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Pleased
I work in a Parish and the priests got this Cuisinart as a points award from a credit card.
1) I was not here for the set up so i cant agree or disagree with others about that.
2) Im amazed at all the bad reviews, the one they have here in their kitchen is quiet, I havent really noticed any noise coming from it.
3) I just had a cup of coffee, the hot water comes out steaming hot, perfect for hot tea or coffee.
4) The cold water is cold and the warm room temp water is...well..room temp.
They've had it for a week and so far so good, I guess we got lucky with this one cause I just cant understand why others have so many problems with theirs. I even made sure we were talking about the same device.
[Wednesday, September 03, 2008]
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Review of setting up this beast and first use
So I purchased this unit from Amazon despite the poor reviews. We are newlyweds, and we've been using the 2.5 gallon bottles from the market, but we hate lugging those up to our unit. We didn't need water delivered, so this was the best middle-ground for the two of us.
The box arrived yesterday and we finally got it all setup and running. Mind you this is just reviewing the setup and first use. I'll update later with more details after further use:
1) Setup: Wow - so many specific steps. All in all, setting up the unit out of the box will take an hour. This doesn't mean sticking around the unit for an hour (plus another hour for cold water), because 30-40 minutes of it is just waiting for the water to filter from the top tank into the lower tanks. But yea, setup has a lot of little steps you have to follow to get the unit working properly. I'm not looking forward to setting up the filter again when we replace it in the future. The instruction manual uses a lot of capital letters and emphasis during parts of the setup - I guess you have to follow everything to a T to make sure it is setup correctly.
2) Noise: We let the machine run overnight after getting it set up prior to pouring our first cup of cold water. The unit cools water thermoelectrically, meaning it draws heat away from the water tank to cool the water. That means a fan will run to get this done at set intervals or when the cold water gets too hot. The fan is a little louder than I would like, but it's definitely not a dealbreaker.
3) Water flow: As others have noted, the water flow is completely dependent on how full the upper tanks are (its a gravity feed system). Even when all tanks are full, the water flow is slower than I would like, but again, we could live with it. I'll put it to you this way - if you've ever used one of those 2.5 gallon water bottles that you put in your fridge with the pull-type spigot in the front, the rate of water flow is about 1/3 of that when the 2.5 gallon bottle is full.
4) Cold water: Yes it's cold. Actually, surprisingly cold. Since we haven't used it extensively, not sure about getting cold water consistently for more than 2 cups. I think we'll keep a large pitcher of the filtered water in the fridge, in case we have guests and need a large amount of cold water quickly. Even after our brief use, we've realized that this unit wasn't designed to keep a family of 4+ satisfied or for pouring consistently cold cups of water.
I'll update this later with more impressions after longer use. But it looks okay for now. Mind you, its the only unit in this price range that cools/heats and filters water. If you follow all the instructions in the manual, everything will be fine and the unit will work as designed.
[Wednesday, August 06, 2008]
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Poor purchase
I used the Cusinart Countertop Water-Filtration System for two weeks. It now sounds like it is "grinding" and actually makes a very loud noise that never shuts off. In addition, it would only dispense approximately 1-8 oz. glass of cold water at a time--then have to "run" for 30 minutes before you can get another glassful. I have unplugged it, drained it, and am contemplating what to do with it--I no longer have the box it shipped in--never again!! I just threw away more $ than I could afford in the first place. Lousy, lousy, lousy!!!
[Thursday, July 31, 2008]
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