BLACK+DECKER 1050-Watt Food Processor with Chopping Blade and Dough Blade

Nelson Gonzalez: Nice coffee maker

Canada on Mar 09, 2016

Cool Rod: I bought this coffee maker to replace a Mr. Coffee that developed a leak. I'm glad I switched brands, because this is a much nicer product.

The carafe is well designed, rarely a drip after pouring a cup. It has a nice shape, and I like the handle which is ergonomic and fits the hand very well and comfortably. The lid is permanent, unlike the Mr Coffee which had a lid that was loose and had to be put back on before you could make a pot of coffee.

The removable filter basket is better designed and holds paper filters snugly. If you use a Mr Coffee permanent filter it sits exactly inside, like it was designed for this coffee maker. It was loose in the Mr Coffee, not that it mattered much.

I make a whole pot every morning and it takes about 10 minutes or so, maybe longer, I haven't actually timed it. It isn't any faster than the Mr Coffee though. The hot plate definitely keeps the coffee hotter, but not too hot to drink. The water level is very easy to see because the water reservoir window is quite large.

The clock is a green LED and it's a nice easy to read device, and again the Mr Coffee had a clock that was impossible to read without a flashlight. I...

United States on Apr 29, 2014

brainout: EDIT, 11/21/12: turns out this newer edition of the same model doesn't work well with the mesh filter basket you can find in grocery stores to avoid buying paper filters. EXCEPTION: if you get the mesh basket which is also meshed at the BOTTOM (not a solid plastic bottom), you'll be fine.

It also doesn't work well with commercial paper filters. The problem in each case, is that the water doesn't flow fast enough, so the filter's reservoir fills up. It's not happened yet, but presumably that filling-up will eventually backflow to the section where you pour in the water, and clog up the water pipe. Yet if I use a plain paper towel in lieu of a filter (shaping it as I stuff it into the filter bowl) -- that DOES work, and remarkably well. I buy paper towel rolls with some moniker like 'select-a-sheet', perforated at half-sheets rather than whole ones. The half-sheet works nicely. End edit; original review follows below the ---- marks.

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I am just now buying this at Amazon, to replace this SAME MODEL which I bought four years ago from Walmart, in 2008. It is no longer sold there. I think I paid only $20 back then, and it makes sense that this...

United States on Sep 25, 2012

P. Ballard: I bought this Black & Decker coffee maker a couple months ago, when the one we got for a wedding gift 12 years ago stopped working. The price on this coffee maker was so good that I thought for sure that it would have issues, but it has worked flawlessly since we have owned it.

Coffee makers have changed a bit in the last 12 years so we were unable to find one for a half descent price that allows you to take off and clean in your dishwasher the entire compartment that holds the coffee grounds. This coffee maker, as well as many of the others, has a compartment within the coffee maker that can be removed and cleaned but we feared that the water level would exceed the height of the compartment and stain the inside of the coffee maker. We were pleased to find that our fears were unfounded and this hasn't happed, at all. It looks like the water level stays well below the top of the internal compartment so there is really no risk of the internals getting stained.

As far as performance goes, this coffee maker works very well. There have been no overflow or coffee pot alignment issues, as I've seen with other coffee makers and the water inflow shuts off completely when...

United States on May 25, 2012