Black & Decker DCM7 Cup-at-a-Time Personal 12-Ounce Coffeemaker, White
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Black & Decker DCM7 Cup-at-a-Time Personal 12-Ounce Coffeemaker, White
Customer Review: Servicable, but prone to miss the mug
Summary: 3 Stars
I had this coffee maker for the better part of a year. It's perfectly servicable for the price if you're looking for this sort of thing. Two things to be aware of:
First, the opening has only 4" clearance - enough for a standard coffee mug, but not for most travel mugs. If you want to brew a cup and go, this may not work for you.
More importantly, every once in a while the coffee maker would dump coffee all over my desk instead of into the mug. I think it happened when the filter basket was turned slightly too far to the side, setting up some sort of drizzle effect that diverted the coffee stream to the side of the mug. It's an annoying design flaw, and I threw mine away for exactly this reason. It happened only rarely, though, and worked perfectly otherwise.
Customer Review: Black & Decker one cup coffee maker
Summary: 4 Stars
The Black & Decker Cup-At-A-Time makes one small cup of coffee at a time.
When new it does have a plastic taste. I hope this will go away over time. You can wash the brew basket in the dish washer but not the main unit. No cup is furnished so you need to furnish your own. Forget a tall cup, it will only handle a small one.
Make sure you put a cup under the nozzle before you turn it on. As soon as you turn it on coffee comes out immediately. I do not plan to use the furnished wire basket. Instead I found that a regular 8-12 cup paper filter will fit. One tablespoon of ground coffee seems to yield a good taste.
There is no warming unit and the brewer shuts it's self off after making the coffee.
Ideal for that one cup of joe.
Customer Review: Great for lots of things
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought the previous model years ago (8 years?) and it just now gave up the ghost. It is great for things other than coffee - I took the filters out and just ran water through it for tea, instant hot cocoa, instant oatmeal, etc. Anything you'd use hot water for. Oh, and with the filter in you can make tea from loose tea leaves if you want.
My old model made a little more than a cup of hot water in about three minutes.
The water does not get dangerously hot, either, which I think is a good safety feature. I have made a cup of tea every morning for the last 5 years at least, and it worked great. I am looking forward to ordering the new model. (The old one is still available but not directly from Amazon, so no free shipping.)
Customer Review: Fast,, Small, Easy, Excellent...and HOT!
Summary: 4 Stars
This is the neatness product for one or two coffee drinkers, like me. It does one cup at a time quickly and then shuts itself off. It has a built-in fine screen filter so no more filter fumbling and buying. It takes up very little counter space or small enough to tuck away in your kit cabinet like you would a 28oz can of beans.
It brews so quickly, two or even three people can have coffee in about the same time it would take a bigger coffee maker to do. A must have for limited counter spaces. I do not see the faults others have mentioned here in mine?
The only improvement I could think of is a buzzer when it is done, but it brews so quickly this is no biggy and I set my kitchen timer for 1 minute as a reminder.
Customer Review: Good little product
Summary: 4 Stars
Though the coffeemaker is of simple design maybe that is the key to why we like the product. We have been using this coffeemaker for about a year and a half now and we have only had one issue. The one way valve in the tank kept popping up. Putting it back in the hole in the bottom of the water tank and striking it firmly with the back end of a metal table knife resolved the problem. That valve is only held in place by friction, it is not glued. We also use an expresso grind coffee which has not impeded the water flow. We clean or at least rinse out the filter after each cup. We have two new backups stored in the attic should this one fail. We love this little coffeemaker and use it daily hence the backups.