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Me agrada el diseño y el vaso (definitivamente apuesto a los vasos de vidrio) pero… cuando Licuas quedan grumos y no entiendo porq por eso no se lleva las 5 estrellas…

I have severe psoariatic arthritis in my hands. I was finding it hard to lift my insulated steel coffee pot due to weight. I was debating whether to spend the money on this. I found one on cuisinartoutlets.com Resale that was around $58. I was so happy! It said "like new", "only box damage". I thought this is great. When it arrived, no visible box damage. The coffeemaker sent to me was filthy with dirt, scratched, and had burnt on coffee, both in the brewing chamber, and caked around the heating element where coffee isn't supposed to be. It didn't have the paper or permanent filters as described. There was no manual either. I downloaded that myself. It took me 3 days to thoroughly clean it. That said, it's working for now and I enjoy the hot coffee on demand. Not having to pick up the pot anymore is a plus. It brews faster than my old one did. The coffee tastes great. I really like Cuisinart products. I have a single serve Cuisinart also. I hope it holds up. I never purchased from cuisinartoutlets.com Resale before, so I guess buyer beware.

I am very pleased with this appliance. I have used it to air fry frozen and fresh French fries, grilled Chicken, reheated pizza as well as baking a small cake. It does well baking cookies and recently I baked 3 tiny loaves of banana bread. I love it and would definitely recommend it for anyone that wants the ability to do many different things with one appliance.

Wish I would have read the bad reviews. Brush worked great but do not get it hot, it literally caught on fire while I was cleaning debris from my stone. I learned the hard way you need a brush with metal bristles.

exactly what i needed to barely fit 5 1/3 lb costco kirkland frozen hamburger patties. if you have an induction stovetop the bottom part of the pan that makes contact with the glass is 12 inches in diameter.

When I first started using this, the lights were working intermittently. Then it worked well for a while. But I wasn't using it for several months during daylight savings. When I tried it recently, it didn't work so I changed the batteries. That did nothing. The unit looks fine, but doesn't work ...

I've had this unit for 1.5 years now, I can honestly say that it has ruined store-bought ice cream for me - I can never go back. If your looking for an entry-level machine to dabble in ice cream creation and don't want to drop $200 on a high-end appliance, this the one for you. I've tried dozens of recipes, and this is the one I use pretty much every time: - 1½ cup whole milk - 1½ cup heavy cream - ¾ cup sugar - 1 tablespoon Malted Milk powder - 1 teaspoon Vanilla Bean paste -⅛ teaspoon salt This will get you a solid vanilla base. You can add one or two things to this and get yourself nearly any flavor you want. On its own, you can add an extra tsp of Vanilla for a solid Vanilla icecream, melt 4 oz of chocolate and mix it in for a great Chocolate icecream, do 2 tsp Peppermint Oil for a mint Chocolate chip, powder up to 3/4 cup of freeze dried strawberries for the best strawberry icecream you've ever had. Add crushed up toppings just before it finishes churning or mix them in after. The Pros: - It works great - It's very simple to use and to clean - Ice cream is done in around 20 minutes. - You control the ingredients going in, which means you can have that PB&J ice cream you always wanted (it's amazing btw) - It's arguably cheaper to make your own ice cream (especially if you buy ingredients in bulk). The Cons: - The machine is moderately noisy. Not to a high degree, but it can be annoying. - You need to chill the bucket for 12 hours minimum for best results, so you're effectively limited to making 1 batch per day, unless you buy more buckets. - The bucket will spend a lot of time in your freezer which eats up space, and it can be a chore to tetris in if you have limited space in your freezer. Things to consider: - Make sure your mixture is chilled or at least somewhat cold before putting it into the machine. If it's too warm, the bucket will thaw too quickly and the ice cream will come out soupy. - Turn the machine on before pouring your mixture in. Sometimes the mixture will freeze too quickly on the edges and lock the paddle in place if it's not already moving, especially if your mixture has a high water content (like Gelato or Italian ice) - Let the bucket dry out completely before returning it to the freezer. - Use food coloring! It is so stupid, but green mint chocolate chip tastes more mint than a white mint, even though it's the same recipe.

