This is a popular 10 cup capacity coffee maker from Black & Decker. This brewer comes with the stainless steel thermal carafe which is great for keeping your brewed coffee hot and fresh for hours. Easily programmable with the digital clock and touch pad controls. For safety and to ease your mind this brewer has an auto-shutoff feature. Comes with a removable brew basket for easy filling and cleaning. The water reservoir is detachable for convenience in filling with water and also for cleaning purposes. This thermal coffeemaker has a sleek design that has become very popular. Brews great tasting coffee that doesn't lose its flavor by being on a heating element but rather uses the thermal carafe. The cone shaped brew basket uses a #4 cone filter.
Black and Decker TCM830 Thermal Coffeemaker PROS:
Removable water reservoir easy to fill
Stainless steel thermal carafe keeps coffee fresh and hot for hours
Cone shaped filter requires less coffee for same strength
Easy to read marks on the water reservoir
Easy to program
Well built
Esthetically pleasing coffee maker
Coffee is Hot
Clock is LCD
Brewing light is green
Excellent Brewer for the price
Removable filter basket
Brews great tasting coffee
Carafe "double walled"
Replacement parts available from Black and Decker's website (carafe, cap, reservoir, basket, manual)
To prevent overflowing the water reservoir has a D shaped overflow hole
Reasonably priced
Black and Decker TCM830 Thermal Coffeemaker CONS:
Brew-through lid has small holes that may allow debris to get in which would be hard to clean out
The carafe lip makes it hard to empty completely
Lid is difficult to clean
Pot drips condensation from the small holes around the top
Coffee pours slowly from carafe due to small pouring spout
Coffee not hot enough for some - Heating mug before pouring coffee helps
Cover is difficult to screw on
Slow to brew
Bottle brush needed to clean carafe
Metallic taste from the carafe
Parts are mostly made of plastic
Black & Decker TCM830 Thermal Coffeemaker Summary: If you are looking for a coffee maker that keeps your coffee warm and doesn't have an easily breakable carafe, this is for you. However, if you want extremely hot coffee you should probably go with another model. For the price, you get a very good coffeemaker with a thermal carafe.
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