Cuisinart DGB-500 12-Cup Coffee Maker

Pros: Stylish, easy coffee in the AM 'cause it's all set, makes good coffee
Cons: Cleanup, noisy as ever, drips a bit, some strange defaults with the buttons/settings

Hi, I've actually thought a LOT about what I was going to write about this coffee maker. If you ...

Pros: All in one unit...
Cons: which results in clean up issues, no cone filter, and thermos not worth it

My purchase of this coffee maker will be the lesson that causes me to always check out epinions befo ...

Pros: makes great tasting coffee, simple design
Cons: grinder basket gets a bit messy, requires slightly more beans for stronger coffee

I received this coffee maker as a Christmas gift. I've been grinding my own coffee for years with just a simple grinder and a basic coffee maker. So, I asked for a nicer unit that both grinds and brews. This Cuisinart DGB-500 is what I received. ...

Pros: The carafe pours well
Cons: Loud, poorly designed, hard to clean

I love/need a good cup of coffee in the morning, and so the idea of a grind and brew all-in-one coffee maker seemed like a great idea to me. I had a coffee maker, and next to it I had a grinder. I thought it would be great to combine these two appliances ...

Pros: The store had a good return policy.
Cons: Everything. Terrible coffee. High maintenance. Trust me, it is horrible.

I got this thing for a wedding gift and can't say a good thing about it. It literally can't make coffee...which is, I assume, its primary purpose. It sounds great. Dump beans in, fill it with water, set the timer and when you wake up you'll have fresh ...

Pros: programmability, looks nice?
Cons: terrible grinder design, impossible to clean, fit and finish

This is definitely not a coffee maker I would recommend to others. The coffee it makes is OK, but the major issue surrounds the way the coffee grinder is integrated into the product. Here are some of the major issues: 1) While the machine grinds ...

Pros: Easy to use, nice look
Cons: Cleanup, somewhat noisy during grinding, coffee weaker, weak tray catch

I got this machine as a gift for Christmas. The unit came with a gold tone permanent filter but I got no thermos as described in other reviews. Unit does take Mr. Coffee type coffee filters which make the machine somewhat easier to clean than the ...

Pros: Best design and easiest cleanup of all the combo grinder-brewers
Cons: I would rather have cone-style filters

This is the second combination grinder/brewer I have owned. The first was another brand. The Cuisi ...

Pros: Does exactly what it says. Makes great coffee & no mess. Doesn't drip / spill.
Cons: Takes few moments to clean, lock & load for next brew but worth the effort.

For my money this is one great coffee pot. Programmable hot plate turns off from right after brew to ...

Pros: Fresh ground coffee every day. No coffee grounds all over the kitchen.
Cons: Lots to clean up every day. Poor design, It's Big, Can't control the grind.

Have used it everyday for a month and may go back to grinding a weeks worth of coffee at a time. It's a pain to clean the grinder, the filter and the pot every day.

The real problem is that the moisture from the brewing coffee works it's way...

Pros: Freshest coffee possible
Cons: Nowhere near as good as its predecessor. Excessively hard to clean up!!

I love coffee - and I love it made from fresh-ground beans. Within reason, I'd do whatever it took to have fresh ground and brewed coffee as my reward for surviving until another day! Three or four years ago, I discovered and fell in love with ...

Pros: Ergonomic carafe handle and carafe, a full carafe is easy to hold and pour.
Cons: Messy, messy, MESSY grinder mechanism.

Makes great tasting coffee, good and hot but... I bought this product after my old, more circular looking Cuisinart grind and brew's brain fried from one-too-many Tampa, Florida thunderstorms. The newer model was sleek, cylindrical, very ...

Pros: Really fresh, really food coffee.
Cons: Have to clean out the grinder each time.

When we were first married, my husband would happily grind the coffee beans the night before and put ...

Pros: Impress your friends.
Cons: Too expensive, not reliable. Wake the dead.

I have owned three Cuisinart grind and brew machines in the past 4 years. I keep doing this to myself because it's about flavor. The first one, a triangular looking model (still for sale in places) was very messy. It lasted a year or so, before it ...

Pros: Grinds, brews coffee at pre-set time. Carafe easy to clean. Programmable turn-off times.
Cons: Weak coffee. Loud, complicated to put together and clean. taller than normal coffee makers.

Bad coffee was our biggest complaint - but not the only one... We have ground our own coffee for twenty years and looked forward to having that obnoxious early morning sound-blast from the grinder occur while we were blissfully unaware and still ...