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Cafe aroma in the homa

Advantages: Italian design, milk frother
Disadvantages: Cleaning coffee grind.

Gaggia ********* Achille Gaggia produced the first modern steam-less coffee machine on 5 September 1938, and are now probably the most renowned brand in the world. PRICE ******** So why pay £250 for a Gaggia Classic espresso machine. If your a co ...

oldwasp 01.02.2007 · Read full review
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Its a "Star", but it costs "Bucks"

Advantages: Solid, Reliable, Stonking Coffee
Disadvantages: Pricey, my big mug wont fit it!

I am a coffee freak. I have no shame in admitting it. I have had 3 previous coffee machines to this, and this one has topped them all. I bought this machine a year ago now, during the sale of (cough) a major retailer (cough). With my staff discount, I pur ...

rickyshah 20.10.2004 · Read full review
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Gaggia Classic Design Problems

Advantages: Looks good and makes superb coffee.
Disadvantages: Frustrating to use and occasionally verging on the dangerous.

I'm a difficult person to buy presents for, so when I mentioned to my husband last summer that I liked the idea of an espresso machine it was inevitable that one would appear on my birthday. He went for what seemed to him to be the best of the domestic m ...

SueMagee 05.07.2005 · Read full review
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A corner of Milan in your kitchen

Advantages: Quick, simple, sturdy, stylish
Disadvantages: Can lose important 'bits' if not careful

So - I lost the whoosit for steaming the milk properly and now I only use the coffee making part, heating the milk up in the microwave. But, in the Gaggia's defence, I have had it for a long, long, time (5 years plus), moved house with it as well, hence ...

anniej1543 21.09.2007 · Read full review
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CLASSIC ALL THE WAY

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I love coffee. I really do. It is the best legal stimulant, and it tastes so bluming good. Is there anything better than waking up and having a cuppa to wake you up? I never used to like coffee, but since I started working in Whittard I have become an ad ...

craigy2040 04.09.2002 · Read full review
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