BLACK+DECKER 12-Cup Thermal Coffeemaker, Black/Silver, CM2035B

I purchased this upon a recommendation from a friend. I like my coffee hot and well brewed. This is the first time I've used an insulated carafe with no burner and I wasn't sure how I'd like it. But let me tell you, it is wonderful. The coffee stays as hot as when it was brewed, without continuing to cook as it does when sitting in a glass carafe on a hot plate. The added benefit is that I don't have to worry about my coffee pot turning a burner off an hour after brewing; the coffee in the insulated carafe stays hot for several hours, again, without cooking. It's average in brew time and you can see the water level in the tank to determine if it's finished brewing. Low noise level. I don't have to worry about dropping and breaking a glass pot. The last 2 coffee makers I've had the carafes have dripped when pouring coffee: hated it! But this one pours very nicely, no drips. And most of all, the coffee tastes amazing. You will not go wrong in purchasing this machine.

Purchased for my husband for Christmas. We had a prior GE that was seeing its last day! My husband was reheating his coffee on the stove as he did not like the taste change from microwave. This particle model has functioned very well with none of the prior issues noted from other reviews! This model is easy to use with a reservoir that is accessible and easy to fill. My husband is impressed with the water dispersion which is much improved over our old model with a noted improvement in coffee taste! Note: This model has the stainless carafe and you will be satisfied with reasonable expectations if you preheat the carafe he has found the coffee stays brewed hot for 3.5 hours and is still a good temperature at 4+ hours! No, coffee will not be brewed hot all day long! However, you can have the pleasure of drinking hot coffee for 3+ hours retaining maximum flavor without the burnt taste from microwaving or other heating. We use premium beans and with costs increasing it is an economical way to treat those beans the right way for great flavor and readily available hot coffee. While reviewing others reviews I’ll make the note that the carafe holds 2 quarts of water. You do the math that is 8 measured cups. Most cups are larger including ours so we say 6 cups of coffee! Not the size it says - 12 cups but typical for most coffee makers. We have not noticed much noise except at the end of brewing which to me signals the coffee is ready! Yum! With this model the carafe is easy to clean without special brushes. The spout of the carafe pours easily with no noted drips or spill issues! This coffee maker gets 5 stars for a coffee maker in a great price range with the stainless steel carafe. Features work as described and we’re hoping this machine gives us several years of great coffee! Price $86.93 during Christmas sales in combination with a nice stainless coffee grinder! To us that’s a bargain!

Great coffee maker. the coffee brews hot, extracts lots of flavor. We use it when we go camping, so the steel carafe is much better than glass to have around the site. I set it at night and cofee is ready when I get up. there is no warmer, but that carafe keeps the coffee hot for hours, even sitting outside in cool morning air. My only complaint is that the display sucks. its not backlit, so it's difficult to see, and the TINY little pm indicator is ridiculous. Other than that, it's worked well for us for two years and complaints about function. I just wish they'd imrove the display.

This coffee maker is easy to use and makes a good simple brew without all the fuss. I really like the steel carafe as it keeps the coffee hot for several hours without requiring a machine warmer. While not a coffee snob, I haven't noticed a difference in the taste from switching between the glass and steel carafe materials.

