| | |  | Espressione | Home » » » Black & Decker CM1509 8-Cup Programmable Coffeemaker with Thermal Carafe | | | | | | | Description: | | If your life is fast-paced and high energy, then you need a fast-paced 8-cup thermal coffee maker to keep up with your active lifestyle! | | | Features: | |
• 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
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 11.54 inches | | Product Width:
| 8.9 inches | | Product Height:
| 13.9 inches | | Product Weight:
| 5.85 pounds | | Package Length:
| 13.8 inches | | Package Width:
| 12.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 8.9 inches | | Package Weight:
| 5.85 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 16 reviews |
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 Not good enough for GoodwillAug 24, 2010
There are so many things wrong with this coffeemaker that I don't know where to start. I wanted to like it - my husband and daughter bought it when she and other family were in town visiting and our Braun coffeemaker stopped working. That was Mothers Day. I finally gave up yesterday, three months later. Here are the problems:
1. Weak coffee. There are two kinds of coffee drinkers in America: "is that tea or coffee, Mom?" coffee drinkers and coffee shop coffee drinkers. Yes, there really is a difference, and it begins with strength of the coffee (along with being freshly brewed, good quality beans, clean equipment, and, in most places, filtered water). But I digress. If you're OK with Aunt Mildred's coffee, you may be OK with this machine. It evidently pushes the heated water through the grounds too fast. There is no way to get a really strong cup of coffee, no matter how much coffee you use. For regular strength, we were using twice as much coffee as with the Braun. Possibly more. Cheaper just to go down to Starbucks.
2. Badly designed carafe. There is a seam someplace that allows water to get in between the inner sleeve and outer portion of the carafe. That means that water sloshes around there. It's cold when the hot coffee is going in, and so cools down the interior. It's like pouring your hot coffee into a chilled glass. Other reviewers have said that this trapped water mixes with the coffee. I don't think it does, but it offends me nonetheless.
3. Cold coffee. Probably because of #2, but also because of the energy-saving design of what is usually a warmer below the carafe not being a warmer. The cooled coffee sits in the carafe and isn't warmed. Plan on using your microwave for every cup.
4. Messy looking on the counter. Because the carafe has that seam that leaks, it sweats out calcified water. Or something. It looks leprous.
5. Cheaply glued on control panel. Look at the photo. See the control panel at the bottom? Be careful when you clean it because of its leprosy (described in #4), because the entire panel seems to be pasted on. As in temporarily pasted on.
6. The cup-measure on the side is purely for show. There is no way to actually see how much water there is inside, even with a flashlight. It's no big deal, since I always put in the same amount of water from a big glass that is my coffee-water-measuring glass, but the fact that the numbers are there is misleading. (Actually, if you put your finger on the number outside the coffeemaker, and then crane your head around to look inside, you can see your finger and thus know how much water there is.)
7. No way to use a gold cone.
8. Badly designed column - where you pour the water in. It's awkward to reach, and too close to the grounds, so that I often end up splashing water on the grounds.
9. It did once explode, as other reviewers have complained about. I think I did something wrong - but what? - and instead of going into the carafe, the weak watery stuff that this machine produces went all over the counter. Eight cups of it.
I felt so relieved when I found the ancient Gevalia 4-cup machine in the basement. Lovely coffee. I'll never buy a Black & Decker coffeemaker again - but I want one of their hedge trimmers.
Summing up, I feel guilty about giving this coffeemaker to Goodwill. No one should even pay $5 for it. It's going in the trash.
 Great Little Coffee MakerJul 20, 2010
I've had a B&D glass carafe coffee maker for 10 years. Works great, but like all others, the coffee would scorch. So, I wanted to try the thermal carafe model. I like everything about it - well made, shuts off automatically, easy to clean, and boy, is it fast! It won't make "burn your lip" hot coffee, but it is hot enough. After an hour and a half, it was still somewhat hot. That's the only complaint I have as I like my coffee hot, hot, hot. But, I'm willing to give it a try for a while. I have my old maker in the cupboard to go back to if need be. So four stars for this model. Five if the coffee was hotter!
 Great giftJul 19, 2010
Purchased this item as a gift for brother who was concerned about leaving coffeemaker on because of fire hazard. I currently use B & D cool carafe type unit & love it. My brother loves this item also. Heartily recommended.
This unit makes 10-12 "coffeemaker" cups or about 8 regular cups.
 leaky carafeJun 17, 2010
Unfortunately it cheaply trys to have too many features to lure everyone to buy it. Also being cheap I bought it on Saturday. The thermal carafe for energy saving and $35 at Target was the draw for me, not the programming. But I see that the coffee won't be hot if the carafe is not preheated. I tried it for the first time this morning and agree that the water level is hard to see through the tank window. Preheating the carafe with hot water kept the coffee hot enough for me for a couple of hours.
The real failure was when poured it leaks onto the counter from the joint between the stainless pot and black plastic top. So it's going back to Target and I'll stick with my Krups with broken pause feature and a thermos bottle for awhile.
Total dud!Jun 10, 2010
What a waste of money! If you like HOT coffee you are in for a disappointment with this coffee pot. Even when I filled the carafe with boiling water prior to the brew it still does not keep your coffee hot. I am sitting here with my luke warm coffee writing this review. Only wish I had read these other reviews prior to shelling out the $[...] bucks.
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