Ordered the darker brown color. Was sent the lighter natural color. Besides that really like the size and quality. Going to keep it.

Hot-take: Cuisinart products usually get even better over time, but this “Next Generation” Grind & Brew has a fatal, mechanical design flaw that can render it useless, with no way to repair. And the proof is on cuisinartoutlets.com- they’re not retiring the previous, old generation model. I can’t imagine why their engineering management approved such a departure from all other grind and brew machines, or even coffee grinders. Ours died right after the return window, and you might want to avoid this one. If you’re looking at a grind & brew, it’s probably because you’re a fan of specialty beans, and want to get the best flavor possible for your investment. You likely got to that first by getting a burr grinder to use with your existing drip coffee maker. And therein you learned everything you need to evaluate grind & brew machines. Grinding coffee is simultaneously oily, gummy, dusty, noisy and has a learning curve. You’re increasing work, cleanup, and complexity. But if you really like coffee that’s fine or even fun- the ceremony of brewing really tasty coffee can be a welcome break in the day. And most people buy grind & brews because they want to combine two machines into one, AND have amazing coffee ready for them at 6:00am, when it’s time to roust the little humans to feed them to the academic-industrial complex. (Sorry, I like my coffee dark, like my jokes). Which brings me to this unit’s design flaw, which has no workaround, inconceivably added by a company who otherwise knows what people want at 6:00am. You’re not allowed to clean the grinder, which will gum up, just like any other coffee grinder. Grinders get gummed up- it’s just how they roll. And that’s expected and perfectly OK. Lawn mowers get gummed up cutting wet grass over time and you have to turn them over occasionally to dig out detritus. It’s part of owning a mower. The natural oil in coffee is no different. It’s messy. Now imagine taking a burr grinder and embedding it in the heart of a complex device that also generates a lot of steam directly underneath the blades. It’s going to gum up even worse than a standalone grinder. And that’s OK too, if you clean it. But unlike the DGB-900 or any previous Cuisinart, the top of the DGB-800 is a one-piece plastic part, combining bean hopper and a bean chute cover *which can’t be removed*. (See the first, blurry picture). And even if it could be, the grinder is offset from the chute, creating an s-shaped bean path to the blades. Further, the manual has no section on cleaning, essentially saying it’s never even necessary because of the new design. And that’s telling, suggesting a product management problem, where an overconfident team disregarded the experience from millions of previous units. This was our 4th Cuisinart Grind & Brew over 15 years, beginning with a basic blade grinder. It’s a machine and all machines include design compromises. In Cuisinart’s case, the main compromise was always a long-ish grounds discharge tube which would clog if users didn’t clean it out every now and then. (I find a shop-vac to the top of the grinder makes quick work of that every few weeks). Cuisinart made a reasonable compromise because the longer tube meant the grinder could be offset back away from the grounds basket, reducing intrusion from brewing steam. With that design they’d last for years *if* you did a little preventative maintenance the first time the coffee went weak, or you heard the grinder whining higher over time. But with the DGB-900 they hit upon a solution which should have been user gold- moving the grinder directly over the hopper but adding a stainless gate and seal to keep out steam. (See second blurry picture). With this design there is no discharge chute to clean. It’s the main reason we selected this unit. Unfortunately, perhaps hubris or the product marketing team promoting a “worry free, next generation design”, encouraged somebody to add “hey let’s also block access to the burr grinder too”. <facepalm gif> Cuisinart’s core strength has been finding the sweet-spot between features, price, and brand. This oversight should never have happened. But then again there are other minor new design problems as well suggesting Cuisinart didn’t actually design it. First you can’t wash the bean hopper as with previous designs because it’s literally molded into the top of the machine. And you can’t really clean it on the machine either because drops of water might drip into the grinder and electronic parts. Second, the auto-start timer ignores the “grinder off” setting. So, at 5:45am you’re going to hear it’s very loud screeching whether you want it or not. And you’ll want to be able to use your old grinder sometimes, because you can’t easily clean out the non-removable bean hopper if you want to switch coffee flavors. This falls into the category of compound design failures. One-piece hopper-top means you can’t easily swap coffee flavors, because there’s no external grinder work-around due to the software design problem in the auto-start code. Last, the controls are less intuitive, but that’s comparatively minor. Hopefully, Cuisinart isn’t headed down Sony’s consumer products path. In its heyday Sony designed everything in-house and their logo on a device meant shared design and user experience. Then they started outsourcing designs, creating a patchwork of hit-or-miss products, and eroded their brand. Hopefully that’s not true of Cuisinart, and this is just a rare outlier where the design team had a great idea but ignored years of support data when considering possible unintended side-effects of that novel design. We went with the Breville Grind Control to replace this and it’s been great. But if you want something more reasonably priced, the previous Cuisinart- model DGB 900- worked great for years. Just clean the grounds tube and grinder occasionally. Oh, and don’t let the little humans try to fill the water tank via the bean hopper. That’s what forced the replacement in the first place.