I am an avid researcher when making a purchase, especially when it's as critical as our daily coffee supply- lol! So when our third rather expensive Keurig died very early I decided we'd spend no more money on that brand. I was looking for the versatility of brewing a whole pot or a smaller portion AND the idea of a thermal carafe instead of a hot plate was very appealing. I looked at many, many brands and models ranging in price from $ to $$$. I read reviews, I watched videos, I looked up anything and everything I could. This little machine continued to offer features that I really liked without bells and whistles I would rarely use. We are a plain yet picky coffee drinking household and we nurse a pot all day long (one of us is day shift and the other night shift so it's always "morning wake up time" around here). As one who nputs milk in their coffee, I'll admit to being doubtful that I'd find a coffeemaker with a thermal carafe that would maintain a drinkable temperature (once milk was added to the cup) for very long and I hate microwaving my coffee. So I read reviews saying this carafe "kept coffee hot for hours" with a strong dose of skepticism. WOW! Has this exceeded expectations! Four hours after brewing the very last cup of the pot was still quite hot enough to steam and be very nicely drinkable after I added the milk. So, here is my run down of the lovely features this model offers: 1. Capacity - It holds a full 12 cups which gets us through a day here. Everyone should remember that a "cup" when measuring coffee is actually 5oz. and not 8oz. So 60 oz. of water goes in and 60 oz. of coffee comes out (yes, the engineer in the house measured) which is more than our much more $$ Keurig could ever say. 2. Ease of Use - The brew, size and programming options are quite straightforward to operate, not only in compexity but in button size and readablity, which is helpful when my elderly father wants to help prepare the next morning s coffee. 3. Build Quality and Design - The machine fits easily under my kitchen cabinets, and takes up much less counter space than my Keurig. The markings on the water reservoir are easy to see. TIP: Do use a pitcher other than the carafe to fill the reservoir, not because the carafe doesn't pour well (IT POURS GREAT!), but because it is just easier if you are working under cabinets to pour from something smaller. 4. The carafe - This could go under design, but it's honestly such a great feature it deserves its own note. It is clearly a quality thermal container and very easy to pour from and it's wide mouth when you take the lid off makes it extremely easy to clean (no need for that narrow brush when washing, you can get your entire hand in there, even my husband's larger hands find it easy to clean). And here is the tip that I've been most grateful for from other reviews: After brewing is complete, REMOVE the carafe from the coffeemaker tray. When it is on the tray the "brew through" feature of the lid is automatically open slightly (to allow for brewing) and I'm sure this could speed heat loss. We simply take the pot and move it over to the counter and hours later it's still plenty hot, yet the cool-touch handle and sides of the carafe are not too warm to handle easily. We have not needed to put a hotpad underneath the carafe when on the counter. Also, the spout pours nice and neatly, unlike other coffeemakers we've had where you were cleaning up drips each time you poured a cup. All this to say, if you want a quality, easy to use and easy to maintain machine AND actual value for your money, purchase this machine! I'm so glad I did!!!

I bought this after having experienced 12-cup thermal-carafe coffee makers at two of my stepkids' homes. The ability to not have a glass carafe, and have hot coffee for my typical consumption of the full 12 cups, over a typical ~2-hour period, without having to worry about scorching the coffee appealed to me greatly. Both of those households liked their coffee considerably stronger than I, and so very fully filled their (in both cases) gold-mesh filters, one each round and cone style. So it was with considerable surprise that my 4-heaping-tablespoon-scoops coffee load (first picture) resulted in: Every single time, my brew basket came out looking like the second or third picture. I brewed every single day I owned this machine (returning it for refund on the last possible day, 34 pots later). Never was there no grounds in the basket. Sometimes a few, and ... Sometimes a lot, resulting in the top of the carafe looking like the 4th picture. I can't imagine what the outcome of putting in 12 tablespoons (nominally at least twice the load of my heaping tablespoon-scoop) would have been. Never was any potful free of drips. Sometimes, a LOT of drips. The most egregious of them looked like the last two pictures. It got to the point where I was NEVER without a folded paper towel next to my mug in order to catch the drips. I did everything I could think of to eliminate the drips. Tilt the pot, and THEN push the pouring seal. Push the pouring seal and THEN pour. Scrub the gasket between the top and the pot, and the gasket between the on/off pouring seal. The best I ever achieved was a few drips down the front of the pot. The worst is in the pictures. That's all the negative stuff. The coffee was great. The pot, lid, and basket were easy to clean. If I didn't mind the occasional instance of grounds in my coffee, or having to clean up every single time I brewed, sometimes several times in the 4 pours (my mug is a full pint, also insulated), the inevitable drips, I likely would have kept it, as the coffee was fine. A minor nuisance was that the water tank was a bit difficult to fill accurately without paying very strict attention, as the spray unit divided the width exactly in half, making a relatively small target for the full carafe. As I followed the recommendation of the owner's manual and preheated the carafe before brewing, I never actually used the preset/overnight-ready setup; in fact, I stowed it in the cabinet directly over where I brewed, so it always displayed a flashing 12:00 - but I expect it would have worked as intended. I (obviously) have no idea why the carafe leaked or whatever-other-mechanism caused my drip issues. But I'm certain I could not have improved the coffee grounds issue, given my care in leveling my load, and the fact that it was perhaps a third of the normal load for the 12-cup brew I did each time. The only way I can conceive for that failure is that the drain wasn't sufficiently large. I admit that, not having had an endoscope to sneak in during brewing I never got to see the effects of the multi-directional spray bar; I'd thought it a fantastic idea and it was one of the reasons I purchased this model. It may have been that the pressure was a bit too much and caused splashing of the grounds, but the very even level of the empty-of-water basket suggests otherwise, and that it simply overflowed the filter paper. One other niggle. As you can see, I have a wide-bottomed insulated mug. It's a leftover from my 15 years of cruising on a sailboat. So old that it's unobtanium now, and I've made it safe to use with an electrical tie reinforcement to the handle. But I digress... The subject pot gave me 4 cupfuls - the usual "12 cups" - if you count leaving a half-inch or so space at the top on each fill. So, this carafe, spiller though it was, wouldn't deliver a full 12 cups, despite my filling it to the brim, and being rewarded, most times, with spillover (overfill as far as this one's water reservoir was concerned). For whatever it's worth, Amazon immediately refunded my purchase, for which I had already used up the credit to my 'wallet' by ordering the other version I'd considered when ordering this one. It's the very similar-looking https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C2JK9Y8V - which I've used several times since my return of the subject unit, and found the resulting coffee grounds' level as expected, which is to say the dark line went only about halfway up the edge. And furthermore, it delivers an honest 12 cups - 4 fills of my ancient mug, with only space enough left to put on the sipper, no-spill lid - every time. And the water reservoir fill opening is massive by comparison. If you're considering the two, I'd definitely recommend the link immediately above, and give THIS one a pass.

