About BLACK+DECKER
BLACK+DECKER traces back to a small Baltimore machine shop S. Duncan Black and Alonzo G. Decker founded in 1910. The company built its name on power tools for most of the 20th century, then expanded into the kitchen in 1984 by acquiring General Electric's small household appliance division -- the move that put coffee makers, toasters, and blenders under the same brand as the drills and saws. In 2010, Black & Decker merged with Stanley Works to form Stanley Black & Decker, and today the small-appliance side of the business, including its coffee makers, operates under a Russell Hobbs license covering beverage, food-prep, cooking, and garment-care products in North America.
That lineage shows up in how the brand approaches a coffee maker: fewer frills, straightforward mechanics, and a price built for a crowded countertop rather than a showpiece. The 12-Cup Mill & Brew line we've tested keeps the grind-and-brew format simple -- a defeatable grinder, a 24-hour timer, and a full glass carafe -- rather than chasing the touchscreen and burr-grinder features that push competitors well past its price point.
Brand website: blackanddecker.com
What BLACK+DECKER makes
BLACK+DECKER's range runs wider than the products we review. The lines we know best from our own testing are marked with a star:
12-Cup Mill & Brew Coffee Maker
programmable grind-and-brew drip machine with a defeatable blade grinder and 12-cup glass carafe -- featured on Brew Gazette — featured on Brew Gazette
Single Serve Coffee Maker
compact one-touch brewer that brews grounds or pods directly into a 16-oz thermal mug
Spacemaker Under-Cabinet Coffee Maker
under-cabinet mounted drip coffee maker built for small kitchens
Coffee Urns
large-format percolator urns for serving a crowd
Kitchen Wand
cordless multi-tool for blending, whisking, and frothing
Why we recognized BLACK+DECKER
The Brew Gazette Top Brand recognition isn't paid for and can't be applied for. We award it to the brands whose products consistently stand out in our hands-on category reviews. BLACK+DECKER earned it on the strength of the products below, evaluated the same way every product on this site is: bought, brewed with daily, and judged on what lands in the cup.
BLACK+DECKER products we rated highly
BLACK+DECKER 12-Cup Grind and Brew Coffee Maker
It's the least expensive way in our testing to get a full 12-cup pot brewed from whole beans, and it backs that up with the deepest owner base of any machine in the roundup -- nearly 6,700 ratings at a 4.2-star average. The grinder can be switched off entirely for days you'd rather run pre-ground coffee, a flexibility the sealed-hopper machines we tested don't offer, and the 24-hour programmable timer plus Sneak-A-Cup pause-and-serve cover the daily basics. We noted the blade grinder trades some clarity for that price, and the grind chute needs regular wiping to avoid clogs.
Read the 9 Best Coffee Makers with Grinders of 2026 guide →What earned BLACK+DECKER the recognition
- Recognized in Brew Gazette's testing of coffee makers with built-in grinders for making a genuine 12-cup pot from whole beans at the lowest price in the roundup, with a defeatable grinder that also runs pre-ground coffee.
- Carried the deepest review history of any machine we tested in that category -- nearly 6,700 Amazon ratings at a 4.2-star average -- a track record that speaks to how many households have run this machine daily.
- The 24-hour programmable timer and Sneak-A-Cup pause-and-serve feature matched conveniences found on machines costing considerably more in our testing.
- Built on a small-appliance lineage that goes back to BLACK+DECKER's 1984 acquisition of GE's household appliance division, four decades of putting kitchen appliances behind the same brand as its power tools.
- A full 12-cup glass carafe suits households and offices that go through a pot fast enough that the hot plate never gets the chance to stew the coffee, exactly the use case our testing flagged it for.