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Question: cuisinart brew 1200 vs 2600
Document: the DCC-2600 Brew Central 14-Cup coffeemaker. It's the functional equivalent to the DCC-1200, but with a slightly larger carafe. Our daughter is now old enough to drink coffee, so the larger unit made sense.We've owned this new unit for about a month. So far, it has performed flawlessly, as expected. The brew cycle on the old unit was about 10 minutes. This one, not surprisingly, takes just a couple of minutes longer.
The design style is still very elegant, and would go well in any modern or retro kitchen. The new design also features sleeker controls and a water-level window. The automatic brew pause feature now allows the carafe to instantly seat properly on the heat plate, avoiding overflows.Still has the same great features. Brews quickly. Adjustable measurement and temperature settings. Programmable.For those of you wondering about dimensions, the DCC-2600 is slightly shorter than the DCC-1200, fitting quite nicely under upper cabinets.
We needed a new coffee maker and after reading the reviews for the 1200 ( too many quality issues ) I thought maybe Cuisinart read the writing on the wall and decided to go all out and build a better product with the 2600. Seems they did. Everything about this machine is user friendly.
The 14 cup Cuisinart DCC-2600 replaces my old workhorse, a DCC-1200 twelve cupper, that gave our home 8 years of great coffee.My original plan was to log on to my Amazon account & buy another 1200 not realizing Cuisinart had a newer machine. (Duh!
I loved my Cuisinart DCC-1200, so when it eventually stopped working I hoped to replace it with another. I liked everything about the DCC-1200 except for a few minor quirks. After reading the reviews here, I decided to upgrade to the Cuisinart DCC-2600. I was afraid I wouldn't like it as much as my DCC-1200 because most "new and improved" products are rarely an improvement.
Melitta 10 Cup Thermal vs Cuisinart 14 cup Brew Central:The quest for a new coffee maker started upon the demise of an 18 month old Mr. Coffee (the immediate predecessor to the top seller here on Amazon). The Mr. Coffee worked fairly well until it began to leak from the base. After 18 months?
Brew small pots or full capacity; brew regular or bold; see the water level and can adjust the temperature, quiet and efficient. We liked our Cuisinart 1200 but this one beats it hands down.
This unit replaces our Cuisinart DCC-1200 Brew Central 12-Cup Coffeemaker, which served us faithfully for 7 years - 4 years beyond the warranty expiration. Steam from the brewing process recently began to affect the electronics in the DCC-1200, causing it to shut off prematurely. For a while, it would turn on only if we programmed an automatic start, but not if we simply pressed [start]. But it eventually stopped working altogether.
Who in the world would have a coffee pot as a best friend? When you make and drink 5 to 7 pots of coffee a day you need a best friend. You need a friend who is there for you anytime you need one and that friend has to be consistent; i.e., one good pot after another. The DCC-2600 is my new best friend. In a short time it has performed better than its older cousin, the DCC-1200.
The DCC-1200 was the coffee maker we used to own and it got the job done but was showing signs of wear and tear. I purchased the DCC-2600 at Costco for $59.99 and what a great coffee maker it's proven to be. Love the heavy metal lid (the lid was plastic on the 1200 model and would not shut firmly), plus this one is a 14-cup maker and it's great for my and hubby's coffee weekends. It's very quiet also.
Answer: I assume you're asking for a comparison, or opinions on the two? My mother has the 1200 so I am very familiar with it. I bought the 2600 because it improves on the 1200 in two areas. One is that it's easier to see the water level as you're pouring. With the 1200, there are notches inside the water reservoir, but it's a very small opening and hard to see into it while pouring. The second one, and most important, is that the 2600 eliminates the 'backwash' effect of opening the lid. On the 1200, water condenses and sticks to the lid. When you then open the lid, water often dribbles down the back of the maker and onto the counter. The 2600 fixed this design so that the water drains back into the reservoir. Other than that, as far as I can tell, the two are relatively equal.