Cuisinart DTC-975BKN Programmable Automatic Brew-and-Serve 12-Cup Thermal Coffeemaker, Black
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Cuisinart DTC-975BKN Programmable Automatic Brew-and-Serve 12-Cup Thermal Coffeemaker, Black
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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-975
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
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I use it to make 2 cups or full pots. I have used many different machines over 15 years of drinking coffee (and consequently making coffee) daily and have absolutely no complaints in this area this machine. I want to address the complaints here for people shopping for a coffeemaker.
RE: The reported leakage problem. This is due to OVERFILLING. The water reservoir is larger than the flask for a reason people: Steam builds up as water is heated, if the reservoir were the exact size of the flask… YOU end this sentence. If you can- a) figure out in your head what happens to heated plastic without room built in to make it heat and b) either fill the machine with the actual flask life used or a touch you measured out beforehand that is equal to the volume of said flask- than you’re smart enough to own this brilliant machine.
RE: The BEEP. Yes it beeps (3 times) and yes it’s not a whisper, but it’s not the trumpet people are making it out to be. These people must have it set up in their bedrooms two feet from their head. If the machine is in your kitchen and you are nearby it’s not loud enough to wake you, it’s just loud enough to hear if you’re in the other room and can’t WAIT to get that first cup of java. It’s daylight and it tells me “hey, your coffee is equipped.” It’s evening and I’m chatting with acquaintances and forget and then it tells me “hey, your coffee is equipped.” People who complain in this area the beep would complain in this area getting wet in the rain or cold in the winter.
RE: The screw cap. Yes it takes 3 revolutions to get this SCREW cap SCREWED on. And like any nut and bolt system you have to start screwing evenly in order to form a tight bond. This tight bond is what keeps your coffee hot. The flask pours using a built-in ball-bearing that uses that wonderful thing we like to call gravity to go the ball ever so slightly away from the opening so that your HOT coffee can pour into your waiting favorite coffee cup. The stream is thin yes, again for a reason: large openings equal larger exposure to air, air that is most probably colder than you like your coffee.
I’ve tried many others and this is my favorite. This is the coffeemaker I would give as a gift to someone who really likes their coffee.
Now I will retire to my DTC-975BK and celebrate its excellence with an afternoon cup of French Heat.
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For in this area a year, I had been stopping by the coffee pot section of the stores staring at the few pathetic choices, and thankfully resisted the urge to buy the frequently stainless steel Cuisinart number that my daughter has.
Just last week my girlfriend had been telling me how much she loved her thermal one, and it really got me thinking how awesome it would be if the coffee stayed hot, and didn’t turn funky like it always does on a burner. A day later, I was staring at this one in the store and fell in like with it.
First of all, it was the 12 cup factor – I had only seen 10 cup thermals before and I couldn’t see the top – when I entertain, I need to have more than 10 lousy cups. It also looks super in my white/bisque kitchen, and the brushed stainless steel pot is very nice looking and heavy duty.
I was forever standing in front of the micro reheating a cup of coffee or tea. Today was a very extreme example: I made a pot of coffee at 9:30 am before heading to church – and at 4:30 IN THE AFTERNOON, poured a cup and it was TOO HOT TO DRINK! Mind-blowing! And it tasted exactly like the first cup did in the daylight.
The whole fam likes to also likes to drink a lot of tea, especially in the evening, and it dawned on me that I could run the water through it without coffee, and wala…. hot water for tea anytime someone wants a cup… no more standing in front of the micro for 2 minutes.
I can’t tell you how awesome this coffee maker is… and having never had one I can set up the night before is truly wonderful. I like the fact that I don’t have to open the top to pour. I will never own a coffeemaker with a hot plate again.
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I bought this coffee maker based on the other reviews a few months ago, and they are right on! This is the finest, best designed coffee maker I have had in years. The flask keeps the coffee much hotter than other makers…(and I have gone through at least two thermals in as many years)…I can reckon of no outstanding flaw. The lid which was terrible-rapped in one of the reviews is head and shoulders above some real pieces of crap I’ve had to suffer through, (Mr. Coffee designers, please take note!) The reviewer complaining in this area the glass in the flask breaking…perhaps there is a glass slot in within the walls of the flask, but I have found no evidence, and they must have dropped the thing. As far as the beeping, well, I don’t know why they threw that in there but it is not a deal breaker. (Why does all have to beep these days?) If you are a honest coffee drinker you will be very pleased with this unit.
