DeLonghi DC50B Twenty Four Seven Drip Coffee Maker, Black

by DeLonghi

Product Features

• Non-Stick warming plate for easy clean-up
• 4-cup (20 ounce) capacity
• Pause and serve function allows you to interrupt the brewing cycle and pour a cup of coffee.
• The push button control makes it easy to use.
• Cord storage makes storing the coffee maker easy

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 9.8 x 7.1 inches ; 9 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B0000AFX20
• Item model number: DC 50B
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #119,354 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)

Product Description

The De'Longhi DC50B Twenty Four Seven Drip Coffee Maker features a shower head design that helps to extract your coffee's full, natural flavor by allowing water to completely saturate all coffee grounds, and it's pause and serve function allows you to int

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not so great, November 18, 2004

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1000 pages (Richmond, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: DeLonghi DC50B Twenty Four Seven Drip Coffee Maker, Black (Kitchen)

Initially, I liked this coffee maker well enough. The reuseable filter is a plus, and the coffee tastes good. But two characteristics make this one a loser:
1. The coffee gets way too hot if it sits on the warmer longer than 20 minutes; and more importantly,
2. The removable lever that allows the pause and serve feature to work is unreliable. It occasionally gets stuck and blocks the opening so that when brewing a new pot, all the water collects and stays in the basket (until you manually fix the lever). The thing easily pops off, and drives me CRAZY.

I would not buy another DeLonghi coffeemaker.

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's not perfect, but I liked it, October 19, 2005

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John the 19th "John P" (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: DeLonghi DC50B Twenty Four Seven Drip Coffee Maker, Black (Kitchen)

"If the grind of the beans is too fine, the water backs up in the filter after the brew should be completed." Yes, but I bet you can figure out how to solve this problem!

I also agree that the carafe design allows too much spillage, but I figured out how to solve that the first time I used it. Just pour slower.

As for the comment that the pause & stop lever is unreliable, I don't know. I have no trouble waiting the 3 minutes it takes to finish.

The important feature is this: The coffee made with this and the Capresso conical burr grinder I use tastes great. Really great. The temperature is just right. No knobs, buttons, dials to figure out. Put in the beans, put in the water, hit switch. Very '50's, very effective.

It would be nice if it shut off after an hour or so, but I can live with that too, for $20.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not As Good As The Old One - Delonghi 4 Cup Coffee Maker, January 29, 2006

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Steven R. Brant "Serious Coffee Drinker" (Klamath Falls, OR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: DeLonghi DC50B Twenty Four Seven Drip Coffee Maker, Black (Kitchen)

The new Delonghi 4 cup I just bought is not as good as the old one I had. The new design is harder to fill and use. The new pot is hard to pour without dripping all over the counter. Why did they change the design? Sometimes new doesn't mean better.