Black and Decker BLACK+DECKER 12-Cup Mill and Brew Coffeemaker, Black, CM5000B

Flawless and delicious!!!
We have owned two of these and have enjoyed having delicious coffee from freshly-ground, excellent beans (Lavazza Top Choice, sometimes espresso version but usually filtro), programmed the night before. Heavenly coffee to wake up to. Both of our Black & Decker Mill & Brew coffee makers have performed flawlessly. To the reviewer who can’t get her filter out: use the swing-up handle on it, and it comes right out. We had the 1st over six years, and I bought a second simply bc I didn’t know how to properly clean the fine-meshed filter and it accumulated some hard debris. I scraped it out with a sharp knife! The new one, which I’ve easily kept clean for almost 3 years now, I just spray out with the kitchen spray hose, first inside, then from the outside along each section (sides and bottom). Takes only a minute. I also run it through the dishwasher every month or two and that’s all it takes. I also give a quick rinse to the funnel that holds the filter. Easy to use, SUPERB coffee that stays hot and somehow doesn’t get bitter nearly as quickly as with other coffee makers and coffee brands. Great features: select how long to grind, how strong to make, when to start brewing (immediately, or program), etc. Love it and will likely buy another just to stash in the basement to have when this one eventually goes. As grinders go, it isn’t very loud, though if our bedroom door is open, we do hear it go off in the morning…this has become a very happy sound association. After over eight years, we still get excited about getting up for a cup of Lavazza Top Class, freshly ground and brewed in an EXCELLENT coffee maker. Lower maintenance than the pricey super-automatics, way more affordable, easy cleaning, and–best of all–amazing coffee. Highly recommend.

Best coffee maker ever!
Hands down, this is the best coffee maker with built in grinder I’ve ever owned! I bought it in July 2020, it’s now October 2025, and she’s still working perfectly. My husband and I love everything about this machine. You can program the grind, number of cups, what time you want or to brew, all the things. The burr is in the brew basket, so there is no cure for the grounds to clog up in on the way to the brew basket. It’s just one piece, and so easy to clean. You deserve this coffee maker!

Horrible in every way. Deeply regret this purchase.
We purchased this in April of 2023. It has never worked well, and as of April 2025 we are looking for a replacement.Edit: I forgot to mention the reason we are looking to replace it: now, almost every day, the pot is leaking water. It’s not spilling coffee. The clean fresh water is puddling from somewhere under the pot. We aren’t spilling it and we can’t figure out where, how, or why it is leaking. We are looking to replace it before we get electrocuted from a plugged-in appliance sitting in a puddle of water. (See photo. We filled the pot to “10” but when it brewed, it only filled to “6”. The rest pooled under the coffee maker and completely soaked a kitchen towel to dripping.)We previously had a Black & Decker coffee maker for years. The design has significantly changed.1. The body of the coffee maker wraps around most of the carafe. This directs all the steam up the middle of the front of the coffee maker, causing the following problems:A. The steam messes up the coffee maker’s computer and turns it off in the middle of brewing or sometimes afterwards so you find the whole coffee pot has gone cold.B. The “stainless steel” buttons on the front are silver plastic that quickly became completely stained brown from coffee steam. This cannot be cleaned. (See photo)2. The design of the coffee basket is AWFUL.A. The handle of the basket always gets snagged up when we are disposing of the filter and flips soggy coffee grounds all over the floor and trash can.B. If you remove the handle to avoid this, you can’t remove the basket from its’ place. We tried that and had to put it back on.C. The filter’s pace of dripping the coffee into the pot doesn’t match the machine’s pace of putting hot water into the filter basket. So the filter gets super full, and grounds always go up and around the filter and end up in the coffee pot. Yum!D. The “sneak-a-cup” technology is a little silicone washer/seal that holds the coffee in the basket when you remove the carafe if it is still brewing. This has disappeared during normal washing, twice. So now the coffee just freely pours out if it is not completely done brewing.Don’t buy it. Find something else!

I have no idea why anyone would complain about this machine. It’s super easy to use and easy to clean and produces a great cup of coffee. I was always hesitant about buying a machine with a built in grinder because I assumed it would require too much cleaning but not this guy. You can remove the filter basket as well as the interior basket with the shower head so you can make sure everything is squeaky clean before you make coffee again. Super easy. Also Black & Decker makes a good product. My previous coffee maker was a B&D basic bitch model and I had it for over 10 years at least. Over all, great product and worth the money.

Beau, bon et pas cher. Les meilleurs cafetières sont souvent les plus simples.