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As a coffee lover in view of the fact that 3rd grade, and an engineer with a low tolerance for flaws, I’d call this coffeemaker near-perfect. I gave it as a gift this Christmas, and our whole extended family was impressed with the unit. The thermos flask has an ingenious screw-top lid (easily removed for cleaning), with a perfectly clever mechanism that allows coffee to trickle in during brewing, and pour out without opening the top, but still manage to be airtight the rest of the time. I’d like to shake the hand of the guy that designed that simple-but-elegant mechanism. The coffeemaker brews a full 12-cup flask in just 10 minutes, a real benefit given the effect that brewing time has on the coffee’s flavor. And the flask is insulated enough that the coffee remained filtered past the 2 hour mark. The only weakness that I saw is that, in view of the fact that the unit shuts off completely once the coffee is brewed, you can’t tell at a glance that there is coffee waiting for you (if it started automatically by the timer). But that’s pretty minor, and I’m already recommending this machine to acquaintances. Well done, Cuisinart.
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I read all the reviews of this coffee maker before we bought one.
We must have a new and improved model. There is a water-line tube on the further than, left side of the machine…very simple to read and is accurate.
There is NO hotplate (don’t know where that review came from), the filter holder can only go in one way for no mistakes, the screw-on lid to the EXCELLENT flask is wide-threaded so no way can you get it on NOT honest (unless you don’t look)…
All works fantastic…and the coffee stays ‘hot’ at least 10 hours because that’s how long it took me to drink it all. It makes fantastic coffee (and uses less coffee with more taste) and we would buy it again in a heartbeat!
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I bought the Cuisinart DTC-975 model 3 years ago and have brewed several pots daily. The unit (sadly) stopped effective last month but I was pleasantly surprised that I was within days of their 3-year replacement warranty. I receieved the new unit today and am already packing up the $10 Toastmaster unit and getting the Cuisinart equipped.
The coffee keeps its fresh flavor for hours (not like those hotplate units). I strongly reccommend this unit to anyone who enjoys tasty coffee.
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Okay… Not only do I feel the need to note on this coffee maker, but I also have to respond to all these negative comments that I read, former to buying this machine.
Like many others, our ancient coffee maker (which happened to be an older model, glass flask Cuisinart), looked-for a replacement flask. I had already bought a replacement flask once before and wasn’t going to spend another $25.00 to replace it with yet another one. Enough was enough. It was time to go for a metal pot.
My first instinct was to stick with what I already knew… Cuisinart. And it just so happened that Cuisinart had a coffee maker with all the requirements I was looking for… A metal (unbreakable) pot, makes 12 cups of coffee, is programmable and stylish.
What Cuisinart offers in their selection, as of April 1st, 2007, is model number DTC-975BKN (black). They also have a white one, but white shows all the coffee stains and makes a new machine look ancient, I reckon.
So please let me additional clarify this…
If you’re looking at these Amazon reviews, that are older than six months ago, then you’re looking at Cuisinart’s OLD design!
If you’re reading the reviews that are older than six months ago, then you’re reading the reviews of a coffee maker that Cuisinart DOESN’T MAKE ANYMORE! THEY CHANGED THE DESIGN! SO DON’T GIVE ANY REGARD TO THOSE REVIEWS!
I’m VERY thankful that I realized that Cuisinart redesigned this coffee maker and that I DIDN’T listen to what people had to say in this area it. I nearly didn’t buy it and I nearly missed out on the best coffee maker on the market!
I’m not kidding. The coffee maker ROCKS!
There’s no way on the planet Earth that you could POSSIBLY cause it to spill over. Well… Small of forgetting to place the flask under the filter.
It’s NO different than anything else I’ve ever seen in your average, run-of-the-mill glass pot coffee maker. You fill the reservoir, scoop in the coffee, screw the top on the pot and stick it under the spring mechanism where the coffee comes out.
Duh.
I mean… On one of the before reviews, there was one brain surgeon who even complained that the heated base crapped out after a year of use… NONE of these metal flask machines EVER HAD a heated base in the first place! EVER! The top of this machine is to keep the coffee hot, WITHOUT means of heating the coffee continuously throughout the day!
****sigh****
I’ve gotten into the habit of pre-heating the flask with hot water that I re-use daily. I just keep reheating water from our tea kettle, on the stove, and pour it into the coffee maker’s flask and let it sit for in this area five minutes while I feed the cat or brush my teeth in the daylight. After that five minutes, I just pour the water back into the tea kettle for the next daylight. Doing this, allows the flask to keep the coffee warmer for a much longer period.
The flavor of the coffee is just as excellent as any I’ve ever had. It does what it’s supposed to do. It makes fantastic coffee… Period. What more could you question? The flavor of the coffee never changes as time goes on and the coffee stays HOT, after eight hours. Ten hours is when it starts to get cooler, but it’s still warm enough to drink. Twelve hours and it’s gotten cool, if you haven’t emptied it by then. In our household, 12 cups are usually gone in six hours or less. But one day I experimented and got those results.
I’m pleased as a pig in slop to have this coffee maker. To reckon that I nearly didn’t get it, because of some of the comments I read, based on before models, makes me shake my head.
