Coupon 🧨 BLACK+DECKER 12-Cup Thermal Coffeemaker, Black/Silver, CM2035 ✔️

3 reviews for Coupon 🧨 BLACK+DECKER 12-Cup Thermal Coffeemaker, Black/Silver, CM2035 ✔️

1. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   D. Brown – November 29, 2022

   The media could not be loaded.  This review is comparing the Black and Decker to a Cuisinart 12 Cup coffee maker (Maybe the DCC 1200 – looks mostly like it but a different finish/material).I got this Black and Decker unit over cheaper options for two reasons and BOTH turned out a bit worse than I thought. At least there are some other redeeming qualities. I’ll go over it all.Reason 1 I got this: “Washable brew basket” I thought that meant, like the Cuisinart, I never had to buy paper filters. I thought this was a reusable, washable filter. NO. WRONG. It’s just another cheap plastic bucket to put paper filters in. Exactly like what you get in the $20 coffee makers. Yes, it’s a removable and washable basket but the Cuisinart had that too AND a removable reusable filter. Now I’m back to lifting out soggy lumpy paper and carefully moving to a trash can unless I fork out an additional $10 for a third-party reusable filter. $10 isn’t terrible in and of itself, but it’s unconscionable to not include it with a $60 coffee maker. UCH.Reason 2 I got this: Stainless steel carafe. The Cuisinart is being replaced because the glass Charif finally broke. It lasted years and years, maybe even a decade. It has been bumped against the sink during cleaning several times, and the coffee maker was used almost every day. It was sturdy glass! It just finally couldn’t take another hit after a six year old messed with it. So I thought stainless steel would be the way to go. Far more durable, looks pretty cool, and is insulated! Well… It is more durable, and does look pretty cool, and is insulated. But I immediately realize how much I loved the seeing the remaining coffee in the Cuisinart – it even had cup level markings on the side. This not only allowed me to know exactly how much coffee was left but also allowed me to know how much water I was filling it with when I was making coffee. I cannot do either with a stainless steel carafe.Those were the two reasons I wanted to get this. But how is the rest of the coffee maker? There are positives and negatives for this as well.It looks really cheap. Extremely cheap. It all looks and feels like cheap plastic (except for the carafe). The bottom plate to hold the carafe looks especially thin and flimsy, with micro feet underneath to support what looks like something that’d otherwise bend and snap in half under the weight of a full carafe. Nothing about this unit outside the carafe looks premium. It certainly doesn’t look like this thing cost over $60. I don’t feel comfortable putting the carafe back when I pour myself a cup of coffee because every time it looks so thin and flimsy I have to be careful.The top of the unit gets very, very hot when brewing. On my old coffee maker, I could touch the top and it was not a problem. On the flipside, the Black and Decker has its first main benefit for me. The insulated stainless steel carafe means none of that gets hot to the touch, unlike the glass on the previous unit. And because the coffee pot relies on insulation to keep the coffee hot, there is no powered heated electric bottom to accidentally burn your hand and drain electricity after the coffee has finished brewing.I like that the clock and overall display screen is a bit bigger. It isn’t brighter though and the actual display numbers and text are still just as dark. But at least it being a larger size makes it a bit easier to see.The new unit has much larger buttons. I could go either way on that. Button size does not affect me. But I will say these larger buttons tend to feel cheap. You can press the button anywhere on its surface and it will work. But clearly the surface you touch is larger than the surface of the control board the button is interacting with inside. Indeed, there are areas of the button you can press that feel more “floppy“ or “mushy“, unless your finger presses directly over the part of the button that makes direct contact with its connection to the control board. My previous model had very tiny buttons, but that meant they could only ever feel one way, and it was very tactile, it had a “click“ feeling to it. And it wasn’t only buttons, it had switches which felt nice. This Black and Decker has no switches, and no button on it feels very “tactile.”I like the “Evenstream” showerhead. It’s true that even my older coffee maker had one single spout at the center top and after every brew, there was a very specific hole through the wet pile of coffee grounds, and I always did wonder if I was getting enough flavor from all the grounds around the sides. HOWEVER, lifting the lid during a brew, it would appear to me that the hot water would dispense enough into the basket that all the coffee grounds were fully submerged in hot water. So it appeared like, at least for a portion of the brew, flavor was being extracted from all the grounds. Still, there’s no denying that at the end of the brew, and, there was a very specific dent dead center of the coffee grounds. And to be clear, not only does this Black and Decker dispense water from multiple spots up top, it also feels the basket of coffee up like a tub, all the coffee grounds get fully submerged in the hot water.I can’t tell at the moment which keeps coffee hotter, longer. Obviously the Cuisineart isn’t insulated. But it rests on that hot plate for a while. The Black and Decker I THINK turns off a bit sooner, BUT it claims to keep the coffee hot in the pot for 2hrs. I haven’t timed it, and haven’t measured the temperature to know if there’s a difference.Edit: After posting this review I noticed one other thing. Like all coffee makers, there is an automatic lock/seal mechanism to prevent coffee from dripping out onto the platter when you remove the coffee pot. And the coffee pot itself has its own little lock/seal that when pressed down opens it up to receive the coffee. When you pull the coffee pot out, that top seal is… MOSTLY sealed shut. video shows, if you tip the coffee pot far enough, coffee will drip out that top mechanism. But this is all to say, after leaving the coffee pot back in the coffee maker for about five hours after my brew, was warm, but not hot. I know it says in the documentation I can keep coffee hot for about two hours… But next time I am going to remove the pot completely from the coffee maker when it’s done in hopes that the top mechanism, in its locked/sealed position, will keep the coffee hotter, longer.Bottom line: It doesn’t look and feel like a $60+ coffee maker, but the stainless steel carafe/pot helps. No reusable coffee filter – 3rd party can be bought fire about $10. You can’t see how much coffee is left or how much water you’re filling in the carafe/pot to use for a new brew until you pour into the coffee maker. It’s got a bigger but still dark display and bigger but a bit more flimsy feeling buttons compared to my Cuisineart. Still, a pot not hot to the touch and no hot bottom plate which also drains electricity is a respectable reason to chose this.

