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Black & Decker TCM830 10-Cup Thermal Stainless-Steel Coffeemaker | 
| Brand: Black & Decker
List Price: $59.99
Buy New: $54.99
You Save: $5.00 (8%)
New (3) from $54.99
Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 442
Color: Black/stainless
Shipping Weight (lbs): 8.6
Dimensions (in): 18.9 x 15.4 x 10.9
MPN: TCM830
Model: TCM830
UPC: 050875522183
EAN: 0050875522183
ASIN: B0004FL8NO
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 10-cup stainless steel thermal carafe | | • | Thermal carafe keeps coffee hot and tastefully fresh for hours | | • | Programmable digital clock with auto off and touch pad controls | | • | Water window and removable brew basket | | • | Water reservoir easily detaches for filling convenience |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 33 more reviews...
 NOT as good as my old Black and Decker!!! June 11, 2007
Peter H. Kosel (Sacramento, CA USA)
32 out of 37 found this review helpful
I have had a B&D TCM-508 thermal caraffe coffee maker for years. It makes great coffee and is still working, although the on switch now becomming a tad unreliable.
Instead of waiting for the old unit to quit, I thought I'd order the TCM830 and keep the old one as a spare. BAD IDEA. The TCM830 is in no way a worthy replacement for the old TCM508, which is solid, compact, easy to use and makes great coffee.
1. The TCM830 is flimsy - the tower supporting the filter bends when you place your hand on it while placing the pot under the filter, making it harder to put the pot in place.
2. The valve on the bottom of the TCM830's filter basket and the valve on the top of the thermal caraffe are very poorly designed so they tangle with one another instead of sliding smoothly open when you put the caraffe in place.
3. The TCM830 uses expensive conical filters instead of more readly available (and cheaper) flat-bottomed filters.
4. There is a nice big window in the water reservoir of the TCM830 so you can see the water level, BUT the window narrows to nothing at the top so you can't fill the reservoir to capacity with confidence.
5. The water reservoir of the TCM830 is removable, BUT I fill coffee pots with the hose on the sink faucet, or I use the caraffe to fill the water reservoir, and I view a removable water reservoir with a tricky valve at the bottom as a leak waiting to happen rather than as a "plus".
6. The TCM830 uses more counter space than necessary, far more than my old TCM508.
In summary, I find the TCM830 to be flimsy, poorly designed, inconvenient, hard to buy filters for, wasteful of counter space, and in no way a worthy replacement for my old TCM508.
The only possible reason I can see for the TCM830 getting such high user review scores is that ANY thermal caraffe coffee maker is better than ANY coffee maker with a glass pot sitting on a heating element. Keeping coffee on a heating element indefinitely renders it acidic and undrinkable in comparison coffee kept in a thermal caraffe.
 Great coffeemaker April 1, 2007
B. Breckenfeld (Carrollton, TX)
20 out of 23 found this review helpful
I had an old Black & Decker coffeemaker with a plastic carafe that worked very well, and bought this one when I dropped the carafe and chipped the top. This new one is even better and quicker to use. The cone shaped filter basket seems to need less coffee to make the same strength, and is easier to insert, remove and clean. The water tank conveniently lifts right out with easy to read marks to fill at the sink; no need for filling a separate jug and pouring in. And easy to use programmer for morning coffee.
 Not bad, not great October 31, 2006
Marie (Burlington, VT)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
We had this coffee maker for about 9 months, then it just stopped working halfway through a brew cycle. I could not find any other reviews for it online, so I'm not sure if this is typical or not.
What I liked about it: the thermal carafe kept the coffee hot for quite awhile as long as you take it off of the machine right after brewing so that the brew-through holes close up. It is easy to fill since the water resevoir is removable. I also like the look of it. It seems fairly sturdy, and it was very easy to pour (no spilling issues as I have read about other machines).
What I didn't like: The brew-through lid has small holes that the coffee, soap, and water get into and it is very hard to get out. You have to shake it very hard to get the liquid out, and I felt like I needed to rinse it repeatedly to be sure to get any residual soap out. The pot itself has a very small opening so you have to use a bottle brush. It also has a lip that makes it hard to fully empty.
I'm not sure if we will get another of the same or try something else. It seems like alot of the thermal pots have similar cleaning issues.
dissapointed January 6, 2007
mystic painter (MYSTIC, CT United States)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
As noted elsewhere,the lid of this coffeemaker is impossible to clean...no matter how often you rinse and shake it out there is always trapped water. Also the pot dribbles condensation out of the small holes around the top while it sits on the counter. I have to keep a paper towel under it. The coffee pours slowly..the trade-off is that the pot keeps coffee hot for hours. I can't get the unit to brew strong enough coffee without using a lot more coffee than seems reasonable. On the plus side this unit is attractive and appears to be well built.
 Coffeee maker broke after 3 days - super-poor design October 3, 2007
Kathy Hawk
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
As soon as I put the pot onto the burner I knew this coffee pot wouldn't last. It has plastic knobs on springs coming down from the filter and up from the pot - it was immediately apparent that they would break. Sure enough, after only 3 days, the piece in the top of the pot broke. This wasn't a lemon - it's just really a poor design.
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