Cuisinart coffee makers have not been around for as long as other Cusinart appliances. Cuisinart has a great reputation for making reliable, durable kitchen appliances that last for years. Although this brand is fairly new to the coffee maker market, its kitchen and culinary appliances have been around for about forty years. Established in 1971 by Carl and Shirley Sontheimer, a husband and wife team, the couple got into this business after attending a commercial kitchen food preparation machine in France.
The couple believed that they could adapt the French product for the American market. After long discussions, they started the Cuisinart brand, intending to import stainless steel appliances from Europe and sell them in the States. Sontheimer, however, with his MIT Engineering degree, took apart the prototype and refined it to make it easier to use in the kitchen. In 1973, the couple launched their Cuisinart food processor at the Chicago Houseware Exposition. Following this, Sontheimer took his product to demonstrate to renowned chefs such as Julia Child, Jacques Pepin and James Beard and the rest is history.
It was not until 1994 that Cuisinart embarked on the coffee business with its first of many Cuisinart coffee makers. In 2001, Cuisinart introduced the Premier Series Coffee Maker which incorporates new technology along with great design. Nowadays, the Cuisinart Coffee Bar Collection provides many new coffee machines including the Cuisinart percolator and the espresso machine. The Coffee Bar Collection line features the ‘two to go’ coffee maker that brews up to two large coffee cups and decants them into stainless steel travel cups for the fast paced lifestyles to day. This is great for the typical metropolitan couple who barely have enough time to grab their coffee, already ready in their decanters, and go.
Cuisinart has many new products to make your coffee experience even better. Included in the Cuisinart coffee makers are many new, equally beautiful coffee machines. Cuisinart Two-to-go coffee maker, the Cuisinart Brew Central 12 cup programmable coffee maker, the Cuisinart Programmable Espresso Maker, the Cuisinart Grind and Brew Coffee Maker and the Cuisinart Cup-a-matic Single Serve Pod Coffee Maker.
One of their newest products is coffee without the carafe. The Coffee on Demand coffeemaker has a press to serve handle that gives you up to twelve cups of fresh brew with no carafe, straight into your cup from a double wall reservoir. The Cuisinart exclusive Coffee Gauge on the unit’s front counts down how many cups are left in the reservoir. The coffee maker has a twenty-four hour programmable feature, automatic shutoff, clean contemporary styling, professional brushed metal housing and is one of the most elegant of all Cuisinart coffee makers in the market. This particular model dispenses one cup of coffee at a time with an easy to use actuator. It has a reservoir which holds enough for twelve five-ounce cups of coffee. There is a visible water level indicator, a removable drip tray under the coffee dispenser, a permanent gold-tone basket-style filter, a charcoal water filter for inside the reservoir, and instruction manual and a limited three year warranty.