2. 

   Rated 4 out of 5

   Nick – November 29, 2022

   This is a wonderful coffee maker and brewing system. The biggest complaint from other reviews seems to be that the thermal carafe doesn’t keep the coffee as hot for as long as expected. Here’s why…In order for a thermal vessel to stay thermal, it has to be as airtight as possible for as long as possible. Well… the way the brewing coffee enters the thermos is by the same mechanism that allows you to “sneak a pour” even though the coffee isn’t finished brewing. While brewing, the thermos, *when seated* pushes open a spring-loaded nodule that also presses open the brewed coffee basket above the thermos, thereby allowing the brewed coffee to drip into the thermos. When you pull the thermos out, the spring-loaded nodule closes, the coffee stops flowing down (granted not always perfectly) and the *unseated* thermos lid seals shut in order to be poured (also imperfectly). Then you have 20 sec. (according to the directions) to sneak your cup and return the thermos back or else you will have a bigger problem then a few rogue drips, but more importantly, the same mechanics as explained above allows the remaining coffee to flow into the thermos until done. HERE LIES THE FIX… DO NOT RETURN THE THERMOS TO ITS SEATING! Remember, when in its seating, the lid is forced open. And when a thermal vessel has any kind of opening, heat is going to escape, and that’s why some reviewers complain of temperature loss. I’ve kept my thermos out and 5 hrs later the coffee was still HOT. After 8 hrs, the coffee was warm.

3. 

   Rated 4 out of 5

   Carmen Caulfield – December 2, 2022

   I’ve been using it for a week. Looks very nice. Seems to work well. It was a bit pricey. I like that it is a stainless steel carafe and I wont break it. The downside… It’s like any double walled thermos.. they work better if you fill them first with HOT water to bring the steel up to a warm inside. This will help the fresh pot of coffee stay hot longer as there is no burner to continue to heat the pot. It is not that kind of coffee pot. The temp that it is when it gets made is the temp it will remain until the steel pot cools and If you don’t warm up the pot first your coffee will not stay hot long. In the past we have kept a thermos next to the coffee pot so I could have hot coffee later in the morning without making another pot or having the coffee in the pot cooking all morning. My Thermos is a good one and keeps my coffee much hotter than this pot. ( i also add too much liquid creamer which I know brings the temp of my coffee down)… I could have purchase a 20$ pot and continued using my thermos… I spent 71 on this one, it’s a nice coffee maker but I could go either way…