Yes, it beeps after it’s done. So what. Our ancient Cuisinart did too and we’re used to it ourselves. Unless you sleep in the kitchen, it’s NOT loud enough to wake you up.
And yes it stands taller than your average machine. So what. The walls of the metal flask are thicker than glass pots, because of the need to insulate it. If you want a flask that holds 12 cups of coffee, then you have to have it larger on the further than. Right? Consequently, it gonna’ be a larger coffee maker.
Do yourselves a favor… Get this machine. It does all it says it will.
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Okay… Here’s a follow-up.
It’s now July 5th, 2007 and we’ve had this maker for 6 months now and we still like it.
But, even though I before stated that there couldn’t possibly be a chance of causing the machine to spill over, small of forgetting to place the flask under the basket… It turns out that that’s pretty much how we did it… From a certain top of view.
Oooof!
I had full apart the lid of the flask and set it on the counter to dry. There’s a second “top”, that’s part of the main lid. Inside that “top”, there’s a small plastic ball, that’s used to seal the heat inside the flask, but floats on top of the coffee, as it drips into the flask while brewing. It’s a cool design, but it does need attention/cleaning every so often.
A half hour after I took it apart, while I was making the kids some pancakes, my wife got out of the shower and made a pot of coffee without re-assembling the lid. She just screwed on the main part of the lid like usual, without realizing that the very top part of the lid was removed for cleaning. And that very top part of the lid, holds the “button” that presses against the spring loaded release under the basket, which tells the coffee to come out of the basket and drip into the flask.
Well… I turned around to see what was causing the dripping noise and saw coffee flowing out of the basket and all over kingdom come, making a God-dreadful fu*king mess.
Like an idiot… I grab the sides of the machine and tipped the whole thing over (on function), to allow the remaining amount of coffee to pour out in the sink, very than all over the counter.
What I should have done was simply unplug it.
Now, because of my rash attempt to keep the mess down to a minimum, I suffered second degree burns all around my left wrist and forearm area, because the basket swung open when I tipped it over and the inside of the basket dumped all over me.
Ouch!
So… There’s that. : (
Excellent coffee though. Still like the machine. Just make sure YOU reassemble the lid, if YOU’RE the one cleaning it. It’ll save on a massive mess, a LOT OF PAIN and a excellent argument with your wife, over who caused the whole failure in the first place.
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We bought this Cuisinart coffee maker after reading the reviews of every single thermal flask/10-12cup coffee maker out there (our previous Krupps had stopped effective, and the current Krupps model got terrible reviews).
We have been completely pleased with this Cuisinart thermal one – fantastic coffee, simple to use, very hot – no complaints at all!
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Those who have distress with this machine have problems that are unrelated to the coffeemaker! It works as designed and does a fantastic job of making hot, fantastic tasting coffee with small fuss. The lid screws on easily without having to use force, contrary to what some have said. It can be cross-threaded like any other screw mechanism, but so what? The filter basket can be set in the holder askew, but again, so what? Screwing on the lid and setting the basket in honest can both be done right every time by anyone who pays minimal attention to what they are doing. Reading some of negative reviews will either convince you that (A): this coffeemaker was designed and produced in Elbonia at the ancient Yugo factory and should never be used for anything but as a wedding gift to your ex-boss, or (B): we live in a nation of whiners and victims.
Bottom line: It’s a fantastic coffee maker that does all you would want it to do and does it well. It’s quite possible that some one or two people really got hold of a defective unit, but I reckon the defect in the coffee making process may just be personal very than mechanical. And as far as the beeper goes? If that small signal bothers you, possibly you shouldn’t be drinking coffee anyway. Buy it and delight in it!
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I LOVE this coffee maker. It is right that the coffee is hot and fresh for hours. It’s super simple to clean. Certainly one of the best buys I made. I would highly recommend this machine for most people. Some of the issues mentioned do have some truth…but are unavoidable given the merits of the machine…
For example, the lid does need to be place on correctly and is a small tight (but this required if the coffee is to stay hot for hours). Every once in a while I misalign it, but I reckon it’s obvious when this starts to happen. I could see that someone with arthritis would have a problem. This machine may not be for the very ancient, or those with people in the household who wouldn’t make the effot to do it right (like some teenagers?).
Same thing with putting the brew basket in. It does have to sit fully down and can easily be place in bent. But after you’ve used it a few times it’s obvious when it’s in properly or not. When properly placed you can remove the pot during brew without spilling a drop. Again, this machine may not be best for older people who really can’t see very well (my grandmother would have a real hard time) and for those who don’t disturb to try out these small things.
I did have a problem once with the autostopper not effective well and dripping when I remove the pot during brew, now I always fill the basket with water and push the button to let water come through when I wash it. Works like a champ again.
Bottom line, for most people this coffee pot is incredible. I may not be best for older people because it does have a few quirks.