DCM2500 12-Cups Coffee Maker
- Operation: Electric
- Type: Coffee Maker
- Built-in Grinder: Without Built-in Grinder
- Capacity: 12 Cups
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The Black and Decker DCM2500. A great, low cost coffeemaker - with a flaw.
Pros
Fast and easy to use. <br>The caraffe never drips.<br>Two sets of fill markings.
Cons
It can plug up occasionally, causing the grounds to overflow.
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
Try one. If it never plugs up on you, you will have one of the finest coffeemakers in its price range.
The Black and Decker DCM 2500 coffemaker is an absolutely great product - with one possibly fatal flaw. It is one of the lower cost coffeemakers on the market. It has great looks and brews great tasting coffee. It brews a full pot of coffee quickly, generally under a minute a cup.
The electronic timer/clock is easy and intuitive to use. And, as you would expect with an electronic device, keeps accurate time. The clock's setting buttons are flush with their surrounding surface on the coffeemaker's base. The entire assembly is sealed under a decorative escutcheon,making sure that they are easy to use and that water cannot leak into the electronics. Finally, the coffeemaker is easy to clean.
An especially nice feature - one I am surprised has not been copied by other makers - is actually on the caraffe. There are two sets of fill level markings on the caraffes sides - one that indicates how much water to put into the reservoir for each cup of coffee. The second set of markings, next to the first, shows the brewed coffee cup levels. While not a big feature, you do learn to depend on seeing the exact level of brewed coffee in the caraffe.
Speaking of the caraffe, you will love the way this one pours. The top inch or so of the caraffe is made of plastic with an integral pouring spout. Designing the caraffe this way allowed Black and Decker to shape the pour spout in the best way possible. It does not end in a point as glass caraffe spouts do. Rather, the spout is shallow and wide, with a flat pouring surface. Because of this shape, the caraffe absolutely does not drip. Every caraffe I have ever used has a tendency to drip at the end of each pour. This caraffe does not - ever.
Now, for the one fatal flaw. Every once in a while, at totally random times, the drain hole in the coffee basket would decide to plug up. When that happens, the water and grounds overflow the filter. The result is a large messy mixture of wet coffee grounds and coffee - on the coffeemaker's base and on the surface it is sitting on.
We tried everything to find out what was causing the problem. We changed the brand of paper filter. We even tried the "gold" mesh filter basket. We experimented with the valve at the bottom of the grounds basket. Even when we manually opened the valve to full open, the coffee still refused to come out. Nothing seemed to solve the problem. We never did find out what caused the problem, nor were we ever able to solve it. As I said, this would happen rarely, but when it did it it was troublesome. We tried a second sample of the same model - with the same strange results.
Lacking that one fault, the DCM 2500 is the best coffeemaker we have ever owned. It brews great tasting coffee quickly, is easy to use, is low cost and has great features.
The electronic timer/clock is easy and intuitive to use. And, as you would expect with an electronic device, keeps accurate time. The clock's setting buttons are flush with their surrounding surface on the coffeemaker's base. The entire assembly is sealed under a decorative escutcheon,making sure that they are easy to use and that water cannot leak into the electronics. Finally, the coffeemaker is easy to clean.
An especially nice feature - one I am surprised has not been copied by other makers - is actually on the caraffe. There are two sets of fill level markings on the caraffes sides - one that indicates how much water to put into the reservoir for each cup of coffee. The second set of markings, next to the first, shows the brewed coffee cup levels. While not a big feature, you do learn to depend on seeing the exact level of brewed coffee in the caraffe.
Speaking of the caraffe, you will love the way this one pours. The top inch or so of the caraffe is made of plastic with an integral pouring spout. Designing the caraffe this way allowed Black and Decker to shape the pour spout in the best way possible. It does not end in a point as glass caraffe spouts do. Rather, the spout is shallow and wide, with a flat pouring surface. Because of this shape, the caraffe absolutely does not drip. Every caraffe I have ever used has a tendency to drip at the end of each pour. This caraffe does not - ever.
Now, for the one fatal flaw. Every once in a while, at totally random times, the drain hole in the coffee basket would decide to plug up. When that happens, the water and grounds overflow the filter. The result is a large messy mixture of wet coffee grounds and coffee - on the coffeemaker's base and on the surface it is sitting on.
We tried everything to find out what was causing the problem. We changed the brand of paper filter. We even tried the "gold" mesh filter basket. We experimented with the valve at the bottom of the grounds basket. Even when we manually opened the valve to full open, the coffee still refused to come out. Nothing seemed to solve the problem. We never did find out what caused the problem, nor were we ever able to solve it. As I said, this would happen rarely, but when it did it it was troublesome. We tried a second sample of the same model - with the same strange results.
Lacking that one fault, the DCM 2500 is the best coffeemaker we have ever owned. It brews great tasting coffee quickly, is easy to use, is low cost and has great features.
