Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #82814 in Kitchen & Housewares
- Color: Black
- Brand: Black & Decker
- Model: CM1509
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 13.90" h x
8.90" w x
11.54" l,
5.40 pounds
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
Black & Decker CM1509 8-Cup Programmable Coffeemaker with Thermal Carafe
Product 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!
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
29 of 35 people found the following review helpful.
Not good enough for Goodwill
By Kristen Hannum
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.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
I don't know what everyone is complaining about
By Alan D. Meyerson
Maybe Black & Decker recently changed the way they manufacture this machine but I have to say I am at a loss over why so many people are complaining. I bought this machine on sale at Target (Amazon turned out to have it for the same price, go figure) and then I found it online to look at reviews. After I read some of the more terrible ones, I was ready to return it without even trying but I figured that, since I already had it in my house, I might as well see how it works. A week later, I'm pleasantly surprised, so much so that I want to address some of the complaints I've read:Coffee Temperature: Yes, this coffee maker either doesn't have a heat plate or it turns off once the coffee is done brewing (I'm not quite sure). Well, that's the point - leaving coffee over a heat plate for hours makes the coffee taste terrible (it's the reason I tossed my old coffee maker). The coffee this machine brews is hot - it's so hot that, after pouring a cup immediately after brewing, I have to let it sit for about a minute in order to drink it (after adding milk). And the thermal carafe keeps the coffee hot for at least a couple hours. If I leave coffee in the pot for a whole day, it will still be lukewarm that evening. Although a warming plate might keep the coffee hot all day, it would be undrinkable because burnt coffee is disgusting. This machine will never burn your coffee.Water Level Gauge: Yes, it's really hard to tell how much water you've put in - the water level gauge kinda sucks. So what. This really is a minor inconvenience. And as someone else pointed out, you can use the water gauge by putting your finger on the desired cup line and looking inside the machine. Is this ideal? Of course not (hence the 4 stars) but really not worth crying about.Mess: This coffee maker has never overflown or otherwise leaked coffee. No idea what you're doing wrong if you have this happen to you. Same goes for the seam that I've read about. No clue what you're talking about - the carafe in my machine is solid.Difficulty Pouring: It is not difficult to pour from the carafe. You just have to press down on the release button on the lid (this feature helps keep the coffee warm). Although getting the last little bit of coffee out can be somewhat difficult, I don't mind letting a few drops of coffee go to waste if I'm mostly satisfied with the machine. It's not like you're brewing that $500 a pound cat poop coffee (if you are, then you should also get yourself an unnecessarily expensive coffee maker).Final Thoughts: I like this machine. I like the carafe. I think the carafe is easier to clean than one made of glass. I also think it stains less than a glass carafe and I don't worry about dropping and breaking it in the sink while washing it (I've already dropped it a couple times).I'm the kind of person who doesn't have time in the morning to clean my coffee maker before heading out. If I don't drink all the coffee I brew, it ends up sitting in the carafe all day. When I had a coffee maker with a glass carafe, I'd come home to nasty tasting coffee (because it had sit on the hot plate for a few hours until the machine turned itself off) and a mess trying to clean the burnt coffee out of carafe. I rarely brewed coffee because it was so unpleasant to deal with my old machine. With this machine in my kitchen, I'm brewing coffee almost every day.
21 of 27 people found the following review helpful.Not bad if you like cold coffee
By DrBubba
We bought this coffee maker about 5 days ago and were immediately and continuously disappointed. The carafe keeps the coffee tepid at best. There is no heating element on the coffee maker. From the moment coffee is made (not very hot) it gets cold. Within 30 minutes it is not drinkable. Additionally, the reservoir fill markers are easy to see but it is very, very difficult to see the water level. Unless you look directly into the coffee maker reservoir or pour the water into the reservoir from some premeasured container, it is almost impossible to determine how much water is in the reservoir.
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