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(More customer reviews)We purchased this maker as I was initally drawn to the programmable feature for the coffee and the dual function appeared useful.
First the good points: Excellent expresso, good crema.
The bad points: If I had realised the huffing and puffing and hissing in order to heat up/cool down for the milk frother, I would not have picked this model. A simple knob to turn steam off/on would have suited me. This fills the drip tray up really quickly. Once you have frothed once, you then have to wait for a cool/heat cycle with hissing and spitting before frothing again. Really annoying.
The Steam nozzle - This has a little silver tube running up the length, which comes off for cleaning. At the bottom the tube opens out into the steam stream. Its function appears then to draw cool milk / milk froth down into the steam for frothing. Why then is there an insert in the top piece of rubber to stop this? I removed the insert and restored the function of this, but even better is to remove the silver tube altogether and carefully position the wand at the surface of the milk to produce the required air/milk mix. I checked at the John Lewis with a display model and it also had the blocking piece of plastic. Hmmm.
We have used the filter coffee side of the machine twice in a year. Again, bad decision at buy time and a waste (for us). Others may prefer filter (I know my US office has a pot on all day).
I have come to learn to live with the foibles of this machine, but I wouldn't buy another. The Expresso on a good day is pretty damn perfect, but we heat milk in the microwave now to save all the hissing spitting puffing grunting steam facility.
I should have gone for the Gaggia!
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