Delonghi ESAM 5500 Perfecta

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Delonghi ESAM 5500 Perfecta

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Waking you up with style.

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5 Jun 7th, 2009 

27 Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful

Advantages:
Great coffee .

Disadvantages:
An expensive way to make coffee .

Recommendable Yes:

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I wouldn’t say I’m not a coffee drinker, some days I can’t live without caffeine, but I’m certainly not one of those people who goes into starbucks and orders a ‘grande half-soy, half-low fat, iced vanilla, double-shot, gingerbread cappuccino, extra dry, light ice, with one Sweet-n’-Low and one NutraSweet’ so I am usually a little sceptical about this sort of thing, however I received this as a gift so my hands were tied. I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised.

The Delonghi ESAM 5500 Perfecta (Who comes up with these names?) was very easy to use. Just fill up with water and milk, chuck some coffee beans in (literally if you feel like a spot of basket ball) and off you go.

It allows for a large variety of coffees, although not as many as starbucks does, and allows you to change lot’s of settings to fine tune your coffee such as coffee strength, fineness of grind, water heat and size of cup (remember to set this last one to fit the cup size you are using or you end up wasting coffee, and making a mess). After a good mess around with these settings, you will find a cup of coffee that suits you.

The machine produces excellent cups of coffee and saves you the time consuming activity of making them yourself, although to be honest the coffee it makes is better than mine, and it puts froth on the top. It also has an automatic three hour switch off feature if you forget. It can take pre-ground coffee (for you Nescafe fans) but seems to make better cups with coffee beans.

As well as coffees, it can also make very good cappuccinos. I found this very easy to clean and maintain and it comes with a very helpful manual that helps you do this.
I would recommend this to anyone who drinks coffee; it’s a hell of a lot easier than making coffee yourself in the morning and, depending on your own abilities, tends to make them a lot better.
 

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Comments about this review »

brokenangelkisses 26.06.2009 22:54

Is it easy to clean?

brereton66 08.06.2009 17:35

Looks like an expensive machine

blackmagicstar4 08.06.2009 11:28

Nice review x

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