Black & Decker DCM18S Personal Coffeemaker with Travel Mug Review

1 Cup Coffee Maker Reviews

The General Consensus

The Personal Coffeemaker is ideally suited for the travelers, office professionals, and families with only one coffee drinker. The machine brews high quality coffee directly into a stainless steel coffee mug. This machine does not require any disposable paper filter because it has a permanent filter. The auto shut off feature shuts down the machine automatically once brewing is complete. Many users also use this product as an instant source of hot water to prepare different types of instant food, tea, and hot chocolate. The different components like the filter basket, mug lid, filter, and mug are dishwasher safe.

This highly useful coffeemaker has received phenomenal response from the buyers so far. Above one thousand reviewers have assigned an overall product rating of four starts for the Personal Coffeemaker from Black and Decker. The product also has a ranking of 2 amongst all the single serve brewers in Amazon.com. We have carefully examined all the features of this machine before writing this review. The customer feedbacks have also been taken into consideration.

The Negative Reviews

Our detailed review revealed some serious glitches in the product. The major concern areas as pointed out by the users are given below.

Many customers have suggested that the design of the reusable filter set up is erroneous. The coffee ground in the filter tends to spill all over the place during the brewing process. The users found it extremely tedious to rinse the entire apparatus after each brewing cycle.

The machine is designed in such a way that allows the coffee to fall directly on the closed top of the travel mug, and then spill over to the mug. The customers did not like the taste because the top is completely made of plastic. Some customers took off the top to ensure better quality of coffee. However, that led to another problem as there were spatters of coffee all over the counter.

Some customers have also complained that the brewing process is so slow that the coffee in mug is no longer hot when the brewing process is over.

The Positive Reviews

However, most of the customers strongly disagreed with the points discussed in the previous section. This product is one of the best available in its price range, according to them.

This product is ideal for people who travel a lot. The Personal Coffeemaker from Black and Decker has become their travel companion since they bought this item. It makes high quality coffee within a very short time and leaves absolutely no mess at all. The unit is very easy to uses and clean. There is a permanent filter that can be rinsed easily.

The machine also takes very little space. The timer feature has been appreciated by the users, too. Finally, all the customers were very happy about the price of this machine. They have commented that this amazing machine has allowed them the luxury of making high quality coffee within throw away price.

“I bought this coffeemaker for home about 2 months ago and I love it! It is extremely convenient to be able to quickly brew coffee for just one person. The best features of this unit are… (read more here: Black & Decker DCM18S Review by Scott Pointon)”