Black & Decker CM1509 8-Cup Programmable Coffeemaker with Thermal Carafe Technical Review
* 8-cup coffeemaker with programmable clock and timer
* User-friendly control panel with LED display; brew-pause function
* Auto shut-off for peace of mind; water-level indicator; cord storage
* Removable filter basket and sleek-looking thermal carafe included
* Measures approximately 11-1/2 by 8-8/9 by 13-8/9 inches
Black & Decker CM1509 8-Cup Programmable Coffeemaker with Thermal Carafe Customer Review
By Kristen Hannum (Denver, CO USA) ...
There are so many things wrong with the coffee, I do not know where to begin. I wanted - my daughter and my husband bought when he and other family members were in town visiting and we Braun coffee machine stopped working. It was Mother's Day. Eventually I gave up yesterday, three months later. Here's the problem:
1. Weak coffee. There are two types of drinkers of coffee in America, "is that tea or coffee, Mama?" coffee drinkers drink coffee, and a café. Yes, it really is the difference, and begins the strength of coffee (with fresh beans of good quality, clean equipment, and in most places, the water filtered). But I digress. Aunt Mildred coffee if you're ok, you might be OK on this machine. It seems to push hot water through the grounds too quickly. There is no way to get a strong coffee, no matter how much coffee you use. regular force, we used twice as coffee than Braun. Maybe more. Cheaper just to go down to Starbucks.
2. Poorly designed carafe. It is a seam somewhere, which means the water can be between the sleeve and the outside of pitcher. This means that water sloshes around there. It's cold when the hot coffee is going, and then cools the interior. It 's like pouring hot coffee, the cold glass. Other reviewers have said that being trapped in water mixed with coffee. I do not believe it, but it offends me, though.
Three. Cold coffee. Probably because of # 2, but also because the design of energy saving, which is usually warmer than the pitcher is no longer hot. carafe of cold coffee sits on and is still cold. Will use the microwave for every bowl.
Four. Messy looked at the bench. Since the pitcher is that the seam that leaks, the water will sweat calcified. Or something. It seems lepers.
5. Inexpensive glued to the control panel. V. Fig. See the control panel at the bottom? Be careful when cleaning because it is leprosy (as described in No. 4), because the full screen duplicate. How is temporarily copied.
6. Measure is only half display. There is no way to really see much water is inside, even a flashlight. Not a big problem, because I always had both a large drink of water, which is my coffee water cylinder, but the fact that the numbers are misleading. (Actually, if you put your finger on the number of non-coffee machine, and then cranes his head to look inside, you'll see your finger, and thus know how much water is.)
7. There is no way to use a cone of gold.
8. Poorly designed column - when you pour water in hard to reach and too close to the ground, so I often end up in the splash.
9. When it explodes, because the other guests complain. I think I've done something wrong - but what? - And instead of going jug, a weak watery stuff that produces the machine did all the desk. Eight cups of it.
I felt so relieved when I found an old 4-cup Gevalia machine in the basement. Lovely coffee. I will never buy a Black & Decker coffee yet - but I want one of their coverage.
