Not only are single-cup coffee machines singularly expensive (and bad for the environment) but they can burn you, too! The U.S. Consumer Product Commission today has announced a recall of more than a million Tassimo Single Cup Coffee Makers due to burn hazards.
According to the USCPSC about 835,000 units in the U.S. and an additional 900,000 in Canada have been recalled because "The plastic disc, or T Disc, that holds the coffee or tea can burst and spray hot liquid and coffee grounds or tea leaves onto consumers using the brewer and onto bystanders, posing a burn hazard." Apparently there have been 140 reports of the machines spraying hot liquid, coffee grounds or tea leaves onto consumers. At least 37 people—including a 10-year-old girl from Minnesota—have received second-degree burns from the machines.
To see if your machine is one of the problem coffee makers, head over here. And then stop using the darn thing, and call up Tassimo for a free replacement "T Disc holder for the brewing mechanism."