Great coffee maker! The coffee brews quickly and stays hot for hours! The best part is no dainty glass craft. You can easily reach everything to clean it and not worry about breaking it. The steal craft makes it worthwhile

I've had this coffee maker now for about 3 weeks. I don't love it, but I don't hate it. I'm also not 100% sure if I would recommend it either. Here's why. PLEASE READ ENTIRE REVIEW FOR IMPORTANT INFO. Before purchasing this, I read lots of the reviews, and watched all of the video reviews before I decided on this one. Because everyone seemed happy with theirs, I went ahead and bought it. It was pricier than others, but I always go by the old saying, "you get what you pay for". It shipped very quickly and arrived the next day. When I got mine, I went through the setup procedure and I was ready to enjoy my first pot of coffee. The first thing I noticed was the lid was very loose, and I knew it was supposed to "lock" into place. After all, that's how the coffee is supposed to stay hot, in the carafe, and not on a warming plate, right? Even the description states: • 4 LAYER VACUUM SEALED THERMAL CARAFE: keeps coffee hot for up to two hours with the 4-layer vacuum sealed thermal carafe. On mine, I quickly discovered that there was a plastic seal missing from the carafe lid, which supposedly makes the carafe air tight. I reached out to Black+Decker and they quickly sent me a replacement lid (thank you Black+Decker). Finally, after getting the new lid I would be able to enjoy nice hot coffee. And I did...sort of. After using it for a few weeks now, I've noticed that the first cup of coffee that comes out is piping hot. By the time I get my second cup (maybe 45 minutes later) the coffee is what I would describe as "very warm", not hot. By the time I get to my 3rd cup, (don't judge) the coffee in the carafe is just lukewarm, (hello Mr. Microwave). I think I expected it to remain closer to hot much longer. BUT, while writing this review, I noticed in the product description it says: • IMPORTANT PRO TIP: To help coffee stay at brewed temperature, warm the carafe by filling with hot tap water and then discarding before brewing. So, I tried that this morning, and, it did help somewhat to keep the coffee in the carafe hotter, longer. I'm going to keep doing this and experiment to get the best results. My feeling on this is that it's just an extra step in the morning I wouldn't have to do with a traditional coffee maker with a glass carafe. One thing I do like is that the carafe does stay cool to the touch on the outside and also the no-drip spout feature. What I used to like about my old coffee maker is being able to use the glass carafe to measure the water and pour it right into the reservoir. With this carafe, there's no way to do that so I have to use a measuring cup. This is a minor inconvenience though. One other feature I wish this coffee maker had is that the clock display does not illuminate when power button is pushed (see picture) or while brewing coffee. It seems like a very dim display. Bottom line, typically if I don't like something I buy, I return it. However, I'm not going to return this simply because I don't want to go through the hassle of packing it all up and returning it, and I still get my coffee every morning.