Three months is a good general rule to follow. Cuisinart’s team says that the brand ‘includes charcoal water filters in all coffee makers to improve the quality of water used to brew coffee’.

Stavridis shares how to clean a Cuisinart coffee maker with vinegar below. Fill the water reservoir with equal parts of white vinegar and water. Place a paper filter in the machine's empty basket.

The Cuisinart Brew Central DCC-1200 is part of the Coffee Makers test program at Consumer ... Reflects ease of filling the reservoir, placing the filter, gauging the amount of coffee remaining ...