Cuisinart Automatic Brew and Serve

Cuisinart Automatic Brew and Serve 
$99.95

Pros
The Cuisinart has a three-year warranty.

Cons
There is no water filter.

The Verdict: 9.45/10The Cuisinart Programmable Automatic Brew and Serve is best in class.

Product Features

• Color: Black
• 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
• Product Dimensions: 17 x 13 x 10 inches ; 7.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 8 pounds

About Cuisinart
Cuisinart has a long-standing history of receiving prestigious design awards for a wide range of items. These include the 2009 Chicago Athenaeum Green Good Design Award for its GreenGourmet™ Cookware line; the 2009 Shape You Top Gear of the Year Award for the Vertical Rotisserie (sponsored by shapeyou.com); and the 2009 Shape You Great Gear of the Year Award for the Rice-Plus™ Multi-Cooker.

In addition, Cuisinart has garnered a wide range of awards for its marketing campaigns and websites. In 2010 the company received a Gold Summit International Award for an Eco-Friendly Press Kit, as well as a Bronze Telly Award for the CleanWater® Countertop Filtration Online Video Series. In 2009, Cuisinart received several honors for its recipe widget, including a Platinum Hermes Award from the League of American Communications Professionals (LACP); a Gold MarCom Award from the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP); and a Gold LACP Spotlight Award. The company also won a Bronze LACP Magellan Award for a social media press kit targeted specifically to bloggers; two Platinum Ava Awards from AMCP, one for its CleanWater® Countertop Filtration’s dedicated website and another for its online CleanWater® Kids Video; a Platinum LACP Spotlight Award for the company’s Bridal print advertisement; and a Silver LACP Spotlight Award for its Elite Collection™ 14-Cup Die Cast Metal Food Processor print advertisement.

After you tire of spending money at coffee shops, this Cuisinart will deliver you. The Cuisinart Programmable Automatic Brew and Serve is the best of coffee makers in its category. Standout features include a double-walled, insulated, stainless steel carafe with a patented brew-through and pour-through lid. It wins the TopTenREVIEWS Gold Award for coffee makers.

If you are concerned that coffee drinking is not a healthy practice, there have been a lot of studies from respected researchers during the past decade that take the guess work out of understanding the effects. Yes, coffee stains the teeth and causes some people to be jittery and irritable. And for those who don’t understand that caffeine stays active in humans for 12 hours, it causes insomnia. If you want to go to sleep at 10pm, stop coffee after 10am. Your friend who can drink a double espresso before bed without complications is the exception that proves the rule and may just be evidence that caffeine causes narcolepsy in some people (believe it or not).

It has formerly been thought that coffee is a diuretic that leads to dehydration and water-electrolyte imbalance, but this is now challenged by three respected researchers who have demonstrated that coffee contributes to our bodily fluid requirements almost as if it were water. Coffee is certainly damaging to people with ulcers and gastrointestinal problems, and it causes complications in pregnant women who drink it heavily. But the list of benefits is considerable. Coffee drinkers are less likely to die from heart disease, cirrhosis of the liver or various cancers. They are also less likely to succumb to Parkinson’s disease, and they have fewer instances of gallbladder diseases. Coffee drinkers have lower rates of Alzheimer’s disease in old age.

The most beguiling quality of coffee is its ability to increase powers of concentration and boost short-term memory, which is probably why the French writer, Honore de Balzac, found it to be the cure for writer’s block: “This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place.”