily grind, but it only took a couple of days to figure this one out. only negative is that it's hard to pour the last cup out of the pot, compared to old pot. Overall, excellent grinding coffeemaker, easy to use and clean.

I just received my 10-Cup Cuisinart Grind/Brew and I love it!! Who needs Starbucks when you can easily grind your own beans fast and have a delicious cup of HOT coffee when you want it and the smell of the fresh coffee is so nice! I love the thermal craft, it keeps the coffee very hot. I don['t even mind cleaning it because the coffee is so wonderful! It just makes me so happy to have this coffee maker, sometimes its the small things in life that make us feel good! Yep!

Finally replaced an old industrial coffee maker when it began to leak. Decided on Cuisinart because I own other appliances made by them. First its big.. almost too big for my little kitchenette. Impossible to use the carafe to pour water into the chamber in a tight area. Plus you have no way of measuring how much water is in the carafe until you pour the water in. Then you can visually see a measuring stick built into the water chamber. So, I'm using an old carafe that I can measure water from. The charcoal filter is weird. If you are using filtered water, then you may want to ignor this entire process. Plus booklet states to replace every 60 days? But they only give you a single filter. The brewing process is fast and I hate that once the coffee cycle is completed the unit auto shuts off. That means you have to depend on the coffee staying hot inside the stainless carafe. Ifs its more than an hour, hit brew with grinder off and it will restart the unit. I can't figure out how to keep the unit on! Hard to clean but most are. You can remove the part holding the permanent filter or disposable paper filters to clean as well as the bean holder. The instructions where when the clean light goes on sounds like a nightmare so have a bottle of white vinegar on standbye always. My first two brews with a dark Columbian premiim roast were adequate. Cannot adjust temperature and instructions about using hot water is confusing. Grinder is not as loud as others but it will wake the dead on a Sunday morning. A bit overpriced but you get to auto grind whole beans so I'm giving it 4stars. Looks high tech, brushed chrome and black with Cuisinart logo embossed on front. Lastly, cycle for regular and grind brewing is superfast so waiting for that first cup of java is going to make you happy. ENJOY!

Grinder works well but is too loud; have to clean grinder after every use and it is a pain to do, requires scrubbing with cloth and then takes a long while to dry, if it does; carafe does not keep coffee hot for very long even though I heat it ahead of time with boiling water, I still have to reheat coffee in the micro; taste is not as good as my French Press! Trying to sell mine on Marketplace!

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.