Sunbeam Complaint - Carafe exploded - Mr. Coffee maker TCX83

Posted by trmn8r on 2011-05-30:

Was the carafe still hot from use, then cold water applied? I'm thinking maybe an abrupt temperature change or something.

Posted by Slimster on 2011-05-30:

Yeah, that had to be it, hitting anything glass that is hot with COLD water will shatter it every time - has to do with quantum physics or something.

Posted by azRider on 2011-05-30:

thermodynamics can be such pain. just remember, next winter do not take your new Carafe and fill it with hot water and pour it on your frozen windshield! its amazing how melted sand reacts to heat and cold.

Posted by littleshorty on 2011-05-30:

Same thing happened to our coffee maker a few years ago. The carafe was still hot and my friend (thinking he was helping by cleaning my kitchen) ran the carafe under cold water and it cracked.

Posted by GenuineNerd on 2011-05-30:

The carafe needs to be cooled down before cleaning-when you apply cold water to a hot carafe, the thermal shock would cause shattering. Same story if you put a carafe full of ice cubes on a hot coffeemaker hotplate (if you're making iced coffee or iced tea.) As for pouring hot water on a frozen windshield, I only apply the hot water to the washer nozzles or wiper arms (if the nozzles are on the wipers) to thaw out a frozen windshield washer nozzle. I try to avoid getting hot water on the windshield itself for that reason.

Posted by Slimster on 2011-05-30:

Oddly enough, my high value escalade has heated nozzles for the windshield wipers

Posted by FlShopper on 2011-05-31:

I agree with all of the above that if the carafe was still hot and you ran it under cold water, it was a natural reaction. Can't blame Sunbeam for it.
I always take my carafe off the coffeemaker hotplate and leave it on a trivet to cool down completely before attempting to wash it.

Posted by Nohandle on 2011-05-31:

We have a Mr. Coffee at the office and coffee drinkers have learned not to place a near empty carafe back on the burner because they are too lazy to put it aside and in a short while start a fresh pot. There's nothing like a carafe bottom with burnt on crude. That one takes a while to clean.

This review is a nice reminder of attempting to clean a hot carafe with cold water, even though that wasn't stated in the review. Thanks for sharing it.

Posted by GenuineNerd on 2011-06-01:

Chlorine bleach dissolves burnt-on coffee stains from carafes like magic. Just let it soak for a while, but make sure the carafe is thoroughly cleaned of the bleach before using.

Posted by mickey on 2013-02-06:

Would you like to sell the tcx83??

Posted by Anne on 2013-05-03:

My carafe was sitting under the nozzle. Just as the coffee started brewing it exploded! No answer from their help line. I'll return it but may run into problems with returning a coffee maker with no carafe.