Product Features

• New attractive red series with 4-cup, stainless-steel carafe
• Brew-pause feature for pouring a cup before brewing is complete
• Convenient "on" indicator light and 30-minute automatic shutoff
• Includes #2 paper filter starter kit and instruction book
• Measures 8-1/2 by 6-3/4 by 11 inches; limited 3-year warranty

From the Editors

Cuisinart DCC-450R Cuisinart 4cup Coffeemaker
Product Description

Customer Response

Terrific Coffee Maker!
I love this little pot! It makes just the right amount of coffee for me and it's delicious! I wanted a stainless steel carafe because I have granite counters and the SS is not breakable. After reading some of the reviews, I have the following suggestions:
1) Don't use the carafe to pour water into the tank. It's too wide for that task. Just use a 20-oz. cup and fill to the 4-cup line inside the tank. No problem!
2) Make sure the coffee/filter holder is fully snapped down into its proper place. Leaving it up--even slightly--interferes with the machine's mechanism that stops the flow when you want to pour a cup of coffee prior to brew cycle completion.
3) The only way I could replicate a reviewer's objection that coffee spilled from the pot when pouring it, was to take the lid off and pour it. Then, yes indeed, it did spill out of the pot. Leave the lid on!
Buy this coffeemaker with assurance that it does a great job. As always, operator error is the major problem with most appliances.

A KEEPER
I have used various Brands of 4 or 5 cup coffeemakers. When the need came for a new one this time I searched and researched on line and this little Cuisinart caught my attention for being simple,ON & OFF (auto off after 30 min) NO LED lights or Clocks which ADORN most models. I like ONE nice cup of freshly brewed coffee each morning and THIS LITTLE BABY makes wonderful HOT coffee. Works for me.

Terrible design!
The carafe is designed in such a way that it is impossible to pour a cup of coffee without dripping and spilling. The autoturn off also turns off so soon that after your first cup you need to microwave subsequent cups in order to have a hot cup of coffee. I do not recommend this unit.

The solution for coffee spillage!
I've had this coffee maker for a few months now to use at my desk at work. As with everyone else, I suffered from the dreaded coffee spillage issue, where it would run down the side of the carafe as you pour and get all over my desk. I found a solution though - when you pour, rest the spout of the carafe over the lip of your cup (and don't pour too fast). If you do this, any dribbles that cling to the underside of the spout will run down the inside of your cup instead of down the side of the carafe. If the spout is in mid-air, I 100% of the time would get spillage. As long as the spout is resting and hanging over the edge of the lip, I get 0% spillage.

So that fixes my #1 peeve with this thing. My other peeve, is that it's kind of noisy. If don't use the entire carafe up in your cup and let it stay on the hot plate, the thing makes all sorts of steamy gurgly noises, so I usually just shut it off after I pour my first cup. Even though the carafe isn't insulated, it seems it stays hot enough so that when I freshen up my cup its still hot enough to enjoy. I drink my coffee pretty quickly though.

Inconvenient, poorly designed, and irritating to use
I bought this coffeemaker hastily at an actual store where I couldn't read user reviews, assuming because the carafe was stainless steel that it was an insulated pot. My mistake -- and not really a big deal -- but there is nothing about this thing that I like. I've had it for less than a week and I'm here on Amazon looking for a replacement. Here are my primary complaints:

The lid of the carafe is not easy to open (you have to remove it -- it's not attached), which makes using the carafe to transport water from the faucet to the coffeemaker impractical. Even if it WERE practical, I cannot pour from the carafe without making a mess. I have to hold my cup over the kitchen sink so as not to get coffee all over the place.

The carafe is too small. I've been using the same coffee mug for 16 years. Every other small coffeemaker I've owned has made enough coffee to fill the mug twice. This one fills it once and leaves me another half a cup.

That additional half a cup is usually lukewarm, at best, because the heating element turns itself off in an absurdly short period of time. The documentation says 30 minutes -- I don't think I believe it. In any case, I'm not slamming coffee shots -- I'm having a couple of leisurely cups on weekend mornings.

The place you put the filter in doesn't really fit the filters. It's got a wider flat area at the bottom than other coffeemakers that use the conical filters.