I've owned this product since September 2011. I use it almost every day and it still looks like I just bought it! It's the perfect size for everyday cooking. I've used it for stir fry, beans and rice, pasta, ragu, soups and to sear meats. Since it's stainless steel, it's very easy to clean. Even with stuck-on food, it comes clean after an overnight soak with Dawn and a light scrubbing. It heats quickly and evenly, even on a hot plate. I highly recommend this pan! Trust me, you will use it more than any other pot or pan in your kitchen. **UPDATE September 2015** This pan is still going strong - 5 years in! I use it 1-2 times per week. There are no burn marks or stains even after all that use - see picture. I've also used this pan for deep frying and long slow simmers on a gas stove. Love it.

To start off, I bought a Ninja Creami and it went and broke on me after using a couple time. The part that broke is not covered under warranty and I ain't paying $130 to get a new part. Instead I spent $140 to upgrade my ice cream maker. Since my experience with Creami was bad because of a broken part, I checked to ensure that Cusinart makes it easy to get another bowl or paddle in case something does happen. For this specific model, I saw that Cuisinart does have replacement parts on cuisinartoutlets.com. There's a 2 year warranty so if anything does happen, I'm set. Moving on, it was easy to set up, I froze my bin for 24 hours and made my first batch of macadamia nut milk ice cream with macadamia nuts. I opted to use the ice cream option, even though there's no heavy cream. The default setting was 25 min but I bumped it up to 30. I checked on it every 10 min and I could tell it was getting thicker. (I was worried that maybe because I didn't use cream it wouldn't freeze.) The noise here was not too bad. Less than an AC? I'd say it's closer to and electric car. Much better than creami because now I can make my ice cream late night and not wake up the whole apartment complex. The creami does take 5 min while this took 30. But the better trade off, Cuisinart makes 2 quarts (for this test batch i did 1.5 qt) and creami did a measly pint. I chopped my "mix in" for the creami because the manual said it's was delicate (for a blender that loud that's ironic) when I'd do this and use the mix in setting, everything would be pulverized. I like some crunch and bits when eating ice cream. Not eating crumbs. I chopped my Mac nuts and poured it in my Cuisinart in the last 5 seconds and it did not disintegrate into oblivion. I did hear the machine struggle a little more but it didn't stop. I honestly should've left the timer to 25 min and combine my nuts at 20 min mark, when I added it at the 25 min mark it seemed done already and was mixing for no reason. Anyways, what I didn't know and pics don't do any justice but this little lid thing is actually a measuring cup! Wow! Its 1/2 cup measuring and I thought it was used to just cover the pour area but I'm impressed. Other tidbits, the overall size of Cuisinart is larger than creami and it feels like the Heaviest part is the bin itself. Large parts, so I can't lose anything like the little blade the creami has... underneath the machine, there is a pocket to stuff the cord after use and suction cups for feet if needed. Don't be fooled by that stupid 11-in-1 marketing ploy the creami has. I bought the deluxe version and it has all these buttons to do ice cream, lite ice cream, froyo etc but this little cool creation does the same even if it doesn't have all these extra buttons. Happier with this purchase. I'm selling my creami if anyone is interested in that ghetto piece of equipment, hit me up. (Updates) My first batch was a pint, 2 cups of my batch. I didn't have to baby it because the mix was moving and the container was about half filled. My second batch was a quart. After about 15 min on ice cream mode and I checked it, the mixture had expanded (as expected) and I noticed it was close to the lid. So I was worried it was going to overflow so I stood by to watch. It did not overflow, thankfully but the instructions do sat it can make 2 quarts but I'd be kind of worries because of how close to the top it was.. Overall, still great. I have 2 other recipes going in my head so it will be put to work.

