Kitchen & Housewares : Black & Decker CBM205 Coffee Bean Mill, Stainless Steel
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Binding: Kitchen Brand: Black & Decker EAN: 0050875530492 Label: Black & Decker Manufacturer: Black & Decker Model: CBM205 Publisher: Black & Decker Sales Rank: 103858 Studio: Black & Decker Features:
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from: Black & Decker Your Price: $29.99 Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 2 months |
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Dial adjusts so you can set the texture exactly how you want - from very fine Turkish blend to coarse percolator grind. Dual safety mechanism ensures that unit will not operate unless top cover is closed and ground coffee receptacle is in place.
PRODUCT FEATURES
- Precision milling system crushes beans for more uniform results
- Adjusts for fine (espresso or Turkish), medium (automatic drip), and coarse (percolator) grind
- Push-button pulse control for convenient activation
- Removable ground coffee receptacle makes it easy to
- scoop directly into a brew basket
- Dual-locking mechanism for safe operation
- Built-in cord storage for reduced counter clutter
Average Rating: 
Rating:
- Noisy & Hard to useCome on Black & Decker, you can do better than this!? For as much noise that this thing makes, I'm surprised that the police haven't been at my door for disturbing the peace. They could have at least put an "on - off switch" on it that would stay on instead of having to hold it on for 5 minutes while this thing tries to grind coffee. If you want fine ground coffee, plan ahead, because you are going to be standing there holding the button on for some time. Make it a weekend project. I think that Black & Decker should have their design crew jailed on this one.
Rating:
- Do not buy this coffee grinder. Just don't do it.The only good thing I can say about this Black & Decker coffee grinder is the sense of morbid delight one can relish upon learning that all its many flaws are shared by others and exposed here in the Amazon customer reviews. But unless that is what you're buying a coffee grinder for -- in which case you've had WAY TOO MUCH coffee (or perhaps too little) -- it's really not worth it.
Let's review the problems with this product:
* On button must be held down. Moreover, the button is on the side, so unless you're trying to grind coffee while simultaneously thrusting the grinder off the counter, you'll have to hold onto it with your other hand. If you've got large enough hands, you may be able to hold the button down with your thumb while gripping the unit with your palm and fingers, earning a sense of accomplishment which I'm afraid to say is all too little consolation.
* Grinder gets clogged. Every couple weeks I have to take the thing apart and clear out all the coffee grit and dust. If this were the derailleur on my mountain bike, I wouldn't mind; I expect bike parts to get gritty often and need overhauling, plus there's a whole Zen thing going on there which just doesn't carry over to the desperate-for-coffee morning scene where the above scenario plays out.
* Grounds receptacle builds up static charge. This is an amazing thing. I had no idea coffee beans could so convincingly mimic the properties of magnetized iron ... Read More
Rating:
- I give it a zero stars/ one star is too generous. Life is too short to own a gadget that causes so much aggravation (especially when you're uncaffeinated) and have to work so hard to make the beans grind properly.
The directions never say what that release valve is for in the well where you put the whole beans! What is that for?
As others have said it grinds too coarse (with whole pieces left in the grinds) or to a disgusting dust that flies away all over the kitchen when you open it.
All I wanted was a nice med-fine grind for a cup of drip coffee and this mill will not provide it for you.
Rating:
- design is flawedThis mill is seriously flawed because it jams up from all the dust it makes. After a month or so it clogged with coffee dust and the motor seized. I removed the twistoff cleaning plug from the loading funnel and tried to clean the chamber. I got some of it out but it is impossible to get most of it that way, and after a couple more runs it jammed again. The mill is defective by design as there is no way to disassemble it for cleaning. Save your thirty bucks!
Rating:
- Irritating MachineLooks okay. No real problems with Grinding (maybe there are betters out there? I never thought about it). I CAN'T STAND THE GRINDING BUTTON! You have to continuously hold down the button to grind. After using it for about 4 months now, I've had enough. It's a waste of time to stand there for 5 minutes holding the button down while it grinds. It started as a minor irritation, but has culminated to the point where here I am shopping for a new one on Amazon. Don't buy this.