Keurig Coffee Makers: Keurig vs Cuisinart
Unlike many other single-serving coffee brands, Keurig has teamed up with a popular kitchen appliance brand to provide customers with the option to buy a specially-designed Cuisinart single serve coffee brewer. Coupled with the familiarity of Cuisinart and the reliability of Keurig, the Cuisinart brewing system is very attractive. It offers different features than the standard Keurig Coffee Makers, which allows consumers to further customize their coffee experience.
For comparison, the Keurig Cuisinart Brewer is most similar to the Keurig Platinum Brewing System. The Cuisinart Brewing System starts at $200, making it one of the most expensive Keurig designs out there. There’s a good reason for this. The Cuisinart Brewing System is one of the most feature-packed single serve coffee brewers currently on the market.
For starters, the Keurig-Cuisinart Coffee Maker is not for those with small spaces. This system is 2 inches higher and 7 inches wider than the Keurig B70 Platinum. It’s important to make sure this brewer can fit wherever you want to put it!
On the plus side, the Keurig Cuisinart System is so big because it has a whopping 80-ounce water reservoir. The only other Keurig with a reservoir that big is the large commercial single serve coffee brewer, the Keurig B155. With so much water storage, the average consumer will get almost 14 cups of coffee out of the brewer before they need to refill the reservoir.
Surprisingly enough, the Cuisinart Single-Cup Coffee Machine uses much less electricity than the Keurig B70 Platinum Brewing System or even the Keurig B60 Special Edition Brewing System. Just as the same with other Keurig systems, the Cuisinart Brewing System can almost instantaneously prepare a cup of coffee for you once the initial 4-minute setup is complete and all K-Cup varieties are compatible with this system.
A test of the Cuisinart Brewing System and the Keurig Platinum Brewing System found a few key differences in their design. Very tall mugs that fit in the Keurig Platinum Brewing System do not fit into the Cuisinart Brewing System. Upon further inspection we found that the Cuisinart Brewing System had a quarter-inch difference in the distance between the spout and bottom of the unit. Also, the Cuisinart Brewing System comes complete with a My K-Cup while the Keurig Platinum Brewing System does not.
When choosing between the Keurig-Cuisinart and the other available Keurig models, it’s important to weigh your priorities. For a smaller price, you can get a less expensive Keurig model with a smaller water reservoir that has the same brewing power and fits into a smaller space. However, if not having to fill the water reservoir everyday is important to you, then we recommend the larger Cuisinart model.

