Reviews Written by Marv
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January 2, 2005
Needs More Engineering
4 of 6 Yahoo! Users found this review helpfulPros: Quality
Cons: Main feature doesn't work well. Inferior flavor.
While the product is well built, its main feature -- integral coffee grinder -- does not do a good job. While most of the ground coffee ends up in the filter basket, the average particle size is 5 to 20 times larger than that of coffee ground in a separate grinder. As a result, about 33% more coffee is required to achieve the desired strength. Even with this extra amount of coffee, the flavor is substantially inferior to that of well ground coffee. The program feature is useful for automatically brewing at a set time with pre-ground coffee. This feature will not work, however, unless the grinder apparatus is installed, even though it is not used. Consequently setting up and cleaning up is more complicated and difficult that with a normal coffee maker. I'm sorry that I bought this thing. ...
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Needs More Engineering
Pros: Quality
Cons: Main feature doesn't work well. Inferior flavor.
My Cusinart coffee maker is well built, but is disappointing in its performance. While I actually have an upgraded model, the DGB-600, it's main feature -- the integral coffee grinder -- is similar to the DGB-500, and it fails to do the job. While most of the coffee ends up in the filter basket, the average grain size is 5 to 20 times bigger than that of coffee ground in a separate grinder. Consequently about 33% more coffee is needed to achieve the desired strength. Even with this much extra coffee, the flavor is substantially inferior to coffee made with pre-ground beans. Even though I have stopped using it, thhe grinder apparatus must be installed when brewing pre-ground coffee just to enable the unit to turn on. This makes set-up and clean-up more complicated than for other, less expensive products. ...