Nine Cuisinart coffee makers on one page: glass and thermal carafes, a Grind & Brew, a pod brewer and two machines that do both.
Cuisinart 14-Cup Programmable, Glass Carafe
The 14-cup PerfecTemp
Choose it for a full pot most mornings, drunk while it is fresh.
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Cuisinart Brew Central DCC-1200P1, 12-Cup
The plainer 12-cup
Choose it for a 12-cup pot without needing a strength setting.
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Cuisinart Personal Brew DCC-12, 12-Cup
Simple, under a cabinet
Choose it if you want to fill it without pulling it out from under the cabinet.
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Cuisinart PerfecTemp DCC-3400, 12-Cup Thermal
PerfecTemp, thermal
Choose it if a pot lasts you all morning and you want it hot without a warming plate.
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Cuisinart Thermal Classic DCC-1170, 10-Cup
The smaller thermal
Choose it for one or two coffee drinkers who want a thermal carafe.
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Cuisinart Grind & Brew DGB-400, 12-Cup
Beans in, coffee out
Choose it if you want whole beans ground just before brewing, without a separate grinder.
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Cuisinart Premium Single-Serve SS-10
One cup at a time
Choose it for single cups from pods with a tank you rarely refill.
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Cuisinart Coffee Center SS-21, 10-Cup Thermal + Single-Serve
A pot and pods
Choose it if one person drinks a pot and another drinks pods.
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Cuisinart Coffee Center Barista Bar 4-in-1 SS-4N1
Pot, pods and espresso
Choose it for drip coffee and espresso-style drinks from one machine.
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Cuisinart's range sorts on three questions: a glass carafe on a warming plate or a thermal carafe, ground coffee or whole beans, and a pot or pods, or both. A Cuisinart cup is about 5 oz, so a 12-cup pot is about 60 oz. We have not reviewed these machines; every figure here is from Cuisinart's own instruction booklets or the machine's own listing, read on 30 October 2026.
Start with pods or no pods; a few quick questions follow. The range explorer below opens on your pick.
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Choose it for a full pot most mornings, drunk while it is fresh.
See it in the range →Choose it for a 12-cup pot without needing a strength setting.
See it in the range →Choose it if you want to fill it without pulling it out from under the cabinet.
See it in the range →Choose it if a pot lasts you all morning and you want it hot without a warming plate.
See it in the range →Choose it for one or two coffee drinkers who want a thermal carafe.
See it in the range →Choose it if you want whole beans ground just before brewing, without a separate grinder.
See it in the range →Choose it for single cups from pods with a tank you rarely refill.
See it in the range →Choose it if one person drinks a pot and another drinks pods.
See it in the range →Choose it for drip coffee and espresso-style drinks from one machine.
See it in the range →A Cuisinart cup is about 5 oz, so check the ounces, not the cup count.
We have not reviewed these machines. Every spec here is the maker's own manual or listing; photos come from each Amazon listing and prices are read live.
Photos: Amazon listing
Choose it for a full pot most mornings, drunk while it is fresh.
Photos: Amazon listing
Choose it for a 12-cup pot without needing a strength setting.
Photos: Amazon listing
Choose it if you want to fill it without pulling it out from under the cabinet.
Photos: Amazon listing
Choose it if a pot lasts you all morning and you want it hot without a warming plate.
Photos: Amazon listing
Choose it for one or two coffee drinkers who want a thermal carafe.
Photos: Amazon listing
Choose it if you want whole beans ground just before brewing, without a separate grinder.
Photos: Amazon listing
Choose it for single cups from pods with a tank you rarely refill.
Photos: Amazon listing
Choose it if one person drinks a pot and another drinks pods.
Photos: Amazon listing
Choose it for drip coffee and espresso-style drinks from one machine.
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Some words in Cuisinart's listings are worth decoding before you buy. Here is what each one is, from Cuisinart's own booklets.
PerfecTemp
DCC-3200, DCC-3400What it isCuisinart's name for hotter brewing. Neither its listings nor its booklets publish a temperature.
14-cup
DCC-3200What it isCuisinart counts a cup as about 5 oz, so 14 cups is 70 fl oz, not fourteen mugs.
Self-clean
Most modelsWhat it isA decalcifying cycle you run with white vinegar and water when the CLEAN light comes on, not a cleaning tablet.
Grind & Brew
DGB-400What it isA blade grinder, per its listing. Cuisinart's burr models were only offered by other sellers when we checked.
Compatible with any brand of single-cup pod
SS-21What it isK-Cup-style pods. Nespresso-style capsules fit only the SS-4N1's capsule brewer.
Most of these machines light a CLEAN indicator when it is time to decalcify. Cuisinart's booklets use one-third white vinegar to two-thirds water: take out the charcoal water filter, fill the reservoir, then press and hold CLEAN until its light flashes. Repeat if the light comes back on, then run a reservoir of plain water. Change the charcoal filter every 60 days or 60 uses.
Our Cuisinart cleaning guide covers each family, including the single-serve models' own descale buttons.
Every Cuisinart booklet we read gives a limited three-year warranty. The SS-21 Coffee Center booklet limits it to US buyers who purchase from Cuisinart or an authorized Cuisinart reseller, so keep the receipt and check who the seller is.
For a full pot drunk quickly, the 14-cup PerfecTemp DCC-3200. If a pot lasts all morning, the thermal DCC-3400. For pods and a pot, the SS-21 Coffee Center. We have not reviewed Cuisinart machines, so this is a recommendation about fit; see our buying guide.
The DGB-400 sold by Amazon.com has a blade grinder, per its listing. Cuisinart's burr models were only offered by other sellers when we checked on 30 October 2026.
The SS-10 single-serve, the SS-21 Coffee Center and the SS-4N1 Barista Bar. Their listings say they take Keurig K-Cup pods.
Remove the charcoal filter, fill the reservoir with one-third white vinegar and two-thirds water, and press and hold CLEAN. See our cleaning guide.
About 5 oz, per Cuisinart's listings. The 14-cup DCC-3200 holds 70 fl oz.
Sources for this page: Cuisinart instruction booklets for the DCC-3200, DCC-1200 Series, DCC-3400, DCC-1170 Series, SS-10 and SS-21 Series, as Cuisinart attaches them to each Amazon listing; each machine's own Amazon listing, read 2026-10-30. cuisinart.com could not be read by our tools that day, and no fact here relies on it.
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