[spoiler title=’Click for video transcript’ style=’default’ collapse_link=’true’] hey welcome to coffee coffee coffee today is a coffee maker review this is the Black & Decker cheapo model Oh coffee maker oh we have had this coffee maker for three and a half years we did a little bit of math and we determined that it has at least gone through 3,500 cycles cycles meaning we put coffee in it put water in it press the button let it run it heated we poured it out I made more coffee it’s probably done more than that because as we do reviews sometimes it’s multiple days or you know multiple times a day so this coffee maker overall has been fantastic it was I think probably $30 or so when we bought it but it’s got everything you need ok so inside obviously it has the basket which has the pause function it’s got a couple of different holes so that way when the water comes out it spreads in the all over the grounds the water heats up to between around 195 degrees which according to what we’ve found in research is the proper temperature for the coffee to brew at it’s got a glass carafe it’s got markings on the side here so that you can fill it up to the amount of water that you need on the right and then it tells you how much coffee it’ll make so if you need eight cups of coffee you fill it up to the eight cup water mark because not all of the water is gonna go through the grounds and down into the coffee it’s got a program feature if you set the clock you can set the program to make the coffee pot come on say 15 minutes prior to your alarm going off in the morning so that way the coffee is there and ready for you to drink it and then also on the side here it has an indicator for how much water you’ve put in up to 12 cups on the back it has a place to store extra electrical cord so that you have a smaller counter or if you want to keep it plugged in but push it back you just in the extra cord here and then store it back underneath the things so overall this thing has been super awesome like I said we’ve used it for three and a half years and if it dies we’ll just go and get another one because it’s cheap and it really does a fantastic job if you’d like to pick it up we’ll link to it in the description below or a similar model and then you can check out other people’s reviews as well well thanks for joining us and until next time keep grinding [/spoiler]
We’ve had our Black & Decker CM1050B 12-Cup Programmable Coffeemaker for over three and a half years now. It’s been a workhorse, brewing for over 3500 cycles, according to our math, and still going strong.
Features we like:
- Appropriate brew temperature (right around 195)
- Pause brew function
- Programmable
- Translucent reservoir with easy to read markers
- Excess cord storage in back
- No beep when finished (we prefer it this way, because we don’t want to wake our kids up early in the morning)
- Carafe is marked with indicators of how much water you need vs how many cups you are making
- Showerhead inside that causes even saturation of the coffee grounds
- When we bought it at Wal-Mart, it was cheap (around 20 bucks)
To buy it on Amazon, click here: Black & Decker CM1050B 12-Cup Programmable Coffeemaker