I thought about this kettle for months before I finally bought it, and boy, am I glad I did. After a lot of research, I found that stainless steel was a better option for me than glass, and although I could get a kettle for a lot less money, that's money that might be wasted. The CPK-17 is easy to fill, heats water quickly, and offers preset temperatures, so you get the right water temperature for your needs. It's attractive and not too big for the countertop.

Full disclosure, haven't even used this pan yet. Seems like a decent pan. There was only one photo of it on product page so I trusted Cuisinart brand and purchased it. The Kitchen Essentials by Calphalon pan it's replacing is (was) a much better quality. Much thicker with an extra thick heat ring on bottom to minimize warping. I'm guessing it was cast aluminum whereas this pan appears stamped & formed. Don't overheat it and it should be fine.

I don't know why there are reviews showing sets without riveted handles but I received the set I purchased. The MCP-12N 12 Piece set by Cuisinart, the handles are riveted onto all of the pots, pans, and lids. I will updated this review after more use but so far so good. The quality is great, the pots and pans seem to be made very well. I used the saute pan to cook green beans in oil with shaved almonds and the 3 Qt saucepan to cook mac-n-cheese for our dinner the day that I received the set. Both worked great and were very easy to clean. I will say that this would be a 5 start review if cuisinartoutlets.com had placed the OEM packaging into another box for shipping. The product box was damaged and I am surprised that the bottom didn't give out as it had started to come undone. Nothing seemed damaged but I can see how others are receiving sets that are damaged. If I didn't have as hidden a front stoop as I do this set could have easily been stolen due to it being shipped in the OEM packaging. I don't see the cost of a box and a few airpacks to keep the inner box from shifting being more expensive than having to replace a damaged or stolen 12 piece set.

I like this grind and brew coffee maker. I found it convenient and enabled me to make a fresh cup of coffee. At the start, the reservoir holds enough water to make 40 ounces of brew. Since I use filtered water, I didn't need the provided filter that goes in the reservoir. Next, we need coffee beans, and this is my first complaint: instead of a wide-open bowl to pour beans into, the space is constricted by the motor for the grinder (see Figure 1). So, you will need a means of getting the beans into a narrow space. Once you do, the bean reservoir holds enough for at least ten cups of 10 ounce coffee. Grinding the beans is a learning curve. The button for grinding is an "off-on" switch; on, to grind, off to stop. Nine seconds is sufficient for my taste for a 10 ounce cup of coffee. Left on, the grinder will run for 15 seconds, which provides a strong brew of 12 ounce coffee. A built-in timer would have been handy to go with the grinder, beeping at one second intervals. The accessories include a screen container to hold fresh grounds, a plastic container to hold the screen, and a plastic container to hold K cups. For those interested, I use reusable screen K cup containers (available elsewhere on cuisinartoutlets.com), that can be used with both of the supplied plastic holders. All-in-all, I would recommend this brewer.