Description
The SHARDOR 10 cup programmable is a compact drip machine with an LCD touchscreen, a 24 hour delay timer, two brew strength settings and a permanent filter. At 6.7 inches wide it is unusually narrow for a machine with a 10 cup carafe, and the whole design is aimed at somebody who wants full size features in a small footprint.
Ten cups at the standard five ounce carafe measure is around 50 ounces, so a full pot is four or five mug sized servings. That places it between the single serve machines and the 12 and 14 cup family, which is a sensible size for a two person household that finishes the pot rather than leaving half of it to stew.
The Two Hour Keep Warm Window
The warming plate holds coffee for two hours rather than the four hours most machines in this category offer, and that is worth treating as a feature rather than a shortfall.
A glass carafe on a hot plate does not preserve coffee, it continues cooking it. Within an hour the aromatics have largely gone and a flat bitterness has developed; by four hours the coffee is stewed. A shorter window means the machine stops doing damage sooner, and on a 10 cup carafe that a household will realistically finish in an hour or two, two hours is the right number. Anyone who wants coffee to stay drinkable for longer needs a thermal carafe, which holds heat without applying it, as on the BUNN Speed Brew Thermal.
Brew Strength and Programming
Two brew strength settings are offered, described as milder or bolder. On a drip machine this works by varying the flow rate so water spends more or less time in contact with the grounds, extracting more or less from the same dose. It is a real control and it is the one most people actually use.
The 24 hour programmable timer covers delay brewing, so the machine starts before you are awake. Auto shut off is included for safety and energy saving. There is also a mid brew pause described in the listing, which lets you pull the carafe and take a cup before the cycle finishes. The usual caveat applies: the first part of a brew is more concentrated than the last, so an early cup is stronger than the finished pot and what remains is weaker, and the carafe needs to go back within a few seconds or the basket overflows.
The Touchscreen
SHARDOR uses an LCD touchscreen rather than physical buttons, which is the visual signature of the machine and the reason it looks more expensive than it is.
The practical caution is the same as with any capacitive panel in a kitchen. Wet or greasy fingers do not always register, and there is no tactile confirmation that a press has been accepted, which matters at seven in the morning with damp hands from filling the carafe. Against that, a flat panel wipes clean in one movement and has no button gaps to collect grounds. Whether that is a fair trade is a matter of preference rather than quality, and machines with the same feature set and physical buttons are widely available in the drip coffee maker range.
Filter and What Is In The Box
The special features list includes a permanent filter, and the filter type field records Reusable. The included components field, however, lists only a coffee pot and a spoon. Those two statements do not agree, and the listing does not resolve whether a permanent filter actually ships in the box or whether it is a compatible accessory.
That is worth checking before ordering, because it determines whether you need to buy filters immediately. If you end up supplying paper, check whether the basket is cone or basket shaped first, since the two are not interchangeable and it is the most common ordering mistake in this category. The disposable filters we cover include the standard basket size for 8 to 12 cup machines. A mesh filter also changes the cup: it lets oils through where paper traps them, giving more body and sometimes a little sediment.
Size and Build
The recorded dimensions are 8 inches deep, 6.7 inches wide and 12.7 inches high, with an item weight of 5.19 pounds. At 6.7 inches wide this is genuinely narrow, and the depth is where the reservoir has gone. That makes it a candidate for a gap where a 12 cup machine will not fit.
Five pounds is light and indicates a plastic body with a metallic effect panel rather than a metal chassis. The colour is recorded as silver, which describes the facing rather than the construction. Allow clearance above the 12.7 inch height for the lid to open when filling.
Fields That Do Not Add Up
Two entries in the attribute table contradict the rest of the listing. The operation mode is recorded as Semi-Automatic on a machine with a 24 hour programmable timer and an auto shut off, which is fully automatic by any reasonable definition. Semi automatic is a term borrowed from espresso machines and it does not describe anything this machine does.
More significantly, the specific uses field reads Iced Coffee, Americano. Nothing in the feature list or the manufacturer description mentions an iced coffee mode, a brew over ice setting or any Americano function. There is no evidence in the listing that this machine does anything other than brew hot drip coffee at two strengths. If iced coffee is what you want, buy a machine that documents how it does it, such as the Ninja CM371 with its over ice setting.
What the Specifications Do Not Settle
No brew temperature, which is the number that separates a good drip machine from a weak one. No wattage. No water reservoir capacity in ounces. No brew time for a full carafe. No description of the shower head or how evenly water is distributed over the grounds. No stated warranty term.
The manufacturer description in the recorded data is also cut off partway through its final bullet, so whatever it was about to say about the mid brew feature is lost. And with a first availability date of February 2025, this is a recent product with a correspondingly thin body of published owner feedback, which is the usual risk with a challenger brand: nothing yet tells you how the heater and the switchgear behave in year three.
Who It Suits
This suits a one or two person household that wants a programmable full size machine in a narrow gap, finishes the pot within a couple of hours, and likes the look of a touchscreen. Ten cups is a sensible size for that, the two hour warming window is arguably better for the coffee than a longer one, and the price sits well below the established brands. The SHARDOR 8 cup programmable machine is the thermal carafe model from the same brand.
Look elsewhere if you need a documented iced coffee mode, since the listing claims one in a specification field and describes none. Look elsewhere too if you want a long track record behind the purchase, or if you dislike touchscreens with wet hands. And if the coffee regularly waits, a thermal carafe machine is the right answer regardless of price. The BLACK+DECKER CM2046S is one of those.
