Cuisinart keeps the coffee flowing! The new Coffee on Demand™ carafe-free coffeemaker delivers up to 12 cups of hot coffee, cup by cup; and now there’s a removable water reservoir to make fill-ups easier than ever. With our exclusive Coffee Gauge™ on the front of the unit to count down cups remaining, 24-hour programmability and adjustable auto shutoff, this is every coffee lover’s dream machine!

We received this Quisinart Coffee on Demand™ 12-Cup Programmable Coffeemaker as a gift over a year ago. Prior to this coffee maker we’d always used typical drip makers that have a carafe. Instead of a carafe you place your mug under the maker and pull down on a handle to fill your cup. We were a little leery about getting our coffee “on demand” vs pouring from the carafe but it turned out we really like it. We were concerned about serving coffee when we had guests but that has turned out to be no big deal. We either take the cup from them and refill, or let them do it themselves which everyone seems to get a kick out of doing.
The machine makes good coffee, has worked flawlessly and is easy to clean. The main draw back to this type of system would be not being able to fill tall mugs without using a smaller cup to do so.